Well, I have been photographing a ton of doctor portraits recently, so I decided to share with you all two of my favorites. Each of the doctors, the first being an OBGYN (in case you couldn’t tell) and the second an orthopaedic surgeon wanted something they hadn’t really done before, something that would grab the attention of the viewer. There is nothing better than the client telling their photographer they want something cool and different. Game on.
Now for a bit about these portraits. The interesting part of this first one is that, despite what you may think, there is very little photoshop work done. Now of course I want an image to be beautiful, sharp and have great color, but there was no moving around of babies and such outside of positioning them on the shoot. We set up in the OB’s office, and had a massive crowd of moms, moms of moms, nannies, and of course all of our little models. It was slightly chaotic. In either case, I tried to arrange them as best I could (infants don’t seem to take direction well) and basically try to get the timing perfect on emotions and actions. As you can see, the finished product turned out very well for the client, and it was a fun shoot.
For the second shot, the surgeon had me come out to Texas Ballet Theater’s practice facilities, where he does work with many of the dancers, and gave me free creative reign. So, after checking out some various poses of the dancers, I decided to have a nicely layered image with plenty of movement. After all, how often do you get to photograph doctors with people trained in perfect group posing? After a few sets of tweaking to get arms and legs just right, we had our shot. I hope you enjoy the images!