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 - 

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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:

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

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