10 Years Cancer Free, Jared Rosenstein Comes Full Circle // INFLUENCE Magazine
The Workmans photographed Jared Rosenstein at Capital City Consulting and the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee for INFLUENCE Magazine's Spring 2025 personal profile feature.
10 Years Cancer Free, Jared Rosenstein Comes Full Circle // INFLUENCE Magazine
INFLUENCE Magazine assigned us to photograph Jared Rosenstein for a feature in their Spring 2025 issue. The story, written by Jesse Scheckner, was a personal profile, and our assignment took us to two locations in Tallahassee: Capital City Consulting and the Florida Capitol.
A two-location editorial portrait session like this gives the magazine a range of images to work with across the spread. Capital City Consulting is Rosenstein's professional home base, and the Florida Capitol is where much of his work as a lobbyist takes place. Both settings tell a different part of the whole story, and the goal for us as Tallahassee photographers was to make each location feel intentional rather than interchangeable.
At Capital City Consulting, we were working in an office environment, which means adapting to the layout, the available space, and whatever the room gives you in terms of natural light and background options. We used Profoto lighting to give us control over the portrait work while keeping the setting visible and recognizable. For a profile piece, sometimes the environmental context matters; the reader should be able to get a sense of the space without it competing with the portrait itself.
The Florida Capitol is a location we know well. As editorial photographers in Florida, we've photographed countless sessions in and around the Capitol complex, and that familiarity is an advantage. We know which areas work for portraits, how the light moves through the building at different times of day, and how to navigate the logistics of working in a public government building. For this assignment, the Capitol served as a second backdrop that connects Rosenstein to the broader world of Florida politics without the images needing to explain why he's there. The reader fills in that context from the article and the provided photo captions.
What makes a two-location session work is the transition between settings. You need the images from each location to feel like they belong in the same story while also offering the art director enough variety to build a multi-page layout. We worked with our Canon mirrorless system and selected lenses that gave us consistent framing across both spaces, pulling in tight for the more personal portraits and stepping back for the environmental compositions that showed the full setting.
Personal profile features are some of the most rewarding editorial assignments because the subject is the entire story. Our job is to create photographs that let the reader connect with the person on the page, and that starts with making the session comfortable enough for the subject to be themselves in front of the camera.
This feature was photographed by The Workmans for INFLUENCE Magazine and appeared in the Spring 2025 issue and was written by Jesse Scheckner. The Workmans are a husband-and-wife photography team based in Tallahassee, Florida, and we work with publications across the state of Florida, in Washington D.C. and around the United States. You can explore more of our editorial photography in the archive, see more of our work across our website and connect with us on how we can best serve you!
From Peruvian to Pizza: Where to eat lunch in Tallahassee // INFLUENCE Magazine
The Workmans photographed food at seven Tallahassee restaurants including Kool Beanz, Hayward House, and Leon's at Lake Ella for INFLUENCE Magazine's lunch guide feature.
From Peruvian to Pizza: Where to eat lunch in Tallahassee // INFLUENCE Magazine
INFLUENCE Magazine assigned us to photograph a feature on lunch spots in Tallahassee for their Spring 2025 "Food & Wine" section. The story, written by Rochelle Goff, highlighted fifteen local restaurants worth visiting during a lunch break, and our assignment took us to seven of them: Kool Beanz, Hayward House, Leon's at Lake Ella, The Lively Cafe, Maria Maria, Metro Deli, and Midtown & 3rd.
A seven-restaurant food photography assignment in a single production window is a logistical puzzle. Each kitchen operates on its own schedule, each space has its own lighting conditions, and the food at each location needs to look consistent enough to belong in the same magazine feature while still reflecting the personality of that individual restaurant. You're moving quickly between locations, coordinating with kitchen staff at each stop, and making sure every dish is photographed at its best before the plating starts to deteriorate.
We used Profoto lighting across the locations to give us a consistent baseline for the food photography. When you're photographing at seven different restaurants in Tallahassee, the ambient conditions change dramatically from one space to the next. A downtown deli has completely different light than a lakeside café or a Midtown bistro. Having our own lighting meant the food maintained consistent color accuracy and detail across the full spread regardless of what each restaurant's interior gave us to work with.
The variety of cuisines made this assignment especially interesting from a food photography standpoint. Mexican dishes at Maria Maria, creative American fare at Kool Beanz, Cajun-inspired plates at Leon's, upscale bistro presentations at Hayward House; each one brings different colors, textures, and plating styles to the frame. We worked with Canon lenses that let us adapt quickly between the close-up detail work on individual dishes and the wider compositions that showed the food in context with the restaurant's setting.
As Tallahassee photographers, we know a lot of these restaurants well. Some of them, like Kool Beanz and Maria Maria, are places we've photographed for previous editorial assignments. That familiarity helps on a multi-location day because we already know the layout, the kitchen flow, and where the best spots are to set up in each space. It saves time, and on a day where you're covering seven locations, every minute counts.
Multi-restaurant features like this one for INFLUENCE Magazine are a great showcase for Tallahassee's dining scene, and we enjoy being the editorial photographers who help bring that scene to a statewide audience.
This feature was photographed by The Workmans for INFLUENCE Magazine and appeared in the Spring 2025 issue and was written by Rochelle Goff. The Workmans are a husband-and-wife photography team based in Tallahassee, Florida, and we work with publications across the state of Florida, in Washington D.C. and around the United States. You can explore more of our editorial photography in the archive, see more of our work across our website and connect with us on how we can best serve you!
