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• 2020 Dark, Mirrored and Cluttered: How I Photograph Cycling Instructors A cycling studio gives you clutter, mirrors and darkness. Here's how I solve each one for lululemon ambassador portraits.
• 2020 Strobe or Sun? Faking Window Light on a Cloudy Day When the forecast sun never showed, I recreated it with a boomed octabox pushed through a second-story window.
• 2020 Test Shoots That Work for You: Planning, Lighting and Marketing From One Session How I taught an ASMP Houston workshop that took a test shoot from mood board to lights to a finished marketing mailer.
• 2018 Three Rules for Photographing Runners (and How to Light Them on a Treadmill) Stride, hands and head: the three things that make a running photo work, plus how I timed and lit lululemon ambassador Jeff Douse at RacePace.
• 2017 Photographing Yoga: Sunrise on a Mountain, Motion in a Park, Poses in a Brewery Three yoga shoots and what each taught me about matching light to the moment, letting yogis flow, and lighting a space never built for it.
• 2016 Lighting Cyclists in Motion From the Back of a Truck The truck-mounted light rig I used for years to freeze a rider, streak the background and get a low, heroic angle.
• 2015 Finding Your Creative Voice: Two Tear Sheets and a Handful of Words A simple exercise for discovering your photographic style, and why studying the masters keeps it growing.
• 2015 How to Actually Capture Motion in a Sports Portrait Blur it, freeze it or pan it? Why I use all three, plus strobes, to keep both the athlete and the motion in the frame.
• 2014 Planning a Studio Test Shoot, Start to Finish How I conceived, planned, lit and edited a two-model portrait test shoot at The Houston Studio, from mood boards to a final two-person setup.
• 2014 Lighting From the Beginning: What ISO, Shutter and Aperture Do to Your Flash The one-sentence rule behind off-camera flash, and how to balance strobes against ambient light with the exposure triangle.
• 2013 Dynamic Contrast in Photoshop: The Unsharp Mask Trick A counterintuitive Unsharp Mask setting that makes a portrait pop, plus how I use a tweaked curves layer for global contrast.

• 2020 One Day in Brooklyn: A Portrait Session with Actress Isabel Arraiza My first shoot for a celebrity publicist, from packing a lighting kit for the flight to six setups in a borrowed Brooklyn studio.
• 2019 One Hour, One Strip Light: Portraits of Dana Isaiah in Brooklyn An off-the-cuff hour in a Brooklyn studio, built on my go-to men's portrait setup, one strip light between two black v-flats.
• 2019 Shooting Meditation in a Glass House for DYI Two short evenings, one glass-walled venue and a lifestyle campaign that pushed an athleisure brand past the white backdrop.
• 2019 Cold-Calling Wilhelmina: Two Days of Test Shoots in LA How a phone call to a modeling agency turned into two days of LA test shoots, shared sets with Chris Orwig and a handful of lighting recipes.
• 2018 Lighting the Modern Day Man: Three Setups for 29 Portraits The story behind a 29-portrait project with lululemon for a KIPP fundraiser, and the three lighting setups I used to shoot it.
• 2018 Claire Asmann, a Pillar and a Houston Sunrise A lululemon ambassador shoot at Buffalo Bayou Park, and how to augment a sunrise and frame yoga poses with the shapes around them.
• 2018 Sunrise, Sunset and a Dog Named Lobo on the Lone Star Hiking Trail Two natural-light shoots in 72 hours for Trail Runner Magazine, and how to frame a runner wide, head-on and in a group.
• 2018 Sick on Set: Shooting Matt Hanson for NormaTec in Storm Lake, Iowa A three-part campaign shoot with Ironman Matt Hanson, a fever that wouldn't break, and why photography is a team sport.
• 2017 Sunrise on the Bridge: A Fitness Shoot With Aicacia Young in Austin A sunrise portfolio shoot in Austin with an athlete I love working with, from flare and product placement to a Heroes on White portrait in a parking lot.
