Last week, I shot some headshots for Fiona Choi. Fiona’s an actress, a friend, and the mother of Anton, Benjamin’s very bestest best friend in the entire whole-wide world. She brought along her own makeup artist, Segal Yehudai, who did an absolutely spectacular job. Of course, she did so spectacular a job that you can’t see her work!
In preparation for this shot and the “Suckers” shots I did just before, I picked up a new 53″ octagonal softbox, and I must admit that I’m completely in love with it. It’s effect is much more pronounced in the “Suckers” shots, where its soft light just brings up the mysterious foreground ever so slightly, but it’s beautiful light is just money for headshots as well. I just threw on a rim/hair/accent light in the back and I was good to go.
In other photography news, a photo of mine of the new Citi Field was used in the Schmap New York Guide. It was a quickie shot I took with my iPhone while I was taking a long walk down Astoria Boulevard in Queens. And judging from the page, about eight million other people’s photos were also used, but their terms of use were fair, and ain’t nothing wrong with free publicity from a nothing-from-nothing cell phone shot.
Yesterday, insane tech geek that I am, I got a new iPhone 3GS. I must admit, that the better camera is one of the big selling points. The best camera you can get is the one that’s always with you.
