Commercial Portrait Photo Shoots on Location In Pittsburgh PA I had a couple of successful location commercial portrait shoots this week. I especially like the backgrounds and perspective of both shots. The colors of the chairs along with the brightness of the windows make for a very attractive background. The shot above was done for…
Business Headshots for Website Part of my business is shooting commercial portraits and business headshots. It’s not the majority of my work, but I have to say I enjoy the diversion from shooting food. There are many challenges to shooting a good business headshot. Finding a relevant and visually interesting background is sometimes difficult, and…
Social Media Headshots I’ve been getting more and more calls to photograph people, not only for various marketing materials, but also for social media. Individuals and businesses are realizing how important it is to have a quality headshot to represent them. The key to a good social media headshot is to have the subject with…
Location Portrait of Michele Ridge This is from a recent commercial photography project for Seton Hill University. Michele was retiring from being a long time board member and the University wanted to give her a portrait as a gift. This photo was taken in front of the administration building, an iconic location for the portrait.
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……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Photographers Giving Back Here’s a link to an interview article I did with Fstoppers:
Actor Headshot – Charles Timbers If you follow my work, you know that I shoot mostly food and people, and sometimes will photograph some model or actor headshots. I like the diversity of commercial photography and by shooting headshots, and I get to do a little something different than the usual. You know what they…
Pittsburgh Environmental Portrait Okay… Maybe that last fireman shot wasn’t my favorite shot from that shoot. The fact is, I just didn’t get a chance to look through them all. There are a million great ones! :o)