How I use Luminar Neo to edit and retouch my portraits with artificial intelligence.
Read MoreAshley Cooke for ABLE
Craig Morgan for Gravely Lawn Mowers
A few months ago Gravely reached out to me about creating some photos of their new Stealth lawn mower in collaboration with country music star Craig Morgan. This shoot was an absolute blast. The guys at Gravely brought such a strong creative vision to the shoot and Craig made being on camera look so effortless. I’m really excited to share with you what we created together.
Peter Frampton for Gibson Guitars
I had the privilege of working with Peter Frampton and Gibson on the release of the reissue of his legendary Phenix Les Paul guitar.
Minka Kelly x Live Fashionable
A past collaboration in which I had the opportunity to take some portraits of Minka Kelly for Live Fashionable, an amazing company here in Nashville.
Headshot Photography | Ryan Wesley Smith
Ryan reached out to me to take some new headshots of him as he was taking a big step in his career in the music industry. He is doing some really rad stuff here in Nashville, and it was such an honor to get to spend the morning with him in the studio creating these portraits.
Fast and Easy Way To Edit Eyes In Photoshop
In this video, I show you my favorite way to edit eyes in photoshop.
It’s super easy and super quick, but it can easily take your portrait retouching workflow to the next level.
I hope you enjoy!
Portraits of Brett Henry
I recently had the pleasure of taking some portraits of my friend Bret Henry at his shop Honest Coffee.
I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I enjoyed taking them.
German the Poodle and Family's Christmas Photos
“These photos top our wedding photos.”
- German’s Parents
If you book a portrait session with your dog, I will give $50 to the Nashville Humane Society!
Stephen
David Perry | Nashville, TN
The Value of Contentment
While the path of the creative journey will never be predictable, the feelings that come from it certainly can be. In the two years that I have been a full time freelancer, I have gone through the emotional cycle that ranges from the excitement one can find on Christmas morning to what can seem to be the same feelings of loneliness and confusion that Tom Hanks went through in Cast Away at least a baker’s dozen times. As a matter of fact, one time I had a shoot that went so badly I almost went home and knocked my tooth out with an ice skate. I kid.
Recently my life has been looking like this — I will get swamped with work all at once after things have been quiet for a little while. I will tell myself that I have finally “made” it, and I need to get an agent, an assistant, a business manager, and a retoucher or else I will not be able to keep up with all of this work that I am getting now. I manage to take care of all the work on my own in a couple of weeks and then things get quiet again. Disappoint kicks in because my inbox is back to being mainly emails from J. Crew or my mom sending me my updated dental insurance info.
In all of this I’ve learned that if you want to make it through life with your soul in one piece, you need to learn how to be content in any part of the journey.
I think contentment can be found in any circumstance by recognizing that every step has value even if life doesn’t look exactly how I want it to. All too often I get upset when I don’t have anything going on for a week or two, but it wasn’t until recently that I started recognizing how important those slow times are because they allow me to rest. It’s in these times of rest that I find I get the most inspiration to create the images that take my work to the next level. Boom. Value found.
What I’m learning is that every step I take means something if I let it mean something.
Sarah Reeves
C. Garrow
These photos symbolize the beginning of a shift in my work that I am so excited about.
B. Goodwin
Judah and the Lion
Last week I had the honor of photographing Judah and the Lion before they left for their Folk Hop N Roll tour. These are some of the most fun guys you will ever meet, and I wanted to make sure that came through in the photos. Being around them feels a bit like being around a family so I wanted the photos to subtly show that aspect.
A couple of days after our shoot, I joined a couple thousand other people to go see them play a sold out show at the War Memorial here in Nashville. If they are touring to a city you live in, I highly recommend going to see them even if it’s for no other reason than to experience their cover of “Booty Wurk.”
Fleurie Pt. II
This is the second round of images from my shoot with Fleurie. I told Lauren upon preparing for this shoot that listening to her music always makes feel like I'm pulling an all-nighter, and I wanted to capture that feeling in the portraits I took of her. When she told me that most of her writing happens in the middle of the night, I realized why I felt that way about her music.
With the first set of images I posted, I was visualizing what I saw when listening her EP "Arrows." However, with these shots I was thinking about my personal favorite song of hers which is a tune called "Paralyzed." I think all it will take is for you to listen to it to understand why I shot these the way I did.
Fleurie Pt. I
Fleurie photographed by Austin Lord in Nashville, Tennessee.
Austin Lord is a commercial and editorial photographer specializing in fashion, portraiture, and music photography in Nashville, Tennessee.
Read MoreFindlay Black
A very colorful array of portraits of Findlay Black from Eye Management.
Very thankful for my friends Twila and Michelle for styling and doing hair and make up.
Mitch 2016
Every year (since last year) I photograph my roommate, Mitchell Schneider, in the snow with no shirt on. Last year he complied because of a bet. This year he did it because we both believe in tradition and sacrificing personal warmth for art.
I also figured I would give everyone the download to the high resolution image to use for whatever you may want to use it for: https://www.dropbox.com/home/Naked%20Mitch%202k16?preview=Naked+Mitch+2016.jpg
