portraiture 

 

Portraiture, for lack of better explanation, is a photograph that captures the essence of an individual.  Whether that’s a studio-type portrait, or an active image - what we might call an environmental portrait - it’s a necessarily broad explanation for a complicated approach.


It starts with understanding the client’s needs.  What is the end product?  Advertising, corporate, online?  They’re all different.  There can’t be a “one size fits all” approach to it.


More than 30-years of photographic experience allows for me to create an image that best fits your needs, whatever they might be.

Robert Lopez, popular performer who has made a

name for himself as “The Mexican Elvis.”

© 2007 by Dean Rutz, The Seattle Times

Gary Hall Jr. has competed in three Olympic Games, and won 10 medals - five of them gold.

© 2004 by Dean Rutz

© 2007 by Dean Rutz

The Crosby Family - that's mom Kathy, dad Bob, daughter Morgan and son Ian, and dog Sophie.

Mary Sanders competed for the United States in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, on the rhythmic gymnastics team.

© 2004 by Dean Rutz

© 2006 by Dean Rutz

Randy Altig, host of  television’s “Maximum  Living”, with his creative home decor design.