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Category Archives: Studio

Beauty, Strength, and the Orchid: A Portrait Session with Maddie

Taking the studio outdoors is not as unusual as one would tend to believe. Setting up a studio backdrop and working with the outdoor ambient light (sunlight, street lights, etc) is surprisingly doable! It starts with thinking about the outdoor environment and choosing the best area within it to set up the backdrop. You should...

A John Lennon Inspired Recital Portrait

Imitation comes about through admiration of something joyful, stylistically cool, or even nostalgic, among other reasons. The creation of this image came from an idea of Steven’s about capturing a similar pose that the late Beatle, John Lennon, had once done for photographer Henry Grossman. He wanted to recreate this image because it was developed...

Maddie’s Senior Recital Portrait: The “Three Faces”

  Planning Maddie’s Senior Recital portrait took quite a bit of brainstorming, but was worth the preparation! We mutually agreed from the start that she would be posing beside the Shigeru Kawai grand piano at the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music. We chose this setting not only because its location was readily available upon student request,...

From The Eyes Of A True Optimist

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Brianda.  She was very excited to have her headshots taken.  As with all my photo sessions I had the opportunity to converse a little and learn about the subjects unique personality.  Brianda became comfortable quite quickly in front of my lens and...

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