Piano Player and an Accent
Apr 8th, 2010 by TedYork
I photographed a teen this afternoon. Having graduated high school, he is heading out to college shortly and his mother wanted some images of him.
I’m actually in the process of creating images of all the children in the family and we needed to get this one done ASAP. I found this young man quite easy to work with.
He posed well and photographed well. He is a piano player so the first thing I did was to pose him in the front room with our baby grand. It took me a while to clear the room of all the images
I have on display. While I was doing so I remembered some artwork that my client had hanging on the walls in her home that I thought would work well for this project so I gave her a call. I was glad I did because the piece she brought over made a perfect accent for the piano images.
I used window light for this scene. The only modifier I needed was a black reflector for some subtractive lighting. I think the resulting images were quite nice. From there we moved into studio lighting.
I varied the poses and the backdrop. The subject also had a change of clothing. I thing the shoot went very well and this Utah Photographer was very happy with the images.

These are some great shots of BG! My favorite is the bottom one. Awesome work, Ted!
Wow, I had to look at your website once I found out you were teaching a class though PPA. I wanted to look at your photography. WOW… that’s all I can say.
Rachael and Sarah – Thank you for your kind word.
The bottom one is my favorite too! I love them. What a handsome boy!!!!
Yes he is – Spitting image of his mother.