Category: Commercial & Headshots

My client, Bryan Thayer needed some new portraits for his business, website, and book jacket.  He’s a marketer, author, and speaker and is redoing his website, BryanThayer.com as well as releasing a new book.  So here’s some of the images we created.

We wanted a mix of casual and business, but needed portraits that showed strength and personality.  I really like this first image for that reason.  It’s got a lot of warmth and it is a great smile! We started out more casual and moved towards business, and created images in both color and black and white.

Then we moved to a gray background — gray is a great background for business portraits.  This particular shade of gray is used a lot in fashion and you’ll see it a ton in GQ magazine, but it’s also great when the background needs to be cut out for other purposed down the road.

Here’s one of my favorites in black and white.

And one of our top business portraits from the shoot.  It says a lot in one image, it shows strength, it shows power, and it shows kindness.  I’m very happy with these photographs and know that they will work for whatever Bryan needs now and down the road.  It was a joy to work with him and I hope his new endeavor goes really well.

If you need some awesome photographs for your business, whether they be for business cards, your website, a book jacket, or anything else, or perhaps you just need to update your family portraits this spring, give me a call!  801-728-3317.

Thanks for looking and please browse my main website at BryCox.com (or my other blog entries if you’re reading this in a separate feed reader like facebook, BryCox.com/blog).

My friend Abby, of ClassicInterface hired me to photograph some of her interiors and create a website for her. She is an Architectural and Interior Designer.  Here she is on site at one of the photo shoots.

This particular job of hers was a $300,000 remodel and she needed some fantastic images to show it off, and she called me knowing that lighting was my specialty.

Everything about this home was changed and improved and I think the end result is fantastic.  I love how these colors and textures all work together, and the furniture is so cool.

Interiors are very difficult to photograph, in fact they are some of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph.  Most people would think so, but the fact is that all the angles, lines, and perspectives all have to be taken into consideration and mixed in such a way to create something that’s both attractive and interesting, while also drawing attention to what the designer wants to showcase, and this usually has to be done in tight quarters and spaces while making the place look spacious.

Exposures are also incredibly difficult for interiors, as there is a huge disparity between shadows and highlights that our eyes just automatically adjust for.  Many tricks and techniques need to be used to light and compensate, and in the end create an image that looks true to the eye and natural.

Abby also had me completely recreate and design a website for her from scratch.  She directed, giving me the look and ideas that she wanted, and I created and coded it all from there.  I integrated various flash players to keep the content in the window frame.  She didn’t want people to have to scroll down.  I love the design!  It is so beautiful, clean, and consistant.  Check it out and see what you think.  (ClassicInterface.com)  Note that it has a mixture of images I did for her as well as images she’s gotten from past photographers from past jobs.

Here’s a shot of one of the integrated flash players.  With this particular home, you can click on the thumbnails to view the home before and after, both inside and out.  The results are stunning and the end result is completely unrecognizable when compared to the before shots.If you need some Architectural or Interior Design work, check out Abby’s site.

And if you need some commercial photographs for your business, whether they be interiors, profiles, or even close-ups of your products that you can use on your website or brochures, then give me a call at 801-728-3317.  Lighting is my specialty, and I will make your products and business look like a million bucks!

Thanks for looking and please browse my main website at BryCox.com (or my other blog entries if you’re reading this in a separate feed reader like facebook, BryCox.com/blog).

Utahan’s already know Bill Gephardt as KUTV’s long-time investigative news reporter and fighter of dishonesty and scams.  He has always been a defender of the consumer and has worked hard to uncover and investigate fraud.  Well he has left KUTV and has started a new business, GephardtApproved.com.  For this, he needed some new commercial head-shots and portraits, and came to me!

His business is a wonderful idea for consumers, and completely unique, while being completely free!  He  investigates and approves only business that stand up to his background checks and levels of integrity, and offers a $1000 customer satisfaction guarantee to customers that have a problem with them.

Here are some of the images we created for his business and website.

Bill is so fun to work with.  I’ve done photography work for him other times in the past both for his family and work, and he is as fun and likable in person as he is on TV.  We had a great shoot and I love the images and am proud to have him use them in his new endeavor.

Bill’s name carries a lot of weight and trust here in Utah, for his defense of consumer rights.  I am excited for his new website and business and think it is a genius idea!

So if you need a business that you can trust, check out GephardtApproved.com.  And if you need some awesome photographs for your commercial endeavor, or even just some new updated family portraits, give me a call!  801-728-3317.

Thanks for looking and please browse my main website at BryCox.com (or my other blog entries if you’re reading this in a separate feed reader like facebook, BryCox.com/blog).

About nine years ago I was asked to photograph the FCMA Pearl Awards.  Today I got a call from Janice Kapp Perry, reordering the image of her winning for use in an upcoming magazine article.  Here is that image from nine years ago, Janice and her husband.

Janice is a long-time songwriter of inspirational music, and has a household name here in Utah.

In pulling up this image from my archives, I was really relieved and impressed that this looked so good.  Though I feel like I’m constantly growing and becoming a better and better artist each year, it’s fun and refreshing to be able to look back on past work and know that I did a great job for people and that I created something of value and worth to them.

Back then, digital was very new at the time, and being young and techie, I was the first all digital portrait studio around.  So that, as well as having a hip and fresh style and doing a good job for people every time, really helped get me such cool gigs as this at such a young age.  It’s fun to look back on my business and see how far I’ve come in nine years.

Well again, we are getting close to Christmas as far as orders go, so if you’d like some fantastic images of yourself or your family, or if you’d even like to reorder something from the past, now’s the time to give me a call at 801-728-3317.

And feel free to check out my main website at BryCox.com (or my blog if you’re reading this in a separate feed reader BryCox.com/blog).

Every year at this time, I have a design project for a Christmas audio CD, and I make sure that I get copies for all my current clients and friends.   This year’s album is absolutely fantastic and I am excited for you all to get a copy.  I just received the finished CDs and have looked them over and love how they look and sound.

This is Wasatch Christmas, a Christmas CD that is produced every year by one of my best friends, James Conlee.  In fact it is a joint project of friends in many ways because the cover painting is by a friend of ours, James Christensen (a famous painter with Greenwich Workshops), and some of the tracks are by our other good friend, Ryan Shupe (Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand), as well as some tracks by James Conlee himself.

Here is how the album looks.  The name of the cover painting is, “Gift for Mrs. Claus.” James Christensen’s paintings are always fascinating and beautiful, and I’m honored to have some of his books in my possession.  I find them inspiring!

Now there are other recording artists on the album, but my favorite tracks are always by James and Ryan.

It’s a little known fact that I design all of the CDs that both James Conlee and Ryan Shupe produce, and I think that this is the 10th CD I’ve designed for James.  Some can be seen right here (James Conlee – Sunday / Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand – Last Man Standing.)

So for all my holiday clients that are ordering this time of year, whether you get a large collection of wall portraits or even just reorder one small print, I am giving away a FREE Wasatch Christmas CD!  The cover painting is phenomenal, the music is phenomenal, and the whole production is worth owning!

We are getting close to Christmas as far as orders go, so if you’d like some fantastic images of yourself or your family, now’s the time to give me a call at 801-728-3317.  I’ll include a Christmas CD with your order.

And feel free to check out my main website at BryCox.com (or my blog if you’re reading this in a separate feed reader BryCox.com/blog).