Winding Up...

We're winding up and reflecting on this season of shooting colleges and prep schools. It's always amazed me the difference in personality between one school and the next. I love the distinct vibe you feel at every campus. Small schools have a closer knit, family feel and some of the larger universities are like cities. Some of the kids we've profiled, whether at a small or large institution, have left me with a great feeling about our future. With each passing decade or so in our history, the youth have become increasingly savvy in everything from technology to world view. The best and brightest are better and brighter....Hat's off to the graduating class of '09. 

As for the shots- Andre', a basketball player with his game face on at a New Haven University with a stellar GPA and shot blocking abilities is shot with the D3 and lit with direct sunlight coming through the gym's high windows. Kids in the student center are shot with the D3 with an Elinchrom RX600 with a red gel over the reflector aimed at the guitarist and another RX600 with a blue gel  and a 40 degree grid on the reflector back and to the right and aimed at the couple. The next shot of the "Gladiator Games" that we happened upon at one school is shot with the D3 and available light. Those kids were nuts! The dorm room shot is with the D3 with the white balance on tungsten (to make the daylight in the room go blue to simulate evening) and my assistant holding a Nikon SB800 speedlight over the shoulder of the girl taking the picture and aiming it at the kids she's photographing. The lacrosse kids are shot with the D3 and lit with a RX 600 with a Photek light bank to the left, slightly behind and aimed at the two kids up front. Two more RX600's are bounced against the right side wall to illuminate the rest of the locker room. Finally, the lab scene is lit with a large Chimera soft box attached to a RX600 placed to the left and slightly behind the professor and students, another RX600 at the back of the room with a 10 degree grid on the reflector for a slight backlight on the subjects, yet another RX600 with a 40 degree grid and a blue gel over the reflector aimed at all the glass in the foreground and lastly, a 650 watt Arri spot is aimed on the background lab hood.