Business Headshots in California for husband and wife team

Business Headshots in California for husband and wife team

Husband and wife business team visit for headshots in Pacific Grove

It was great to have this husband and wife team in the Jason Collin Photography Studio in Pacific Grove California for a headshot session. They each gave the other a lot of feedback on their headshots as I was shooting tethered to a 43” screen for real time headshot proofing! Thank you both for choosing me as your headshot photographer.

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Airbnb Photography in Salinas, California Featuring and Highlight Images

Airbnb Photography in Salinas, California Featuring and Highlight Images

Photography showcasing an Airbnb vacation property in Salinas California

This was my first time to venture to Salinas, California to photograph an Airbnb vacation rental property. This Airbnb was setup for a lot of guests, with three bedrooms, two of which featured multiple beds. As I do when specifically photographing a property that is an Airbnb, I went through the house at the end getting highlighting and featuring shots of the special features for guests, and views of the contents of the house that I think would appeal to guests wanting to stay somewhere comfy and inviting on vacation or just for out of town travel. Thank you Crystal for choosing me as your Airbnb photographer.

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Actor Headshot Photographer in Pacific Grove and Monterey with Ian

Actor Headshot Photographer in Pacific Grove and Monterey with Ian

Actor headshots made to request in Pacific Grove

Ian, a local actor, contacted me with two specific headshots he wanted, one that was kind of moody and serious, and the other that was lighter and smiling. So that’s exactly what we set out to do in our headshot photo session here at the Jason Collin Photography Studio in Pacific Grove, California. Whatever the client wants, whatever the scope is, that’s why I tailor the shoot too. We started with the moody headshot, settling on a background look, and then finished with the smiling, friendlier style headshot changing up the background to bright white for that. Thank you Ian for choosing me as your headshot photographer!

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Hayward Lumber Social Media Commercial Photo Shoot in Pacific Grove California

Hayward Lumber Social Media Commercial Photo Shoot in Pacific Grove California

Visiting a Pacific Grove lumber yard to make live social media photos

As sometimes happen, how I think a shoot will go, and how it actually goes, are quite different. Such was the case when I arrived at Hayward Lumber in Pacific Grove, California to first make social media content photos with a provided shot list, and then to get a few photographs of the event taking place right in the lumber yard parking lot. Normally I would want to setup shots, likely use off camera lighting, and be in a controlled environment when doing this kind of photography, but, none of that was possible in an open for business lumber yard! I had to get the shots I could, as work happened live, finding volunteers for photos when possible and trying to tick off as many shots as I could from the shot list. With the help of a few team members, I was able to complete the list in the end!

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Monterey Country Department of Education on Location Photography in Salinas

Monterey Country Department of Education on Location Photography in Salinas

Making candids across Monterey County starting in Salinas

In yet another hard to believe photography connection, a media company I did a shoot for in Albuquerque three years, has another campaign they are working on here in Monterey County where I moved to 1.5 years ago. So through this cross time and state connection, I was out on assignment working with a representative from the Monterey County Department of Education making photographs of the first of 6+ kids and students across the large expanse of the county. I was told just to get photos of the kids being kids, so that’s why I did for this first student at a school in Salinas. I really like this kind of “on assignment” type photography. More photo shoots to come this month for this campaign!

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Interviewed by Bold Journey

Interviewed by Bold Journey

Always interesting to think and talk about photography

I was contacted by Bold Journey to share some of my thoughts about different aspects of becoming and being a professional photographer. Like, how does one get the confidence to be a professional photographer? What qualities are the most important to develop? It was a fun challenge to think on these questions and answer them in some detail. Thank you to the team at Bold Journey for this opportunity!

Check out the full interview!

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Pebble Beach California Fine Art Photography Sunset Flowers DoF

Pebble Beach California Fine Art Photography Sunset Flowers DoF

Using shallow depth of field for Pebble Beach sunset photography

It was a beautiful evening here in the Pebble Beach area so I took my camera to one of my favorite spots along 17 Mile Drive, Bird Rock. I already had the Sony 50mm f/1.2 lens on my camera from a shoot the day before, so I left that on, to get a different perspective for sunset photography, and I knew before going there I did want to shoot at f/1.2 for shallow DoF shots. Then I saw these flowers growing atop a small cliff, and used them as the focal point and let the sun go out of focus. This extreme difference in foreground and background focus interests me and I feel reveals a different world.

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