Booky-Man (Cheesy Titles are the best)

24mm · f/2.8 · 1/250s · ISO 100

Hi everyone, so the studio shoot with Kyle was actually a sorta spin off or spontaneous shoot after planning this one. Kyle had a lot of street fashion kind of shoots before, but this time, we wanted a shoot with a classy vibe to it. We put together a little mood board, which included Peaky Blinders in it. As far as location, this is a book store that I frequented, and the bookstore owner kindly allowed us to use it for this shoot.

3 lights
-1 39" Deep octa camera right for main
-1 46" Softlighter camera left for fill
-1 speedlight barebulb on left back shelve for subtle background fill/mimicking ambient. As you can imagine, the real ambient light was florescence with a nice nasty green ish cast to it. So by adding a flash and bouncing it in the ceiling really helps.

Photographer: JayKan.com IG: ikanicphoto
Model: Kyle Cooley
Assistant: Dale Feenstra
Special thanks: Shop owner Joe from Mostly Books

33 Comments

Amanda approved :O! YES! Mission accomplished!!! LOL! Seriously though, means a lot coming from you!

This is rather special - rather fond of locations like this and Kyle rocks it...

Thank you! To be honest, from the first time I walked into the store, I knew I had to do a shoot here one day. It's just so nice to finally have a project fall in place and work well together!

Great lighting and feel with this shot

This is fantastic work, no doubt about it however the platic milk crate kind of ruins the scene for me.
Still, stellar work.

The scene and pose, so nice. and the color grading! jealous, lol , have not figured how to get the "look" ,

i love the contrast and the simplcity

Great image! The lighting is immaculate.

Superb shot! Every aspect of this shot looks great...

OMG. I LOVE THE STORY OF THIS ONE. 5 STARS