Celebrity Portrait Photography

Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith offers up a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his celebrity portrait photo shoots of Hollywood stars

In Print: Leslie Nielsen gets Drafted

When actor Leslie Nielsen suggested wearing a tuxedo for a poolside cover shoot for the March 007 issue of Draft magazine, I couldn’t help but think of Connery, Sean Connery as Bond at the Fountainbleau pool in ‘Goldfinger.’ Nielsen raised his lager in a manner befitting a secret agent – the Martini Glass from my […]

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Richard Branson goes into Space for Time

“Richard Branson…on Necker Island…in a Spacesuit…” That was the pitch from Time Magazine deputy photo editor Dietmar Liz-Lepiorz. As pitches go, that was as good of a pitch as I’ve heard. But to be honest, he had me at Branson… Richard Branson is the type of subject every photographer simply loves. He gets a good

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