In June of 2011, I left my job as Web Designer and Front-End Guru at ONeil Interactive for an open User Experience and Web Designer position at CentreTEK Solutions. The decision was not an easy one – but long story short (and a shorter drive to work) I still love what I do and love coming to work just as I did before.
The team here at CentreTEK is a tight one. Everyone gets along and has a good time, with a work-hard-play-hard mentality. One of those team members whom I’ve had some of the best laughs with is the energetic, funky and downright silly, in-house (although he goes out on-location for clients most of the time) IT guy – Forrest Burris. Back when I was doing my 365 project (which I have officially taken a break from), I proposed the idea of using him for one of my shots. The day I met him I knew he’d make a great subject. He immediately agreed and I just knew that the shot would soon get together would be great.
In the building here, we have some in-house servers that Forrest manages so we concocted the idea to incorporate them into the shot. Forrest transformed into a nerdy, IT creeper along with which came server racks, wire cutters, taped glasses and miles of LAN cable.
For those of you interested, the lighting setup included a total of two speedlights triggered by CactusV5 wireless triggers with one, bare flash just over Forrest’s left shoulder and another above the camera inside a 40″ Apollo softbox. Post processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
We had fun and weeks later Forrest sent out a mass email to the team here where it made a few laughs and the owner, Jay, blew it up, framed it and hung it on the office wall.
