David Gessner: Globe Magazine

Whenever you get a subject, like David Gessner, who says "You want me to go stand in the middle of the river?" You know it's going to be an awesome shoot. It wasn't just any river but the Charles river. Which is not know for being the cleanest water around. David's a great guy and I had a blast photographing him. Go buy his book "My Green Manifesto". This has to be my favorite environmental portrait that I have taken to date. It was great for a few reasons: 1)I daring subject. 2)I didn't bring lights, it was just me and my camera bag. 3)It was used in the mag exactly how I envisioned it.

Friday: Shots I did on Film

As always click on the image to make it bigger. Notice that grain!
Here's a shot of Mikey from my old neighborhood. I met him one day when he was learning to olly and gave him a pointer. Then he nailed it right away and we were instant friends.
This shot was with Kodak's Color Infrared Film. It was an E6(slide film) cross processed in C41(negative/print film) giving the super saturated and extra contrast. I think this was from one of two or three rolls that I ever shot with that film. If I remember right it was super expensive too, like $25 a roll. But man look at those color shifts straight out of the can, no photoshop magic here. Enjoy and check in next Friday for another image captured with emulsion and not pixels!

I'm on a Promotional Binge

The email above went out to a targeted list of running companies.


This email featuring Detroit Lion Gosider Cherilus, that I shot for The Boston Globe Magazine, went out to a targeted list of ad agencies and magazines that specialize in sports.


These images are outtakes from a cover shoot also for The Boston Globe Magazine. This email went out to big and small ad agencies as well as a ton of magazines.

I also stopped by the post office today and dropped off nearly 700 postcards that have these same images on them and are sent out to the same target markets. My thoughts are that some people like emails and some people like printed promos, so I'm going to hit them with both.

Any thoughts? Any criticism? What are you doing to promote your photography?
Please if you are here, checking out what I'm doing, leave a comment. I love and welcome feedback, both positive and negative.