Finishing up on the office building location I wanted to do some lost-in-space-kind-of pictures. So I had him sit down on the couch with his laptop. The idea here was to show that his professional life pretty much revolves around the web and geek stuff. The bird’s eye view picture we did afterwards was a lot of fun – I kinda had to yell my commands downstairs. My idea for this shot was to show him not as a loner, but as somebody who is unique. I let the floor go dark (happy with the way this came out!) by putting only one light on him (more about this in the following tech post).

On our way back, he surprised me with a great photo idea – surprising not only because the visual concept is really cool, but also because it does require some courage to set up a photo shoot in the middle of the city with a thousand people walking by every minute. I set my camera on an improvised tripod (I normally don’t bring one to my shootings because I prefer the non-static shots) and we let it roll. A couple of pops from a flash during the exposure helped to make him stand out from the moving crowd – no photoshop in here!

Finishing up we had a coffee in a cozy coffee bar. There were candles on the table, a red leather couch and a brick wall – so I went with that mood, lit him with just one light (like in 99% of all cases) and took some pictures while we were enjoying our coffees. A two-minute deal.

I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this shooting – and how happy I was when I looked on that small screen on the back of my camera. Sometimes you just know when you have nailed a shot. I’m extremely happy with the pictures and I had a great time processing them (even though it took a couple of weeks).