dailphotogame 2016

A friend asked if I would to shoot her law school mates getting ready for the end of the year bash. I was excited as I thought it would be a great lifestyle shoot with a millennial crowd. When I arrived I realized it was a totally different story. They were not 20 something hipsters hanging out but traditionalists taking the Rutgers Law School Gala as a serious place to network with more than just thier peers. They actually looked like they were living in another era or the only recent contact they had with the outside world while studying was with the Kardashians. I quickly changed the concept I had in my head a started thinking of all the Hollywood ingenue PR photos from the 50’s. I ran with that idea but thought about color and using only natural light. The day was grey and thier apartment, crammed with friends was dark and difficult to shoot in but I upped my ISO to 2500 and used my trusty 1.4/50mm lens. The images were iconic from a bygone era yet contemporary in thier execution.