Here are a couple more options with more focus... The inspiration was the statement that your name is your brand & your well known throughout your community... A customized logotype that puts emphasis on what is important, the brand name... I personally feel it evokes heritage, class, and tradition with a touch of artistry in lines that make up the characters...
Hi Mogeek, I think #5 is a little too much, and this is why: we use our logo in digital form to "sign" all our portraits, 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10, and I think the shutter release line might be too much logo on the print. While we want the name to be legible and recognizable we do not want it to dominate the image. I think the challenge here for you is to create something that can be dominant when it is on printed material or our website, but subtle enough to blend into actual portraits for our clients. Make sense??
here is another variation using the T from the customized typeface as a logomark... allows it to breakaway from the logomark as a whole to be used as a watermark for photos, so and so forth...