Recent Pittsburgh Food Photos I haven’t been posting many Pittsburgh food photos on my page here. Most times I post them to my food photography only site. The food photo above is an unretouched shot from last week that I really like. We did the shot in vertical and horizontal so that the client could…
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…
Food Photography of Chocolate Dipped Strawberries I had a great shoot earlier today with some of my favorite clients. The photo is to be used in a direct mail piece to hit mailboxes before Valentines Day. An interesting thing about this food photo is the use of the tilt / shift lens. This effect was…
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…
Here are a couple if images from today’s Pittsburgh food photography shoot I was so happy with the photos from today’s food shoot, that I just had to share them… Thanks for pushing the envelope Matt, Great job! And thank you AnneMarie. Great job food styling.
Food Photography for the Duquesne Club I shot a location food photography project this morning for the Duquesne Club. They needed a fall setting for the recipe shot that was going into a magazine, so I brought along a rustic barn wood background and the client showed up with some autumn-colored props. The shot worked…
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…
The Best Camera For Food Photography! I have to admit, I’m kind of excited about my new food photography camera. I often see on forums or Facebook pages, people asking “so what’s the best food photography camera available?” I’ve always had an opinion about the answer to the question, but just recently, my answer has…
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…
A Trick For Finding The Best Food Photographer In Pittsburgh If you find yourself in need of a food photographer and you have never hired one before, I have a little trick that will make your job a little easier. Your first thought will probably go to google and type in “Pittsburgh food photographer” or…
Commercial Photography Shoot for Western PA Conservancy Shooting the photographs for the Conservancy’s photo library We actually shot this photo a few years ago and I just received a PDF file from the client the other day. The original shoot was done to create a “picture library” that the client could pull from as needed,…
Restaurant Photographer What type of photography do restaurants need? Food Photography – Every restaurant, at one time or another will need to shoot their food. If it’s a fancy restaurant and doesn’t have any photography on their menus, sooner or later they’ll need food photos for an ad or a billboard. Still Life – If…
Pittsburgh Art Director Portraits While I still love food photography, I always yearn for more variety in my life and that’s why I like doing head shots so much. Life is was too short to do only one type of photography, so I really enjoy mixing it up a bit… This is a photo from…
Food Photo of Flat Bread Pizza Here’s a photo from this week’s food photography shoot, of Flat Bread Pizza. The food is great and the clients are wonderful to work with. Who could ask for more?
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…
Professor Environmental Portrait Environmental portrait photography is always a challenge, and I guess that’s why I like it so much. A client will say “We need to photograph this guy and we don’t have a good place to shoot it. Let’s just shoot it out in the hall of something? So what’s a photographer to…
Food Photography of Ice Cream Cones I did a food photography shoot recently for Joy Cone Company, located near Pittsburgh Pa. Great people! We shot a bunch of boring stuff (outlined cone shots for the packages) and then we did a bunch of illustrative food photography for the sides and backs of the product packages. …
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…
Environmental Business Portraits of Pittsburgh Merrill Lynch Employees I picked up this really great job, doing business portraits for Merrill Lynch, here in Pittsburgh. The portraits are for a recruitment brochure and basically, I get to go around a photograph some of their employees in outside environments that represent their business neighborhoods. The employees get…
I can’t tell you how many time someone has said that to me. “Take my picture”. So I did. I was standing there on the Clemente Bridge, waiting for some executives to shot up so that I could photograph them with the city of Pittsburgh behind them. It’s a great place for that kind of…