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 [...]
Government Confusion
Several days ago I had the opportunity to visit our capitol city, Salem Oregon. I arrived there very early in the morning on a Saturday and decided to drive out to the capitol grounds and shoot the buildings there. This image is what I came away with after being on the grounds for several hours. [...]
Yaquina Lighthouse
Yaquina Head Light House is my newest photo of the week. The day of the shoot it was a very cold 41 degrees. The real problem that day was the wind. Twice I was nearly blown over by gusts. Try shooting on a tripod in a gale, heck, try keeping your lens dry. I do [...]
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 [...]
Climb My Mountain – Mount Hood
Mountains have always intrigued me. They are so metaphorical in their stateliness. The men and women who climb them stand as symbols to all who must overcome the challenges that life throws at us all. Asthma has prevented me from ever taking on the challenge of a mountain climb so I have chosen to master [...]
Newborn Portrait
I chose Averie for my photo of the week, mostly because I would rather photograph children than anything else. She also has these wonderfully beautiful, mesmerizing eyes that just looked right through me. It was as though she knew what we were trying to accomplish and enjoyed the attention that her mom and I were [...]
Psychology of a Senior Portrait
I have always believed that truly great portraits are created through the eyes. What I mean is that the viewer of the subject is drawn into the portrait through the eyes of the subject and whatever the subject is thinking, comes right out of their eyes. Case in point is Matthew, the young man in [...]
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