Dan

Whitehead

This image was taken at Goldfield Ghost Town in Apache Junction Arizona. That day happened to be show day, so there were a lot of people walking around in era appropriate clothing. I decided to try and get some portraits with them. I went up to about 4 or 5 people before they had to go off and set up for the first show. This man was the second one I shot and seemed to know his angles, because we never even made eye contact the entire “shoot”. I eventually got of the photos from the series printed because I love the way they turned out.

With this shoot we wanted to invoke the 1960s. I created this little set in my home studio and provided a notebook and my grandpa’s pen for authenticity. The rest of the image comes together with Megan’s styling and hair/makeup. Shot with my Canon R5, and Westcott Lighting.

Using a recent Billie Eilish shoot as a jumping off point, we created this wet hair, black and white look with a shirt and tie from my closet. Proved to be our favorite series of photos from our shoot together. Shot with my Canon R5.

This photo was taken at a fashion inspired photo shoot out hosted by New York photographer Lindsay Adler. At her studio myself and many others rotated around her studio working at difference set ups and with different models. I shot this with my Canon R5 and all Profoto lighting. To get that swirl effect I used a special filter.

This shoot was inspired by Steve Martin and a series of images he made back in the 70s or 80s when he was still doing stand up. That’s where the white suit idea comes from. The crown was something I already had.

With this shoot we wanted to create an afternoon sun look to go along with the bathing suit and wet hair look. Some of the lens flare was created in post to finish off the image.

This photo was born out of a promo shoot I was doing for an upcoming Batman inspired short film. Friends of mine and I are working on it, and I offered to shoot some production stills of the two main characters. This particular one was shot in front of my Westcott FJ400 with a large softbox on it to create a backlight effect as well as a white background at the same time.

This is a self portrait I made while messing around with “Film Noir” lighting. I wanted to test out the homemade gobo I made for the background as well as mixing strobe and constant light. Was really happy with how it all came out for such a simple setup. Shot with a Canon R5.

With this photo the subject (Kara Byrnes) and I wanted to do a monochromatic image with a single color. This color of course being red. She had this body suit with her, and I had two red Amazon curtains that I hung up to be outlet backdrop. In photoshop I smoothed it all out to appear as a single piece. Shot with my Canon R5.

This photo of Jessica Finn is part of our fashion lighting set we were doing. Lit with a single beauty dish on a Westcott FJ400 to camera right. This was taken in my home studio and shot with my Canon R5.

For this portrait of my friend Raeann Dalton, I wanted to keep it very simple. She’s in medical school and going to be a doctor one day. She’s not a model or an actor who can play a character or work with the light, so keeping it simple and capturing her as her was key. For the lighting we used a single Westcott FJ400 with a translucent umbrella right above the camera and had her stand in front of a VFlat World V-Flat with the sides acting as negative fill. I used black to really get her lab coat to pop and shine through. It helped she was wearing a dark shirt underneath. For my camera and lens set up, I had my Canon R5 and my Canon EF 24mm-105mm f4 at 35mm. One of if not my favorite image of the year.