I shoot a lot of colleges and prep schools-It's my main thing. It's fun-You've got to treat it like an advertising shoot but with non-professional talent (real students and teachers) and be flexible enough to do the photo journalism thing. This first shot is of an art teacher in a prep school I recently shot. The kids loved and gravitated to her. Just the kind of person who's going to wake up the creative side of a young mind.

She's shot with a Photek light bank (with diffuser) directly behind the camera...Nikon D3 with the 24-70 zoom. 

When you go to a new college or prep school location that you've never seen before, you pray you'll find great places (and kids) to shoot. This same prep school was founded on a piece of property that included a beautiful 19th century mansion that now houses the administrative offices of the school. Here's a couple of kids we set up in one of the beautiful windows contained in the building-It's all natural light except for a single Elinchrom head with a 10 degree grid at the bottom of the stairs hitting the statue and woodwork on the far wall. The Nkon D3 with the 24-70 Nikkor.

Here comes the quasi-photojournalism thing. It's class change and it mayhem in the hallways. A group of girls pause to play a game, so you throw up an Elinchrom head at the far end of the hallway, turn it all the way up, adjust the camera for exposure and find a great face to focus on.

Nikon D3 with the 70-200 Nikkor.