Blues Dance

New Headshot and Portraits!

August 24, 2010

I had the chance to do headshot photographs for Maya, a young actress I know from blues dancing. She has a beautiful look, and since she is also a blues dancer, we ended up doing some vintage style fun portraits as well. She can use these as a model portfolio as well. Portland Retro Portraits Portland Actor Headshots  

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Vintage Hollywood Style Portraits

March 26, 2010

I am a big fan of vintage portraiture – be it pinups or Hollywood glamor, I love it! I met Joel at Blues Dancing. He had a great look, so we did a portrait session. Here are the results of the retro inspired vintage portraits. I think he looks a lot like James Dean and sometimes attitude of Marlon Brando as well. Vintage Portrait

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High Definition Blues Dancing Video with Canon 5d MkII

May 16, 2009

I have been very interested in shooting video for some time now. I actually want to go into directing at one point in the future. So I decided to do some videography, photographing my favorite subject matter: dance and dancers! This particular video was shot at a Portland Blues Dance party. I love low light photography, so low light video is a perfect fit. Here …

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Blues Dance in Portland’s Lenora’s Room 8/05/2008

August 13, 2008

I am doing more dance photography lately, especially of Portland’s growing blues dance scene. It helps me explore different styles of photography, try out new techniques, and make new connections. I try not to use any flash for the blues scene as it kills the mood. So some of these are darker than normal, but that is how the ambiance was. Taking pictures of fast …

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Blues Dancing in Portland’s Lenora’s Room

July 17, 2008

I went dancing last night at Lenora’s Room ( 615 SE 6th Ave and Alder, Portland, OR) and had a blast. I had very low energy from editing until late night for couple days but I convinced myself to go dancing by taking my camera with me. I had a vision to photograph the blues dancers (very very low light) in the moody environment they …

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