First, the client bought me dinner so we could talk about our relationship and discuss his needs for the photo shoot to follow. It was my second free meal of the day with the first being fried catfish and green beans with sweet tea. The evening meal was chicken parmigiana with cheese ravioli and red [...]
The second photo I shot for the editorial assignment mentioned two days ago was of an engineer demonstrating how a portion of the temperature sensor systems were manufactured. It was a perfect complementary image to the closeup of tweezers grasping on of the minuscule temperature sensors. The lighting is similar. One light, an SB800, is [...]
I have many uses for gaffer’s tape, most of which you can figure out for yourself. Gaffer tape is similar to duct tape, the more popular consumer item, with a few obvious differences and some differences that are not so easy to discern. Both tapes have a cloth backing. The differences is the gaffer tape [...]
I’m beginning to understand my affection for the iPhone camera. I was asked to shoot a few photos for my granddaughter’s middle school track team for an end-of-year DVD compilation. The team and school have no money for a photography budget so, as a good grandparent with a camera, I lend a hand. I don’t [...]
The second studio we set up at the Arnold Sports Photo Workshop space was for a set of high key portraits. The first studio was more for full length photos and a few tighter shots. This studio was designed differently.
Another three days of the Arnold Sports Festival have moved into history. Only this year it was four with an extra day of amateur events at Veterans Memorial Auditorium that required a photographer be present. The main action for events at the Greater Columbus Convention Center was a set of photo studios set up in [...]
Not every portrait should happen just after a trip to the barber or just after you’ve put on fresh clothes. These two portraits are from a series I did of family and kids in the neighborhood. After watching the kids play on a warm summer day I gathered them in front of a white background [...]
Brent needed a quick photo for a newspaper article about a local boy, him, who’d advanced to great things. Now the Director of Communications for the Arnold Sports Festival, Brent’s hometown newspaper’s article about his ascendancy to greatness needed a photo to complete the layout. Choosing the spot for the shoot was easy. The office [...]
I had a different plan for today’s posting. But, after being snowed in most of the day and having little actual photo work to do, I thought I’d share my walk in the snow. Inniswood Metro Gardens is near my house. Near enough that even on a day when most people travel no further than [...]
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