Preparation H

Consistent, quality photography is generally not an accident or product of happenstance.  Its a product of management and preparation.  I now spend less than 1% of my time on any shoot actually pushing that silly little shutter button.
I recently had a teaching client in my studio working on a shoot.  I had worked with [...]

Space Series #3, Painting with Light and Exhibition

Hi Gang,
Today’s series of images was with my client, Mary Jane.  She is my favorite type of client because her only objective was to have fun and document this moment in her life.  One of her defining characteristics is a love of flowers.  She has her own side business designing floral arrangements and her favorite [...]

Evolution and Voice: Space Series #2

Hi Gang,
What does it mean to find your voice in an endeavor, be it artistic, business, personal? I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.
Today’s images are of Christian and Diesel  shot in the studio and I want to use them as a setting for some photography issues that have emerged lately.  In a recent [...]

SPACE

This series of images was produced around an interpretation of the concept of space. This is Dejen, a very accomplished jazz saxophonist, and we discussed the use of space in music which led to this production style.
“Miles Davis, Randy Weston, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, and Gary Peacock all cite (Ahmad) Jamal as [...]

Final shots from Santa Monica Pier

This set of images is of Larry Dallas Poling, a street performer on Santa Monica pier. I photographed him at the end of the day, right before sunset. I really loved his sound and guitar work, but after a few minutes he told me to beat it…that I was hurting his tips. [...]

Fashion and Beauty: Two Things I Don’t Understand

In my last post I spoke about how the fashion workshop helped me realize I didn’t want to shoot fashion.  Ok.  Fine, but that doesn’t mean that any of us should shy away from knowledge, experience or a chance to build our technical ability just because the subject doesn’t necessarily interest us.  I’m really glad [...]

Studio Fashion Shoot

Last Saturday was a great day; It was one of the few fashion shoots I attempt and despite all the controversy and criticism surrounding fashion photography, it still feels like the most difficult work I’ve attempted and some of the greatest fun.  Maybe the fun had less to do with it being a fashion shoot [...]

Outtakes

Hey Gang,
This post features a number of outtakes from recent studio and location shoots that I thought were just fun images worth sharing.  Hope you enjoy.

Honorable Mention from Lensbaby!

Lensbaby today announced the 12 winners in their recent photo contest.  The 12 winners, selected from over 2000 submissions world-wide, will be published in an upcoming book.  While I didn’t make the final 12, I did receive Honorable Mention for my image of Nathan Pino, a pianist I photographed on Venice Beach exactly a year [...]

State of Play

Today’s images are of Markus, former student, good friend and brilliant engineer.  I can’t say exactly why I wanted to photograph Markus.  I didn’t think about it much going into the shoot other than I wanted to photograph him.  Instinct, perhaps something else.  Maybe the same reason I want to photograph another friend, Dejen (happening [...]

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