Portrait+Assignment

TWO PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS 1. Shimon Karmel 2. Kevin Clark Shimon Karmel: I met Shimon through my acting instructor John Emmet Tracy. He is an absolutely amazing portrait photographer. If you type in "Headshots in Vancouver" on Google, hes the first guy there. He actually did my headshots, so I know first hand about his techniques, equipment and setups. Shimon uses a Nikon DSLR, with mostly prime lenses. He generally uses shallow depth of fields, but he will sometimes extend out to unlimited. He uses lighting setups and softbox flashes to softly light the subject, and has them pose very specifically for the picture, most often having their body in a natural position, facing somewhere off camera, with the actual face directly into the lens. Kevin Clark: After shooting for 18 years professionally you would think you would just be done learning and think you know everything... Well, not Kevin. He constantly improves, taking up new techniques and learning more and more about light. Infact, his specialization in lighting knowledge is so well respected, he has worked professionally as not only a photographer, but a full time professional lighting master for commercial shoots around the globe. Kevin uses light, and coloring within the light and almost every picture is somehow soft & sharp. But making sure that the shadows, hotspots, subjects, foregrounds and backgrounds are lit properly, is where he rises to near perfection, every single time.