Late last year, an aspiring model-actor hired me to explore posing, lighting, and different editing styles. Our collaboration resulted in some outstanding headshots and portraits. My personal favorite is the vintage classic pose of Dana on the chair awash in ambient light. I especially like the color version, because of the drama taking place betweenContinue reading “Dana McKay, 2021”
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Bay Area Family Photography
Outdoor family photography in the Bay Area rarely disappoints. Grasses, oaks, cottonwoods, sycamores, creeks, ranch-style fences, and other rural vestiges. Among all that beauty, it’s incredibly gratifying to capture eyes, freckles, curls, and even the totally 100% unscripted kiss, I swear! Take a peek below. Contact me for kids, teens, couples, family, and corporate photography inContinue reading “Bay Area Family Photography”
Corporate headshots
Ambient light rules the worldThat’s a plain factBut sometimes you can’t utilize itWhen that happens, strobes are a game changerThat, and reflectors, casting soft lightWith each outing, I develop more control over highlights, mid tones, and shadowsTake a peek at this recent setThank you! Contact me for kids, teens, couples, family, and corporate photography in theContinue reading “Corporate headshots”
Business Pros
In retrospect, 2020 was a damn fine yearI photographedFamiliesCouplesTeensKidsBusiness prosAnd a variety of scenesHere are some of the business professionals I capturedIncluding a writer, a CEO, a coach, a yoga teacher, a lawyer, a singer-songwriterAnd even Utah’s most celebrated outdoorsman Contact me for kids, teens, couples, family, and corporate photography in the Bay Area.
Back to Basics
This is water That’s the name of the photoIt’s never occurred to me to name an image beforeBut after I finished the edit, I realized I’d been addressing it by name all along I celebrate brute physical realitiesStones, rivers, and treesEyes and freckles Elemental thingsThey resist political wish and spinThey are what they are throughContinue reading “Back to Basics”