Ray Ban

Ray Ban is an image I captured while roaming about the Christening ceremonies of Oceania's newest flagship, Marina, in Miami. The handsome gentleman depicted here was sitting next the to the ship, which made for an ideal backdrop for the contrasting skin tones and harmonizing clothing.

Ray Ban © Mark Jordan Photography

When walking down a side aisle toward the stage, I at first passed him up. However, on my return trip up an aisle, he stood out among a sea of empty white chairs. The choir, of which he was the lead singer, had just abandoned their seats as they prepared themselves for the next musical event. He alone remained. 


The trick was to capture this man without his attention. Understandably, this was no small feat. Considering the size of my camera and that while most of the attendees were relaxing comfortably in their seats, I was walking about, I was less than invisible. This wasn't going to be easy. Any pre-attention I gave him was going to destroy the spontaneity. This was not going to happen!


My approach was to feign a conspicuous attention on the stage while directing my peripheral vision to keep my target in view. The objective was to capture him quickly, without him noticing I was there, and then simply move on - the stealth method...


I then knelt to his left and focused on a subjet in front of me that appeared to be equidistant  to him. Feeling I was set, and his attention was on the unfolding event, I swiftly turned to catch him unaware. Just as I did, however, he suddenly noticed a friend who was edging his way out of his seat row, directly behind me. I did not know what had occurred until afterwards.


He turned at the precise same time my lens settled and I caught him wholly oblivious to my presence. The expression you see is his welcoming smile at seeing a fellow musician who was ready to join him on stage. It's one of those magical moments.  


As always, should you have any comments, questions, no concern is too small.


From the heart,

Mark

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Mark Jordan Photography specializes in crafting stunning contemporary, traditional, classic, and storytelling family portraits (high school seniors, children portraits, babies, maternity, pregnancy), headshots and pets. Mark Jordan, a Photography Hall of Fame photographer in Rancho Santa Margarita and provides portrait photography throughout Orange County. The portrait studio also serves San Diego County and Inland Empire. Studio Photography Services are also provided in Riverside County and Los Angeles County. Local Cites where photography studio services are offered are in Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Brea, Costa Mesa, Coto de Caza, Cypress, Dana Point, Dove Canyon, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Ladera Ranch, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Northwood, Orange, Orange Park Acres, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Tustin, Villa Park, Westminster, Yorba Linda, Corona del Mar, Murrieta, Murrieta Hot Springs, Quail Valley, Riverside, Temecula, Winchester, Woodcrest, Chino Hills, Fontana, Grand Terrace, Loma Linda, Montclair, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, La Mesa, Oceanside, San Diego, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Vista, Carmel Mountain Ranch, Rancho San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, and San Diego Country Estates, Turtle Rock, Shady Canyon. Portrait Photographers everywhere (photographers in O.C. as well) are welcome to contact our portrait studio for mentoring/guidance.

The Traveler

The Traveler is none other than my close friend and travel agent extraordinaire, Steve Shulem, of Strictly Vacations. After a rousing time in the Bahamas, this image was created while heading back to our ship (Oceania's newest flagship, Marina). For once, Steve's penchant for walking far ahead was fortuitous. 

The Traveler – ©Mark Jordan Photography

As I lagged behind while rushing to our ship just moments before the gangplank was retracted, I noticed the silhouette of Steve walking into the setting sun. I called his name, he turned slightly, and I captured this extraordinary moment. 

Obviously, capturing this exposure was the just the beginning of the creative process. A few hours in Photoshop, along with my trusty software, OnOne, helped to give this image all the power and energy I had in mind. 

As always, should you have any questions, no concern is too small.

Mark

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Keywords Make for Poor Communication [i.e. for orange county photographer, or photographers in orange county, etc.]

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Photographers looking for the most efficacious keywords would do best to contact a professional service who can do the research for them. It's fairly inexpensive and will save any portait studio a great deal of time, especially portrait photographers whose primary focus is family portraits.


Photographers in Orange County, or any large metropolitan area, or a photography studio in any bustling Orange County city such as Irvine, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Newport Beach or Tustin, would do best to discover targeting keywords exclusively for their local. 


As a family portrait photographer, specializing in not only studio photography, but family portraits at the beach (i.e. beach portraits), park portraits, empty next portraits, and contemporary portraits, could do no better than contacting Golden Nugget Keyword search. They not only were instrumental with my portrait photography studio, but for any photographer in Orange County they would be most helpful.


Now that you may be wondering why I've said a great deal while saying nothing, this was simply an exercise in seeing if I could quickly write a couple paragraphs using all the keywords I just discovered were most beneficial for my portrait studio. As a photographer in Rancho Santa Margarita, a smaller city with very few portrait photographers, my keywords are more specific than let's say a photographer in Irvine, or a photographer in Mission Viejo. 

Regardless, it appears that once I began trying to incorporate all my keywords in a single posting, I simply cannot stop inserting them willy-nilly, such as a photographer in Tustin might do were they attempting to promote their portrait studio, or photography studio, which more than likely specializes in family portraits (and possibly senior portraits and Orange County headshots).


Which raises the question, do you prefer to spell headshots with no hyphen, or head-shots with a hyphen? Or maybe with not hypen at all, head shot? Regardless how one might spell headshots, it's better to do them well than worrying about how to spell headshot. As an Orange County Photographer, and more specifically, a photographer in Laguna Niguel, it's vital to have a portrait studio where the photographer can create family portraits and meet with fellow portrait photographers, regardless if they do headshot business portraits. Senior portraits are a different matter altogether. 


However, photographers in Orange County, as well as photographers in Irvine (and photographers in Mission Viejo) might find it beneficial to incorporate keywords that not only show them as portrait photographers, and headshot photographers in Orange County, but that their portrait studio, whether it be a photography studio creating studio photography, also is proficient at designing creative family portraits, children portraits, and senior portraits. 


Having been a portait photographer in Rancho Santa Margarita for nearly 16 years, and a photographer in Orange County for over 30 years, I can attest to the turism that a photographers portrait studio will thrive only when their portrait families can find the type of portrait photography they need for their family portrait needs.


Enough said.


Mark ;}


Mark Jordan Photography specializes in crafting stunning contemporary, traditional, classic, and storytelling family portraits (high school seniors, children portraits, babies, maternity, pregnancy), headshots and pets. Mark Jordan, a Photographers Hall of Famer is a photographer in Rancho Santa Margarita and provides portrait photography throughout Orange County. The portrait studio also serves San Diego County and Inland Empire. Studio Photography Services are also provided in Riverside county and Los Angeles County. Local Cites where photography studio services are offered are in Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Brea, Costa Mesa, Coto de Caza, Cypress, Dana Point, Dove Canyon, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Ladera Ranch, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Northwood, Orange, Orange Park Acres, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Tustin, Villa Park, Westminster, Yorba Linda, Corona, Murrieta, Murrieta Hot Springs, Quail Valley, Riverside, Temecula, Winchester, Woodcrest, Chino Hills, Fontana, Grand Terrace, Loma Linda, Montclair, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, La Mesa, Oceanside, San Diego, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Vista, Carmel Mountain Ranch, Rancho San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, and San Diego Country Estates, Turtle Rock, Shady Canyon. Portrait Photographers everywhere (photographes in O.C. as well) are welcome to contact our portrait studio for mentoring/guidance.