I came across a old photo of my dad playing the saxaphone and was intrigued in recreating the image using low key fundamentals

Exploring one light setup from above. With the movie black panther being in the theater, I wanted to create a portrait to reflect the excellence this movie portrayed.

Every so often, I work on honing my lighting techniques and bring in a fellow photographer to work on different techniques. As the title says we are exploring the clamshell lighting technique.

Finally got to take some portraits of an actress who happens to be my niece during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Wasn’t able to get outside to shoot and was still able to get some good shots.

At the end of last year I realized that I had not picked up my camera that often. I decided this year to develop my skills more and embarking on the Dogwood 52 week challenge. Each week I will have a specific type of portrait I would need to take and I will post so you can see the development of my portraits……

My first Self portrait. “A Man with Many Hats”. The idea I came up with this photo was to show the many layers and hats i use. It took me about 35 minutes to do this portrait.