Music Artist Nina Johnson Photo Session Afterthoughts: FUJIFILM GF 80mm f/1.7 R WR.
Subtitle: Always Good To Work w/ Good People.
I am truly happy that I stumbled across The Continental Club…
Well, to be honest I have photographer and art promoter Preston Wiles to thank.
He found me on IG and invited me to present my work, which I did. And then he invited me to work up for sale and then he sold the image while I was not even there. To Michael Roberto…
…who is also a musician.
And I then kept returning to photograph musicians at The Continental Club. This is how I met artists like Nishah DiMeo…
…and Nina Johnson.
Both of which perform every month. Nina on second Thursdays and Nishah on fourth Thursdays. And they even let me on the mic to sing a song or two. Have also had the pleasure of meeting and photographing many other artists there.
Nina and I have been working on scheduling a photo session for some time and we recently made it happen. Three locations.
Location 1. Tanger Bicentennial Park.
This was not my first choice. The brief was for a fall scene. Based on a prior weekend photo session I had planned on using the campus of UNCG. Well… fortunately I checked the campus the day before and the sheer foot traffic and lack of weekday parking quickly made it clear that this would not work. After a quick Google search I found this Tanger park and it worked out perfectly.
As a part of this I met musicians like
Location 2. A Greensboro graffitied wall.
Location 3. The Continental Club.
Locations 2 and 3 were to fulfill the request for a gritty scene.
The rig.
My favorite portrait lens and camera combination.
A favorite combination.
When peak IQ with no excuses is my goal this is the lens and camera I reach for.
At the going rate the GFX 100S can hardly be called inexpensive, but I argue that this years old OG 100S provides th ebest bang for buck up here in the nosebleed 100MP sensor seats.
Same goes for the GF 80mm f/1.7 lens.
The most “reasonable” of an unreasonable breed of camera kit.
Met Nina, her husband Brandon,…
…and their team at location 1, Tanger Bicentennial Park.
For light I used a Neewer Z3…
…on camera at the first locations and a Neewer Q4…
…off camera at location three, where Brandon was kind enough to hold the light.
The pictures.
Location 1.
Location 2.
Thoughts.
Was this gear necessary?
Nope. Not at all. Could have done just fine any number of portraits solutions.
Most important for the day?
Great people and I had a great time.
Happy capturing.
-ELW
