Archive for July, 2009

Mary Jo McCabe - Psychic (http://www.maryjomccabe.com/)

Bhrett McCabe (Psychologist)

When I got a call to shoot corporate shots for the McCabe’s I had no idea it a psychic was involved.  We’ve all seen psychics on the internet or on TV and have our own predisposed opinions of them of course but the McCabe’s didn’t fit those stereotypes from my meeting with them yesterday.  MaryJo doesn’t name-drop but her client list includes Fortune 500 CEO’s and some Hollywood actors/actresses.  I can say she has heard every stupid psychic joke – so much for originality.

They both needed new photos for their websites and also for press packs to be sent out soon.  We made an afternoon and evening of the shoot and (sorry MaryJo!) kept them from their Outback dinner….Bhrett wanted to portray his sports psychology as well as have new images for the radio show (http://www.thepsychicandthedoc.com).

Bhrett brought his daughters along for the shoot and with Grandma in tow we all had a great time.  I even got some fun shots of the girls and some with grandma also.

I felt the results were great and the customer was happy which is what matters.

(Some lighting notes: Inside I did use my 300W strobe with softbox but I pointed it at the ceiling to have a softer look while I dragged the shutter to let more ambient lighting from the background stream in. I wanted to show context of sitting in the living room and not over power them with light making the background dark. I also shot mostly at 2.0 to really blur the background. In some shots behind MaryJo the lamps just have a nice golden glow which looks really nice)