"The Organist"©David A. Ziser
This image was made a few years ago after the completion and installation of the new Noack pipe organ you see behind the organist. The image over at the Noack Organ Company is my image also. Anyway, Thom, the organist, and whom I work with many weekends at Plum Street Temple, ask me to make this image of him for his portfolio. The composition is my of my favorites for executive portraits. I like to show the subject within their surrounds. Lighting was was quite straight forward. I lit Thom with my shoot through umbrella and balanced the flash to the ambient. The tungsten lighting on the pipe organ added a certain warmth to the overall portrait. Camera; Nikon D1x fitted with 24-135 Tamron lens at 40mm, F5.6 @ 1/30 second, ISO 400. Enjoy! -David
Wow! If I were an organist I would lust for such a portrait. Brian F.
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ReplyDeleteI'm scheduled to photograph a cellist and a pianist later this summer. I've been wondering how I would approach the photos, and have been in a rut, thinking only of photographing them while they were playing their instruments.
Well, duh! Of course! An executive portrait – with the instrument, but not necessarily playing it.
Thanks for continuously reshuffling my deck, David.
Great photo! Now, if I could just get how to do the ambient vs flash thing. I can't figure it out! PLEASE, please, please do a video lesson exactly how to do it. (I have a learning disorder in which I can't comprehend the written word as easily as a video demonstration.)
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