Kristen Mann

This is Kristen Mann. She played ball in the WNBA for a couple years and now plays overseas. You wouldn't know it by the ice grill in these images, but she's really sweet. Awesome to shoot with. We shot these for DIME Magazine up in Venice Beach like 5 months ago in a hotel room. Challenging to say the least. The room was very small (for a studio) and had 8 ft. ceilings, which causes light to bounce all over the place. For all the shots on white I actually used a king sized bed sheet from Target and pushed a bunch of light through it and back towards the camera. It gives a soft edge light all around her that I like for this kind of thing. The ones on black were also a black sheet with some subtle stripes. Kristen was very generous with her time, so we got a bunch of different lucks in the room, on the roof, and on the Venice basketball courts. What a circus it is out there. Bunch of freaks. Not sure how, but that was my first time in Venice. I'll be back....

Thanks again Kristen. You rock!

On a different note, this is the last post for RHP on this site. As of tomorrow my blog will be found directly on my website at www.robhammerphotography.com/blog





Out on the Venice courts about 30 seconds before we got kicked off.





A bunch of my fav's that didn't make the cut












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