The first shoot in Nashville went well. Got to meet and spend several hours with singer Tyler Farr. Managed to shoot a few hundred photos as well. We ended up shooting Tuesday afternoon along Harpeth River just outside of town. Turned out to be a great location for this shoot. With the help of the Travelin' Hunter, Tony Smotherman, it all went pretty smooth. It's funny how you can arrive at a location you've never seen before and fairly quickly get a feel for it and what might work as far as photos go. This river was one of those places that was just waiting for a subject to be photographed nearby.
The second shoot of the week was part 1 of a 2 day shoot. Tony Smotherman, the face of Knight Rifles Born to Hunt TV was the first subject for a really, really, cool ad campaign that Knight is putting together. They were looking for some really dramatically lit studio portraits, all in black. Although it took quite a while to dial in the lighting scheme to get just what we wanted, the resuts were teriffic! Everyone was thrilled with the results. Sunday afternoon in Alabama I'll be shooting hunting personality Phil Philips in the same basic set-up. Hopefully it will go as well as Tony's shoot.
Early April we've been booked to shoot some photos of hunting pros at a private lodge in Kentucky. It should be a blast by the sounds of it. Actually it sounds like a lot more fun than work, but we'll see. Immediately after that it will be time to get into turkey hunting and turkey photos, 110%! I am so looking forward to it. I'll spend most of the season at our farm in Kentucky and have several friends drop in throughout for a couple days of chasing long beards. Little do these friends know that many of them will be required to model for a few hours before hunting. I think most of them will get over it pretty quickly....
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