Every week I create photos working with talented people, here are some recent photo shoots. You will also find many articles describing the elements that make the best photo.


My informative magazine as a professional architectural photographer in San Francisco.

Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
Portraits on Location
Portraits on Location

Often as a part of telling the whole story or the story in itself, my portraiture work cares the same natural feeling as my interior photographs.
Shooting people on location for magazines, companies and corporations I create my portraits in situation and with the context of the environment. The subjects are captured with positive, open expressions, [...]

Restaurant: Le Colonial in San Francisco
Restaurant: Le Colonial in San Francisco

When restaurant Le Colonial wanted to update their website they needed a photographer who understood the food, felt the mood and could deliver photographs that are inviting. A lean team of just photographer and assistant created over a dozen shots in a day. The photographs had multi uses for Web, Print Ad & PR along [...]

Restaurant: Brix in Napa Valley
Restaurant: Brix in Napa Valley

Brix Restaurant, the Napa Valley staple, recently under went a fresh and colorful face lift. The interiors were transformed in ten days and the menu is now farm to table fresh. The creative director heading up the change is David Gingrass with noted chef of Hawthorne Lane (now Two Restaurant).
Photographs for the website, magazine stories, [...]

Art Direction: Ironies Furniture
Art Direction: Ironies Furniture

Ironies is a California based luxury furniture manufacture always at the design forefront. Here they show off not only great furnishings but also a clean modern take on styling.
The principals of Ironies and I took a great monochromatic assemblage of forms and textures and used a lighting and photography style to create a soft mood.

Art Direction: Advertising Photography
Art Direction: Advertising Photography

Advertising photography needs to be memorable with a quick connection made to the viewer. For my San Francisco clients when photographing for the best magazine ads, I give thought to the needs of proportion and placement. Will the ad photo need to be vertical or horizontal? Will the photo be a bleed, where will the [...]

Photoshop: Collage
Photoshop: Collage

Removal, replacement and scaling.

Photoshop: Distortions
Photoshop: Distortions

Parallax and Warping

Photoshop: Color Correction
Photoshop: Color Correction