Senior Portrait Photographer :: Santa Maria and Lompoc

For the remainder of August, I will be giving a 25% discount on my portrait packages.  If you're a high school senior and you haven't done your senior portrait yet, give us a call at (805) 264-5336 or email ben@benqportraits.com.  Portraits are usually due in October so get them now while you still have that Summer tan!

Santa Maria Photographer :: with Santa Barbara Photographer Tim Meyer

This past Sunday, I attended a photography seminar in Santa Maria that was put on by the Gold Coast Professional Photographer's Association (of which I am a member).  The topic was portrait lighting / posing and the speaker was Tim Meyer, an excellent teacher from Brooks Institute.  Tim was funny and relevant to the style of modern photographers.  The seminar was a total of 6 hours and included instruction on natural and studio lighting, including how to best blend the two for the look you want.  The afternoon session covered posing techniques for men and women, which I look forward to using with the upcoming Senior Class of 2012.  Anyway, here's one of the models from the day, Megan from Lompoc.  Until next time...

BenQ Portraits :: Santa Barbara Portrait and Wedding Photographer

What do you write about for your very first blog entry?  I could do my best to convince you that I'm an awesome photographer, worthy of photographing you, your friends, and your family, but I won't...yet.  This first entry is a little introduction into my world and I might include a photo or two.  Future entries will be almost nothing but that awesome photography I'm not going to tell you about.

I live in Orcutt, on the Central Coast of California.  Is "Central Coast" supposed to be capitalized?  I don't know.  I am not an English major.  If you are, please comment below to correct me.  If you don't know where Orcutt is then look on a map at Santa Barbara and pretend you're driving on Highway 101.  Drive for an hour and you'll get to Orcutt.  I am currently 31 years old and I've been married for 5 years.  We're expecting our first child in November.  The doctor says she's going to be a beautiful, healthy girl.  Well, he said she's a girl but I said the rest.  God has blessed my wife with good looks and health so why wouldn't our baby be the same?  My wife and I are huge dog lovers.  I'm slightly bigger than her though so I'm a bigger dog lover.  We have two pups named Lani and Gypsy.  Both are rescue dogs and I highly recommend you rescue a dog instead of purchasing one.

Ashley, my wife, is critiquing this as I write.  I don't know how she's going to have time to do this when the baby comes.

Moving onto the purpose of this blog; PHOTOGRAPHY!  I've been a photographer for 7 years and have captured everything from kids to weddings to people's pets to surfers.  I enjoy it all!  It will be impossible to update this blog daily but I'll try.  I will include photographs from events, weddings, portrait sessions, and anything else I do in a professional photography capacity.

I look forward to keeping you updated and interested in BenQ Portraits.  In the meantime, have a look at our website by clicking the logo at the top of the page or here.