Ron Shoots

Working at a resort community offers a ton of activity options! We’ve been able to shoot beach, biking, dining, fishing, kayaking and a ton of leisurely lifestyle over the past few days.

(Krista, our stylist, keeps an eye on details while Luke handles the fill-flash.)

Yesterday, we were on the golf course for a couple of hours. The best time to shoot on a golf course is usually late afternoon after most of the golfers have already played the holes. We’ve tried shooting in the morning before, but its hard to work around all the footprints and tracks left in the morning dew.

The excitement of the day was seeing a couple of alligators along the path enroute to the golf hole. Just little 6 - 7 footers, but still pretty cool!

Fresh takes needed

I’m not much of a golfer. I know enough vocabulary to get me in trouble… but golf is a huge category in any stock collection. The challenge is to always find fresh angles. There’s tons of golf images, so its always worth the extra effort to come up with something a little new & different.

The man in our husband/wife model couple team knew how to play so he became the feature actor in this set. He had his own golf shoes- these are an expensive prop so we nixed getting a pair for her knowing we would only have a couple hours to shoot. Feet don’t always need to show so getting the golf “lifestyle” was easy, and I discovered the shadow didn’t need to have golf shoes.

Details are cool

I love shooting details!

The big scene is important and the detail shots help fill out the image set. Often, the detail shots become the concept images. I usually wear old clothes on most shoot days. Partly my style… but mostly so I can lay down in the dirt or grass, and find new angles without the fear of messing up anything! My crew jokes that I probably spend more time laying on the ground than I do on my feet.