Portraits of an artist: Shayne Murphy

March 18, 2019 Filippo Nenna

Shayne’s artwork is often large scale and they dominate they room they occupy. His studio is full of oil painting and charcoal drawings, some with sharp lines, all with sharp themes.

This session was a mix of uncluttered portraits with plain backgrounds and some using the studio for more environmental portraits. The black and white film photographs were taken on a Hasselblad 500cm, the digital pictures taken on a Canon 5Div,

Find out more about Shayne’s work at www.shayne-murphy.com and on instagram @shaynejmurphy.

The Villain Lifestyle Clothing, 2nd collaboration

February 18, 2019 Filippo Nenna

This was a speedy session arranged by The Villain Lifestyle to promote Omar’s recent line of printed apparel. It was a shoot in the harsh midday sun, but we played with the shadows to get some very striking images.

Portraits of Charles, a Houston Songwriter

January 28, 2019 Filippo Nenna

Charles not only writes songs, but is a former New York model and fitness instructor. As a man who wears many hats, he had plenty of ideas for images running the gammut from writing lyrics on his bathroom mirror to burning a song as he wrote it on a piece of paper. We also got some great 3/4 and headshots.

You can follow Charles on his Instagram account @saintroninmusic, and on his YouTube channel.

Portraits of Dominika

January 7, 2019 Filippo Nenna

Dominika is an extraordinary violin player and teacher. She also plays as part of the Axiom Quartet and the Dancewict-Doucet Duo.

For this portrait session we took some close up shots of Dominika with her 19th century violin. This was a hybrid session using a digital camera and a large format camera (the Intrepid 4x5) using black and white film.

Portraits of Kristen

December 3, 2018 Filippo Nenna

Kristen’s portrait shoot was a great example of having a solid plan-b. The original idea was for an outdoor shoot in front of the historic buildings in Texas city (about an hour south east of Houston), but the rain moved in and the plan had to be scrapped.

So we got permission from Sarah, the owner of the Campeche coffee etc, to set up a few lights and a backdrop in the corner of her premises. This was perfect for simple head-shots, and with a little post-processing we got some superb full body motion shots.

We changed location for the end of the session - a laundry-mat just up the road from Campeche Coffee. It was another one-light setup to capture the movement of Kristen’s hair.

This was a hybrid digital and film session using a Hasselblad 500cm and a Canon 6D mark 2.

See more of Kristen through instagram @kristen.wollenberg.

Portraits of Sergio

November 26, 2018 Filippo Nenna

I love meeting people with curly hair like mine so I can bombard them with questions on how they deal with it in the mornings and where they get it cut.

Sergio’s portrait session resulted in some great social media head shots and some full body shots that wouldn’t look out of place if he was interviewed for a magazine.

This was a hybrid film and digital session using a Hasselblad 500cm and a Canon 6D mark 2.