I am curious to know if you folks reading this care to comment about the photo in this post. I was having a discussion with someone and they made a good point that the photo looks like a “well done portrait of an actress”. I don’t necessarily disagree, but my goal was to get an [...]

A nice little interview on the popular photography blog TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE….
Hope you are able to gain something in the from of insight from the interview.
http://toomuchchocolate.org/?p=1857

This is a new promo my agent and I recently sent out to my advertising contacts.
Many thanks to the Designory in Long Beach and to Subaru for sending the work my way.  Go team go!
They really just wanted me to make it look real, yet aspirational and fun.  Illustrate a lifestyle attached to the brand [...]

Built this grid from some portraits of Summer Camp kids.  What a fun project and a good exercise in gaining quick rapport with some otherwise stand-offish kids.

I am a firm believer in shooting personal work.  I am always looking to shoot new and interesting subjects that fit well in my book and in promos.
I shoot most of my personal assignments to attract potential clients.  I am in the business of advertising and editorial photography and I aspire to continue to shoot [...]

So the second shoot I just wrapped in the city that never sleeps was Discover Credit cards. Came up VERY last minute for me and so unexpected.  The Martin Agency gave me eight ads which doesn’t happen as much as it used to.  Usually it’s three or so ads in these depressed economic times.  There [...]

Just wrapped a three week trip to New York where I shot two jobs and took in some editorial meetings.  Started with a great one for SONY where I shot multiple celebrities, i.e. Peyton Manning, Justin Timberlake, Amy Sedaris and Nigel Barker to name a few.  All great people, warm, funny, polite and gracious.  No drama [...]

I feel like I am telling you all something you already know, but the iphone camera and the apps you can get to make cool looking vintage photos is addicting, inspiring and a good way to take snap shots to inspire future photographs. Here is a collage I’ve put together of my pictures over the [...]

Got a little PDN write up about a job I did for Boost mobile. Many thanks to Amber and Holly at PDN for making it happen.
Here’s the link
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/esearch/e3i738d05fe1080a0e8b0261b80d912028a

Today I photographed Joel McHale form E! Channels Talk Soup for Ray Lego the PE for Death+Taxes Magazine. What a funny dude. Very nice guy. We had to rip it out in half an hour and wasn’t given much freedom with location. Was just told to show up at 1pm to look around the E! [...]