Bay Area Portrait Photographer — A Montreal Session
When the Location Is Montreal
Not every portrait session happens in San Francisco. This one was shot in Montreal, Quebec — a city Marc Olivier Le Blanc knows well, having spent years there before moving to the Bay Area. The session has the quality of a city that rewards a particular kind of photography: loose, exploratory, unhurried.
Montreal's light is different from San Francisco's — harder in summer, flatter in the overcast seasons, with an architectural environment that lends itself to graphic framing and shadow play. As a Bay Area portrait photographer who also travels regularly for assignments, Marc brings the same instincts to a Montreal session that he brings to portrait work in the Mission District or the Marin Headlands: find the light, find the expression, make the image.
The portrait from this session is playful — a word that doesn't always appear in descriptions of professional photographer work, but that captures something essential about what makes a portrait worth looking at. The subject is at ease. The moment is unforced. The image has energy.
Playful Portraits and the Photographer's Eye
The difference between a playful portrait and a sloppy one is the same as the difference between a casual session and an underprepared one: intent. Marc Olivier Le Blanc brings the same care to a personal portrait project that he brings to a commercial shoot for Levi's or a cover assignment for a major publication. The technical standards don't change because the client does.
As a portrait photographer and lifestyle photographer working across the Bay Area and beyond, Marc is available for sessions in San Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley, and for travel assignments across North America and internationally.
Bay Area Portrait Photographer — Available for Travel
Marc Olivier Le Blanc is a professional photographer and Bay Area portrait photographer based in San Francisco. For portrait photography in San Francisco, the Bay Area, or beyond — including travel portrait assignments — contact Marc through the website to discuss your session.
