Enviornmental Portraits
Last week, I photographed Millie Ward, president of Stone Ward for Arkansas Business for a profile on her and her career as one of Arkansas leaders in Advertising.
Photographing Millie was a real treat.
Millie was open to just about any idea I had and her outgoing personality really shined. As the president of Stone Ward of Little Rock, Millie has been in the advertising business for 40 years and she was recently inducted into the University of Arkansas Business Hall of Fame.
We've all had this problem: You place a call from your cell phone, or send a text message, and it doesn't go through.
I recently photographed Jan Collier, AT&T vice president and general manager for Arkansas and Oklahoma to accompany a story in Arkansas Business about how AT&T and Verizon have each have spent tens of millions of dollars building infrastructure in Arkansas to help prevent such problems.
According to the article published from Arkansas Business, two projects completed by AT&T in recent years were aimed at improving coverage for patients and employees at two Little Rock hospitals. AT&T’s wireless network in Arkansas and Oklahoma, said installing such a systems in hospitals can sometimes be challenging, such as when a signal must be distributed down a hall from a central room that contains all the hardware. The company’s engineers sometimes have to get creative, but the signal has to be delivered one way or the other.
After finding out more about the story, I felt photographing Ms. Collier in her office would be pretty boring. So after a few emails, we arranged a photo tour of one of these infrastructure projects at UAMS. In short, we headed into the basement where all this tech stuff is located.
I wanted to keep the portrait clean, simple and easy to read as "tech". I used three lights:
We were in a very small space with low ceilings so I had to keep my lights to a minimal and something that didn't take up too much of a footprint.
A few months ago, I worked with Arkansas Business Publishing Group, and Art Director Erin Lang, photographing a series of Eco Hero Portraits for the 2015 issue of Green Guide.
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Green Guide is an annual publication designed to make it easier for Arkansans to live greener lives. It includes tips and trends to green your home, work and community; profiles of eco-heroes who are leading the charge; and a comprehensive resource guide of eco-friendly products and services in Arkansas.
Green Guide is always a blast to photograph and quite informative at the same time. The Eco-Heroes are scattered throughout the state and it gives me a great opportunity to see and learn what the states leading green innovators are doing in their particular field.
You can see the digital edition by going here.
