dragonflydm

This is definitely one of your better images in the portfolio (not that any of them are bad).

Where are you finding these clothes and cars???

I agree that he does not have a great smile. But we work with the client the best we can. Corporate portraits are done on a very tight schedule and I did mention his smile to him, which he ignored.

The backdrop was exactly what the client needed. They are engineers and they do not have the big 1950s style oak desk and bookshelf. The colors of the brochures and materials are pumkin and brown-- hence we went with a masters style backdrop to compliment the material.

We WILL probably tone down the background with some selective dodging for the final product to match some of the other portraits.

Thanks for the feedback.

They were washing this parrot at the aviary...and I just loved

watching the water roll off the feathers.

I have been playing with painting with light this past weekend, and I am finding difficulty with the light source....how to you keep from it bleeding and creating the streaks?

This was a fairly simple shot with three lights to get the classic

cinema portrait of the silver screen.

This technique took awhile to figure out, but I think it finially

worked.

This was an experiment with painting with light. 25 seconds at f/11

ISO 100.

Mike I appreciate the comment. This was a bunch of headshots for these dancers that they wanted taken outside and this poor girl was the only one that was freezing. I could not (since I did not have a make up artist) do anything about that nose at the time of shooting, and I am not a big one for doctoring up photos.