• 2016 Racing the Sunset With Pro Triathlete Harry Wiltshire A fast evening of cycling and running shots, a slower portrait session at home, and getting to know a pro triathlete before Kona.
• 2016 Stand Out: Portraits of Two Ironman Champions Training Together Before photographing Patrick Lange and Boris Stein ahead of Kona, I searched what already existed and then went after the shot that didn't.
• 2016 Rise and Grind: Shooting Hurdles on Medium Format A personal shoot with my friend Jaimee became a test of medium format on a moving athlete, and practice telling a whole story in a set of images.
• 2016 Always Carry a Business Card: Portraits of a Stranger With a Great Beard How a business card handed across a bar turned into two portrait setups, one overhead and one shot from below the eye line.
• 2015 Soft Light, Hard Shadows: A Two-Model Test Shoot From reference photographers and lighting diagrams to five setups on a painted Oliphant backdrop, here's how one studio test shoot came together.
• 2015 Three Pros, One Camp: Shooting at Magnolia Masters Run, swim and bike portraits of Matt Hanson, Aubrey Aldy and Caitlin Standifer, plus a short lesson on flash duration.
• 2015 Rise and Grind: Sunrise Triathlon Portraits in Galveston Shooting pro triathlete Liz Baugher on East Beach at dawn with one beauty dish, a footprint focus mark and some very cold surf.
• 2014 Making Snow in a Houston Studio for Our Christmas Card How a snow machine, a fogger and a four-light setup turned a plain gray backdrop into a mountain whiteout for our Christmas card.
• 2014 Two Ways to Photograph a Yogi A fly-on-the-wall class shoot for lululemon, then a fully directed two-light session at sunset with the same yoga teacher.
• 2014 One Day, Three Disciplines: Balázs Csőke for lululemon Shooting an Ironman swimming, biking and running under a natural-light, unretouched brief, with a tiny wetsuit, a truck and a pair of rollerblades.
• 2013 Trial by Fire: Photographing Race Day at the Ironman World Championship My first time shooting Kona from the course, where I had no control over anything except where I stood and how I set my camera.
• 2013 Gritty Portraits at CrossFit Town Center A collaboration with a local CrossFit box that ran long because everyone, athletes included, kept wanting one more shot.
• 2013 A Triathlete, His Ferrari and a Sunset at Lake Woodlands Lighting a man and his silver Ferrari at sunset, from masculine portraits to a surprise sun flare and a last-light driving shot.
• 2013 Run, Swim, Bike: Lighting Ironman Balázs Csőke How I planned and lit three sessions for a pro Ironman triathlete, from a stepladder run shot to a mobile light on the bike.
• 2013 Danger Manelis: One BMX Rider, Two Shoots, One Story A garage portrait and a first try at lighting BMX tricks in the bowl, and why I lit them as one shoot instead of two.

• 2019 Hustle, Diligence and a Familiar Voice: Two Days at John Russo's Workshop What I learned in Hollywood from celebrity photographer John Russo about business, connection on set, and growing by watching others work.
• 2018 Finding My Own Words in Platon's Republic Why a line from Finding Forrester and a used copy of Platon's Republic keep shaping how I approach a portrait.
• 2016 Studio Lighting Under the Sea: Why I Keep Coming Back to Michael Muller's Sharks Why a sports and portrait photographer who's terrified of sharks keeps studying a book of them, and what it taught me about where light can go.
• 2016 Three Groups, One Mountaintop: My Summer at the lululemon Residency in Marfa A week as resident photographer for lululemon in West Texas taught me documentary work, opened my world, and gave me the purpose statement I still shoot by.
• 2016 The Big Switch: Why I Moved to Medium Format After five years of debating, I moved my portrait work to a Phase One medium format system. Here's what pulled me over and what it changed in how I shoot.
• 2014 The Books and Films That Shaped My Photography Six books and films I kept going back to in my early years, and what each one taught me about light, story and staying uncomfortable.