Choosing your wedding photographer can be daunting and very stressful. Look for a style you both like and then interview the photographer. Remember, he or she will be with you the entire day so it’s always a good idea to know beforehand if your personalities will mesh. My wedding photography style is a mixture of [...]
Portrait Background
One of my basic workflows is to shoot as much as I can with a white background. This allows me the flexibility to add dramatic effects to the background and bring out the subject in such a way as to accentuate their personality. In this case, Ruth, my “Photo of the Week” is a very [...]
The Earth and Moon
My favorite thing to do, photographically, is to capture images of kids. I love being around them and my creativity soars when I have one or more of them interact with me about staging ideas. Last week I had an assignment for the Reynolds School District to cover an event at the Troutdale Elementary School. [...]
Renaissance Portraiture
I have been working on a new post processing technique over the past several months and seem be getting closer to what I want for a completed image. It seems to me that this process is a difficult one for portraits, and as of this writing, I really don’t know why. My plan is to [...]
Aiden, Andrew and Joshua
This week I got to photograph three brothers for a birthday gift for their grandmother. What mom wanted was to have me create a portrait of the three boys together. Oh, I almost forgot the most important part about this story, two of the boys were three year old twins, and their little brother was [...]
1st Year Portrait
I wanted to spotlight Brynn for my photo of the week. It was her first year photo shoot and we had a blast. Since we did the shoot after Easter, she was very receptive to the idea of playing with plastic Easter eggs. As you can see from the photo she is very happy to [...]
Paz Ramos, Portrait
This week the spotlight is on Paz Ramos, the Principal at Alder Elementary School in Gresham Oregon. Alder has the unique designation of being one of the most impoverished elementary schools in the state of Oregon. When I met Paz my eye was immediately drawn to a pencil sketch he had on his wall. The [...]
Ghost Tree
During a recent trip to southern Oregon my wife and I stopped off at one of the most well-known parks in the Pacific Northwest, Crater Lake. The lake is located near Klamath Falls, Oregon about 100 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. It lies inside a caldera, or volcanic basin, that was created after a [...]
Winter Formal Fun!
Last weekend I had the pleasure of covering the Winter Formal at Portland Lutheran School. PLS is an independent prep school with students who are highly motivated to learn. This is the second time they asked me to cover an event for them and some of the students remembered me from my first visit. This [...]
Computer Crashes and Burns
Well, not completely crashed, but it was smoking for awhile. The fear of a complete computer failure has made me somewhat paranoid over the years. I make my living as a Family and Event Photographer in Portland Oregon and I cannot afford to have a computer failure of any kind. And since I have been [...]
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