Went up to LA about a month ago for this shoot with NBA star John Wall and Dime Magazine. Any time I get to shoot a professional athlete it's exciting. However a lot of these shoots also seem so up in the air and last minute, which is tough for a few reasons. First is because you don't have much time with the athlete at all. And second, because you don't have much say in where you shoot them. In this case we were put in a small gym in LA. Ideally I would like to take these guys out somewhere gritty and industrial, but that just can't happen. Their schedule won't allow it and neither will their agents. So sometimes you get stuck shooting them on a seamless. You have to take what you can get though! Not gonna complain. I don't mind the seamless if your in a closed off set where you can talk to the subject and pull some emotion out of them. This wasn't one of those times. There were probably 30 other guys in the gym playing basketball. You couldn't hear anything over that noise. I'm still fairly happy with some of the shots and John was a cool kid to shoot with. Very accommodating. Good times. Thanks DIME. Always a pleasure!
A couple shots that didn't make the cut. I love these first two and was surprised that Dime didn't run them. It's always interesting to me seeing how different my opinion is to that of an art director/photo editor.
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