Photo of the Day


Shrouded in Darkness

November 9, 2017

By Jacqueline Tobin

There’s something very intriguing about Emiliano Granado‘s style. The Brooklyn-based photographer shoots portraits as well as sports, commercial, travel and lifestyle photography, and much of it is infused with a sort of punk, gritty aesthetic. The photo above particularly piqued our visual senses because of the delicate line he walks between the subject completely consumed by shadow and his facial features being just visible.

Granado photographed it (and a few others, seen in the gallery here) for the menswear company Outlier, a regular client of his that he’s been shooting with for the past 7 or 8 years, he says. On this day, he went to the studio (though it does look a bit like an ambiguous outdoor scene, doesn’t it?). The challenge, of course, was getting that “bit of light on the face while blocking out the rest,” Granado says. “I used a flag above the model’s head and a v-flat to camera left to get some of the light to hit his face so it wouldn’t be in total shadow.”

(Shot with a Canon 5D Mark III at f/10, 1/160th of a second and ISO 320, as well as Profoto heads, a midi octa softbox and v-flats.)

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