Latest Work

  • Borner Family

    Amber and Andrew came in for two portraiture shoots: one with just themselves (well, almost...), and one with their new daughter. Here's the after shoot. We had a great time in the studio. Their daughter really was captivated by the shutter noise of the D3, which made my job a little easier. Love those tiny feet!

  • Island Rec Skateboard Comp '10

    Having a professional photographer at the event brings out the best in the kids. When the camera is pointed at them they try hard, jump higher, go faster than they normally would. Some truly spectacular photographs, one of which became the front cover of the Island Rec's summer program guide in 2009. To see ALL the images y…

  • Ferry Posters

    As an Islander, I ride the ferries all the time, and so have spent a lot of hours looking out the ferry windows, wandering around the decks, reading the Little Nickel, browsing the rack-cards, in fact everything that one can do on the ferry. It wasn't till recently I took my camera with me and started to shoot some of the things…

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Music

Shooting musicians and bands live, like shooting theatre, is all about timing. But you can be a little more relaxed with capturing the expression of musician; a singer in the middle of a soulful outpouring of some romantic distress, is somewhat easier to shoot than an actor in the middle of a serious soliloquy. But it all depends on the person too. Some people's mouths move more than others. I primarily shoot without any additional lighting, i.e. no flash, just using available light. I prefer to work with what's available, and what performer really wants to have a flash being fired off in the middle of a performance a million times? Often this means I have an ISO setting of 1600 or higher, which although it does introduce a lot of digital noise, the final image sometimes looks cool with all that fake grain.