I specialize in Fashion and People photography. I have worked with models, actors, designers – I photographed Fashion Week in Los Angeles. The focus is on accentuating the impact of my image  is 3-fold.

1. Envisioning the image’s mood and style before picking up the camera.
2. Sculpting with light and selecting depth of field – placing the subject in 3-dimensional space and creating the mood of that space through use of light, depth, styling, wardrobe and pose in relation to the negative space, setting and background around the subject.
3. Understanding photoshop and concentrating on the fine art of detailed post production techniques, including controlled light and shadow.

Joe McNally

Jerry Ghionis

David Hobby

Cliff Mautner

Joel Grimes

I can’t even imagine being anything else but a photographic artist - besides a mother, and I’m both! I am also a professional retouch artist. I spend as much time in photoshop retouching as I do behind the camera. I envision my desired result first, by understanding my post production and lighting tools – only then do I look through the lens as my blank palette before pressing the shutter.

Off Camera Flash with my pocket wizards TT5s (to enable me to control the settings from the camera).  I love to sculpt with light. I have so much more control, putting the light exactly where I want it with multiple speedlights – light, mobile, portable and easily placed where I need them.

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