New Gallery!
I added a new Selfie Gallery! If you’ve been following me on social media over the years, you’ve probably seen samples of where some crazy Pittsburgh Photographer gets in his own photos. This guy is totally nuts, and here’s the proof!
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Pittsburgh Food Photographer makes it big, in the Big Apple!
Pittsburgh Food Photographer makes it big, in the Big Apple! Hey! If you have a minute, check out the Popular Photography video of Cayla making in big in the Big Apple, as a food and restaurant photographer. Cayla and I used to work together a couple of years ago, and now she’s on her own…
Business Portrait for The Braff Group
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…
Compelling Portraits
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…
Photographer’s Headshot
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…
Food Photography for the Duquesne Club
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
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!
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…
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…
Finding The Best Food Photographer
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 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,…
Skills Needed to Be a Good Restaurant Photographer
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
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
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…
Food Photography of Ice Cream Cones for Pittsburgh Client
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
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…
Model and Actor Headshots
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…
Giving Back
Photographers Giving Back Here’s a link to an interview article I did with Fstoppers:
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…
Photography Marketing Masters Interview Podcast
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…