Portland Oregon Wedding and Portrait Photographer
I am a big fan of vintage portraiture - be it pinups or Hollywood glamor, I love it!
I met Joel at Blues Dancing. He had a great look, so we did a portrait session. Here are the results of the retro inspired vintage portraits. I think he looks a lot like James Dean and sometimes attitude of Marlon Brando as well.
Vintage Portrait
I took some photographs at the first Portland Blues Dance competition at Portland’s Lenora’s Room. It was a very fun event and got some great black and white dance pictures of the dancers. The rest of the night was filled with great blues dancing as well!
I have been very interested in shooting video for some time now. I actually want to go into directing at one point in the future.
So I decided to do some videography, photographing my favorite subject matter: dance and dancers! This particular video was shot at a Portland Blues Dance party. I love low light photography, so low light video is a perfect fit.
Here is a video that is mostly my footage (except for the interviews). It is expertly put together and edited by John Tillinghast. Camera work in interviews is by Dan Kaufman. My footage starts around 0:26 mark.
Click below to watch it!
This is the photographs from the 3rd day of the Portland Lindy Exchange at the Crystal Ballroom, one of my favorite places ever. There was lots of swing dancing, lindy hop, balboa and blues dancing.
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Last Tuesday was the “birthday” of blues dancing in Portland at Lenora’s room. Lots of people showed and it was a very fun night. I took some pictures in between dancing - or more like danced in between taking photos. As I mentioned in my previous Blues Dance picture post, these are darker to reflect the ambiance of the room.
To see the full set, go to Part 1 and Part 2.
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I am doing more dance photography lately, especially of Portland’s growing blues dance scene. It helps me explore different styles of photography, try out new techniques, and make new connections. I try not to use any flash for the blues scene as it kills the mood. So some of these are darker than normal, but that is how the ambiance was. Taking pictures of fast moving dancers in extremely low light is very hard, so it is a great challenge and fun:
I went dancing last night at Lenora’s Room ( 615 SE 6th Ave and Alder, Portland, OR) and had a blast. I had very low energy from editing until late night for couple days but I convinced myself to go dancing by taking my camera with me. I had a vision to photograph the blues dancers (very very low light) in the moody environment they dance at, and I didn’t want to use flash since it can really distract and annoy the dancers. Being a dancer myself, I try very hard not to disturb the dancers.
Here are some of the dance photos:
