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Michael Ray Photography
Pittsburgh Portrait Photography
18th December 2013
Pittsburgh Portrait Photography
Welcome to the Pittsburgh Portrait Photography Gallery of Michael Ray. Please take the time to check out the Pittsburgh portrait portfolio images in this gallery. Michael is very well known for many different types of commercial photography in the Pittsburgh area, primarily business, corporate, environmental, and editorial portrait photography. This gallery is a portfolio of his various types of people photography.
Michael’s portrait photos are used mostly by Business to business and retail companies and include; Hospitals, Manufacturers, Restaurants, Advertising Agencies, Graphic Design Firms, Magazines, Newspapers, Institutions of Higher Education, Web Development Companies, Industrial Clients, Law Firms, along with many others. Pretty much every Pittsburgh company will need portrait photography at one time of another.
Commercial portrait photography can be used for the following uses:
Advertising / Marketing
Public Relations
Internal Corporate Communications
Annual Reports
Social Media
Environmental Display
Fundraising
Magazine Illustration
Studio “type” portraits can be taken in Michael’s Pittsburgh Strip District portrait studio or he can take is studio on the road, either locally or around the country. This comes in handy when a company’s portraits all need to have the same background and feel. Michael has traveled all around the USA on various projects such as annual report executive portraits. Most large corporations have an annual meeting where most of the company’s executives will be attending. This is a prime opportunity to set up a portrait studio in a room adjacent to the meeting and photograph the executive between presentations. This is an economical use of the executive’s time and proves and is a way of getting the needed portraits without a major inconvenience to the makers and shakers of the corporate world.
While portraits on studio backgrounds will always have their place, more and more companies are opting for environmental portraits of their employees. Most of the Pittsburgh portrait photography you see on this gallery page will be of people in their work environments. This appears to be the trend and it doesn’t look like it will change anytime soon. And taking these portraits is not as easy as it appears. Much attention needs to be paid to the lighting and to the background, which requires highly specialized photographic equipment. No, the secretary will not be able to produce the same quality business portrait as will Michael Ray, not in a million years…
Besides Pittsburgh portrait photography, Michael also does other types of professional photography, including Commercial Photography, and Food Photography. If you need to have a model headshot taken, you might want to Visit Michael’s other website, Pittsburgh Headshot Photography, or if you’re a food photographer wanting to learn more about the art and craft of food photography, please visit Michael’s Food Photography website.
You’re more than welcome to contact me with any questions you may have.