The Afro Project

I am starting a new series of portraits that I am calling "The Afro Project". It is will be a series of portraits of people of all ethnicities and ages with 'fros'. We are going for an urban vibe and everything will be shot with the same lighting and steel background for the series.

Our first shoot was yesterday. As a photographer you have a vision in your head of what you want to capture when you set up a shoot. Yesterday was a perfect example of the photographer and subject working together to go beyond what was initially envisioned and getting some even better photos. My subject, Greg, is a skater and showed up for the shoot with his headphones on, aviator glasses and a skateboard. We went through my intial ideas for the shoot and then started having fun with his "props". Here are some of the results...

PhotoShelter & Stock

Over the last few years a lot of my photographs have been collecting dust on hard drives. I've shot a lot of travel and other photography with stock in mind, but had the constant challenge of workload. I have always been too busy with "real work" to do the little things to get those photos ready to sell. This included image selection, post-production, titling, captioning and keywording the images. With a lot of help from Stephanie and Ryan and some more time to dedicate to it, we finally made it happen.

The first big step to get my images out there for sale was to put them up on PhotoShelter. PhotoShelter is a stock site that allows photographers to submit images for their review. Those that are accepted are then sold through their site.

Take a look at my page and you can see around 1,000 images that I have taken from 2003-2008. Since they had to go through a review process, you are seeing the best of the best. Here are a couple of photos that are on the site.

My most viewed photo so far on the site.

A photo that was recently selected as an "editor's choice".

Next step is going to be to start submitting to other stock agencies to try and get them to represent some of my work. Wish me luck!