Tuesday, September 29, 2009


We went to the offices of Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp to photography 48 of their attorneys last week . This type of shoot has some challenges. First in the scheduling of the attorneys with their busy schedule I need to be flexible and move other subjects in their place when needed. Second, we had only 10 minutes with each individual with means shoot fast get the shot with no room for error. Third, the attorneys then move to my assistant and choose their shot, which needs to also be done quickly in order to keep the schedule moving and stay on time. I am very happy to say all went well at MS&K.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Venable LLP We celebrate their first year as our client


We Celebrate Venable Law Firm based in Washington DC as their one year anniversary of being our client approaches. Venable specializes in bankruptcy, investment management and intellectual property law.

  They where referred to Westside Studio by one of our corporate law clients. They contacted us and required a Proposal Statement to satisfy their corporate photography needs. We responded with a 20 page proposal including our qualifications,examples of our corporate photography, Client list, references, description of our studio, statement of confidential assurance and a proposal of costs. This request was unusual for this type of job, but we were happy to comply. Thankfully the relationship has worked out very well for both of us.

   Our first job for them was for two days photographing 25 attorneys per day. We have been back twice since. When they have a new hire to be photographed they send them to our studio in Beverly Hills. We photograph the attorney with a plain background and then replace the background with the view out their office window. Which will match the images I have already taken at their offices. The photograph of Dan Chammas pictured above was done in this manner. Thank you for the work Venable Law Firm.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Brentwood & Associates Business Portraits


Long time client Brentwood and Associates came in this week to update photographs for their website. Pictured on left Anthony Choe partner, center picture Kevin Johnson associate and right picture Sagar Shah associate. Brentwood and Associates are a private and equity investment firm.

As an investment firm, a traditional studio business portrait supports the message they what to portray.