{"id":2518,"date":"2010-02-26T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahtew.wordpress.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2010-02-26T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:05:05","slug":"author-portraits-for-michael-schiavone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/author-portraits-for-michael-schiavone\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Portraits for Michael Schiavone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Schiavone<\/a>, a highly acclaimed young fiction writer, recently sold his novel Call Me When You Land<\/a> to Permanent Press<\/a>— it will be out in 2011.\u00a0 Naturally he needed a formal author portrait for his press materials, book promotion, website, and perhaps somewhere on the back of the book… I was thrilled to help him with this important project and we had a nice early morning shoot. Though it is February in NYC I was able to convince Mike to take off a layer and brave the cold ford the sake of the images. We started in the studio but my favorites are the ones we did outside… I seriously can’t get enough of the neighborhood around my studio, it’s so perfect for portraiture like this. Here are my top picks… I might have trouble choosing! Which would you use?<\/p>\n

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The above shot is both one of mine and one of Mike’s favorites so that may be it…<\/p>\n

\"\"Sometimes a simple headshot is all they want though– and you can’t argue with the catchlights in his eyes here…I’m really pleased with the. shadows I created on his face too–I find a hint of rembrandt lighting really works well for many male portraits.<\/p>\n

\"\"I kind of love that there’s a van in the background…<\/p>\n

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This brick wall in the alley behind my studio building never fails to produce a pleasing background.<\/p>\n

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I was really into getting these vertical and horizontal lines from the fire escape stairs…\u00a0 love how they look!<\/p>\n

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Not having had the chance to read Mike’s book yet I wasn’t sure whether a warmer\/smiling shot like above or a more intense\/serious artistic portrait like below would be appropriate for the mood… so we did a bit of both.<\/p>\n

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Michael Schiavone, a highly acclaimed young fiction writer, recently sold his novel Call Me When You Land to Permanent Press— it will be out in 2011.\u00a0 Naturally he needed a formal author portrait for his press materials, book promotion, website, and perhaps somewhere on the back of the book… I was thrilled to help him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21,10,12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahtewphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}