Big Oak Josh

[DanOstergren26 1]

This guy is 6'5. He said he was in his off season, and that he is "out of shape".

Shot in natural light on an overcast/rainy day.

I used a silver reflector for some fill in this one.

 

[Destin]

Damn, great as usual. The light in the second one is beautiful.

I could only hope to be that “out of shape” someday.

 

[smoke665]

Great shots, the second as Destin said has great lighting. The pose in the last reminds me slightly of the posters for the pugilist of old.

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Oak should be his middle name. Well done!

 

[Amocholes]

Your details are always so crisp.

Are you sure his name isn't Zeus? Maybe you should do a shoot with him in a toga.

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

Damn, great as usual. The light in the second one is beautiful.

I could only hope to be that “out of shape” someday.

Thank you. Me as well, lol.

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

Great shots, the second as Destin said has great lighting. The pose in the last reminds me slightly of the posters for the pugilist of old.

Thank you. He's a bodybuilding competitor, and I believe it's one of the competition flexing poses.

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

Oak should be his middle name. Well done!

It might be.

Thank you.

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

Your details are always so crisp.

Are you sure his name isn't Zeus? Maybe you should do a shoot with him in a toga.

Thank you. I do a bit of extra sharpening once I'm done with all of my other retouching.

That's not a bad idea...

 

[JustJazzie]

Fantastic as usual! I love your use of light in general, and these do no disappoint. I always enjoy viewing your work. Thank you for sharing.

 

[JonA_CT]

What a beautifully enormous man.

 

[terri34 6]

The texture in the B&W shots is wonderful. Especially the second one - it's all about texture: the skin, the beard - even the way his hair is combed.

I just groove on elements like this within portraits. I will never understand the attraction most photographers share of smoothing out skin until it looks like plastic. We are textural creatures on many levels; let it show, bay-bay!!!

Terrific model, terrific images.

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

Fantastic as usual! I love your use of light in general, and these do no disappoint. I always enjoy viewing your work. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you!!

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

What a beautifully enormous man.

I know. I couldn't help but picture him carrying me off into the sunset the entire time we were shooting. My assistant was drooling over him as well.

 

[DanOstergren26 1]

The texture in the B&W shots is wonderful. Especially the second one - it's all about texture: the skin, the beard - even the way his hair is combed.

I just groove on elements like this within portraits. I will never understand the attraction most photographers share of smoothing out skin until it looks like plastic. We are textural creatures on many levels; let it show, bay-bay!!!

Terrific model, terrific images.

Thank you, and I agree. Retouching can be done without wiping away details in the skin, like pores. Pores make someone look real, like a human. Wiping away that texture creates an unrelatable disconnect between the viewer and the subject, it erases any sort of emotion, and the fact that they look fake becomes a focal point of it's own.