This portrait of
Captain Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd,
Whale Wars) ran full page with an article I wrote about him. I knew we would want the flag for context, but I wanted to avoid the stereotypical use of it (Google the Captain and look at a million of them). To get something different, we shot against black, then shot the flag separately and composited it in later . We lit the Captain for sharp shadow fall off, which adds to the drama.