Justin Kosman Photography

Summer in the sand

Leave your strobes at home.

Projects. I love them.
Two month deadline? Even better.
A photography project like this doesn’t come across me desk very often.
If I’m lucky, I get a direct flight and onsite editing in the memo, so when I was able to shoot three different sport environments with the locations up to my discretion- I was psyched.  I’m not saying that I never shoot in San Diego, but I rarely have a contracted shoot in my neighborhood and get to have the luxury of sleeping in my own bed each night. Maybe it is a control thing, or knowing that if one location doesn’t work out that I have a GPS with 50 back-ups spots at my finger tips.

]And I haven’t even mentioned the best part: Two, 5ft & 7ft long wooden logos have to be incorporated into each shot.  Even better because my left hand was broken at the time they showed up on my doorstep. But time was on my side and I had some good spots in mind.

So over the course of a coupe months I watched the sunsets, watched the tide charts and watched the misty marine layer that would so easily turn a sunset from orange to gray. My other goal was to shoot everything with natural light and only use a reflector when absolutely necessary.  My two assistants Mr. Tran and Mr. Pitcher were acting as my left arm by holding cameras and switching lenses during these hectic shooting windows of golden sunset light.

Here are the final images chosen by the agency. Running in Transworld Business Magazine / Summer 2009. Also check them out in the Print Ads section of the Portfolio.