Couple different lifestyle and fitness photos shot outdoors on a recent afternoon.

Model Jodi with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, Portland, makeupJessica Belknap

portland photographer pete springer

Finishing up sorting through this shoot today. Here are a couple of shots that I liked that were shot in a Portland park.

Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited in Portland.

Portland Fitness Photographer Pete Springer

Polishing up my running photo technique. Here are two shot last month. Still my favorite thing to shoot will always be swimwear but just trying to expand my market opportunities by dipping my toe into fitness photography.

Model Julie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited

Portland Fitness Model Photographer Pete Springer

Slowly building up my outdoor fitness portfolio. Here’s a running photo from last week.

Model Kylie with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited

Portland Fitness Model Photographer Pete Springer

Here’s a fitness running photo without lens flare. We had such perfect weather for this shoot. Sunny and upper 70’s but definitely with an autumn feel to the light. I love this time of year!

Model Jodi with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, makeup & hair Jessica Belknap

portland photographer pete springer

OMG, I’ve become one of those photographers using lens flare! It seemed right for this shoot — an early autumn shoot in warm weather, late afternoon. And it’s a lot easier than hauling around a light kit!

Model Jodi with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, makeup & hair Jessica Belknap

portland photographer pete springer

Working on creating a lifestyle and fitness portfolio. Here are a couple of photos from today. Fun model to work with and the weather was amazing. Fall/Indian Summer can be amazing for outdoor photo shoots in the Portland-area.

Oh, and yes there’s lens flare on the top photo but I can live with it.

Model Jodi with Sports and Lifestyle Unlimited, makeup & hair Jessica Belknap

Portland Lifestyle Photographer Pete Springer

Lil’ bit of a different post than usual today. Being a professional photographer doesn’t actually mean you’re shooting photos every day. There’s a LOT of business skills involved too.

One huge resource I use is New Media Photographer. I’ve blogged about this site before but if you’re a photographer, stop reading right now, click the link, and sign up for the weekly emails. You’ll get a weekly podcast by Detroit Photographer Rosh Sillars. Usually about 30 minutes long and full of all sorts of “new media” ideas about using social media and improving your SEO. In fact, this paragraph is part of that SEO building (go to the blog — you’ll figure it out).

Another awesome resource for photographers is Burns Auto Parts Super Premium blog. It has an odd name but trust me, it’s a fabulous photography business resource. You can subscribe via email. Burns has a couple of books out too — I highly, highly recommend every single one of them. You could literally build a successful commercial photography business just based on her advice.

Finally, if your head hurts from all the practical business advice in those blogs and you just want some eye candy (hey — I’m a swimwear photographer so it’s more than eye candy for me), try the Bikini Nation blog.

There you go — three links to three cool blogs. And Rosh, I hope this fulfills my obligation to LinkX!

Model Ashley

Portland Photographer Pete Springer

Currently working furiously behind the scenes to replace all my website photos with larger files so they are scalable. Livebooks finally has scaler websites! This means images will now scale to the browser and screen size being used. And they’re scaled @ 3:2. Previously images had to be cropped for livebooks giving a more cinematic effect but not reflecting the true ratio shot by a DSLR. This is a very welcome change livebooks! Scaler is cool but not having to crop photos is even cooler. Thank you livebooks.

I’ll post when the scaler (and true aspect ratio) website is ready for public review. I’m LOVING the preview though. Livebooks definitely did this one right and so far, I’d have to say it was worth the wait. Still looking forward to the iPad revisions too.

Portland Photographer Pete Springer

Sorting out this fitness/running shoot today. Here’s a nice contrast between running in the city and running in a rural area.

Model Ashley

Portland Fitness Photographer Pete Springer