If you live in B-more or have visited here recently, you may have seen what people have been calling the "billboard trucks". With glass walls enabling you to see inside, these small box trucks roam the streets as cruising advertisements. The trucks get decked out with their clients company's logos and showcase some pretty attention grabbing eye candy, like the Victory Motorcycle we used for the shoot:
We had a blast shooting this! The location is the point up in Federal Hill park, which has a gorgeous view of downtown and Inner Harbor, Baltimore. Needless to say, you're really not supposed to drive a truck through the park, much less park it where we did for the shots, so we had very little time to get what we needed. We were only a little concerned about getting caught, convinced that the worst anyone would do is tell us to go away, but no one ever did. And it didn't seem to bother anyone at the park, in fact most seemed at least intrigued, some taking pictures of us photographing the truck.
Also in this issue I photographed Michael Osborne, executive director of Baltimore's Harbour Pointe, a treatment facility dedicated to helping compulsive gamblers. A former gambling addict himself, he's become an expert on illegal gambling and even gives workshops on the subject to the FBI and IRS. At the time of the shoot, he was working on a pilot episode for a reality tv type show being bid on by HBO and A&E.
When we met, I was hoping the sun would be down a little more than it was. It looks somewhat dark in the image, but it was actually quite bright out. I used tungsten filters on my lights to make the ambient sunlight blueish, and a fast shutter speed to darken it. I also put a small light on the ground behind him to help with the spotlight effect.
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