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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
I had the pleasure of viewing and photographing a preview of The Contemporary Theater Company production of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (one of my favorites) It was fantastic and I predict that audiences will love it as much as I did! The show opens this Friday!
Musical Portrait of John Fuzek
John Fuzek is a musician and of of the most dedicated supporters of the Rhode Island music scene that I have ever met. We had a lot of fun making this portrait!
Jesse Pugh for Narragansett Town Council
This my friend Jesse Pugh with his family. Jesse is running for Narragansett Town Council. I fully and whole heartedly support him in this endeavor. I think you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat the most vulnerable around them, and Jesse is a thoughtful kind and intellectual person. Over the years, seeing him with his kids showed me a lot about the good character of a man he is. I am sure he will make an excellent Town Council member.
Please share this image around to help his campaign!
Portrait Photography Bruce Decker
This is my friend Bruce Decker, he is an amazing artisan that works in many capacities. He creates beauty everywhere he goes, and I admire and respect the way he is making the world a better place. 
Dweezil Zappa Band Portraits in Providence RI
I have been fortunate enough to create some relationships with in my opinion the best band in the world. These musicians are absolute beasts. Thank you Scheila, Ryan, Chris and Cian for your time and for another ass kicking show in Providence this week. You can catch the rest of the tour here is a link to the remaining shows
The Science of Alternative Facts
This is the 4th in a series I am calling “We Are The People”. I am looking for other compelling stories if you know someone who’s story needs to be told, get in touch with me here or on messenger.
April fools day seems like perfect timing to reveal this portrait of Paul. He is a scientist and describes himself as a conservative. Paul is the Dean of the College of Pharmacy at URI. He told me that he loves science becaue “The goal of good science is to find the truth. At the end of the day, you can believe the truth or not believe. But its still the truth.
Sometimes the truth is “unvarnished”, it may not be pretty or convenient or support someone’s point of view. But again its still the truth.
A good scientist removes their biases from the scientific process. Some of the most fulfilling experiments end with “Well, thats not what I expected!”
We Are The People/ Little Girl Portrait
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This is the 3rd in a series I am calling “We Are The People”. I am looking for other compelling stories if you know someone who’s story needs to be told, get in touch with me here or on messenger.
This is a real photo of a girl and her Mom. #ShePersisted Leila is 10 years old and was adopted from Kazakhstan, a predominantly muslim country located in Central Asia which is from the former Soviet republic. She told her mom last week “The president likes you but he doesn’t like me”
Kids always look to their parents as a vision of what their lives will be like down the road. What this girls sees for herself right now because of the current political climate is disjointed, jagged and painful. I hold out hope that she will have a bright future free from prejudice about the color of her skin.
We Are The People/Muslim Woman
We are the people by Seth Jacobson
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This is my homage to Shephard Fairey’s iconic protest image and the 2nd in a series I am calling “We Are The People”. I am looking for other compelling stories if you know someone who’s story needs to be told, get in touch with me here or on messenger. This is a real photo of a real woman and her name is Nada. #ShePersisted
Nada is a smart, hard-working and kind Muslim woman.
She is earning her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at URI and plans to graduate next May. She was born in Egypt where her father is a dentist and her mother is a stay-at-home mom of four.
She loves kickboxing and describes herself as a nerd. She chose to begin wearing her headscarf at the age of 12, a decision that has great meaning for her and her family.
She fears this new administration will build obstacles to her improbable dream of a life in the US that she cannot overcome. It is my sincere hope that she is able to live out her dream and serve the American people as a pharmacist. It would be a sad and unnecessary loss if she ends up being forced out.
We Are The People/behind the curtain
I created this portrait with a 4 light set up. I placed 3 lights bare bulb: 2 pointed at 45 degree angles toward the camera and one placed really low to the ground behind Emily and pointed up at the flag in the center. The fourth light was shot though a small octa box onto her face. We placed the 8’x 12′ flag behind her outside in the snow storm attached to my tripod backdrop holder. The settings on my camera were ISO 64- shutter 200th- aperture 5.6 and my lens was an 85 mm Nikon lens.
Outside, Portrait lighting: Behind the curtain
I created this portrait of Rico for his acting portfolio. We wanted to tell a sad story of a man having a terrible day. The problem, it was actually a lovely day.
