I got my hands on a copy of the recent issue of RISE featuring rising football star, Nick Demien, who we shot back in June. It turned our great so I want to share a few tearsheets and some outtakes from the shoot. He's a 6' 6", 300 pound offensive lineman recruited by Missouri and rated as No. 1 in the Missouri ESPNU 150. You're sure to hear more about Nick in the coming years.
Of course, once the shoot was planned we kept an eye on the weather and noticed that it was going to be one of the hottest days of the year. A few clouds, blazing 3pm sun, Midwest humidity and a heat index near 105 degrees... ahhh, refreshing. We arrived at the shoot to prep gear and were waiting for Nick to arrive when I noticed an approaching Dodge Ram 1500 jacked up, huge tires and covered in mud. Up it pulls and out jumps a kid just as big as his truck. My thought, "You've got to be kidding me... this is too freakin' perfect." Things continued to improve once I noticed the large earthmover on the nearby construction site just waiting to be shot with a person built like Nick. A few hours and a few gallons of sweat later we ended up with these...
And some outtakes...
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