A local from the neighborhood around the studio gave me a call for some long needed business headshots.  Barbara is a mediator and wanted some inviting images of her for her website and brochures.  We spent about an hour going through several clothing changes and backgrounds.  I can’t stress enough to business owners how important a good headshot is for communicating with prospective clients.  Poorly done headshot images don’t portray you in your best light and could mean losing a potential customer.

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Mark Mortensen
Denver Colorado portrait and event photographer.
www.MarkMortensen.com

A sneak peek at Kat’s senior portrait session this past weekend held at Wash Park in Denver, CO.  There were some nasty storm clouds rolling in the afternoon before Kat’s shoot but like they do most of the time the storm clouds blew past just in time.  Kat was extremely easy to work with and I look forward to presenting all the great images to the family soon!

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Mark Mortensen
Denver Colorado portrait and event photographer.
www.MarkMortensen.com

I have a history of doing product photography for the Meyer family.  This time around it was family portraits they were after and included their immediate family plus extended family.  With 18 people involved it was a great opportunity to create one of my panoramic images of the entire family.  Panoramic family portraits are great way to handle very large groups. Each individual family group is shot one at a time and then with the magic of Photoshop a composite image is created of all family members.

I recently partnered up with a local clothing store down the street from the studio called KidSport.  The contest entailed a drawing where the winning parents brought their kids down to the studio for a modeling shoot in KidSport clothing.  Nine lucky kids got to spend an afternoon at the studio and in the end I created this panoramic composite image of all the kids.  Thank You to all the incredible kids and parents for participating in the modeling shoot.  The panoramic is currently hanging in the studio lobby and in the near future I’ll be hanging some prints in the KidSport store as well!

My friend and co-worker Steve and his wife recently introduced a new baby boy, Pascal, into the world.  It was an excellent opportunity to let Pascal be my first baby portrait session in my new studio.  Steve has a collection of tattoos and I thought that would make for a very interesting father son portrait.  The AlienBee PLM (Parabolic Light Modifier) was used to create a soft light mood.  What is a PLM you ask?  It’s a hugh 86″ light modifier, shaped much like an umbrella, that takes my tiny light from my strobe and creates a nice soft light.

Steve and his wife have spent a lot of time in Europe and this collection of stuffed animals are from different countries in Europe.

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Mark Mortensen
Denver Colorado portrait and event photographer.
www.MarkMortensen.com

Meet Jessica, the youngest of four from a family portrait session taken at Chautauqua in Boulder, CO.  Something tells me she does a lot of this at home.  I had asked Jessica a simple question, “Do you know how to pout?” and this was the result.

Jessica’s older siblings. Sister

and twin older brothers to boot!

and finally Mom & Dad.