What are YOUR needs?

I’m also available for other more strange, personal, whimsical, or creative styles of photography.

If you don’t see what you want on one of the other style pages, feel free to contact me and ask. Other styles include:

• Live performances: Live theatre, concerts, public speaking events, etc. For these jobs I will need full access to the performance area and back-stage. For theatre, I suggest a full-dress rehearsal rather than an actual performace. For concerts, I will need access to the off-stage areas and (preferably) on-stage. I spent almost 20 years as a stagehand, so I know how to stay unobtrusive and out of the way.
• Public events: Charity events, festivals, promotional events; anywhere you’re looking to get shots of your big event for your newsletter, website, or other advertisements.
• Documentary: Do you need to document a task or process? Well-done photos can make a how-to document infinitely easier to understand. Photos of your work-flow–and the final product–can help to show customers (or future employers) that you know what you’re doing. Or, just record your work for review, sharing, or posterity.
• Inventory: Do you need to document your inventory? Need photos for an e-bay auction? Want proof of what’s in your house for your home-owners insurance? Need documentation of damage for an insurance claim? Want evidence for a civil trial or other court case?
• Stock Images: Are you looking for random images to use down the line?  I can provide a supply of royalty-free images custom-captured for your needs.  Use them where ever and when ever you want.
• Something else: do you need something else that’s not on the list? Contact me and let me know. Just a note: I don’t photograph little kids or weddings. Sorry, those are specialty areas I’m just not interested in pursuing.

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Shana Martin

Excluding “snapshots”, portraits are what most people think of when they talk about “getting their picture taken”. Then their minds, invariably, drift to those photo stores in the mall, where you sit in under the bright lights, in front of the same boring backdrop that everyone in the history of photography has sat in front of, with a fake smile and a stiff pose. When you get the photos back, they really don’t look like you, but… hey… it’s a “portrait”, right?

Or… those hideous pictures they take for the yearbook at school…. Even the typical “hand-on-chin” senior class photos. UGH!

This is why people hate having their photo taken: The results are boring and repetitive and… well… not very appealing.

A portrait should say something about you. It should reveal a little bit about who you are–not just what you look like. Strong, shy, energetic, mysterious, adventurous, reserved…. what do you want to say about yourself? What’s your story? How many stories are there waiting to be told?

Let your portraits speak for you–in your own words.

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