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\"Lenore<\/p>\n

Even after putting\u00a0 30 years in at the media factory, I still like getting the cover<\/strong>. It must be an ego thing, because it certainly isn’t the money.<\/p>\n

This is Lenore Alford<\/a>, an organist, conductor and generally all-around smart woman. I photographed her for the College of Marin,<\/a> where is she teaching a class on Nadia Boulanger and the American School <\/a>of musical composition in Paris — heady stuff, indeed. The college needed a a tall vertical for its community education catalog<\/a> cover and Alford was the perfect subject.<\/p>\n

The picture was made in the Mill Valley living room of one of Alford’s friends.\u00a0 The piano, a baby grand, was crammed into the corner and up against a set of large, bright windows that flooded the room<\/strong> with morning sunlight.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to shoot into the windows, fearing the backlight, so at first I tried shooting away from them and toward the wall behind the piano, lighting Alford with a ProFoto D4 head into a small box. The background, though was too messy to put type into and I couldn’t blur it because I couldn’t get her far enough away from the wall.<\/p>\n

So, I embraced the windows<\/strong>, deciding to blow them out and use their avalanche of light for the background. I changed Alford’s\u00a0 position, took down the ProFoto, and set up a Nikon SB800 on a boom, attached a small softbox, turned the power way down (about 1\/16th) and inched the light to within two feet of her head. The sunlight provided fill and tossed in some rim light as a bonus.<\/p>\n

There is nothing technically complicated about this picture or, dare I say, artistically unique, but it is something that’s part of my daily life in my third or fourth or fight career <\/strong>(who’s counting, anyhow?) and might be interesting to those of you who wonder what photographers who aren’t Annie Leibowitz or Chase Jarvis do all day.<\/p>\n

The hardest part of the shot was deciding on the lighting, not once but twice, and making those changes while Alford, the art director and the homeowners looked on — and making everyone feel not only like I knew what I was doing<\/strong> but that were being included in something fun.<\/p>\n

The whole thing, from walking in the door with the gear to\u00a0 schlepping it back down the drive to my car took less than an hour<\/strong>, a normal shoot here in the shallow end of the photography pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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