Portrait & Studio Work
Rates for portraiture and studio work may vary based upon the type of project desired, time and setup required, and the usage of the photos afterwards. That being said, I’m new to the business and quite affordable! Please contact me to discuss your project and ideas.
My portfolio goes in a lot of different directions, as I really enjoy many types of portraiture, including standard studio work, outdoor portraits, maternity, couples. Sometimes people don’t know quite what they want, and I’m happy to sit down and discuss the type of photographs you’re looking for. Please peruse some of my work below.
Gabriela: One Portrait Session, Five Different Looks
It’s time for a little look back at a studio shoot I did last year with Gabriela, who graced me with her time and her willingness to experiment with many different looks and portraiture setups. It was amazing to me how in just a couple hours we came up with so many intriguing shots. I really enjoyed this shoot!
You may have first seen Gabriela on my first post.
Shannon at Fisherman’s Terminal
Shannon and I embarked upon our second summery photo shoot from Fisherman’s Terminal, with Shannon wearing the dress she is giving away for her blog sponsor, Shabby Apple. If you’re lucky, you just might win it!
Of course, you don’t need free clothes (or to be my sister) in order to treat yourself to your own fabulous photo shoot. Just call up your favorite neighborhood photographer! Let me help you decide upon a great concept for portraits that you’ll treasure. Fun or formal, indoors or out, we’ll come up with something that’s just right for you. It’s a lot easier than it sounds, so what are you waiting for?
Playing Soccer with Jesse
Or, “I Will Get Sweaty and Grass-stained in Order to Photograph Your Child”
Jesse is a brilliant little boy, the son of a friend of mine from college. We took him to the park in June and tried to impart upon him a little bit of World Cup fever. His dad Joey is slowly trying to teach him golf (yes!), but for photography purposes, I think it was a little easier to just hand him a big soccer ball and run around with him for 30 minutes.
Ignoring the fact that you’re typically not supposed to use your hands in soccer (maybe Jesse will turn out to be a gifted goalie), I think we had a successful time playing. Joey found a temporary babysitter, Jesse had a playmate, and I got some great shots that I can potentially embarrass him with when he gets older.
If you’re local (Seattle or Pacific Northwest) and looking for affordable photography of your children or family, please drop me a line! I will let your kids run me ragged so you can put a great photo on your living room wall or in their childhood album.
Shannon at Discovery Park in the Summertime
My sister writes a successful blog dedicated to “design and inspiration”, so it only figures that she uses a few of my photos and web skills once in a while, and I hit her up for her modeling abilities.
One of her site sponsors sent her two dresses to wear, blog about, and (down the road) create a dress giveaway for, so we headed to Discovery Park to shoot in the meadow and along the cliffs. Shannon definitely knew what she wanted in terms of her styling and the types of shots she would need. My job was to get proper exposures in the harsh sunlight, and do the post-processing to match her vision. These are some of the images we came up with. How did we do?
Baby Portraits – Annelise
I know that all babies are not as good-natured as Annelise was for her portraits. I think that mom Jeanette was more than pleased that we got upwards of an hour of smiles and wagging tongues from her daughter. To be fair, there was one early moment of panic when we couldn’t figure out why Annelise was suddenly wailing. Her forehead had found a zipper on the couch pillow — one which I’d taken care to turn earlier, just for that reason — but she perked right back up after a minute, albeit with a red raking across her brow! Thank goodness for the resilience of babies, and also for the magic of the digital darkroom!
Setting up for Annelise’s portraits was a good exercise in impromptu home-studio creativity. I started with fabrics I’d found at a secondhand store, reusing curtain material as a subtle butterfly backdrop. An ottoman covered with more silky material was transfixing enough to Annelise, keeping her seated and amused in one spot for a decent amount of time. Finally, two strobes with umbrellas transformed a dim living room into the bright “studio” I was looking for.
Incidentally, for anyone wondering about my digital darkroom, I use Adobe Lightroom to both organize my photo library, and to do 99% of my color/tone corrections. Typically only when I need to merge photos together or do some heavy editing do I then pull it into Photoshop.
