Paulo Jordao Photography - BLOG

Valentine’s Day Special…

I love Valentine’s Day. First, it’s always a good time to declare your love to that some one special. Second, You can find some really cool gifts to give to your man or woman.

Couple weeks ago I wrote a post about a special present for a woman to give to her man. A boudoir and glamour photo session + a book (CLICK HERE).

Now, here is a great promotion for a man to give tho his woman…

You can choose just use pictures that you already have, or you can have the photography session included, for this special.

Christmas Portraits - Holidays Photography - Family Portrait

I love to photograph Christmas Portraits and Holidays Photography.

It is the time of the year where people like to dress up a little better and have the family portrait done for their Holidays Cards.

For Packages and Prices: CLICK HERE

Here are few Christmas Portraits I shot this year…

Last week I had the honor, once again, of been the official Photographer for Broward County Sports Hall of Fame “Class of 2011″.

This year we had six nominees.

Here are just few images from that night…

I hope you have seen the “Green Lantern” movie already. Amazing movie with great effects.

Couple weeks ago I had a Photo Shoot Project - “Sexy Green Lantern Body Painting Photo Shoot”.

If you want to check few more of my work, click here 

Here is a sample of my Photo Shoot:

I hope you enjoy the sexy packers and steelers pictures I shot last weekend…

Vote for the best image:

Yesterday, I posted some images of a Sexy Steelers Player

Today I want to show some body painting images I shot this weekend with a Sexy Packers Player.

Let me know what is your choice. OK?

Super bowl sexy Steelers player.

I just had a Super Bowl Body Painting Photo Session.

If you’re a Steelers fan, get ready for a treat. Here you go…

I’ve added 2 extra days for our Sensual Valentine’s Portrait Sessions.

Here are the extra dates:

 Valentine’s Day is just around the corner!

Can you imagine the excitement of your husband or boyfriend as he opens his Valentine’s Day gift and sees gorgeous and sensual pictures of the woman he loves?

Book your session now to have your album or folio ready for Valentine’s Day.

And don’t forget, with this special promotion, you still can bring your best girlfriend for a free session or to help you as your moral support.

This is not only a gift to your husband or boyfriend, but it is a special treat to yourself.

Trust me, this is going to be the most amazing photo session you’ve ever experienced.

Send me a comment for some extra tips about outfits, makeup and availability.

Holiday Portraits - How to take great pictures.

Let me start explaining that for me, photography is the art of capturing a special moment (digital or film). Anybody can take a picture but not every person taking pictures is a Photographer, and there is a difference between a picture from an average person with a average camera and a picture taken from a good professional photographer with a good camera, lens, lighting, props, etc.

Here are few sugestions to make a nice Holiday Portrait;

- Who is your subject?

First decide if you are shooting only one person or the whole family. This will help you to descide about your composition and how to set your camera (if you’re using a DSLR camera)

- What do you have as your background and what props will you use?

Sometimes you just need a good idea to make a great picture, other times you will need backdrop, pine tree, sled, fake snow, etc.

- What kind of light?

Here is what makes the difference between an average picture and a professional one. You need to decide if you’re using window light and reflectors, strobes, or continuous lighting. This year I’ve been trying to use only my new set of 4 continuous lighting (3,000 watts).

Here are some samples of my Holiday Portrait

School Portraits - Holiday Portraits - Tips and Suggestions

This week I was shooting some Holiday Portraits for one school here in my city. I love to shoot kids Portraits in my home-studio, but it can be very challenging when you have to do it in a school.

Here are some tips and sugestions to help you with your next school portrait session:

Time: Remember schedule your day with some extra time, you’re not shooting only one or two portraits. I might have dozens, if not hundreds of students on that school.

Bring your background and Studio Lights - I don’t like the idea of having to pack my strobes, soft boxes, backgrounds and etc. It takes time pack it from your studio, set up at the school, pack at the school and set up back in your studio. But if you are concerned with the quality of your work, that is what you should do.

Assistants: You should bring at least one or two assistants to help you with setting up your equipment, organizing the students and going over each student package and order.

What lights to Bring:Last year I brought three strobes from my home-studio 1- main light, 2- Fill, 3- hair light (notice that I chose not use a background light - I wanted something a little different from past years). The images came out amazing, but I remember how challenging it was to keep the students focused in looking to my camera instead of pay attention on my strobes every time they’ve fired.

This year I brought four kits of my continuous fluorescent lighting and it made a huge difference. I could use an aperture of 4.0 to blur more my background.

Here are some samples of this year Holiday School Portraits

What do you think?

Here is an update from my last post.

As I mentioned earlier, this was one of the most beautiful event of the year. They didn’t have only Seven (7) new amazing inductees, but few of the most beautiful and successful people of Florida were there to make the night even more special.

Here is one of the highlights of the night, when the inductee John Vanbiesbrouck make an emotional speech recognizing his mom for all her sacrifices and encouragement.

Anyway, if you want to check all the images from that special day, please CLICK HERE.

You can also leave a comment.

Thanks

Sports Hall of Fame - Class of 2010.

This week, I had the honor to photograph another amazing event - Sports Hall of Fame (class of 2010).

The event was a success with 7 new inductees and a lot of past inductees.

I am still working on the pictures, but if you want to be notified whenever the images are online, CLICK HERE and we will send you an email as soon as the images get online. If you register before the images get online, you will also get a $5.00 credit to buy any photo there.

I will update this post in one or two days with some extra images.

Thanks.

Paulo Jordao

 It is that time of the year when every one wants to feel like a kid again and dress up like a super hero or monster and etc.

I like this time of the year because I have great opportunity to do some Halloween Portraits at schools, private parties and etc.

Halloween Photo Shoot is a fun subject to shoot. A lot of creativity and color - I got some amazing pictures.

This year, I bought a special 10′ x 10′ backdrop and some extra props to make my images look a little more impressive.

Here is the first session I did last week, at some local School Fall Festival.

I hope you like and leave some comments…

Engagement Photography - Photographer - Miami - Florida

Without a question, Miami and Ft Lauderdale are one of the best place to have a engagement session done. Not only because of the weather, we are surrounded on natural amazing places.

If you are having your engagement photography here in South Florida, it is good you talk to your photographer in advance about choosing a great location.

Here are some images of Megan and Drew I shot few months ago.

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