Gabby
Gabby What else is there to say… One of the most beautiful little girls I’ve ever had the honor to photograph.
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Business Portrait of Emeka Onwugbenu
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…
Executive Portraits – How I Get The Perfect Expression Every Time
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…
What makes a good corporate portrait?
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…
Commercial Photo Shoot for Western PA Conservancy
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,…
Portraits from Beach Week 2015
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 Portrait
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…
Environmental Portrait for Wood Shop News Magazine
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…
“Take My Picture”
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…
Business Location Portraits – Different ways of doing the same thing…
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…
Pittsburgh Commercial Photographer Portraits
Pittsburgh Commercial Photographer Portraits Shooting Commercial Portraits is not quite the same as shooting regular portraits. Regular portraits usually don’t have to have a specific feel, but when you’re shooting for a client that is a corporation or an advertising agency, then you’re part of a team. Being part of the team means you are…
Pittsburgh Headshots – Portrait of Nine-Year-Old Girl
Portrait of Nine-Year-Old Girl As sort of a hobby, and to keep my skills up, I will on occasion, shoot model and actor headshots. I usually set aside a weekend or two a month to shoot these headshots and I really enjoy it. Besides getting what the agencies like, (big smiles with lots of teeth)…
Pittsburgh Photography for WPSBC
Pittsburgh Photography for WPSBC Here’s a photograph I did yesterday for Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children‘s Christmas program. The school is located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh PA. and if you’ll looking for a good place to volunteer some time, you’d be hard pressed to find a better cause. My heart breaks…