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.
What a great weekend!
March 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
A more-natural child portrait
March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
It’s all in the eyes
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An annual assignment for me is the Arnold Sports Festival where as many as 17,000 athletes compete in about 40 sports. This will be my 16th year shooting the weekend having made the transition from processing color film in a utility closet to a staff of six photographers all shooting digital and delivering photos in [...]
Continued profits in the Best Buy light
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Speaking of repeating myself
February 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Love to repeat myself
February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I don’t know who at Kroger is assigned the duties of arranging the fruits and vegetables in their respective sales bins. I’m not even sure if whoever it is isn’t working from a graphic designer’s and marketing director’s floor plan or diagram to best show off the variety of produce available. I’ve pretended to be [...]
Be a Smart Object editor
February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nothing like a little Camera RAW editing to build intensity in what could have been a routine photo. The three main elements of this photo are each edited in separate Camera RAW layers in Photoshop to create a finley edited image that never changes the original file and is always completely editable from the original [...]
Our visual record responsibility
January 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
HDR on a budget
January 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
