I recently did a portrait session with Kiki in the Mission District in San Francisco. We arrived early, when the streets were uncrowded and we had a clear sky with angled light. I'd scouted some locations ahead of time, and chose mural backgrounds—ideally, without discernible letters, which could be distracting. There's no shortage of murals [...]
I see this topic discussed on photo forums from time to time: Can one make good portraits with a 28mm lens? The most open-minded respondents always say that you can make a good portrait with any focal length, and I agree. Maybe 85mm is perfect for head and shoulders shots, but, depending on the subject [...]
Carlos has been my tailor for years, and we see each other often. When he told me he was planning a website for his business, I volunteered to take some photos of him in his workshop. We agreed that the light coming into his shop from a big picture window was best in the late [...]
This post is an outlier because there's just one photo, and it's not monochrome. This is Eva, my granddaughter, last weekend, wearing the new hat and shirt my wife bought for her in San Diego. To try something different, I put a border around it in Lightroom that makes it look matted. The portrait technique [...]
I'm not one of those people who bore others with photos of their grandchildren. Wait—maybe I am. Here's Eva at 19 months on Mother's Day.