When you need a photographer in Los Angeles, California, Lee White is the “go to” photographer. You can contact him at leewhitephoto.com.

Lee White is a professional photographer based in Los Angeles, California, United States having a dramatic photography style that is suitable to almost any subject. Internationally published, Lee White mainly does people pictures for advertising, editorial and corporate clients.  His extensive professional photography experience keeps him in high demand by a wide range of clients in California, the US and throughout the world.  Many national and international clients pick him as the professional advertising photographer in Los Angeles.

Lee White prides himself in being the “Go to Photographer” for many advertising, editorial and corporate photography assignments.  When you need to get to a shoot done on time, within budget and with the least amount of hassles you can have confidence in Lee White.  He brings decades of experience dealing with advertising agencies, magazines and corporations to each of your projects.  Lee feels that your success is his success and so is keenly aware that every shoot he does has to be the best.

Lee White of Lee White Photography provides business, corporate, editorial, advertising, stock, professional and commercial photography in Los Angeles, California in the United States. Working from his Los Angeles based full-service studio, he can provide digital images, location, hair and make up, wardrobe and specialized lighting services.  He goes on location anywhere in the world for his photo assignments. He specializes in dramatic digital portraits for commercial, corporate, advertising and editorial use.

Advertising photography: In advertising photography simplicity is an elusive quality.  Creating advertising images is a complex process of editing the subject down to its essence especially with location photography.  In people photography simplicity, concept and beauty of form are dominant elements in Lee White’s work as an advertising photographer with an affinity for the whimsical and the super real.  Lee enjoys the challenge of solving problems and the quest of finding new visual solutions in his commercial photography.  Although equally comfortable photographing still lifes, he specializes in dramatic portraits with a style that is both distinctive and thought provoking. It really doesn’t matter what type of advertising pictures Lee shoots, everything is presented as larger than life, better than reality.  He is continually developing and challenging his own digital visual style. See some of his advertising images.

Editorial Photography: This professional Los Angeles editorial photographer, Lee White understands the need of magazine editors and art directors to work with a trusted people photographer who captures the original editorial concept with impact.  Unbridled passion for capturing his subjects and their many facets is a driving force behind his magazine photography.  Lee puts his subjects at ease whether he is photographing a portrait of a high-powered Fortune 500 executive or a Moroccan goat herder that speaks no English.  Simply put Lee likes people and people like him.  If you need photo coverage of an upcoming event, Lee can use his skills as a magazine photographer to capture the decisive moments.  He can create attention grabbing environmental portraits and lifestyle portraits.  Lee White loves editorial photography.

Corporate photography: corporate-photographer As a corporate photographer, Lee White draws from many years of shooting for Fortune 500 companies.  Whether he’s shooting corporate portraits of executives in corporate offices or on location photography of industrial facilities in China, Lee White is creating arresting compositions, colorful abstracts and portraits that enliven the pages of corporate annual reports, company brochures and ad campaigns.  What is driving his success, as a corporate photographer is his ability to build long-term, trusting relationships by listening to clients and consistently exceeding their expectations.  Lee’s skills and accomplishments play a big part in his continuing success making corporate images but it is his winning personality that keeps them coming back time after time. View his corporate photography.

Portrait photography: Whether you need a dramatic portrait for editorial, advertising or corporate use you can depend on Lee White coming back with stunning portraiture.  Lee creates striking, passionate images of people and their environments. A digital photographer he approaches subjects with clarity, a strong sense of composition, dramatic lighting, balancing emotion and dynamic energy.  As a portrait artist, Lee understands the need for superlative headshots in this image conscious environment whether it’s presenting a lifestyle, real people or an executive representing an international corporation he always hits just the right tone.  A portrait artist and digital photographer, Lee does headshots, studio portraits, and commercial headshots. See a selection of his portrait images.

China: If you need China photos, Lee White has a wide range of advertising digital photography and editorial images of China.  Lee has photographed people and places in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Nanjing, Suzhou, Guilin, Li River, and the Terra-Cotta warriors.  His photos have been used in publications from McGraw-Hill textbooks to the South China News. Several hundred China photographs.

Still life photography: Lee White is the go-to photographer when you want a campaign that is so graphic and grabbing that your product is bound for sales success.  Lee’s success, apart from his trademark unconventional lighting and crisp designs, lies in his ability to hear and articulate his clients’ vision, then shoot accordingly.  His fully equipped studio is in Los Angeles but he is adept at making stunning product photographs and still life images anywhere in the United States or the world that you need him.

Video: Lee White has found video a natural evolution to his photography assignments in Los Angeles, the US and internationally.  Many of his projects now include shooting advertising, editorial and corporate video using his unique cinematic style of bringing a photographer’s eye to the style and composition.  Lee understands the need for a visually narrative approach that involves the viewer.  Video interviews are becoming increasingly important to magazine and corporate websites and Lee is a master at producing this short form of video.  Short advertising videos help communicate your message quickly to the internet user.

Photography educator: As a photo instructor for over fifteen years, Lee has taught a variety of analog and digital photography classes.  The classes have touched on advertising, magazine, stock, landscape and corporate photography.  He helps students develop their skills in portraiture, product, lifestyle, stock and industrial photography.  He guest lectures on digital asset management at the college level to help students understand digital workflow.  Lee is developing a hybrid photography/video class that introduces photography students to the best practices to incorporate video in a still photography framework.  He is a strong believer in using student learning outcomes to help plan and assess the success of coursework. Lee White’s photography has been used in hundreds of textbooks for elementary schools, high schools, and universities. You can get Lee's book "People Pictures for advertising, editorial and corporate.".

Environmentally friendly: Lee White converted to an eco-friendly business model over 15 years ago taking steps to conserve natural resources, prevent pollution, and reduce waste.  First he built a new studio by his house to eliminate the wasteful use of petroleum products and stop fouling the air with needless exhaust.  Not only does this reduce emissions and congestions, it has the extra benefit to his European and Asian clients as he is functionally at his studio during their normal business hours.

Lee has cut power consumption in many ways to reduce the strain on natural resources.  He maintain large trees that shade both the studio and house which take in CO2 and generate oxygen while reducing the use of air conditioning by 98%.  Crewmembers and he turn off lights in areas not being used and unplug equipment rather than leaving them in stand-by mode.  Where lights are on they conserve energy by using compact and regular fluorescent bulbs balanced to daylight for better color rendition.  Rechargeable batteries are used in cameras, portable computers and portable strobe reducing deadly toxics created in regular battery production and ending up in landfills.

Lee invites you to share in his efforts of creating eco-friendly images and protect our fragile earth.

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