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 [...]
Back in the day, almost two years ago, when newspapers and wire services assigned freelance photographers to shoot photos to accompany business stories, I often searched out photogenic subjects to best illustrate manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, and business-to-business and retail sales. The reality of most manufacturing facilities is that they don’t look anything like what the [...]
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’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 [...]
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 [...]
I started a Web site several years ago to show off the finest in digital cameras. I’d hoped it would become a beacon for photographers looking to better themselves by learning from my experiences shooting with a set of very special cameras that emphasized content more than megapixels and composition more than technique. I did [...]
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 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 [...]
Yesterday’s Top Ten Tip number 6 will make 2010 the best year you’ve ever had taking pictures. Always having your camera means you can begin Project 365. I left The AP in November 2004. On Nov. 15 of that year I began the My Final Photo – If I died in my sleep this was [...]
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