I’m kind of a book junkie. Boarders, Bookshop Santa Cruz, the Public Library* these places are like little dispensaries of crack for me. But not just any book. Ok, well just about any book. I tend to read in themes. For a while I was working my way through the collected works of the Puritan...
Category Archives: Technique
Happy New Year folks. I don’t know about you but I have high hopes for 2010. Not that ’09 was all that bad really. In fact in some ways it was one my best years ever. I got off my butt and actually started trying to make a go at photography as more than just...
When Amorina and I talked about what she wanted in her wedding photography package she said she wanted natural, candid moments. That’s why she booked me. But I couldn’t help but break out the strobes for this classic wedding photo cliche… Technical: two sb 600′s on stands camera left and right at 45 degree angles,...
I’m sitting here editing a wedding I shot up in Sacramento this weekend and something just occurred to me. The personality of my subjects, in this case a bride and groom, to a great extent effects how I edit the images. I have always known, and believed it to be an asset that the personality...
Bay Area Photographer: Brit’s Santa Cruz Senior Portraits
Ok. So confession time. I’ve always found senior portraits to be the dumbest lamest thing in the world. Mostly because the images I’ve always seen were the same old boring shit. But then, this year I got an email from Brit’s boyfriend telling me how he doesn’t have any money but he wants to gift...
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