Cinematic lighting effects help create a winning shot of an actor.

So a friend of a friend came to TZPInc with a crazy if not small project and a reasonable budget to get it done.  The conversation started like this, “Hi, I’m a friend of so and so and I’m trying to be an actor and this guy is making a movie and he wants me to send him some photos…….”  Ouch!  How many photographers have heard this before, raise your hand!  I think I was bitter that day because it hadn’t been snowing which means I hadn’t been skiing, so I answered, “and let me guess you have 75 bucks?”  As it turns out the film company had given the guy a decent amount of dough to get the shot but still,  this type of thing really isn’t my gig.

The friend who sent this guy my way is a very good friend so I really wanted to help.  It was when the guy said, “they sent me a Conan costume and a sword for the shoot,”  that I was sure this was a portrait I’d have to shoot.  I scouted for cool location and scheduled the shoot for later in the week.

Any photo shoot is what you, the photog, chooses to make of it and the Conan concept had me totally inspired to make the most out of the shoot, push the envelope and shoot something I don’t get to do everyday. Yeah it was just and “actor shot” but I was going to spend the afternoon traveling to a far off land and battling barbarians.  Maybe it’s the kid in me but I had a blast creating this image.  I’ll do a follow up post, with a how to, on the cool cinematic lighting.

Do what you love, immerse yourself in passion, happiness awaits you!