I met the IWE team early in the morning of one of the last days of the 50th Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta to make team photos with the balloons as the background. As anyone who was in town the week of the 50th Balloon Fiesta knows, the weather was pretty terrible. So taking that into consideration, the fact that there was a mass ascension without rain was a win, even though skies were overcast. Despite that, I was still able to make the group photos IWE wanted and the balloons were not as far in the background as I expected either. With 25+ people in a group shot, it takes a bit of setting up in terms of lighting and then orientating everyone in the photo. Using a 3 light setup, which you can see in the BTS shot below, I was able to add some fill light and make the IWE team standout from the overcast skies. Thank you to Aime and everyone at IWE for getting up early, getting organized in front of the camera, and for choosing me as your photographer! Thanks also to Jessica for getting up early and assisting on this shoot making sure the 42” SoupBowl stayed in place.
A day with the team at Pebble Labs in Los Alamos New Mexico
Being a commercial photographer willing to travel to anywhere in New Mexico, I get opportunities like this to visit a special place like Pebble Labs, and spend a day with the entire team making headshots of everyone, photographing them in action in their lab, and then gathering everybody together for a huge team group photo in their unique greenhouse. Now every employee of Pebble Labs has a modern, professional headshot that looks consistent with everyone else at the lab, and there is no stock photography used on their website. What you see are the actual employees in their actual lab doing the innovate work they do. Thank you to everyone at Pebble for a great day of photography and for choosing me as your photographer.
I have been saying how uncanny the timing of my photography jobs are more and more, and with this return to the accounting firm of Loftis and Lovato nearly exactly two years to the day since I first made team headshots for them (check out those team headshots to see how people changed), things just getting even more uncanny! L & L have added some new team members, and others just wanted updated headshots from what I made for them 2 years ago. I brought the same gray background and lighting setup I used 2 years ago to keep the consistent look with the all the other team members that came to the JCP Home Studio just to get an individual headshot in the meantime. L & L have since moved to a new location, which is featured in the updated group shot I made for the whole team. Thank you Andrea and everyone at Loftis and Lovato for continuing to choose me as your photographer!
Candid Family Portraits are the best in Albuquerque
A bit of history about Jason Collin Photography. I started this photography business in June of 2009, so now I am celebrating 12 years as a full-time professional photographer! Like many photographers, I started out as a lifestyle photographer (weddings and portraits). Due to a number of factors, around 2012 I made the transition to being a commercial photographer. I still enjoy, however, the opportunities I get like this one to photograph a very fun family for candid family portraits. We met in Altura Park and from the first shot it was go time for making my favorite kind of portrait, a candid one! Monica, Mary, and their whole family pretty much came up with all their own ideas for the photos and I just had to capture them! Thank you for a great shoot!
Real team and action photos for Skinnovate in Albuquerque New Mexico
Jacquelyn, the founder and operator of Skinnovate in Albuquerque, New Mexico, knows how important it is to show clients that visit her website her actual team, and not fill it up with generic stock images. I visited Skinnovate for a commercial portraits and team in action photo shoot that was a ton of fun! Plus, her clinic space had some of the best light for fluorescent overhead lighting I had ever seen due probably to the huge windows along the exterior wall letting in a ton of natural light to overpower what is usually brutal fluorescent. This is one of my favorite kind of photo shoots because it involves a lot of creative challenge working in (small) spaces I of course had never been in before, making photos of actual professionals doing their jobs, and basically getting to create on the fly. Thank you Jacquelyn and the Skinnovate team for being so great in front of the camera in all manner of photos and for choosing me as your commercial photographer!
Longtime networking friend Lisa contacted me about making headshots for the entire team at FatPipe New Mexico, which is a fantastic coworking space in Albuquerque and other cities around New Mexico. I actually normally visit FatPipe ABQ once a week every Wednesday morning for 1 Million Cups, but with Covid-19, it has gone virtual meaning I do not leave my desk at home. I did get to actually use the coworking space recently as I was without power at home for two days. With very short notice Lisa had a work space for me ready to go when I arrived, with of course very fast wifi. Thank you Lisa and Stewart for choosing me as your headshot photographer!
Longtime and one of my favorite photography clients, Jalene, asked if I could make some candid portraits of her and other board members of Save New Mexico. If you have followed the blog of Jason Collin Photography for some time, you will see I photograph people, organizations, and events from across the political spectrum. This was a very fun shoot where Jalene’s abundance of personality made it easy to get fun candids of the group, and we also made headshots for everyone on location too. I even recorded some B-roll video that was used on the website! Thank you Jalene for continuing to choose me as your photographer for everything from theatre performances to headshots!
