On the way back from spending Thanksgiving with my parents , I got an email from Richard Upshur, a local (and really good, I might add) photographer I’d “met” through flickr. He said he was doing a “bike shoot” and wanted to know if I was interested in coming to snap a few.
I was thrilled. I thought it’d be fun to meet someone in real life (IRL, in internet parlance) whose work I admired.
What I wasn’t expecting was that Richard would be a lighting virtuoso. He had a million speedlights in his bag — they sorta kept coming out like a clown car at the circus. He was was lightning fast at setting them up, too. His placements and light balance were so perfect that it made more sense just to ask how to set my camera than to try to figure anything out on my own.
The model we worked with is a buddy of his and can be found on Model Mayhem, should you be interested.
I’m looking forward to shooting some more with these guys!
