The Prospect Theater Project's third show of the season - a sophisticated version of Clare Boothe Luce's satire "The Women" - opens in less than a week. For the cast portraits, Director Carin Heidelbach and Stage Manager Mardi Brewer asked for 1930s-style glamour shots. To achieve the soft but dramatic lighting needed for headshots of this kind, we paired a wide front light with a narrow beamed flash and a strategically-placed backlight. The result? Old world beauty.

For the past year, we've had the pleasure of shooting cast photos for The Prospect Theater Project, a popular performing arts venue in downtown Modesto. These shoots always pose interesting challenges - the photographs need to showcase the faces and characters of between ten and twenty actors and they need to be shot in a relatively short period of time, usually between scenes at rehearsals.