Portraits of the Women's Olympic Hockey Team.

The Golden Girls.

Take away the Jersey, Gold Medals, skates and helmet, and the women underneath are beautiful, genuine and marvellous people to photograph. I was hired a day prior to the shoot, and was given creative freedom. I decided to go the route of shooting dark, personal portraits; [my favourite style].

For a long time now I've been enamoured by the photographs of Joey Lawrence. His dark, moody, intimate photos inspire me. In creating these photos I took a page from his look-book. I wasn't going for light, bright and cheery, but rather up close, personal and perhaps a little somber. 

A fun fact, the women here were not photoshopped. That's what they look like in real life.

With that said, enjoy, and share around. 

I can't show 3/4 of the photos I shot as they have the Olympic Jerseys. 

Hayley Wickenheiser: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Hayley Wickenheiser: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Hayley Wickenheiser: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Brianne Jenner: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Marie-Philip Poulin: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Laura Fortino: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Meaghan Mikkelson: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Natalie Spooner: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Natalie Spooner: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Natalie Spooner: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Natalie Spooner: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Meghan Agosta-Marciano: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Meghan Agosta-Marciano: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Catherine Ward: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Catherine Ward: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Catherine Ward: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Catherine Ward: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Caroline Ouellette: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Rebecca Johnston: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Jennifer Wakefield: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Genevieve Lacasse: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Jayna Hefford: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

The gold Medals of Jayna Hefford: Image copyright: Hockeycanada.ca

Most of the photos used an octa-bank and beauty dish as the main light. Both on the same side of the face, unlike the below photo. The beauty dish I set to half power and the octa-bank [fill light] is immediately behind the beauty dish and at a much lower power. 
Most of the photos had a soft-box as a rim light, and spot light on the background. All of the lights are Alienbees. 

Behind The Scenes.

What with winter?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QRqG74Ziw&w=1000&h=700] I haven't seen winter described more perfectly from a photographer.

How does a photographer without a studio deal with winter?

Nobody wants an outdoor photo-shoot, they freeze.

The lack of snow renders everything brown.

No  simplistic white snow scenes, love em!

I can recycle photos from the summer.

But i don't like not shooting.

My studio shots suck.

Got no energy.

No ideas.

Write!