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About Me

I recently moved to Long Beach, California and really enjoy the city. I work as a commercial photographer, and travel throughout Southern California shooting for corporations, advertising agencies and business clients. Long Beach has less traffic, better weather and more diversity then Sherman Oaks where I moved from.

I am a vegetarian, a Christian, gay, and am self-employed. My photography business allows me to have lots of spare time, travel a lot and meet interesting and powerful people. You can see recent samples of my work at

http://www.DavisPhotographic.com

http://www.Photographer-Event.com

http://www.MensFashionPhotographer.com

http://www.PhotographerFood.com

http://www.Photographer-Commercial.com

My Interests

My hobbies include biking and walking along the beach, playing volleyball, playing guitar for my church, reading, watching movies, travel, computers, plants, giving massage, career counseling and learning new things.

I'd like to meet:

Black and Latin gay men in Southern California, Photographers, Christian musicians, Volleyball players in Long Beach

Music:

Adult alternative, R&B, Pop, Hip Hop but not rap, contempory Christian & praise music, folk music. Favorite artists include the Eagles, Usher, Bon Jovi, Elton John, Madonna, Steven Curtis Chapman, Matchbox Twenty, Seal, Whitney Houston, Bowling for Soup, Don Henley, Eric Clapton, Luther Vandross, Michael W. Smith

Movies:

I am crazy about movies! Favorites include all the major series- Matrix, Batman, Spiderman, Lord of the Ring, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars. Other movies I can watch over and over include Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Hitch, Collateral, Man on Fire, The Bourne Supremacy, The Last Samurai, The Italian Job, Kill Bill and The Incredibles. Brokeback Mountain should have won the Oscar for best movie this year, but Crash isnâ€™t bad.

Television:

C.S.I. I could watch all day!

Books:

Everything by Tom Clancy, everything by John Grisham, Harry Potter series, Dan Brown and non-fiction books on photography, Christian topics and travel.

Heroes:

Spiderman and Batman! OK, maybe Bill Clinton and Martin Luther King. Photographers Robert Mapplethorpe, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.

My Blog

10 Tips for Taking Better Pictures

10 Tips for Better Pictures of People 1. Get closer to your main subject Your photograph will be better if you make it about one main thing. Don't try to get three people, the boat, the lake, the ca...
Posted by Dennis on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:12:00 PST

How to make money as a photographer

Many people believe you only have to be a great photographer and your work will get noticed. Bull! Commercial photography like what I do is 90% marketing and 10% talent. You need to learn how to run a...
Posted by Dennis on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:45:00 PST

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Photography in Irvine, California

When I got the call to shoot an awards banquet for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in January 2006, I had no idea who they were. It was not until I went on their corporate website that I saw that their brand na...
Posted by Dennis on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:07:00 PST

Intel Corporation Photo Shoot

In September 2005 I traveled to Napa, California to photograph a conference for Intel Corporation., known as the Intel Fellows Forum. This assignment had three parts: Create an outdoor group photogra...
Posted by Dennis on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:03:00 PST

Photography for Hewlett Packard

In March 2006 I photographed Hewlett Packard's annual stockholder's meeting in Los Angeles. What would normally have been a straight-forward corporate event photo shoot was made much more challenging ...
Posted by Dennis on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:00:00 PST

Commercial Photographer in Los Angeles

Commercial photography can be a fun and exciting business. This blog will tell about some of my adventures, and give some of the technical information about the equipment and settings that I am using....
Posted by Dennis on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:54:00 PST