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Brand & Lifestyle Photography

Portrait, lifestyle and fashion photography for brands and creators who need pictures that could only be of them. Booked as a session, delivered as finished frames.

Bearded man in dark rectangular sunglasses and a denim jacket, arms folded, leaning against a storefront and washed in hard red neon light, with blurred signage glowing behind him.
Woman in a pale turquoise slip dress sitting barefoot on a dark rock outcrop, laughing, with a city skyline glowing gold behind her at dusk.
Man in a white polka-dot shirt, ripped jeans and white sneakers seated on the rails of a steel truss railway bridge, shot from a low angle against a pale blue sky.

Made, not selected.

Every frame here was decided at the shoot: the light, the location, the person, and the reason it exists.

What stock costs

A stock photo is somebody else's brand, licensed. Brands bought it anyway, because the alternative was a crew, a studio day, and an art director to run them.

What a shoot covers

Brand sessions, portraits, lifestyle, fashion. Every session starts from what the brand is actually trying to say, and the pictures get built to say it. What comes back is edited and ready for the places it has to live: the site, the feed, the ad.

Selected frames

04Brand portrait: apparel client, on location.
Man in a black printed t-shirt and a backwards black cap, arms crossed and laughing off-camera, against a dark gray painted brick wall.
05Lifestyle portrait: desert wildflowers.
Woman in a white puff-sleeve dress crouching among tall yellow desert wildflowers, smiling at the camera, with desert scrub soft behind her.
06Portrait: graduation session.
Woman holding a black graduation cap with a gold tassel across the lower half of her face, eyes level with the camera, warm out-of-focus trees behind her.
07Fashion portrait: styled gown, rusted steel.
Woman in a voluminous lilac tulle gown leaning against a rusted steel girder, one hand on her hip, warm open sky behind her.
08Portrait: available light, low key.
Woman with long wavy hair seated on dark forest ground in a patterned dress, arms folded across her knees, looking up into the camera in warm low light.
09Lifestyle: bright interior, brand content.
Woman in a knit sweater at a white table, eyes closed and hands framing her face, backlit by a bright window with a houseplant behind her.

Colophon

Client
Various Clients
Years
2018-Present
Disciplines
Portrait · Lifestyle · Fashion · Art Direction
Toolkit
Lightroom · Photoshop
Role
One person: the brief, the direction, and the shutter. What gets agreed on the call is what comes back in the frame.

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What do you need built?

Tell me what the thing has to do and who has to use it after I leave. We'll get on a call, and I'll tell you what it takes.

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Motion Content & Brand Films

Local Businesses · 2019-Present

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