Portland hair stylist needed

I have several fashion shoots booked for March but I need a hair stylist! In fact, I’m looking to build an on-going, professional relationship with a hair stylist for photo shoots.

The catch is that I mostly shoot on weekends and I know a lot of hair stylists are working in salons on weekends.

Oh yeah, and I do pay hair stylists for shoots!

If you’re a hair stylist who wants to work on great fashion photo shoots, please contact me through my website:

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, OR

P.S. my absolutely amazing and favorite hair stylist of all time (Julie Ruckman) recently switched salons and her weekend availability is limited right now… thus the need to network and find new hair stylists to work with!

Here’s another from before the fashion show Wednesday. Ideally, I would have had a second light as a kicker, but when you get about five minutes to shoot outside a venue just before a fashion show, well, you don’t always get ideal shooting conditions! But just imagine how cool this would look with a hair light kicker (and you’ll have to imagine since there isn’t one!)

Oh yeah– and I’m WAY behind on my post-processing work so I’m still uploading the actual fashion show pics… they should all be posted over the weekend!

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

the cool thing about fashion shows

So way back at my second fashion show ever, I remember seeing a photographer shooting a model just out back of the venue and I was all– wow, that’s so cool! I want to do that!

Well, tonight I had a chance to shoot two models out back of a fashion show. Used an umbrella and hotshoe strobe fired with a PW. Designer is Amai Unmei and models are from the wonderful Wilhelmina-MTG in Portland. There is zero retouching on this photo.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

environmental portraits

Got a chance to head out in the field yesterday for my day job. I made sure to shoot a very quickie environmental portrait of everyone I interviewed. I was using a PW fired hotshoe strobe and umbrella for key. Worked beautifully on this shot.

Struggled a bit here to balance the STRONG sunlight with the strobe. The story is about development along the Columbia River, so that’s why the river is in each photo.

So this guy drove me up this bluff and of course I forgot my PW transmitter and didn’t have a cord to manually trigger the strobe. So I had to resort to the dreaded on camera flash– no diffusion! Luckily, it was a wide angle lens, so at least the strobe is pivoted/angled to make the light a bit less harsh.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

busy, busy, busy

Still working on this series (photos of Felix modeling Emily Katz designs) despite a million other things going on with both photography and my life! This was one of my favorite recent photo shoots though, so it’s fun to work on. I just need to find the time!

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

portland swimwear designer

Did a shoot yesterday for a Portland swimwear designer — Popina – The Portland
Swimwear Boutique. We did the shoot in the boutique. I set-up a white background, four lights, grabbed my 70-200 & MKIIN, and started shooting away. Two models, almost two hours of steady catalog style shooting– and over 500 images!

Now the fun begins– I’ll convert everything from RAW to jpeg, get the files posted and burned to CD– and within a week the designer will have hundreds of photos for her website. Pretty nice, eh?

All you other Portland (and Vancouver) fashion designers– find out how you can get a similar shoot for some of the most affordable rates in town by going to my website and clicking on “Services”.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, OR

don’t take yourself too seriously

Last outfit for a catalog/website shoot today and I decided to grab a couple of fun ‘behind-the-scenes-photos’. Used a 16 mm on a FF cam for this. Erin is a wonderful model– she’s amazingly tall (6′1″)– but what I like most about working with her is that she doesn’t take herself too seriously and is willing to have some fun. Sometimes that’s exactly what a photo shoot needs.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

desert dresses

So I had a very rare Saturday “off” (no shoot scheduled anyway) and had a chance to take a gander at some pics from the past fall. I’m excited– I have enough like this to do a whole “desert dresses” series! Comin’ soon!

In the meantime, I did add a couple of new galleries to my website, including a recent Makool Clothing shoot.

Check ‘em out: Pete Springer Photography

inside the state mental hospital

So I had a chance recently to photograph parts of the decrepit J-building at the Oregon State Hospital. This section is closed to patients, obviously, and there are plans to build an entirely new hospital (two of them, actually).

Anyway– in addition to being a photographer in my spare time, I also cut audio and put together multimedia slideshows. Here’s a sample audio-slideshow from the state hospital shoot (you’ll need to click on the arrow on the lower left to start the slideshow):

state hospital audio-slideshow

newspapers… sigh…

So another one of my pics in the local daily newspaper today– with no photo credit of course. Second time in the past year that newspaper has run one of my photos without a credit.

Hmmmm… and the poor newspaper editors wonder why their readership and circulation is tanking. I’m certainly not saying this is the only reason, but c’mon folks– you gotta at least credit your contributors. My experience with local papers (and not just this particular daily) has been pretty bleak. They pretty much want your photos for free and you’re lucky if they credit you.

Of the big three newspapers in Portland– the local daily has run two of my photos without credits in the last year. The local bi-weekly asked for some photos then didn’t even have the courtesy to respond when I asked what they pay. And the local weekly still owes me $50 for a photo of mine they ran last spring.

Doesn’t exactly make for a cozy relationship between local newspapers and local freelance photographers!

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, OR