Detroit Red Wings 2009 Year Book Cover.

After a long wait (we shot this months ago) its out! The 2009 Detroit Red Wings Yearbook cover w/ Nicolas Lindstrom. It was a cold Detroit Dec. morning when we rolled into Joe Louis Arena at about 8:00am  for the shoot and its no secret that I am anything but a morning person, so morning shoots are hard for me!  I had a good crew with Brooke making sure everything stayed on task and Andy lugging gear around and helping me set everything up!  The set was in a small little corner of the Joe right near the Zamboni.  It didn't take us long to set up at all maybe a 1/2 hour.  The lighting was very simple I was going for hard shadows and so I just used two silver umbrellas and a hair light to light Lindstrom,  then two lights on the white seamless... thats it.  The shoot only lasted about 15 min.,  then it was on to the hard part... picking the pose and the 8 hours I spent photoshopping and laying out the cover.  It was fun though I don't always get to do the photography and the layout from start to finish.  More often than not its thanks, the photos look great, now hand your babies over to the art department for them to do what ever they want with them!  All in all it was another great shoot!  The guys at the Wings are always a blast to work with...