Posts Tagged ‘lifestyle photography’

My Dad has been working with a wonderful restaurant on the North Side of Pittsburgh called Bistro To Go. After meeting with him for lunch a few times and getting to know the owner Nikkie, and wonderful staff, I was asked to come and do some work for them on a few different levels. One which includes photographing their newest venture Bistro Soul: a healthy version of southern home cooking. Right now, Bistro Soul is under construction, and I am photographing the total rebuild of the interior of the building. Once that starts, I’ll be photographing their remodel, and the finished product for the website.

Yesterday I was brought down to photograph the face of Bistro Soul and Head Chef. Meet Matty.

For you photographers out there, the indoor photos were shot with a Nikon D700, 70-200 2.8 lens, and a Nikon Sb-800 1/16 power high camera right bounced into an umbrella and fired with a pocket wizard. The space was very small so I was using the wall to camera left to bounce a little light back onto her face.

Blessings

I shot a beautiful wedding last weekend, and while I was shooting the portraits, I got a wonderful phone call from my little sister Krista, announcing her engagement to the man of her dreams, and now my soon to be brother in law! It feels so weird to say that! They came into town this weekend, and after a bite to eat at the Bistro to Go, I decided to grab some quick photos of them as we walked around the North Side to the park near the Aviary and down around the Mexican War Street area.

Here is the video from my sisters engagement that my other sister Ellie, and their friend Stance shot of the moments leading up to the surprise engagement.

We are going to shoot more photos when the weather cooperates and they are dressed more for the occasion, but this was just an impromptu mini session. They were totally uncomfortable with the camera, but their laughter, and mannerisms really came through in the photos.

Enjoy their life, love, and adventure.

I am so excited for them, and can’t wait to help them plan their wedding. I am also excited to be shooting their portraits. This will help me understand even better, what planning a wedding really takes!

I’ll be posting the wedding from last weekend over the next few days, as well as a mini project that I have been working on.

Blessings.

Wow winter just keeps on coming! We have gotten nearly 36 inches of snow in the past week, and it still continues to fall! It honestly hasn’t stopped snowing for more than a few hours at a time since the storm hit last week!

So between snowboarding in POWDER (yep that stuff we don’t see on the East Coast very often) and cooking, I somehow manage to have to fight cabin fever off with a camera! I guess that’s just the life of a photographer. Anyways, the one day we had blue skies for a few hours I ran out side and grabbed some photos of the farm I grew up on.

After a drive that typically takes me an hour took me more than twice that long, I ended up getting stuck on the road to my parents house and had to walk the last half mile through more than 18 inches of snow. The next day I got my car out of the snow and headed to Seven Springs for some great skiing. After I could barely stand from hours of riding powder, the sun came out and I had a chance to take some photos around my parents house as the sun was setting.

I even got some photos of Willie my Welsh Corgie enjoying the snow in the driveway because it was to deep for him where it wasn’t plowed.

Happy Snowy Saturday!