The Portrait
From$399
A full session and one finished portrait, ready to print.
- Full one-on-one session, art-directed for your athlete
- One finished hero composite
- High-resolution file, ready for print
- Web and social sized copies
North Richland Hills, TX · Custom athlete portraits
One athlete.
One portrait.
One legacy.
A legacy has to hang somewhere. The session, the compositing, the print: all of it exists to produce one finished piece, and to build it well enough to stay there.
Selected work
Every frame here was planned and built for one athlete, start to finish.
Built, not taken
A photograph is captured in a fraction of a second. This is designed first, shot second, then built by hand. Concept, composite, grade, retouch, until it is a finished piece of work. Then it is made into something you can hang for good.
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It starts in their head
Before the camera comes out we agree on what the finished portrait is: the pose, the light, the scene it will live in. The shoot exists to serve that picture.
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The session ends when it is right
Plan on about an hour, covering both static portraits and action frames. It runs until the shots are right rather than until the clock says stop. Time and attention are what separate a portrait from a photograph.
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Built by hand, frame by frame
Every hero image is cut from its background, composited into an art-directed scene, graded and retouched individually. That is hours of work per image, and it is the whole point.
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Made to outlast the season
The framed piece is built to conservation standard: 100% cotton rag matting, museum-grade UV glazing, and fully reversible mounting, so nothing adhesive ever touches the print. It can be re-framed in thirty years without damage. Seasons end. This does not.
Packages
Each piece is planned individually, so the prices below are starting points. Tell me about your athlete and I'll confirm the details for the tier that fits.
The Series
From$599
A longer session, three concepts, and the first piece on the wall.
- Everything in The Portrait
- Extended session with multiple looks
- Three finished hero composites, each a different concept
- One large archival print, 16×20
The Framed Piece
From$849
Five finished concepts from the session, one framed and ready for the wall.
- Everything in The Series
- Five finished hero composites in total
- Framed to conservation standard: 100% cotton rag matting, UV and anti-reflective glazing, fully reversible mounting
- Full edited digital set from the session
Large prints, framing and additional composites are quoted on request.
About
I am Brandon Garner. I build custom portraits for individual athletes, out of North Richland Hills, TX.
I started doing this the way most people do: shooting games, handing over a gallery, moving on. The pictures were fine. None of them ended up on a wall.
So I changed the job. Now every athlete gets a session built around them and one finished piece that took real hours to make: cut out by hand, composited onto a scene we planned together, graded and retouched until it holds up printed large. It is slower and it does not scale, and that is exactly why it looks the way it does.
If that is the kind of portrait you want for your athlete, get in touch and tell me about them.
Request a session
Tell me about your athlete. Sport, season, and what you want on the wall when it is finished. I will come back with availability and a plan for the piece.
Use the message form at the bottom of this page, or reach me directly.