Teach it Tuesday – creative portraits.

Last month my son came into my office wearing his dinosaur costume and I asked him if I could take his picture. I had this idea of making him stomp around a city skyline ala Godzilla and grabbed these frames – 

I spent a couple of hours creating this image – I hated it. 

So last week I had the huge pleasure of shooting head shots for City councilwoman Latanya Peterson – her website. We picked the skyline of Jacksonville as the backdrop and I had this awesome idea – 

The above photo was created from a series of photographs… which you can see below:

Sometimes, the key is to just stick with a photo until all of the pieces are ready to come together.