Photo of the Week (Ending 04/20/07)

Meet Erik, the chef at Circa, a shared plate restaurant in San Francisco. I photographed him cooking and some posed portraits for a chef profile and this was my favorite shot. (I'll post the profile when it has run.)

I like how I put him in a less typical spot than for traditional portraits, which suits him a lot, and how you can see his earrings.

Portraits like this (though not necessarily for a newspaper) are the focus of the One Light Workshop I am attending today taught by Zack Arias. Though I currently use either available light, my flash, or a combo of the two for photos, this workshop will cover strobe (fixed light) use and possibly be a new direction for me to take both my newspaper and my wedding photos.