Fisherman
This is the first in a series of images that I’m creating for a new portfolio.
The idea for this one came to me when I took a different photo of this same tunnel a while ago. The long exposure made the headlights of the cars stretch out into streams and it reminded me of a river.
The river idea made me think of all the commercial/lifestyle/stock photos I’ve seen of fishermen standing next to streams and rivers. Most of those types of commercial photos are composites; they shoot the landscape, and then they shoot the model in the studio, and then they put the whole thing together in Photoshop. So it’s kind of poking fun at those images by putting the fisherman into a completely absurd environment instead of a mountain stream at sunset.
This is a lot different than anything else I’ve done. I usually tend toward more “straight” photography, and I actually had to get some help with the post production on this because I’m not much of a Photoshop wiz.
The images in the new series are all loosely joined in the sense that they all include some sort of visual joke. Some of them (like this one) reference commercial photography clichés, others are just funny on their own, but I hope to keep the style consistent throughout. Stay tuned for more.
Big thanks to Jamie for helping me with the post-production on this shot, and also to Richard Orlando, fly-fisherman (and model) extraordinaire.
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