1st we had to get him wet because it wasn’t actually raining out.
Then we added “Rain” which was just a regular garden hose, clamped to a ladder and pointed in the air. This is what it looked like in real life.
My settings on the camera were ISO 400 shot on a 70-200mm lens at 70 mm. Shutter 125, and Aperture of 2.8the light above Rico was set with a small Octa box and had an orange filter. The light behind him was bare bulb set to a wide “spray of light” this light really made the water feel like rain because it back lit every single droplet of water. Here is what it looked like with the lights from the side. Notice the back light looks blue and the top light is warmer.
Here is the final product
The Rhode Island Portrait Project: 401 Studio
I have another installment of my very exciting portrait project. I love my community and there are some amazing people making Rhode Island a wonderful place to live. I have decided to photograph the people who are really making “IT” happen here in my community in a (hopefully) creative and fun way that tells a story about who those people are and what they are doing for their little section of the world.
This is a portrait of Elyssa and Matt from the 401 Studio, they are a screen printing company out of Wakefield RI that puts ink on clothing. So our idea was to put ink on them! How fun! The image that you are looking at is a composite of 3 different photos combined together to give the appearance of one. We threw paint at them and as the paint splattered all over they stayed still and I took all the splashing from the different frames and combined them for this image. Dig it!
For the photo geeks out there, I used 3 speed lights: Two lights in front of them a 72″ Octa box on the right and a small 15″ umbrella on the left and a bare speed light up and behind them (notice the shadow on the ground) This was taken on a Nikon d600 camera ISO 500 with a 50 mm lens at F8 and a shutter of 1/200th of a second
Elyssa and Matt for the RI Portrait Project
Kristin and James get married at the Galilee beach club
Kristin and James get married at The Galilee beach club
Zappa Plays Zappa Photos by Seth Jacobson
Frank Zappa occupies a place that is singular and unique both in music and American culture in general. Whenever someone speaks so unabashedly from a place of freedom (as Frank did) it gives others the power to stand up and speak their truth as well. I am but one, in the crowded landscape of disenfranchised youth that discovered this incredible man, and found a bit of hope from the way he went about being unapologetically himself. Thank you for that gift Frank
I had the pleasure and honor of photographing the incredible Zappa Plays Zappa band at the historic Hampton Beach Casino Dweezil has done us all a huge favor by continuing to perform his father’s music live. A project he started about 10 years ago. I’ve seen every tour he has done so far and he continues to delight, inspire and surprise me. Special thanks to the incredible Kurt Morgan for bringing these photos to fruition. Kurt plays bass and sings with the ZPZ band. He was very generous with his time helping me to get connected with the group for this gig. The current tour is focused (for the 1st third of the show) on playing the entire One Size Fits All album. While wandering around the vast emptiness of the venue before the show with Kurt, we stumbled upon this Fat Maroonish Sofa, supported by boards of oak. We thought to ourselves, “Quite an attractive sofa, this sofa could be commercial” with a few margaritas and the right company…
Here are a quick set of portraits I created of Kurt before the show using the Fat Maroonish Sofa
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Kurt Morgan by Seth Jacobson
Here are the photos of Sound Check before the show
ZPZ by Seth Jacobson
ZPZ by Seth Jacobson
ZPZ by Seth Jacobson
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The show that Zappa Plays Zappa puts on is second to none. I am continually blown away by the dedication to precision and accuracy all done with power and soul and tons of humor. Thanks Dweezil, Kurt, Ben, Chris, Sheila, and Ryan for a great show! Here are the photos
ZPZ by Seth Jacobson
ZPZ by Seth Jacobson
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Alfred Hitchcock themed portrait session, Rhode Island engagement photos
TJ and Sarah approached me about making an “outside of the box” type portrait session and I was all for it! While I love creating more “standard” romantic images for my clients, THIS idea of using Alfred Hitchock movies as our inspiration was SUPER exciting to me! What a blast it was to make these images! Hopefully you like the as much as we do!!! I was impressed by the level of commitment they both showed toward making the photos happen! Feel free to share this post around if you like the photos as much as we do! I’m including a few original images from the movies as a reference for our inspiration for the shoot. Thanks to everyone that helped us make these photos happen.
