A sneek peek at Julia’s senior portrait session.

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

Every once in a while I get called upon to shoot something other than people.  Most of the time that is product photography, however, this time it was a backyard garden in Longmont, CO.  I figured sure I’ll come photograph some flower boxes and be on my way.  Was I ever surprised to find a mini botanic garden in their backyard.

While I was there I was requested to see if I could capture some images of their two dogs as well.  The first one was easy as it actually sat still for me.

The second one I think had one too many Mountain Dew’s and wouldn’t sit still long enough for the camera to even focus.  We tried but it just wasn’t going to happen with this little guy.

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

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

Today offered me another opportunity to photograph some DaVita teammates.  This time it was members of our compliance group and they requested business portraits for an organization chart.  It was a bit cold to take them outside so these images were taken in the lobby of the building.  I recruited one of the teammates to hold my reflector and taught her a bit about lighting.

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

Linda told me she has been reluctant to get her business portraits completed for sometime.  However, she has been needing some professional photos to help represent her image better in her pre-paid legal services business.  She brought along her daughter, Alex, for support and they both did a great job in making the photo session fun and enjoyable.  Linda was referred to me by a contact in one of my business leads groups.  Referrals seem to be the way the majority of my work is coming in these days and is much appreciated.

Linda also wanted some B/W conversions as such this is one of the treatments I presented.

Thank you Linda and Alex for an enjoyable photo shoot!

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Mark Mortensen
Lakewood Colorado portrait and event photographer.
http://www.MarkMortensen.com

Continuing to expand my business offerings by including a business portrait package.  These are also known as head shots.  Darla was the first official client of the package which was shot at my studio (aka living room) but could of been shot on location as well.  The package included a CD containing the full resolution and web sized images of about 10 different poses on a couple different backgrounds. Plus I added the usage release for any printing she may do with the images.