Category : Behind the Scenes

Business/Corporate Portraits

Did you know that I offer custom photography services in the St. Charles/St. Peters/O’Fallon area?  One of the services I offer is professional business portraits. 

Making A Stenciled Pumpkin For Halloween

This Halloween season, I added a new series of “crafty” holiday images to my stock image portfolio at Stocksy United.  They’re stenciled pumpkins!  Read on for how to make these yourself.

Tailgate Video Stock Shoot Behind The Scenes

Two weeks ago, I blogged a preview of my new “tailgating party” 4k stock video series, here.  Today I wanted to show a few behind-the-scenes photos and videos from the session.  So, onward! …

Making A Ploughman’s Platter

So, you may know I’m a big Harry Potter fan from my previous post about Harry’s Hogwarts Acceptance Letter.  So, of course, I find the two Wizarding World Of Harry Potter areas at Universal Orlando some of the coolest theme park attractions around.  Everything in the areas adds up to make an amazing, immersive experience and that includes the food offerings.

More “Ask A Stock Photographer”

Today, let’s dip back into my “Ask A Stock Photographer” facebook post.  Karen says “I am fascinated by some of your locations. Very creative ideas like the turkey farm, and how In the world do you manage to clear out and rent an airport? I would like to read about how some of those location shots came together.”

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Props

I should have a garage sale. Well, more of a studio sale. My shelves are full of all kinds of things that have caught my eye over the years that I thought would be useful for photos. Some things have been used once, like the giant plastic baby bottle. Other things get used a lot more often. Here’s a look at a few of my favorite props…

Reprocessing Images

Yesterday on my Facebook page, I mentioned I was time traveling, going back to 2007 to re-process and keyword some early images to go into my non-Stocksy portfolio of stock images.  Today, I thought I would post a couple of samples to illustrate what I was talking about.

Lighting Reflective Surfaces

I’m a member of a new photo agency, where image requests from clients are posted, and contributors who have the content in their library already can post what they have for the client to peruse.  If you have the time, you can also create new content for the request, with the knowledge that there’s a chance it won’t be selected.  So, it’s good to only do this on themes where there’s a sales possibility elsewhere for the content.  This week […]

stock photo photographer in greenhouse

BTS: Nursery Shoot

Earlier this month, I profiled a new stock image series that is being licensed exclusively through Stocksy.  This series, “At the Nursery/Garden Center” has a group of models browsing and shopping inside a large greenhouse.  Today, I’ve got a few behind-the-scenes images from that shoot.

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