First photos published in the Willamette Week

These are my first four published photos I've done at the Willamette Week. They're all for the Best of Portland edition and should be on the racks until the 28th or 29th I think. Let me know what you think!

I'm still working on the formatting with Blogger. Sorry if things are a little jumbled right now

(Above): This is Randy Archer, he's the owner of Baseball Cards and More on 120th and Stark. He opened it in the early 80's. He's not quite sure how many cards he has, but somewhere in the millions. Floor to ceiling is cards. He's showing off four of his favorites that he has at the shop. I had one speedlight set on 1/4 power(I think) and 200 ISO at about a 15th of a second in this shot. The flash had a lumiquest bounce card on it.

Below is Dr. Al Torres of Portland Industrial and Travel medicine. The section name was jokingly "The Best Place In Portland to Get Shot", so I figured I should call their bluff. Syringes have a really nice kind of icon power to them, but because of that they're also a little much sometimes. Initially we tried a small syringe and that shot didn't work, the one he's holding was pretty much only done as a joke but it's more legible than with the small syringe. Dr. Torres thought this was very funny and so do I.

Next is Julio, who the people at the Audubon Society have come to find is actually a female. Who knew? She's 9 years old and has been living at the Portland facility for 4 years now. I showed up to the shoot with big ideas, quickly my Nikon D80 decided it had other plans and an SD card broke off in the slot. Damn. The springs were stuck and wouldn't hold onto a memory card so I had to hold it in place. I had a 50mm 1.8 on, set to 1.8 at 400 iSO and I'm pretty sure 1/90th of a second.



This is Josh Killingsworth, he owns A Rose and a Song(link). For about $90 he'll deliver a dozen roses and a song. It was about 100 degrees today, I felt bad for Josh in that suit coat. But I had a good time on the shoot. Again, there's an sb-600 with the lumiquest bounce card. Directly to camera left. Unfortunately you can see the flare in there. I wish I'd added a 1/4 CTO gel to the flash so he wasn't so pale/ghosty.