Baseball Player – Kody Watts
Kody Watts just completed his senior year baseball season at Skyview High School in Vancouver, WA. He is an amazing pitcher who routinely throws at over 90 MPH (96 MPH tops so far)!! Every time I cover one of his games I thoroughly enjoy every pitch. Below is a sports portrait I shot of him. I wanted to capture the look on his face when he is getting signs from his catcher. I’ve worked with Kody before. He’s a great guy to work with and I know that he is going to make it easy for photographers that shoot him in the big leagues! Many thanks Kody!
The portrait below was shot using 3 lights. The sun was the 1st (behind Kody, camera left). The 2nd was an 800 WS strobe (behind Kody, camera right). The 3rd was and 800 WS strobe above me and slightly to camera right.
About 2 dozen pro scouts turned out for Kody’s final high school game.
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Sports photography, sports portraits and sportraits in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA.
Rap Artist – Bryan West (again)
I just delivered images to Bryan that they will be using in his promotional material and website. Here are a couple that we delivered. To see a couple that were my favorite Click Here.
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Musician, vocalist photography in Portland OR, Seattle WA and Nationwide.
Interiors By Chuck Arbuckle
I’ve had the opportunity to photograph several interiors designed by Chuck Arbuckle, an interior designer in Portland OR. Photographing interiors is very technical because I need to take a room which is designed to be experienced in 3 dimensions and bring out its beauty in a 2 dimensional medium. We always bring our full compliment of lighting equipment to get these jobs done. Chuck is an amazing designer and the pressure is always on to capture what he creates.
You can contact Chuck to discuss your design needs at 503.243.5225
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Interior design and architectural photography.
My First Published Photograph
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak to the student staff of Clark College’s newspaper The Independent. I prepared a presentation on my iPad using the Keynote app and displayed the presentation on their projector. As part of the presentation I thought it would be cool to show them my first published photo. It was published in a newspaper and I made a whopping $15 (over 25 years ago!). The photo below shows the yellowing newspaper clipping.
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Sports photography in Portland OR, Vancouver WA and Seattle WA.
DJ Romi
DJ Romi is an extremely popular DJ in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA area. With a new website and printed collateral being designed it was time for new photos. We’ve planned out a couple shoots. Below are two from our first session yesterday. It’s still under construction but please visit and bookmark his website for your future needs for a DJ for weddings, private parties, school dances and club events! www.thedjromi.com
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Photography for Musicians, DJs, Rap Artists
Beauty Head Shot With Brittany
Brittany was in need of some updated images for her portfolio. She is a Portland/Vancouver area make-up artist that I have worked with on several occasions and she is quite good at her craft. For this shoot she decided to double as our model. For this shot I decided to stray from my usual beauty lighting decided to use an umbrella to chisel Brit’s features a bit.
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Beauty and fashion photography in Vancouver WA and Portland OR
Strobing Indoor Sports
Anyone that has tried to shoot sports at indoor venues knows how hard it is to make good images. The lighting is normally very limited. To overcome the lack of light, photographers use camera bodies with high ISO capabilities and fast lenses. An alternative would be to use a flash. The problem with on-camera flash is that images look very flat and 2 dimensional.
This week I decided to strobe some wrestling and basketball. In the old days, we set up 4 studio strobes at indoor venues. The set-up was a bit time consuming. Jordan and I were short on time so we used two lights (Nikon SB800). Set-up was very quick and we were able to use an ISO of 800 rather than 3200.
Here are 2 example images.
More Skyview Sports Portraits
This post contains more sports portraits (or sportraits as many now call them) from a shoot mentioned in this previous post. While so many think that this is a new style of lighting and several photographers are willing to claim it as their discovery, I was actually using this three point lighting back in the mid ’80s. Who invented it? I don’t know but my inspiration came from the illustrations in the comic books that I read as a kid.
Nicole – Fitness Model/Figure Competitor
In the world of women’s bodybuilding there are several different flavors. There are bodybuilders who work hard to add lots of size and bulk and sculpt their bodies to perfection. There are fitness competitors who compete in incredible acrobatic dance routines. And there are figure competitors who sculpt their bodies with weight training but don’t attempt to bulk up like bodybuilders do.
I had the awesome opportunity to photograph Nicole. Nicole is both a fitness model and a figure competitor. She told me that she is new to figure competitions and would like to get her pro card.
The kinds of images that you are likely to see Nicole in would be running ads or posing as a boxer, etc. We decided to shoot something a little different.
Skyview Profiles (01)
This football season we were fortunate to be able to work with a dozen Skyview High School athletes creating profile portraits (sportraits) for my Storm website. We worked over a two day period shooting at Kiggins Bowl, Skyview’s home stadium. Jordan, my photo assistant (and son), really got a workout as we took 400 lbs of studio equipment on location and had to move it all over the stadium. Congratulations to the Skyview football team for making it all the way to the WIAA 4A Semi-Finals!
Below is the first set of portraits. I’ll present more in a future post.
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