Editorial Business Portrait for The Braff Group This portrait is from a recent shoot for Third Planet Communications, and their client, The Braff Group. We came away with quite a few great business portraits and action shots, but this one is my favorite. The photo was taken with my Nikon D800 and my trusty 80-200mm…
Actress and Model Headshots Besides being asked to photograph food, executives, and other commercial subjects, I occasionally get requests to do headshots of up and coming models, musicians, and actors. Having my photography studio located directly above one of Pittsburgh’s two Modeling Agencies, The Talent Group, I’m sure has a little to do with that……
Veggie & Chicken Sandwich Photo I think every time Matt Walker comes to art direct a photo shoot for Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle Markets, I walk away with at least one portfolio piece. I wish he’d come to shoot more often. :o) This food photo is for a monthly direct-mail piece and it’s a great opportunity…
Urban Executive Portraits Here’s an Executive Portrait I did over the weekend. We talked about various business location for our shoot, but thought this would be interesting. The shot was to be used for various business reasons such as a Linkedin profile photo and in case of speaking engagement invitations. The lighting in this location…
Nondisclosure Agreements are driving me crazy! I’ve been amazingly busy lately but I haven’t been able to post photos from many of the jobs I’ve done because of nondisclosure agreements. I had a week-long food photography shoot with Baskin Robbins, shooting “flavor of the month” promotions for their international stores. I’ve been some really cool…
Portrait of Michael Wertz, of Apple Box Studio (Pittsburgh Advertising Agency) I had the privilege to photograph Mike and a few of his new employees. I’ve known Mike for quite a while now and have always found him to be a witty and creative professional. His advertising agency has a fine reputation and I’m proud…
Food Photographer Peeking… They say I have a face made for radio! So here’s another photo of me sneaking into another of my food photos. Why do I do it? I’m not really sure. The only thing I know for sure is that I want someone to show up at my wake (not too soon,…
Gabby What else is there to say… One of the most beautiful little girls I’ve ever had the honor to photograph.
Compelling Portraits I love shooting all types of photography but I have a special place in my heart for making compelling portraits of kids. When I take a portrait, kids or adults, I like to include a few serious faces, even if the client doesn’t request it. Especially with kids, I like to see serious…
Recent Pittsburgh Food Photos I haven’t been posting many Pittsburgh food photos on my page here. Most times I post them to my food photography only site. The food photo above is an unretouched shot from last week that I really like. We did the shot in vertical and horizontal so that the client could…
Business Portrait of Emeka Onwugbenu I shot an environmental portrait earlier today of Pittsburgh entrepreneur, Emeka Onwugbenu, for an article in Pittsburgh Magazine. Despite being 14 degrees outside, we visited one of his company’s construction sites to create this photo. We ended up shooting in three locations and the light was just beautiful in two…
Food Photography of Chocolate Dipped Strawberries I had a great shoot earlier today with some of my favorite clients. The photo is to be used in a direct mail piece to hit mailboxes before Valentines Day. An interesting thing about this food photo is the use of the tilt / shift lens. This effect was…
Headshot of Pittsburgh Photographer, Timothy Cox I was shooting the other day at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park area and Tim was nice enough to help out. One of reasons it’s nice to have an assistant, besides helping to lug all the heavy equipment, is because I need a stand in model for lighting…
Here are a couple if images from today’s Pittsburgh food photography shoot I was so happy with the photos from today’s food shoot, that I just had to share them… Thanks for pushing the envelope Matt, Great job! And thank you AnneMarie. Great job food styling.
Food Photography for the Duquesne Club I shot a location food photography project this morning for the Duquesne Club. They needed a fall setting for the recipe shot that was going into a magazine, so I brought along a rustic barn wood background and the client showed up with some autumn-colored props. The shot worked…
Executive Portraits – How I Get The Perfect Expression Every Time I normally write these blog posts with the potential client in mind, but I think if you’re a photographer, you can learn something here too. First off, let me say that these are raw, not color correct, un-retouched portraits from a recent executive portrait…
The Best Camera For Food Photography! I have to admit, I’m kind of excited about my new food photography camera. I often see on forums or Facebook pages, people asking “so what’s the best food photography camera available?” I’ve always had an opinion about the answer to the question, but just recently, my answer has…
Pittsburgh Corporate Portraits In this age of social media, content marketing, and hyper competition, every Pittsburgh executive should have several quality corporate portraits on hand for their marketing or networking needs. Headshots may be needed for webpages, social media profiles, press releases, magazine articles, annual reports, corporate brochures, and dozens of other potential uses. Here…
A Trick For Finding The Best Food Photographer In Pittsburgh If you find yourself in need of a food photographer and you have never hired one before, I have a little trick that will make your job a little easier. Your first thought will probably go to google and type in “Pittsburgh food photographer” or…
Commercial Photography Shoot for Western PA Conservancy Shooting the photographs for the Conservancy’s photo library We actually shot this photo a few years ago and I just received a PDF file from the client the other day. The original shoot was done to create a “picture library” that the client could pull from as needed,…