As a portrait shooter sometimes you are only as good as your subject. What I mean by that is you can light and create the most amazing conceptual scenario, but if your subject is not into it, then it does not work. The magic happens when there is a wonderful collaboration of ideas and energy between the subject and myself.
Take a recent shoot I did with YouTube sensation and virtuoso violinist Lindsey Stirling – I can know how to light it and have some ideas, but when she turns it on, what we do together becomes magic.
– Michael