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What models can do about bad turn around
In response to a recent blog post I did, I received an e-mail from a subscriber saying: I have been working with photographers who constantly claim that they are the best in the industry they are in; yet their turn around time to get me the images is terrible. How can...
Don’t Work Too Hard
I had just gotten back from working in Las Vegas for four days. My main computer just crashed and I was already turning around to leave town again to do a photo shoot for a magazine cover. I was fighting off a very difficult cold virus and was running off of just a...
October 2012 Featured Talent Interview with Holly Bricken
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with fitness talent Holly Bricken as she took a road trip to move herself from Texas to San Diego, CA. The shoot was a stellar success and since then I've had the opportunity to have several conversations with Holly about her...
James Patrick Photography Offers New Service
I am proud to announce that James Patrick Photography will now be offering video services to our clients. For the past few years we have worked alongside videographer Max Anderson as he has developed a large number of our in house video efforts. Max will now be...
Anatomy of a Fashion Shoot
My colleague and fellow photographer Jason Black and I recently had the oppotunity to work with 202 Magazine based out of Arizona on their recent fall fashion editorial spread. The project stretched our creative genes as we had to work quickly to create six different...
Why I Hire
I have an amazing team of employees and sub-consultants. Truly, I am blessed to have so many amazing talents to work with and alongside. My graphic designer is so used to hearing me say “hey I have this idea, do you think you can do it?” and nearly always responds...
September 2012 Featured Talent Interview with Tiffany Gaston
I am really excited this month to feature a talent I recently worked with Tiffany Gaston. Tiffany is a 34-year-old wife and mother of three kids in Arizona. She is about to compete in her third fitness competition and is also right now in the process of re-branding...
Returning from California
It is 8:30 in the morning as we are writing this on our second cups of coffee. In the past few days the James Patrick Photography team has worked about sunrise to sunset here in Los Angeles. We spent all day Friday at a dark, gritty and sweaty gym photographing a...
I want to hear your stories!
I just came back from lunch with a dear friend of mine as we were having an excellent conversation about a new and very exciting project she is about to launch (next week, as I forced her to set a firm deadline). The conversation got me thinking as it was such a...