New Love

Okay people, read this text before looking further so you don't get the wrong idea from the title. I discovered something that I really enjoyed doing when working with a young actress and visual arts student this past weekend. We were going to do something a bit different in addition to working on her headshots but in usual Klyment-style what could have taken a few minutes ended up taking several hours. The relaxed, thoughtful pace of the headshot session appealled to me and I think that it would make me happy if I did more headshots. In a way, fashion, glamour, editorial, and headshots are all very related . . . but I feel that working on a headshot with someone gives the photographer a brief glimpse into the soul of whom he or she is photographing. Often I see photos of people who I know in real life and normally find very attractive. However, I have difficulty transferring this attraction to the photograph. Something is usually missing. It's like the person in the photograph isn't speaking to me but is drifting in some distant bubble, filed away in a display case, untouchable. I see this in a lot of my own photos. I don't have a formal portfolio right now but the few traces of a portfolio that I do have right now will hopefully soon be replaced by photos that tell a viewer who these people are . . . and perhaps a little about myself as well.

Breaking from the usual routine of laziness and half-assed attempts at making witty commentaries to some other sites, I have included a few photos from Meags' shoot. She is one of Rapid Fire Theatre's improvisors. All photos from the shoot were taken with with the Nikon D2X at ISO 100, 1/250s, and either the Micro-Nikkor 60mm F/2.8 AF-D (not latest generation) or the Carl Zeiss/Hasselblad 80mm F/2.8 Planar C T* with an adapter for F-mount. I suppose I have also discovered new love in the 60mm. I was prepared to sell it to Dong (get your frickin' content to Jonathan so he can finish your site already) because shooting with it only reminded me of the beauty that I lost when I left the Contax/Yashica mount and the Carl Zeiss 60mm F/2.8 Makro Planar and defected to the F-mount camp. All lighting was performed with a single Balcar Power Z head connected to a Balcar Nexus A3200. Light was modified with a Plume 40 x 53" Wafer. Light reflected with a 45" white reflector to the bottom left of the composure.