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…
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……
Urban Executive Portraits Here’s an Executive Portrait I did over the weekend. We talked about various business location for our shoot, but thought this would be interesting. The shot was to be used for various business reasons such as a Linkedin profile photo and in case of speaking engagement invitations. The lighting in this location…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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… 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 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)
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 Photographer Michael Ray, talks about is Magazine photography shoot for Grocery Headquarters Magazine. Project: Cover photo of the CEO of Giant Eagle, for Grocery Headquarters Magazine Composition: You can see that the composition was pretty loose, to allow plenty of flexibility for the magazine’s Art Director. I needed to allow room for the…