Tallahassee Magazine's Top Singles

    Tallahassee Magazine’s Top Singles

    I photographed Emerald Coast Magazine’s Top Singles in Destin, Florida recently and wrote about it here. Now I’ve shot more Top Singles for the feature in the current issue of Tallahassee Magazine. Over two days I photographed 14 of the area’s most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes at Hotel Duval in downtown Tallahassee. The hotel pretty [...]

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    Florida Governor Charlie Crist

    Florida Governor Charlie Crist

    When Rowland Publishing launched its newest title, 850 Business Magazine, a feature on Florida’s governor, Charlie Crist, “The CEO of Florida,” was the cover story in the inaugural issue of the new magazine.
    On the day of the shoot, I arrived at the governor’s office in the Capitol and waited to get set up. I had [...]

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    Emerald Coast Magazine's Top Singles

    Emerald Coast Magazine’s Top Singles

    Both the cover and the opening spread for the story were shot on my spare camera when the main camera failed. © Scott Holstein/Rowland Publishing

    I recently traveled to HarborWalk Village in Destin, Florida to complete a marathon of 10 shoots in a day for Emerald Coast magazine’s “Top Singles” feature. Efficiency is the name of [...]

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    "Quagmire" - Beautiful Woman in a Swamp

    “Quagmire” – Beautiful Woman in a Swamp

    “Quagmire.” 1/5 second at f/3.5 ISO 800 Canon 1D Mark III with 16-35mm at 16mm © Scott Holstein

    I had this image in my head for some time – a beautiful young woman in a boat, deep in a Florida swamp at dusk. She’s holding a lantern, peering out into the darkness, searching for something.
    I enlisted [...]

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    Welcome to Environmental Portraits!

    Welcome to Environmental Portraits!

    Welcome to Environmental Portraits – the blog about photographing people on location. My name is Scott Holstein and I am a photographer based in Tallahassee, Florida. To learn more about me, please read my bio.
    This blog will give insight into environmental portraiture by providing a behind-the-scenes look at assignments I shoot for publication as a [...]

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