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,…
Restaurant Photographer What type of photography do restaurants need? Food Photography – Every restaurant, at one time or another will need to shoot their food. If it’s a fancy restaurant and doesn’t have any photography on their menus, sooner or later they’ll need food photos for an ad or a billboard. Still Life – If…
Pittsburgh Art Director Portraits While I still love food photography, I always yearn for more variety in my life and that’s why I like doing head shots so much. Life is was too short to do only one type of photography, so I really enjoy mixing it up a bit… This is a photo from…
Food Photo of Flat Bread Pizza Here’s a photo from this week’s food photography shoot, of Flat Bread Pizza. The food is great and the clients are wonderful to work with. Who could ask for more?
Portraits from Beach Week 2015 The truth is, I really don’t like the beach, and that’s putting it mildly. I just don’t get it. You sit around roasting, burning and coating your body with slimy stuff, that in the future, will probably prove to be some kind of cancer-causing agent. I hate it. So why…