Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Isabelle

"I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."  ~Helmut Newton










Monday, February 22, 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Twinky

I've done a lot of maternity portraits over the years— but they are most often paid shoots where I cater towards the images being natural and flattering. Not to mention that I'm usually more concerned with making my subject comfortable, rather than experimenting. Here is pregnancy image where I was able to experiment a bit more.





Saturday, February 13, 2016

Little One

Yes, yet another shower shot. What can I say– shooting in the shower seems to access certain expressions which can't be captured without the magical properties of warm water. The comfort of water falling just simply relaxes most people, summoning a very natural body language.




Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Sarah

This makes for a nice little series. The down on the floor with the subject point of view has always been one of my favorites. BTW, that is a stocking that she is pulling off her legs with her mouth. I don't typically like to explain what's going on in a photograph, but in this case, it perhaps makes more sense with that helpful hint. If that causes this image to be a fail, then oh well. I guess I might like it more than many others– simply because I remember liking it as I shot it. That's probably not a problem that I should complain about, even if it happens often.














Monday, January 4, 2016

Tali De'Mar

Close-up face-off: An instance in movies or TV shows when two people face off for an argument and the shot zooms in on one's face and then the other's. It continually switches back and forth. A shorter series of shots can be used for drama while a strangely long series of shots is usually used for comedy.


Saturday, January 2, 2016

Maeve

I really dig the composition on this one. The high ceiling and a good ladder definitely helped.






Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Monday, December 28, 2015

Monday, December 21, 2015

Percolate

"If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough."   ~Robert Cappa
Sadly, Robert Cappa (a war photographer) died from stepping on a land mine, trying to get that last shot.