Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Hello!



OK - now that I have your attention, welcome to the gallery!

This is where I get to show off some of my past work in the hopes that you'll like it enough to think of me whenever you need some portraits done.  I've been in business doing portraits for over ten years  and some of my clients include:  Brea-Olinda High School Choral Department, Disneyland's All-American College Band, The Sidestreet Strutters Jazz Band, Swingtown,  The Kingsmen Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps, and various entertainers needing environmental portraiture or headshots.

Because every client is unique, I like to have conversations about what you may want to do - sometimes a "package" isn't exactly what you want, although we can do that too, if you'd like.  If you don't know what you'd like, perhaps some of the examples here will give you some ideas, and we can use these as a jumping off point, if you will, to getting what you want.  If there are specific photographs you've seen that you'd like to try, we can certainly do that too.  Please call, or send me an email and we can set up an appointment for your next session!

Please feel free to browse through the images here (each image can be seen larger by simply clicking on it), and leave comments if you like too!  I'll try to leave some notes as to how the shot was done or what we were originally going for, for more insight into the photo shoot, but probably not too much - I like to think the images can stand on their own. 

Thanks for visiting and enjoy!






Buddy shots
Family shots
An impromptu test before the actual model showed up in front of the white backdrop.

So the direction was, "get the castle in the shot"




I spent two years photographing the Kingsmen Alumni Corps for their Rose Bowl performance in 2007 for DCI

From my White period

From my Blue period



An album cover shot for the band Levinstone.

This shot took 10 seconds at f16 on a cold night in Times Square.  It's so hard to keep teenagers still for that long.

Group shot for Brea HS's Choral Department, done strobist style with two Nikon Speedlights on stands.



I was trying to feature the drumset like a product shot.  We gave up on that idea.

I rented a 300mm f/2.8 lens for a weekend and this is by far my favorite shot of the whole rental - taken at a rehearsal!

Rob Verdi and his quiver of saxophones - shot for a promotional brochure.

Album cover shot for Rob Verdi's CD "Prose and CONN-versations" featuring the Conn-o-sax

Fun family shot - we had them doing all kinds of silly things before we got to the tree!


Album cover shot for The Sidestreet Strutters CD "Back to Bourbon Street".  They were across the street on one balcony, I was shooting from another balcony. A private party was going on in the building behind them and they were almost stuck out on the balcony for an hour!  I was downloaded and edited by the time they got back to their dressing room.


One of my favorite big bands, Swingtown, shot for promotional materials


Of all the environmental portraits I've done, this one is my fav - probably because it was a tester and all the planets just sorta' lined up.

This was chosen for the Nikon Stunning Gallery campaign a few years ago.  I shot it with a Canon.

This was done with natural light - the sun just happened to agree with us.