illness

I recently worked on a story for the newspaper about the stigma of mental illness and how the Catholic Family Services in St. Louis works with its patients. Obviously photographing patients for the story would be out of the question so I worked on developing a photo illustration to run with it instead. I used my dear photo-artist friend and we headed downtown with my lights for some shooting. I used three snooted strobes and a little HDR technique for this image which was shoot near high noon. It is often a challenge to over power the sun but keeping out of direct sun often helps and you can use the sun to your advantage as a light source.