Mother and Daughter - December, 2010

My first "commission"...though I did not get paid for it. My friend Joan needed photos her daughter Jessica could use for her senior picture, and I offered to help purely for the experience. I found out that taking portraits with two people is not twice as hard, it's quadruple! Still, it was a fun shoot and I was able to use the studio's strobe lights.

Jessica was especially helpful in that she had ideas for poses, such as the floor shots and the ones looking down from a step ladder.

Keira - September 2010

I met Keira through Model Mayhem, and my interest was piqued when she sent me an email saying she was travelling through Oregon and asked if I wanted to work with her on a shoot. We clicked in our ensuing exchange, and I was very interested in shooting my first nude. She calls Texas her home, but she spends most of the year travelling throughout the country. She is also the second professional model with whom I have worked, and the quality of her poses shows that professionalism.

All images are not retouched in any way, and were taken with a Nikon D300, 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 in a rented studio using natural and incandescent lighting