Nondisclosure Agreements are driving me crazy! I’ve been amazingly busy lately but I haven’t been able to post photos from many of the jobs I’ve done because of nondisclosure agreements. I had a week-long food photography shoot with Baskin Robbins, shooting “flavor of the month” promotions for their international stores. I’ve been some really cool…
Gabby What else is there to say… One of the most beautiful little girls I’ve ever had the honor to photograph.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Photographers in Pittsburgh are lucky to have this kind of job Photographers in Pittsburgh get to photograph all kinds of things, and this week, I got to shoot bunch of commercial photography in industrial situations. Since I shoot mostly food photography, this type of shooting tends to be a welcome novelty. I love being a…
Commercial Photographers In Pittsburgh PA are Usually Generalists Should you be a generalist of a specialist? When you began thinking abut becoming a professional photographer, chances are that you thought about becoming a specific type of a professional photographer, a wedding photographer, a sports photographer, maybe a fashion or food photographer, but usually you’ve thought…
Portrait of Nine-Year-Old Girl As sort of a hobby, and to keep my skills up, I will on occasion, shoot model and actor headshots. I usually set aside a weekend or two a month to shoot these headshots and I really enjoy it. Besides getting what the agencies like, (big smiles with lots of teeth)…
This isn’t going to be a huge educational post where I talk about the mysteries of food photography. All I want to do here is let you know a little secret. One of the tricks to learning to be a good food photographer is to look at and analyze good and bad food photos. One…
Pittsburgh Photographers Coal Mine Shoot I few weeks ago I posted a “crew” shot of everyone involved with the coal mine shoot, but I thought I’d actually go ahead and post one of my favorite shots from our shoot. For shots like this, I just can’t keep away from using the HDR (High Dynamic Range)…
Pittsburgh Industrial Photography shoot on location I love doing most types of commercial photography, but one of my very favorites is industrial photography. I find is so interesting to drop into a location or business, and see what it is they do there. I’ve been to some very interesting places over the years, both…