Adapting to make team headshots just like the client wanted in ABQ
Coordinating with Makayla of First American Title to make team headshots at her office in Albuquerque, New Mexico went smoothly as more and more ABQ businesses are choosing to get team headshots and I am learning more on what to prep the client on regarding the on location headshot shoot that can take several hours. However, variables still come up, like on the day of the shoot changing from a standard headshot to a waist up headshot, with the little problem of there nearly not being enough physical space in the room we were shooting in to make such a shot. As a professional photographer adaptability to the unexpected is a key skill to have. There was a table up against a wall behind me that just could not be moved, so everyone one of these headshots you see here was made with me sitting on the table all the way against the far back wall to be able to fit in the person from the waist up! Sometimes in photography, every last inch of space counts. Thank you Makayla for organizing this shoot and helping it to go smoothly, even with me sitting on a table!
I am a big fan of going to car shows, but they are always a challenge to photograph due to how close cars are parked together, and of course people walking all around them. For that reason, I usually bring a 50mm lens and focus on getting detail shots. This time, I decided to bring my new Sony 24mm f/1.4 G Master lens so I could still get wide shots, but also shallow depth of field to make the busy car show background start to disappear. Like everything I have used this lens for, I really liked the results. The Park in the Park Car Show in Rio Rancho was celebrating its 20th anniversary with over 300 cars, all of which had to be 35 years or older, which is just fine with me as anything newer than that is not classic in mind.
Nohelia visited the JCP Home Studio coming all the way from Santa Fe for her actor headshot photo session! For one photo she donned her leather jacket with a serious expression in the hopes of getting a certain type of part. Throughout the session we changed background colors and expressions so that even in just a relatively short headshot session, she had a good variety of headshots to use and catch the attention of casting directors around New Mexico. Thank ou Nohelia for choosing me as your actor headshot photographer and for the 5-star Google Review!
Though relatively nearby to Albuquerque, Cochiti Lake is not a place I have often visited, but almost on a whim made a return visit to recently. It was to the less used Tetilla Peak area where most of the time there, it felt like having the lake to oneself. This area did only just open up for the season the day before so that probably helped too! Is this a beautiful lake? No, not at all, especially since it only exists because of a dam. However, there are not many bodies of water in New Mexico, and if you go at the right time and to the right spot, it can feel like a small escape from the desert.
KOB 4 local news here in Albuquerque is actually the station I watch so when someone named Ivan Cabrera texted me about headshots, I had to ask, are you the meteorologist? He was indeed! If you can believe it, Ivan was not the first local news meteorologist I photographed in downtown Albuquerque, that was Conner Lewis of KRQE back in 2020. Even though I was shooting in a similar place, Ivan’s headshots are totally unique. Using an intersection as the out of focus background, and even the Albuquerque Convention Center itself, I was able to create a variety of different headshots for Ivan all within about a 20 square foot area! Thank you Ivan for choosing me as your headshot photographer and see you at 6pm weekdays on KOB 4!
Placitas, New Mexico is just a short drive from Albuquerque, but as you can see, is a totally different landscape to the bigger nearby city. Working for new real estate client Miriam, I flew the drone over her rural land property which was uniquely suited for showing the topography of the property. The extreme slop of the land and the mountain setting would not be easy to depict using traditional still photos from the ground. This is the benefit of drone land real estate aerial photography. Thank you Miriam for choosing me as your drone pilot!
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.
