Panini is the world leader in officially licensed collectibles & the leading multi-national publisher of trading cards, stickers, comics & children’s magazines.

I decided to composite some of the NBA basketball portraits to great effect. But I also decided to do a very high contract black and white photography look as well.

Sports Advertising Photography Behind The Scenes

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Over the course of one day Chicago Sports Photographer John Gress created lifestyle portraits of 40 NFL football players in action.

When Gress was a teenager he and his best friend started collecting sports cards and then they started trying to get autographs from NBA basketball players after their games in his native Portland, Oregon. That eventually led to him wanting to take photos of them in order to get them autographed. So its kind of ironic that some 25-years later he would be taking photos of the athletes for their trading cards. While the teenager would have died from the excitement, the adult didn’t even know who any of the players were until they stepped onto the set.

Chicago Sports Lifestyle PhotographyBehind the Scenes

Speaking of the set, Chicago Sports Lifestyle Photographer John Gress had two portrait lighting setup on the same set and a total of 9 Profoto lights. 6 of them were for a soft light setup and three of them were used for a harder light look and involved a Broncolor Para 88 and two strip soft boxes.

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Lifestyle Photography in Chicago by photographer John Gress can handle all of your advertising and commercial photography needs, whether they are in Chicago, or around the world. Non-profits, charities, emerging businesses, major sports franchises and Fortune 500 companies have turned to Gress for descriptive lifestyle photos, eye-catching environmental portraits and stock imagery.

During this lifestyle shoot Gress worked to capture a a male lifestyle model playing the role of a father and the child lifestyle model playing his daughter. The pair were playing and doing the dishes in a Chicago living room and kitchen.

While this was a stock photography shoot, the images could be used for any commercial advertising campaign for a wide array of brands.

Lifestyle Photography in Chicago Clients have included

2XU
AgencyEA
Aids Foundation of Chicago
Art Van Furniture
Bank Of Montreal
Chicago Bulls
Coors Light
Celebrity Dr Ian Smith
EdgeAlliance, Inc.
Enbridge Inc.
Enlivant
Glade
Huron Consulting Group
Miller64
Nike
Pledge
Popular Community Bank
Portland Trail Blazers
U.S. Department of Education
Windex

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