The all important cover: magazine, CD or DVD cover, website homepage center image, or Facebook Time Line photograph. This is prime real estate for each of these publications or media. It’s what’s looked at first and thus needs to be a killer image. One of those “eye-catching” “gasp factor” photographs designed to draw the viewer...
I love what I do. Photography has been my only job since entering college. It’s exciting, creatively fulfilling, and has paid the bills. I’m passionate about it, often feeling like I eat, sleep, live, and breath photography. In the past 1/2 dozen years or so, many of my assignments have met the above criteria and...
… but please, not mine. It was fun having the Red Queen stop by for her “Official Portrait” on Halloween. My friend Kellie from Professional Restoration played her role to perfection complete with accent. As the Queen, she projects an awesome, “Off with their heads” command that’s for sure. I asked her to stop by...
Shooting the moon has more than one meaning and sorry to say, I’ve not participated in the other one… yet. Lots of experience photographing both sun and moon rises and settings. The image above is icing on the cake, taking the more traditional moon rising over the lake shots (see below) to a much higher...
Both of the photographs on my current postcard stand out for the same reason: they were shot wide open. This technique puts emphasis on one part of the image, thus drawing your eye directly to it. As the “storyteller with a camera” it’s one way for me to tell you a visual story. In fact,...
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