Featuring: Horn Company--Corporate Editorial Portraits on location

As much as I like photographing families, I LOVE shooting head shots and corporate editorial portraits.  I really enjoy being able to spend a little one on one with each individual and chat about the things they enjoy most.  AND I'd like to think it's my biggest and best chance for changing popular opinion on getting a portrait done.  It never fails that I get a lot of "I HATE getting my picture taken" comments before we start.  I suppose there are people that enjoy having their portrait taken--movie stars, rock stars, celebrities....you get the drift.  And then there's us regular people--that hate to get our portrait taken.   I include myself because I don't like having my portrait done either.  That's why I want to make it the easiest and most fun experience for my clients as possible.  And I want to create a portrait in the end that they hold up as the BEST portrait of themselves they've ever had--until the next time we shoot, of course!!

So last week, shooting on location at the Horn Company in La Mirada, I was getting LOTS of "I hate getting my picture taken" in the beginning, but by the time we finished, I was getting LOTS of smiles and hugs.

So cool to change someone's viewpoint.

Shooting in an industrial warehouse had it's advantages--like super graphic pallets.  But I really LOVE the shadow.

Painted drums full of flammable fluids.  I couldn't ask for better backdrops.

I am very fun--obviously.

This isn't Sean Penn; he said his name was Bradley Cooper.

At the end of the day and the end of our shoot, we were out of natural light and I got to play a little creating my own light.