Fashion Photography in Downtown Louisville, Ky

Fashion photography has always been that genre that has always intrigued me but never one I followed or pursued. My main focus right now in my career has been storytelling through images. My friend Jesse texted me the other day about wanting to get into male modeling and creating a little portfolio/lookbook of images to shop around to different agencies. I took this as an opportunity to dive in and push my photography.

We shot in downtown Louisville on a parking garage roof and then down on Main street. I used all natural light and we started right around the beginning of golden hour

We went through several outfits that played very nicely with the light and textures around the city. All these images were shot on a Canon 5D Mark III and Sigma 50mm 1.4 Art lens. Color grading was done in Photoshop. Below is the rest of the images.

Creative Space

Louisville is rich with some of the most creative people. With so many artists, painters, directors, photographers, and designers, Louisville is one of the most creative cities. I started this project by accident. I had scheduled a few test shoots with some people in the creative industry and decided to expand it into a personal project to feature some of the creatives in our community. 

The idea was to produce a portrait of my subject in their place of work and then take a couple shots of them working on their craft. I've also started making a short promo video highlighting the artists at work. 

This is an on-going project, to see the on-going project see this page here: Creative Space. Below are some of the artists I have had the pleasure of photographing. If you are a creative either here in Louisville or anywhere and want to be featured please contact me here: Contact

See some of the videos I have created for this project here: Creative Space Playlist

Mike Vance

Last week I had an opportunity to photograph Mike Vance. Mike is a cinematographer based out of Louisville. You can check out his work here. We did three different looks. My setup was pretty simple:

One Phottix Indra500 through a Photek 47in Softlighter v2 (camera right) with a reflector on the left.

Camera Gear:

• Nikon D600
• Nikon 50mm
• Capture One Pro 10
• Tether Tools Cables

All retouching and color grading for this shoot was done in Capture One. Here were my favorite photos from the session.