Jay Kan

Booky-Man (Cheesy Titles are the best)

February 22, 2016

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

24mm · f/2.8 · 1/250s · ISO 100

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33 Comments

Amanda Campbell February 22, 2016

OH my gosh. WOW. Love this.

Jay Kan February 22, 2016 Amanda Campbell

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

Pawel Witkowski February 23, 2016

Well Done

Jay Kan February 23, 2016 Pawel Witkowski

Thank you Pawel!!

Mike Smith February 23, 2016

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

Jay Kan February 23, 2016 Mike Smith

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!