A couple years ago when we decided to start this business we were collecting images and trying to learn and re-learn some things about commercial portraiture and the like. I was asked to do head shots a little while before we started for an acting student who was moving to NY to try to get acting gigs. I did a bunch of different ideas while I was trying to remember things like lighting ratios, Rembrandt lighting, rim lights, how to balance a background light with a foreground light etc.... all that stuff I had learned 20 years earlier when I was a photography student back in Rhode Island. Some things came back to me faster than others. So when we were looking for images to use to promote our new business I had some of these. While going through them I began to play, as I always do and ended up making something that wasn't really a portrait anymore, but it was interesting in some ways. I thought, maybe this work might have a market out there! It did draw some attention, but people weren't knocking down our doors. We used this image for awhile on our website and now looking back on it I see many things I should've done to the image. Retouching the skin would be a good idea, and I might still do this, but there really isn't much of a market for such manipulated images. I think they're still important to try and perhaps even show. I think it emphasizes our desire to continue growing and experimenting in order to bring our clients the best we can. I think if we stop doing this we're at a loss as creative people and our clients will not be getting our best. Our best comes from our hunger to always be better. SayerMotter Photograph manipulation by Richard Sayer.
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Are they twins, quadruplets or sextuplets? The answer is...twins! I recently photographed Brianne and Lindsey Lenhart. They are members of the Saegertown High School Varsity Football Cheerleading squad. This is one of my favorites from the shoot.
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