Navy Veteran Portrait
This morning I went to Ivy Lawn Memorial Park cemetery for the Veteran's Day ceremony there. I decided that it might also be a good opportunity to grab a few portraits of some vets. The ceremony was lightly attended, but I managed to grab a few vets from the First United States Volunteers color guard who were milling about before the ceremony. They were joined by a couple of kids from Young Marines and Navy JROTC. The former seaman at right is my favorite portrait of the few I took. Click on the image to see the other portrait I liked enough to post.
For both portraits I used a fairly simple setup of a single flash with a shoot-through umbrella mounted on a light stand just above head-height. Fortunately the skys were a bit overcast or I'd have been pretty severely blowing out the backgrounds. I was trying to mimic to some extent the style of a photographer named Platon, who's work you can see here: http://www.platonphoto.com/index.html