Posted on February 7, 2023
When you do headshot photography of a real estate agent, there’s a convention to follow. But when you nail the shot, you can depart from The Expected and do something different. Like politely asking your client to stand in shrubbery just so. Yes, standard professional headshots are important to have in your image library—but so too are creative portraits whose use case isn’t always easy to predict.
Category: Headshots, Portraits Tagged: Headshots, Photo-sessions, photographer, photography, Portraits
Posted on February 6, 2023
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been making street portraits of strangers in San Jose. I find a patch of light that shows promise. Then I wait. When a subject approaches the light, I introduce myself. My intro is magic. It works almost every time. I’ve learned a few things worth sharing. The public square is dominated by twenty- and thirtysomethings. When I see an older person like me or even older (rare), we acknowledge each other with a chuckle and say something about how nice the sun feels. Women are more comfortable than men with the idea of a street portrait. They enjoy the process more and take a greater interest in why I do what I do. My intro is so exquisite that I expect a yes every time. When I get a no—it’s happened twice this week—I suffer as though it were a break up. Some version of the it’s-not-you-it’s-me is exchanged, as the stranger moves in one direction, and I move in the other. I never close the day on a no. I shake it off and wait for a yes to happen. In a future Stranger Scenes post, I’ll try to say something about the mysterious power of fleeting yet intense encounters with a perfectly unknown Somebody. Please click on thumbnails below to see full-size images.
Category: Portraits, Street portrait photography Tagged: photographer, photography, street-portraits
Posted on February 2, 2023
Creative senior portraits are a great way for parents of high school graduates to capture their teen’s unique qualities before they leave home for college. As a high school senior portrait photographer, I take advantage of diverse landscapes and architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area, from waterfronts and cityscapes to rural fields. My goal is to capture your graduate’s style and personality while showcasing the beauty of the Bay Area. If you’d like to learn more about a high school senior portrait session, please contact me.
Posted on January 31, 2023
The Rose Garden in San Jose is an embarrassment of riches for family photography in the Bay Area. With weathered brick and stunning floral displays, the Rose Garden is the perfect location for capturing moments with loved ones. Whether you’re looking for candid shots of your children or posed family portraits, a photoshoot in the Rose Garden yields gorgeous results. If you’d like to learn more about family photography sessions, please contact me.
Category: Family Tagged: family-photography, photographer, photography
Posted on December 15, 2022
Everything I ever learned I learned in ancient mythology. Long hair is never just long hair. It has special powers. Take Meaghan, for instance, a structural engineer. Her golden tresses keep her brain warm and limber for hefty work—creating sketches, visualizing designs, and drafting specs, everything that’s needed to turn ideas into solid structures. Magnificent!
Category: Headshots, Portraits Tagged: hair, Headshot, photographer, photography, portrait
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