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Laurent Dechery

Joe Lencioni — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:03:08 +0000

Professor, French, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/4.5, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Laurent was very nice when I met him.

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Professor, French, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/4.5, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Greg Mason

Joe Lencioni — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:02:53 +0000

Professor, English, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/2.8, 1/125 s, 100 ISO

Professor Mason let me set my lights up during one of his classes. It was a pretty tight squeeze getting around all of the students while trying to be as invisible as possible, but I think I managed pretty well.

In the first shot, I really like the gesture that Greg is making with his hands and how his dynamic, red sweater is contrasted against the stark, blue background. In the second shot I was happy to bring in some of the students and show that interaction taking place.

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Professor, English, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/3.5, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Scott Bur

Joe Lencioni — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:16:37 +0000

Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/8.0, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

This is Scott Bur. He teaches Chemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College and seems like a good guy. I see him down at Patrick’s for trivia sometimes. His beard comes and goes, but I think I like the bearded Bur better than the non-bearded version.

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Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/8.0, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Sujay Rao

Joe Lencioni — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:04:09 +0000

Assistant Professor, History, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/3.5, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

I took these photos in Sujay’s very tight office, so camera angles were limited to say the least.

I think I got pretty lucky with how they turned out, considering how confined the space was. In tight situations like this, it would be nice to have a wider lens than the 50mm that I used. On the other hand, it’s always a fun challenge to make due with the less-than-ideal equipment at hand.

Besides, the most important aspect of the photo is the subject. Sujay is a really nice guy and I’m happy with the expressions I caught. They feel authentic to me.

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Assistant Professor, History, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/3.5, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Claude Brew

Joe Lencioni — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:14:38 +0000

Professor, English, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/5.6, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Claude let me sit in on a Jane Austen class to take his photo. I arrived a little early, set up my lights, and hoped for the best.

I was worried that I would be in the way and hinder the educational process, but it seemed to go pretty well. After about an hour of me walking around the classroom, popping and adjusting my flashes, I had a few shots that I thought would work well.

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Professor, English, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/5.6, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Mark Kruger

Joe Lencioni — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:26:38 +0000

Professor, Psychology, Gustavus Adolphus College ƒ/6.3, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Mark was nice to pose for these shots in his office in the basement of the A.H. Anderson Social Science Center.

I liked a striped chair that he had in his office and thought his nicely-organized, tall bookshelves would make a nice backdrop for the first shot. Then, I spun around and noticed a painting of a man hanging above his desk. I think there’s a nice, but subtle, connection between Mark and the man in the painting that I hoped to bring out in the second shot.

Mark is a Social Psychologist in the Psychology department at Gustavus.

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Night barn

Joe Lencioni — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:16:59 +0000

ƒ/6.3, 298 s, 100 ISO

Jerry and I went out, exploring the southern Minnesota countryside and looking for good nighttime subjects.

We drove for what seemed like a couple of hours and didn’t come across anything that really grabbed us. About to give up, we headed toward home. Suddenly, we drove past this barn and in an instant were out of the car with our photo gear pointed at the barn. Needless to say, we were quite excited about the structure.

We spent an hour or two at this site until Jerry finished his roll in his old school Yashica–he wanted to see how they turned out first thing the next morning and figured he would take the opportunity to experiment a bit with shutter speeds and apertures. He posted a few of the good ones.

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Salon 7

Joe Lencioni — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:14:32 +0000

Chair and shelf ƒ/1.4, 1/60 s, 200 ISO

I was recently hired to take some photos for the newish Salon 7 in Mankato, MN. These are the ones I liked the best.

Lili Payne is putting together a snazzy website for them and they were hoping to get some good photos for that and maybe some future marketing materials. These photos are so fresh that they haven’t even seen them yet. In fact, I’m putting them on a CD right now and mailing them out.

The shoot itself was a good time and the people were all really nice. Although, I would have liked to have spent a little more time just hovering about, taking photos of random things, I think I got a few decent shots that are worth using. I hope they like them too.

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Products on a leaf ƒ/1.4, 1/160 s, 200 ISO

Chair ƒ/1.4, 1/25 s, 200 ISO

Coat hooks ƒ/1.4, 1/2500 s, 200 ISO

Product shelf ƒ/1.4, 1/320 s, 400 ISO

Cantaloupe, Cucumis melo reticulatus

Joe Lencioni — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:02:48 +0000

ƒ/16.0, 1/200 s, 100 ISO

Here are two macro shots of the usually-delicious cantaloupe, a cultivar of the Cucumis melo species (generally referred to simply as muskmelon).

From Wikipedia:

In some parts of Australia and New Zealand, it is usually called rockmelon due to the rock-like appearance of the skin of the fruit.

The weather has been unbelievably perfect here in Minnesota these past few days. If you are in the area, I hope you have had the chance to enjoy it while it lasts. Autumn is, by far, my favorite season—I look forward to this time each year.

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Linnaeus Arboretum Up Close

Joe Lencioni — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:27:18 +0000

Blossoms ƒ/6.3, 1/125 s, 1000 ISO

A few more macros of springtime around the arb from my archive. I remember hoping to catch a cool bug or two on this shoot but they weren’t really out yet.

I bet one or two of these would make decent black and white photos… I might have to revisit some later.

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Lichen ƒ/3.2, 1/80 s, 1000 ISO

Fuzzy Stick ƒ/3.2, 1/200 s, 1000 ISO