This was taken in Fredericksburg, VA in a commuter lot bus shelter. I love that it doesn’t even look like glass behind her. It looks more like metal… and blood. 50mm lens, hot-shoe flash, shoot-through umbrella, and a beautiful model. That’s pretty much all you need.

I tweeted a few days ago, right after I wrapped my portrait session with Scott Wilcher, that he is the Gandalf to my Frodo. For those of you who don’t know Scott, or are confused by the Lord of the Rings reference, allow me to explain. I met Scott Wilcher right after I got out [...]

When I was prepping for Bekah and Patrick’s portrait session before their wedding, I asked them what their favorite movies were. I like to ask those kind of questions to people, just to get a feel for their personal style and taste. I then planned on doing a partial recreation of key poses from their [...]

This is Belinda. She is, as she would say, pretty much the best, ever. It was wet, cold, and wet that day, and Belinda was a trooper. She willingly sat on a wet cast iron step for our last setup. What you don’t see here is the creeper that I had to hide in this [...]

My wife and I had the pleasure of shooting the wedding of our two friends, Rebekah and Patrick. This is from our whirlwind portrait session. We were trying to escape from direct sunlight and have a healthy amount of portraits from the 45 minutes we had with them. This pose is inspired by one of [...]