Much Too Hot!

It has been incredibly hot these past few days, which makes me long for skies like this.

Camera: Sony A7

Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island

Gorge Light

I had absolutely gorgeous light going on here that was unfortunately completely backlighting the model. That posed a bit of a challenge to say the least. Fortunately I think I managed to pull it off to some degree.

My favorite little detail is the ship floating along in the background on the right hand side of the frame. It gets lost a bit when looking at the image on-line, but in print it is really obvious and rad. 

Camera: Sony A7

Location: Columbia River Gorge, OR

Not Mine

Maybe I’m just borrowing someone else’s life so I don’t have to live my own.

Camera: Sony A7

Model: St. Merrique

Location: Portland, OR 

Head On The Door

This pretty much personifies my mood this weekend. 

Camera: Sony A7

Model: Sarah Pardini

Location: Portland, OR 

Time to Rest

Completely tired, worn out, and a little broken today. Time to take this opportunity and rest up for a bit.

Camera: Sony A7

Model: Keira Grant

Location: Portland, OR - Columbia River Gorge

Window

This is about how I feel today. Staring out the window from the safety of the indoors. 

Sun and Clouds

I've been getting a lot of pleasure out of shooting landscapes lately. I think it is a healthy distraction for me, just taking long walks and admiring the way the sky moves and changes and turns different colors over the passage of time.

Camera: Sony A7

Location: Columbia River Gorge

Coming Back

I haven’t worked with Keira Grant in well over a year. Thankfully the passage of time doesn’t seem to much matter when it comes to the people you like.

Camera: Sony A7

Model: Keira Grant

Location: Columbia River Gorge

Big Sky

The entire afternoon leading up to this shoot I wasn't sure what kind of weather I was going to get. The day kept transitioning from pouring rain to a bright and sunny sky.

In the end I got a little bit of both. Or maybe a lot of both. Such is the way of things in Oregon sometimes. 

Camera: Sony A7

Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island

Bend in the Gorge

Simply because today is the 1st of June, and because I’ve been editing pictures all day long, I’m in the mood to post twice. 

Camera: Sony A7
Model: Velocity

For Who?

There weren't any roads near this sign so I have no clue what its purpose was. Maybe there are some really fast joggers in this area running through the fields of grass?

The mind wonders. 

Camera: Sony A7
Location: Longbeach, WA

Some Days

There are days I want to bury my head under the wide open sky.

Camera: Sony A7

Weekend

Playing with window light and rolling around on my floor. 

In my world I call that a typical weekend. 

Camera: Sony A7
Model: Cait Lion

Beach

I’m not entirely sure how appropriate the internet is to share this image. What makes it nice for me is the two walkers in the lower left side of the frame but they get a bit lost when looking at it on a computer screen. 

I think I’ll just have to make a big print of this one and hang it on my wall. 

Camera: Sony A7
Location: Longbeach, WA

I Fly Away

This particular scene was perhaps one of the more difficult I have encountered from a technical sense in a very long time. I had heavy cloud cover combined with bright sun located on the exact opposite side of the skyline in which I wanted it to be.

I think the model and I still managed to pull off something nice though.

Camera: Sony A7
Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island

The Shore

Yup, ok I'll admit it. I made the model get in the water while I stayed nice and dry on shore. 

So sue me. 

Camera: Sony A7
Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island

Window Light

Playing with some window light and a table in a studio in San Francisco. I wasn't a big fan of the orange curtains at the time I was taking this image but in the end I think they worked out. The light was so warm and bright the color came out rather nice.

Camera: Sony A7
Location: San Francisco, CA
Model: Anya

Studio Light

It was a ridiculously hot day down in San Francisco when this image was taken. Or at least, ridiculously hot by my standards anyway. The point however is that I just couldn't bring myself to spend a day out in the sun when I was already feeling exhausted from endless hours of travel.

I was glad I made that decision as this particular image came out lovely. 

Camera: Sony A7
Location: San Francisco, CA
Model: Anya

Window Expression

I must have sat in front of the computer for hours trying to figure out how to edit this image. By hours, what I really mean is like twenty minutes, which for me is a really long time when it comes to editing a photo. I tend to like my images best when I stick to how I envisioned it at the time I clicked the shutter. I've learned over the years that your initial instinct when it comes to exposure and composition is usually dead on.

In this case though I just couldn't figure out how saturated I wanted it to be so I ultimately decided on a happy medium tone and just faded the colors a tad.

Camera: Sony A7
Location: Portland, OR
Model: Cait Lion

Faces

When I worked with this particular model it was her very first time posing nude. I think in a small way to get over her fears she started making a ton of funny and exaggerated faces at me, which I completely adored. I could have sat there all day and all night clicking away at the shutter while she made one expression after another. 

Camera: Sony A7
Location: Portland, OR