Hello,

I'm a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area who mainly shoots actor headshots and modeling portfolios. I also make my signature "creations" as a hobby and sometimes as conversation pieces for model's zed cards.

I was born in Anaheim, CA and lived in New York, Texas, and LA for equal amounts of time growing up. I began drawing comic book characters at a very young age which really opened my mind up to the amazing world of art. Everything from, lighting, to pose, to just plain "what looks cool" I believe I learned by drawing the comic book characters like Wolverine, X-men, Spider Man, and various other heroes/villains.

When I first picked up a camera and took a photo of a human. I looked at it and saw that it looked nothing like the awesome and cool comic book characters I had been drawing my whole life, so I HAD to ask myself... "Why does this picture look so boring? How do I get it to look like the things I draw?" I quickly noticed that shadows are created by the placement of light, and the "angle" and "composition" of the shot are what dictate whether a picture looks "flat" or "dynamic".

After that wake-up call, I Found myself constantly watching films and not even really watching the movie but locating in my minds eye where the lights on the set must be set up to make these shots look so cool. Gauging how black the blacks are, how high or low the camera must be, and how saturated or desaturated a shot was...

The funny thing about photography is, all the ingredients that make up the cake (the photo) can be seen right there in the photo. You can't hide anything. If there is light on someone's face... it's coming from somewhere. All you have to do is figure out how to re-create that by playing with lights, settings, locations, proximity. So I basically taught myself through trial and error... and most importantly, making mistakes helped me know what never to do again hahaha!

I then moved to LA and became a model and actor by chance and was so fascinated by how the professionals did things and I watched every setup, and asked questions on almost every set. I learned so much from just being around the pros and by being the "subject" I quickly learned that photography was a psychological profession. Well, good (human) photography anyway ;)

I finally bought a new camera to shoot with for fun and I shot some model/actor friends of mine and their agent loved the pics, so it just kind of began to snowball from there :)