Category: Photography

Backlit Portrait

While in New Jersey recently to photograph a wedding, my girlfriend and I were at the location the day before to scout and check out the available light. As magic hour set in, I got this great shot of my girlfriend under a gazebo at the end of a jetty on the lake where the union was to take place. Read more…

Wine!

I was recently approached by a San Diego wine maker to produce some catalog images for their in-the-works online store.

When shooting catalog images of wine bottles there really isn’t a lot of room for originality, and that’s cool because you’re basically just trying to produce clean images that showcase the label and the basic color of the wine inside the bottle (is it a red or is it a white?). Within these requirements you basically have one choice to make: What will the highlights down the sides of the bottles look like…hard or soft? Personally, I’m a fan of a more diffused highlight, I think it looks cleaner and showcases the glass of the bottle better than a hard white highlight. Just a matter of taste, really. Both are perfectly viable options that you see all the time in this type of photography. Read more…

Realtor Corporate Portrait

Trisha is a realtor in Los Angeles who needed her corporate portraits updated. We met in the lobby of her apartment building where the architecture was very nice, with plenty of plants and columns to create a mood befitting portraits of a realtor. Read more…