Lens choice modifies the mood and impact of your photos. My first thought shooting this group of almost Spring fitness seekers was with a telephoto view to compress their figures against the chaotic water falling over Hoover Reservoir as the background. I chose a point on the entrance road leading to the parking lot at [...]
I’ve shot Best Buy more times than I’d like to remember. It is a friendly company usually welcoming news photographers with a legitimate need access to their store with little more than a knock at the door. Other consumer electronics companies are prepared to physically remove news photographers from their property without any opportunity to [...]
The temperature has been below freezing most mornings with the highs for the day rarely getting much more. Hoover is mostly frozen in a thin layer of ice too thin for fishing. Below the dam the water is a little warmer after it’s trip through the pipe and begins to freeze again south of the [...]
It was Grandparent’s Day at school and I was under instructions to shoot my 12-year-old granddaughter with some of her friends. There were really only two choices. The third, a near-full studio setup wasn’t going to happen. At best I would have just a couple of minutes to gather the kids after lunch and between [...]
Dissecting yesterday’s grocery store vegetable display photo was a fun task. It reminded me of another vegetable photo with repeating patterns, varied colors and contrasts and a pixelated design. Mary Bridgman operates an organic and traditional farm in central Ohio. Every year as the first tomatoes ripen in the spring she appears at the Uptown [...]
William Rosen is a retired disabled Navy veteran who I first knew through his car parked at the library. Its rear panel shouted at me as I walked to my car books and cds in hand. I waited for its owner to return until I couldn’t wait any longer because of a previously arranged appointment [...]
The small barn on an alley in Uptown Westerville has changed its colors again. I began photographing this structure several years ago as part of the Westerville Life project. The building sits at the crossing of two lightly traveled alleys leading out of the center of the city. The roads bisect business and residential areas [...]
After several days of near shirt sleeve weather temperatures fell back to below freezing late yesterday as a cold front settled across the state. As usual, I went out into it, this time taking along a tripod and wide angle lens. The dam at Hoover Reservoir frequently shows up in my photos or is the [...]
The request was simple. The execution slightly complex. The results certainly worth the effort. The client, a furniture store, wanted several strong images to showcase how its furniture looked in a home instead of being shot on the cyclorama white wall in a studio. The chosen home’s original furnishings were replaced with a selection of [...]
I knew when we had the first days of temperatures above freezing in 2010 and a few rain showers to melt the snow that skaters and bikers would soon be appearing at the Westerville Skate Park. The difficulty was the skies were still overcast and the light flat. That was solved with a single off-camera [...]
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