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…
Professor Environmental Portrait Environmental portrait photography is always a challenge, and I guess that’s why I like it so much. A client will say “We need to photograph this guy and we don’t have a good place to shoot it. Let’s just shoot it out in the hall of something? So what’s a photographer to…
Food Photography of Ice Cream Cones I did a food photography shoot recently for Joy Cone Company, located near Pittsburgh Pa. Great people! We shot a bunch of boring stuff (outlined cone shots for the packages) and then we did a bunch of illustrative food photography for the sides and backs of the product packages. …
Environmental Portrait for Wood Shop News Magazine This is an environmental portrait of Pittsburgh Furniture designer Bruce Berman. I was asked to photograph Bruce for Wood Shop News, a national trade publication. This portrait was taken with a Nikon D800 and a 24-70mm 2.8 lens using just on speedlight shot into an umbrella. The shutter…
Environmental Business Portraits of Pittsburgh Merrill Lynch Employees I picked up this really great job, doing business portraits for Merrill Lynch, here in Pittsburgh. The portraits are for a recruitment brochure and basically, I get to go around a photograph some of their employees in outside environments that represent their business neighborhoods. The employees get…
I can’t tell you how many time someone has said that to me. “Take my picture”. So I did. I was standing there on the Clemente Bridge, waiting for some executives to shot up so that I could photograph them with the city of Pittsburgh behind them. It’s a great place for that kind of…
Shooting Model and Actor Headshots While I don’t shoot Weddings or Family Portraits, other than freebees for family and close friends, I do on occasion shoot model and actor headshots. And I have to tell you, I really enjoy the variety. Shooting food photography, industrial photography, and other types of commercial photography is always fun…
Food Shoot for Breakfast I love this shot. It’s something I did not too long ago for one of my favoried food photography clients. I love the focus, the lighting, the props, the composition, the colors… I love it all… :o)
Photographers Giving Back Here’s a link to an interview article I did with Fstoppers:
Environmental Portrait for Light Of Life Rescue Mission Brochure / Pittsburgh I did some photography yesterday for the Light of Life Rescue Mission. They’re a great organization and do some really wonderful things for the north side of Pittsburgh. Normally, they like their photos to be a little bit lighter in mood, but I played…
Business Location Portraits – Different ways of doing the same thing… Here are two different ways of doing location business portraits. Option one is to shoot everyone in the same location. The advantages of this are time and money, which are pretty much the same thing. Moving from place to place to set up the…
Photography Marketing Masters Interview Podcast of yours truly… Here’s a podcast interview of yours truly. It covers: How Michael got started as a professional food photographer… Having different niches but marketing them separately… Why the best marketers win the business… The importance of good SEO… The differences between advertising and editorial food photography… The qualities…
Food Photography Shoot of Ham Here’s a photo from lat week’s food shoot. The photo itself is amazingly exciting, but at the same time, I really like it. I think that the composition is almost flawless, the lighting rocks, the food styling is exceptional, and the napkin fold is to die for… I have this…
Pittsburgh Headshot Photography Technique There’s a technique that I just recently started to use when doing my headshot photography, and I think it’s made a word of difference. Sometimes you know right off the bat if the your subject needs or wants a particular expression. Maybe the shot is for a purpose where the subject…
Photographers in Pittsburgh Photographers in Pittsburgh, especially commercial photographers, need to be generalists. I’m not saying that all photographers need to shoot weddings, but chances are that they need to be able to photograph food, industrial equipment, architectural buildings and interiors, products, and most of all, commercial portraits. Basically, photographers in Pittsburgh need to be…
Pittsburgh Photographers Giving Back Pittsburgh Photographers have an opportunity to give a little bit back to their community by doing pro-bono projects for charities. It doesn’t have to be all about the money. We Pittsburgh photographers have a valuable talent that can be put to good use for promoting the needs of well-meaning organizations. I…
Food Photography Shoot Here a food photo I did recently that I just love. I love the lighting, the styling and I love the clients I was working for when I shot this… All in all, I think that the shoot works really well and I’m proud to place it on my portfolio web page.