It was the last farmers market of the season in Uptown Westerville and although I’d visited the market every Wednesday afternoon I wasn’t pleased with most of the portraits, or attempted portraits, I’d taken during the three hours it was open for business. This day I tossed my Lastolite EzyBox in the trunk of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Every year, as I ponder my new year’s resolutions, I always try to find the one photo that best describes how I met last year’s promises. The process keeps me grounded in success and helps me determine realistic goals for the new year for creating better photos. This year’s best photo is of a young [...]
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