A Shoot With the Suttons

I shot Eddie Sutton and his wife Patsy yesterday for the OSU mortarboard cover. After coming up with several ideas, which all fell through, we decided to simply shoot them in front of a big OSU logo at the Gallager-Iba concourse. It was clean, simple and told the message we wanted.



The mortarboard theme was "Reaching for Greatness." Hokey, I know. Anyway, the shoot took about 30 minutes, half of which was just setting up. I didn't use any complicated lighting, just one off-camera flash.

There are quibbles I have, though. Patsy's shoulder cuts off part of the big "S" in State, Eddie's feet are cut off and there are some noticeable shadows behind both of them. They were simple, easy things to fix, which makes it that much worse. If I would have put Patsy half a step to the left and stepped up one more rung on my ladder, the two major things would have been avoided.