When my son’s pre-k (what they call pre-kindergarten here in the states) teacher asked for a recent family photo I knew we had to do one up the one from last year. View fullsize The 2013 Futrell family photo. I sat down with my sketch book and created 4 or 5 really awesome concepts that […]

This episode of Teach It Tuesday I am showing how to use several exposures, taken at different times of day, can be merged into a single photo.  Showing how I take several photos taken in the same place and editing them (in photoshop) into an single frame in high speed. Featuring 4th of July fireworks […]

View fullsize 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 […]

Every Easter we take a family picture… I sketch up a few ideas and then run them by the boss. This year we came up with a couple of cool ideas, packed up the car and headed to the beach only to be met with tsunami force wind and rain. Our plan was nixed and […]

I don’t remember exactly when I started working with the good folks over at IIDA but each year the bring me up to Jacksonville, Florida to photograph their amazing event. The Cocktail Couture is part fashion, part party and part fund raiser with proceeds going to Dignity U Wear, a charity that helps cloth children […]

A little known trick that I use in my portrait and wedding photography is the “secret moment”. It is one of my favorite things and a lot of people miss it. It is the very moment that occurs after an image is taken. That split second after the shutter when your subject thinks the photo […]

I recently shared an image on Facebook that got a lot of love so I thought I give some behind the scenes as to how the image came together.  Last week I was at the Mission. A crazy rainstorm had just blown through town and I was waiting for one of my amazing couples to arrive […]

I can’t count how many times I have been asked “what kind of camera should I get?” or “I want a really nice camera that can take really good portraits, do sports and photograph planets but I don’t want to spend a lot of money”. Hey, me too. I am going to keep this post […]

Last week I had the chance to photograph my dear friends. The session took place at about 6pm with about an hour of direct sunlight left.  In order to get the look we were going for I used two additional lights: an Alien Bee AB800 behind an Octobox on the right of the camera and […]

Well. we will be using the term ‘teach’ very loosely today. A couple of months ago my best friend and award winning designer Bryant called me up and told me about this poster he was working on. He had a concept and some illustrations that he had created but was having some trouble with one piece […]