PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS
PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES, ATHLETES AND EXECUTIVES BY MIAMI CELEBRITY PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER BRIAN SMITH
Here’s your chance to win the camera that shot The X Factor and pick-up a few of my best portrait photography tips in the process. Sony is giving away a Sony NEX-5N – the same camera that I used to shoot the finalists when I appeared on The X Factor. Thanks to lovely Sukhjit Ghag for this fab interview on the Sony Blog. Enter for your chance to win.
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Heaven just gained a fitness guru with the passing of Jack LaLanne at 96 years young. One of the great days of my life was spent photographing Jack and his wife Elaine at their Morro Bay, California home. For anyone who grew up watching Jack on TV in the 60s it was amazing to meet an icon who never grew old. So lets all raise a glass of carrot juice to the King of Fitness!
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Happy Holiday’s to our troops in the Middle East. This year we took part in PMDA’s ‘Portraits of Love’ at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas photographing family members of military servicemen stationed overseas as a way to provide our troops with photos of their loved ones for the Holidays. Thanks to Sony’s Kristen Elder, Linda Barger and Kayla Lindquist, to Fazia Ali for Hair & Make-up, to Michelle Tramantano of PMDA, to Fuji for providing the prints, Manfrotto for grip equipment and Extra Special Thanks to Deborah Freedman for the beautiful backdrops that we used on our shoot! Here are a few of the photos:
Lisa Weitnauer with her dog 'Survivor'
Deanna Cordani with daughter Lillian and her Daddy Doll
Christina Westley and son William
Jordan Robert Marin
Meredith Hendricks and her daughter Braelynn
Leslie Irish and her daughter Morgan
Amanda Templon with son Ryan
Marietta Umbac with her son Ganriel-Martin
Jacqueline Carrales with sons Julian and Juan
Donna Queen with son William and daughters Athena and Elizabeth
Shelly Damo and her son Joshua Damo Sullivan
Jennifer Huffman
Holly Labadie
CREDITS:
Deborah Freedman Backdrops
Sony a900 camera
Sony Zeiss 24-70/2.8 lens
Sony Zeiss 85/1.4 lens
Profoto Acute 2 2400 Pack
Profoto Acute 2 Flash Heads
Elinchrom Octa Light Bank
PocketWizard Transceivers
Induro Carbon Tripod CT414
Acratech GP Ballhead
Brian Smith at Fort Hood, Texas. Wanna look slimmer in a photo? Stand next to a tank...
After mentioning that I went to Washington. D.C. with the Creative Coalition to take my book ‘Art & Soul’ to Capitol Hill to lobby for support of the arts, everyone asks the same question, “So…did you meet the President?”
Unfortunately the answer to that is no.
Though it’s true that President Barak Obama received copy number 1 of 1,000 of the book hand-delivered by White House Arts Liaison, Kareem Dale. But for now, that meeting was closest I came to the President himself. So I’ll just have to settle for the bling version:
“God and Country”
I shot this at the 15th anniversary party for Slip-n-Slide Records. I’d photographed celebrity portraits of Slip-n-Slide CEO Ted Lucas and their recording artists a few years earlier for The Source magazine. So when their big rolled around, they invited me to party with them at the Victor Hotel. I decided to just roll up light with a Sony a900 camera, 24-70/2.8 and HVL-F58AM Flash and as soon as I spotted this Rhinestone Obama on a T-shirt of one of the other guests, I was sure glad I did.
That’s why it’s always good to have a camera with you. Good things happen when you have a camera…
EQUIPMENT:
Sony a900 camera
Sony Zeiss 24-70/2.8
Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
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I grew up in the days before fitness gurus were everywhere you looked, in those days when fitness could be summed up in just three words…Jack…La…Lanne…
When I was growing up I start off each day watching “The Jack La Lanne Show” before heading off to school. This past October, I was lucky enough to get a the chance to photograph the world’s youngest 92-year-old and his wife Elaine near their Morro Bay home.
I tell everyone that I have the greatest job in the world. This is just further proof of that…
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