NEXT WEEK! February 28, 2013 AZ/ASMP Presents: FOURTH Thursday – Specialists Series: “Masters of Production – Photo shoots; big and bigger.” Our parents used to say, “don’t make it a big production, just get it done.” Well, what does does it take to ‘just get it done?’ What skills do you need to [...]
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Portrait of Jane / July ’12
Portrait of Jane during a lighting check at the Long Bow Country Club in Arizona in July.
Vidal Sassoon Competition – Brillare Academies / Glamour Headshot Photography Make Overs
We did a very cool project for the 2012 Sassoon Cut & Color Photo Competition held in Los Angeles earlier this year. We knocked out about 50 individually lit head shots of amatuer models in about 14 hours of shooting at the Brillare Academies in Scottsdale and Chandler. The all amateur component of the shoot made this one [...]
Theatrical & Commercial Headshot Photography
We shot this commercial and theatrical headshot session for Pedram in June. This was his first shoot with a professional headshot photographer. I included a cell phone pic he sent us when he first contacted us. Pedram provided clear examples illustrating the look and feel of the lighting he liked. What is noteworthy here is [...]
Biosphere 2 – Corporate Video & Time lapse Photography
This is a industrial video Frank Salle and I produced for Solon Energy GmbH (Germany). It includes still, aerial and time lapse photography of a solar panel array installation at the Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona. The BioSphere folks were kind enough to put our entire crew up for the night in one of their [...]
Behind the Scenes: Tony and Sage Robbins / Fiji
We are cleaning and reorganizing our archives this month and I came across these BTS images and some unpublished editorial photography from a shoot we did in Fiji with Anthony & Sage Robbins. Being in this business is not without it perks and benes…there is a reason why unrealistic stereotypes associated with being a photographer exist…thats because [...]
Remembering Andy Williams
You may have heard the sad news that Andy Williams passed earlier this week. I had the pleasure to shoot Andy in the late 80′s and early 90′s. He was a consumate gentleman… creative, professional, and a pleasure to work with. We broke bread at his home in Hollywood a couple of times where he [...]
Intern Call: Photography Consulting and Lighting Solution
Every year or two a really cool job comes in out of left field. I am going to need some help next Wednesday on one of these. I have been hired by a event photography company that is manufacturing a portable set for producing photography souvenirs at charity events, fund raisers and malls for holiday promotions. To [...]
Charlotte Setting
You generally won’t find me shooting pictures out the window on plane flights…Im usually asleep before the plane leaves the terminal. We were on our way back from Charlotte last January, it was raining heavily and our crew was soaked and exhausted from 3 days of shooting. As the plane broke through the cloud cover [...]
