Ok since Sabrina, Jeff, and Mark have all posted portraits this week I figured I should jump on the bandwagon and get one online myself. Visit Sabrina and take a look through the last few posts for a great series of people photos that she made during her recent visit to Africa. Jeff got to attend a workshop with Kirk Tuck that I would have loved to go to and came back with some great studio portraits. Mark is adding to his 100 Strangers project both here and abroad with some great street portraits.
Great stuff from all three of my friends and a little unfair as now I want to travel, don’t really care where to but I want to go. The above image was an outdoor shot with a 42″ diffuser held between the sun and Katie, I can’t remember for sure but I may have had an SB 28 cam right for a touch of fill. Few more of the outdoor shoot of Katie over on the flickr site.
PT Cyclery has been a mainstay of business in Port Townsend since the 80′s and a great bunch of real helpful folks even for those of us who don’t know a lot about something with no motor. They were nice enough to let me shoot a few images for a project we have in the works. There are a few more of the session on my flickr site, the project I’ll add to the blog when it is done.
Been a little busy here and I had another idea all ready to post but decided to save it for after the holidays when it may make a little more sense. So here is a little bit of what all I have been putting in front of the lens.
For Me
Katie
For Katie
Katie
For Me
Early Morning Diner
For work
Homeward Bound Board Members
So that is a little bit of what has been going on around here. Hope you all have a great holiday and as they say more to come soon. For an ongoing update visit the flickr stream now and then at www.flickr.com/rlketcham
I had the pleasure of shooting a fashion spread for my friend Rosie Itti last week. It is a bit of a departure from my usual work and I am really pleased with the results and the experience. 
Make up and models, hurry up and light, wrangle 7 or so people to get into a shot and make it all work. It was a great day of shooting and the model and people were great. Rosie had settled on a SnowWhite theme for the shoot and to my mind pulled it off with a fine modern feel to it. This was the second of two shoots. The first involved 5 models and styling of 5 looks for a white T-shirt. I may publish some of those later, but really like the results of this one.
I am not really sure what to say about this kind of work other than I really enjoyed it and would love to do some more. Generally what I like to do is more of an editorial shoot or location portrait work so this was a real departure for me. Less to do with telling the persons story, more of the style and clothing.
The Paul Buff PLM with the diffusion fabric really creates some nice light and I will be using it again. So until I get a chance to shoot beautiful models and a full on production like this again we will be returning to the regular scheduled programming and images. And please don’t ask me to define ‘nice light’, I can’t.
More of this and some new over on my flickr stream if you want to take a look.
rlketcham.com
