Spring arrived right on time in Seattle, as our seasons usually do. While I don’t have a favorite season (I love them all here), I do have favorite things about each season. One of my spring favorites is the arrival of calla lilies in the nurseries. I’ve…
When clients, guests, models, friends are coming to the studio for a shoot or meeting, I like to have some fresh flowering plants at the front door to greet them. I head over to the nursery and see what is seasonally available. Recently, I saw…
The P52 Assignment Brief: Still Life with Flower. A color, vertical (portrait) oriented still life image with ordinary objects, diffuse main light source, that must contain at least one flower, but the flower(s) must not be the subject of the image. The objects must be simple…
A particularly fun and creative exercise that I learned from Don Giannatti is a photography ‘improv’ session: pick a subject/object/idea/theme and a time limit (say, an hour). Make as many good photographs in that time as possible. No limits on technique or methods: change lenses,…
Seattle Commercial Photographer 