Matthias Clamer, Photographer, Los Angeles

Description

A man with dark hair, a mustache, and sideburns sits at a dark polished bar, resting his head on his hand while holding a lit cigarette between his fingers. He wears a light pink long-sleeved dress shirt with dark cuff links, a patterned yellow and brown tie, and a dark shoulder holster strap across his chest. Thin trails of white smoke curl upward from his cigarette toward the warm overhead lighting of the interior. On the bar counter in front of him sits a low glass tumbler filled with amber amber liquid, a lighter, and a ceramic ashtray. In the blurred background, other patrons move around a dim room featuring vintage lamps and billiard tables under a sepia and cool-toned color grade. The composition is captured horizontally with dramatic cinematic lighting, highlighting the textures of the polished wooden bar surface and the fabric of the shirt.

Style

Horizontal, Cinematic, Moody, Warm

Techniques

Low-key / chiaroscuro

Color

Background

Bar

Context

Portrait / Headshot