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Voyage Houston, an online magazine, has featured one of my Instagram posts in one of their compilations. The picture is from a portrait session with Julia Fox, a classical singer here in Houston.
I also had some work featured on the KEH blog earlier in the year. I appreciate that some of my images have been noticed this way.
Kristen’s portrait shoot was a great example of having a solid plan-b. The original idea was for an outdoor shoot in front of the historic buildings in Texas city (about an hour south east of Houston), but the rain moved in and the plan had to be scrapped.
So we got permission from Sarah, the owner of the Campeche coffee etc, to set up a few lights and a backdrop in the corner of her premises. This was perfect for simple head-shots, and with a little post-processing we got some superb full body motion shots.
We changed location for the end of the session - a laundry-mat just up the road from Campeche Coffee. It was another one-light setup to capture the movement of Kristen’s hair.
This was a hybrid digital and film session using a Hasselblad 500cm and a Canon 6D mark 2.
See more of Kristen through instagram @kristen.wollenberg.
I love meeting people with curly hair like mine so I can bombard them with questions on how they deal with it in the mornings and where they get it cut.
Sergio’s portrait session resulted in some great social media head shots and some full body shots that wouldn’t look out of place if he was interviewed for a magazine.
This was a hybrid film and digital session using a Hasselblad 500cm and a Canon 6D mark 2.
Bobby Wells has worked in New York and LA, and now in Houston. He is a skilled makeup artist who knows each of his brushes like I know each of my lenses. His favorites are housed in a leather pouch that doesn’t leave his side. Like a photographer, his job involves putting a subject at ease so they can get the best out of his work.
This was a hybrid portrait session using a digital camera and a medium format film camera. Some of my favorite images were the low-key shots on a black background. They remind me of classic artist portraits from the 60s and 70s.
You can find Bobby’s Instagram feed @bobbywellsmakeup.
Rusty's DeLorean can often be found parked outside of his 80's arcade, The Game Preserve, in the Woodlands, just north of Houston, Texas. The car stirs up the same sort of nostalgia as the pinball machines inside - and every passer-by during this portrait session felt compelled to get closer and see the car for themselves. Touching a DeLorean, for most people, is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
And with every curious spectator, Rusty gladly talked to them like they were the first to show interest in his DMC 12. I'm finding that each owner knows that ownership is much more than possessing a vehicle, it is spreading joy and preserving a cultural icon.
The portraits were a mix of digital and medium format film shots on a Hasselblad 500cm. We got some shots as an established business owner, and also channeled Rusty's inner-teenager.
The arcade was founded by Rusty and some arcade machine-collecting friends as a way to share their passion/addiction with the public. The Game Preserve is $15 on entry with unlimited games for the night.
I returned to play in the arcade recently and I completely lost track of time - by the end of the night I'd played only a fraction of the games in the place, including Street Fighter, Qbert, Virtua Cop, some early wooden pinball machines and (don't tell my kids) Fix it Felix.
Omar runs a fledgling company selling printed shirts and hoodies here in Houston with sales across the nation. His brand represents the underdog, the ambitious, those who create rather than erase.
We took a few hours to shoot some publicity material for Instagram and came away not only with marketing shots, but also some solid portraits.
Where can you find his shirts? Here on the villain lifestyle website,
and don't forget to check out his Instagram feed @the_villain_lifestyle.
This was a hybrid shoot using digital 35mm and film medium format cameras.
Portrait and Headshot Photography in Marblehead and the North Shore, MA
