Last week a newspaper hired me to take a portrait of the captains and coaches of the town's two public school football teams. They're often billed as crosstown rivals, yet during the photo shoot, they sure seemed like good friends.
The sports editor had thought about an on-the-field portrait, but our scheduled time slot was near high noon, when the light wasn't conducive to a direct-sun photo. Of course there are ways of making that work -- and making it work well -- but that would take more time and money than we had for this job. I suggested the above setting, under the bleachers, and the editor agreed.
I asked the strong athletes to help me move the tires into place -- why the tires were there I have no idea -- and we got it done. I think I used three speedlights on this: Two on camera left in front, and one clamped to the underside of the bleachers behind, to give a little separation light. It ran as a vertical on the cover of the fall sports preview section -- for the blog I've cropped off the top where the mast ran.
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