Homage to “Rear Window” by Seth Jacobson Photography
Homage to “The Birds” by Seth Jacobson Photography
Homage to “The Birds” by Seth Jacobson Photography
Homage to “Psycho” by Seth Jacobson Photography
Our inspiration from “The Birds”
Our inspiration from “Psycho”
Our inspiration from “Psycho”
Our inspiration from “Psycho”
Our inspiration from “The Birds”
Our inspiration from “Rear Window”
Our inspiration from “Rear Window”
Our inspiration from “The Birds”
Leftover Cuties Portrait Session, Rhode Island
The Leftover Cuties are a breath of fresh air in the music scene. If you don’t know their music, it’s both old style and modern, very danceable but they aren’t a dance band, the music has depth and gravitas but is sometimes quirky and playful. I had the honor and pleasure of creating these portraits during their stay over in Rhode Island. The timing was good as it was Austin’s (the bass player) birthday! Yay!
You may be familiar with The Showtime television show called “The Big C” that the Cuties wrote and performed the theme song for.
Here are two other songs that moved me (both in different ways)
Dig the photos! I am very proud of them!
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Beautiful Yoga Photos taken in a studio: Behind the curtain
I created these portraits of Alyssa Sullivan owner of Synergy Power Yoga in Barrington RI for her social media and for new marketing material to help promote her business. With all business portraiture that I do, I had a couple of objectives. These are different for every business that I work with, but for this one I wanted the photos to not only get across the love and joy that Alyssa brings to the Yoga she teaches, but her showcase her incredible talent and beauty as well.
Below I will be sharing exactly how I created these portraits that I am super proud of! Tell me what you think in the comments!
Beautiful Yoga portrait
by Seth Jacobson Photography
Beautiful Yoga portrait
by Seth Jacobson Photography
Beautiful Yoga portrait
by Seth Jacobson Photography
Beautiful Yoga portrait
by Seth Jacobson Photography
I wanted these photos to have a very clean and pristine look about them, so I put her on a solid white background and lit the whole scene with 4 separate speed lights. My ISO was set at 320 with a shutter speed varied from 1/125 to 1/200 with an aperture of either 6.3 or 7.1
The speed lights were shot though 3 octaboxes from behind up and behind right and left. With one big one from the front right. You can see below my light placement. The three smaller lights from behind her were set to 1/16th power and the big light off to the right was set to 1/4 power.
Behind the curtain with Seth Jacobson Photography
Driscoll and Associates: Law Firm Business Portraits
I had the Pleasure of photographing Driscol and Associates recently. We created some business portraiture for them to use in promotional material. Enjoy!
Rhode Island Portrait Project: Rabbi Wayne Franklin from Temple Emanuel
I have another installment of my very exciting portrait project. I love my community and there are some amazing people making Rhode Island a wonderful place to live. I have decided to photograph the people who are really making “IT” happen here in my community in a (hopefully) creative and fun way that tells a story about who those people are and what they are doing for their little section of the world.
Rabbi Wayne Franklin is a wonderful man. He is the kind of man that you immediately feel comfortable talking with. I have spent many hours conversing with him, and soaking up his warm intelligence. What strikes me about Rabbi Franklin is his openness to explore. He is always ready to dig deeper and look closely at humanity. As a non Jewish person, I have burdened him with many questions that he has tirelessly answered, and I am grateful for his generosity of spirit. I am also impressed with not only the strength of his conviction, but the wealth of knowledge that he offers his congregation at Temple Emanuel in Providence. He is a scholar in the truest sense of the word, so when I photographed him I wanted his library to be included in our portrait. I think we created a beautiful portrait, and I am proud to share it with you now.
Here is a link to some of the other portraits I have created for this project
Rabbi Wayne Franklin of Temple Emanuel in Providence RI
by Seth Jacobson
Portrait Photography Childhood: Seth Jacobson
Sometimes I create a portrait that transcends the moment that we are in, and touches onto something bigger than myself or the person I am photographing. I feel like these photos do that. Boyhood in a bottle is what we have here. I feel something very special when I look at these photos, I feel my own childhood, and countless others both before and after me. What are your thoughts?
kid portrait by Seth Jacobson
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