San Antonio, Texas

The McKinnis Edit


Brand, portrait, headshot and event photography for people who are building something. Nearly thirty years behind the camera, applied to one story at a time.

Graduate in a navy gown and orange dress reaching toward a wall of design samples, photographed by The McKinnis Edit.
Graduate session, San Antonio

The edit

Every image is a choice. A point of view. An edit.

The McKinnis Edit sits between fine art photography and commercial brand work. Not a budget studio, not an agency queue. A working partnership with one photographer who learns your business before he picks up a camera.

The result is a set of images that hold together. They look like you on your clearest day, and they keep working long after the session ends.

Services

Four ways to work together

A graduate at a design studio work table, laying out fabric samples and holding a green swatch up to the light.

01

Brand Photography

A library of images built around how your business actually works, so your website, your deck and your feed all sound like the same person.

Close portrait of a graduate in an orange dress, resting her chin on her hands and smiling against a soft pink wall.

02

Portrait Photography

Personal, milestone and lifestyle portraits. We plan the session around the version of you that you already recognize, and then we go find it.

Seated three quarter portrait of a graduate wearing a UTSA stole, photographed in front of a bookshelf.

03

Headshot Photography

Professional headshots for individuals and full teams, shot with consistent light and framing so a directory page looks intentional rather than assembled.

Graduate in a navy gown holding her cap up in celebration, photographed on location in a design showroom.

04

Event Photography

Corporate, private and community events. Quiet coverage that stays out of the room and still comes back with the moments people will ask for.

Featured work

Selected frames

A graduate session photographed in a San Antonio design showroom. One afternoon, one person, one story told all the way through.

About

Michael McKinnis

Michael has spent nearly thirty years making photographs. The studio was formerly known as Eye Soul Photography and was reestablished as The McKinnis Edit to reflect a more intentional, editorial approach to visual storytelling. The name is the promise: refinement, curation, a point of view.

He works with entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals across Texas, including San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas. Clients tend to arrive at a threshold. A launch, a new role, a milestone. That is the work he likes best.

Cerissa McKinnis

Michael's wife, Cerissa, is a key creative and brand advisor to the studio. She is the author of Navigating the Liminal Places, a book about life's transitional moments seen through the lens of interior design. That sensibility, the belief that a space and a season shape how a person shows up, runs straight through the way this studio sees a room and the person standing in it.

Graduate seated on a sofa holding open a copy of Navigating the Liminal Places by Cerissa LaToi McKinnis.
Navigating the Liminal Places by Cerissa McKinnis
Portrait of Michael McKinnis, photographer and founder of The McKinnis Edit.
Michael McKinnis

Contact

LET'S CREATE TOGETHER

Tell me what you are building and when you need the images. I will come back with a plan, a date and a clear price.

San Antonio, Texas
Serving San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas
210-376-1166