Portland Senior Portrait Photography…

I really enjoy shooting senior images and working with high school juniors on their yearbook photos. It is such a special time in a young persons life and senior photos have morphed from the boring old “yearbook” photo of days of old (you should see mine!) to be more fashion-oriented with hipper, more modern looks. [...]

Senior Portrait Photography…

On a rainy Saturday this past weekend I headed up to rural La Center, Washington in Clark County to shoot these senior portraits. About an hour north of Portland and originally known as a business center and depot along the Lewis River in the 1800′s, today La Center is mostly known for its legalized gambling in [...]

Canon Speedlite Digital Field Guide…

Detailed coverage of Canon’s four speedlite-580EX II, 430 EX II, 220 EX and the new 270 EX-built exclusively for Canon DSLRs. If you use a digital SLR camera, then you understand just how critical it is to have a capable flash. Canon Speedlite shines a whole new light on taking photos with a Canon DSLR. [...]

Urban farmers…

OK, so the books are out and it’s been wild getting feedback and emails about them from readers all over the world! We’re currently in discussion about another book that I am very excited about if it gets final approval. I can’t say much about it right now but suffice to say it is a [...]

Digital Field Guides by Portland Oregon Photographer Brian McLernon…

Two new Digital Field Guides on Canon camera and flash technologies were debuted this month by Wiley Publishing and I am stoked after all the work to finally see them in print! Find them both here on Amazon.

Strobist Contest Winner – Happy Halloween!

Here’s an image I created a few years ago for a Strobist contest “Shoot Your Jack-O-Lantern” that won the top prize. Click here for the original post. Happy Halloween!

Studio Portrait with A Twist…

Had a floor covering client in the studio this week that wanted a variation over a standard studio portrait. He wanted something like a trade show/showroom feel that he could use for his marketing and web sites along with some social networking. After discussing a variety of ways to do it, we incorporated a banner [...]

Canon 5D Mark II…

 A few weeks ago I had a couple of “firsts”. First time on snowshoes, first visit to an ice cave and first hands-on shooting with the new Canon 5D Mark II. John Waller of Uncage The Soul Productions and I put together a project to test out the new Canon 5D Mark II, and awesome [...]

Color Balance Nightmare…

Somehow with getting ready for the Hawaii trip this shot never got posted. Stuck at home with all the snow, I attached a heavy duty orange gel to one of my off-camera speedlights and did a color balance for that. Right out of the camera this rendered the background this oversaturated blue/magenta which looks very surreal ;-)

Photo Class Ends…

We wrapped up my eight week “Manual Photography” class last evening with a little location lighting demo in the hallway foyer of the school. The lighting challenge we came up with was how to make a cool photo of a fictional “Teacher of the Year”. We started working with the ugly ambient fluorescent light that [...]

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