For the last couple years, I’ve been adding the commercial side of photography to my repertoire.  Wedding photography is my baby.  Always will be.  But commercial photography has been an absolute blast so far.  I get to break out fun lighting, play around with different looks, and meet lots of cool folks.

I recently did a shoot for a local restaurant company featuring the University of Kentucky’s new head coach Joker Phillips.  What I love about shoots like this one is that they’re totally opposite of how I normally shoot for weddings.  With weddings, all of my time is spent shooting and working with changing variables.  With shoots like this one, though, most of the time is spent preparing.  I arrived an hour, scoped out the space, picked out two scenes, set up lighting in both of them,  and photographed a stand-in (thanks,  Steve!) so that I could be 100% dialed in and ready to shoot when Joker arrived. 

We started shooting at 10:05AM and were wrapped up with everything by 10:18AM.  Not too shabby!  That left a few extra minutes for some fun shots of him with the people there, including me.

For the record?  He was a super-nice guy.  I’m sure he’s had his fair share of photo and video spots recently, but he was so laid back and nice to everyone.  I’ll be excited to see Joker in action this fall.  Go Cats!

I love this shot!  In the final version used for advertising, he’ll have a gift card in his hand.  Can’t wait to see it!

Awhhhhh-yeah!  Who’s that guy?  Note:  That’s a design on the t-shirt I’m wearing.  Looking at it on screen, though, it kind of looks like I have a mask hanging around my neck.  That would be awesome, though.  Can you imagine if I rolled up to a photoshoot wearing a super-hero mask?  Bwahahaha!