When I confronted grief, I discovered I had changed. The six-month mark for Matthew’s death has come and quietly gone. Matthew died on March 1, just as Winter turned into Spring. Then Spring morphed into Summer, and now Summer is giving way to Fall. Time plods clumsily on. I did box up Matthew’s clothes. I […]
Now, I’m coming up on the six-month mark since Matthew’s death. Half a year. In some ways, I’ve coped well. In others, not so much. Some of the raw emotion has tempered as time marches on. I can’t bring myself to sleep upstairs in our bedroom, though. I can’t think about boxing up his clothes. […]
It’s been three months since Matthew passed away. Three months. In some ways, it seems like yesterday we were at hospice, and in other ways, it was a lifetime ago. Let me back up for those who may not be familiar with what happened. Matthew, my husband, best friend, and business partner for close to […]
When did hotels become tiny little, beige, soulless cubes? Was it somewhere around COVID? Was the disease that stilled the earth responsible for hotel chains having an excuse to eliminate all amenities, most customer service, and hiring Lethargic Staff Members that specialize in spitting out the word, “SIR”? We are well past COVID, and yet […]
In the last blog post: Build the Perfect Green Screen Photo Booths, we examined different background chromakey fabric material, and their advantages and disadvantages. Now it’s time to look at lighting the perfect green screen photo booth. And, here’s the dirty secret: every photographer knows the secret to great imaging is light. Controlling light, or […]
Creating the perfect green screen photo booth is difficult. When you Google suggestions about “how to do green screen photos”, what pops up are suggestions and “rules” that don’t fit a green screen photo booth. First, the authors say, keep subjects at least 6′ off the green screen background. Next most important: use an even […]
We’ve photographed every Bassmaster Classic for Yamaha since 2012. More accurately, we’ve provided a massive, over the top, green screen photo booth for the past 11 years. In March, 2020 it was the very last event we photographed. When I deplaned from Birmingham at Baltimore Washington International, my phone blew up – every event was […]
I was setting up in a hurry for a meet and greet. It was a generic hotel ball room, subdivided into bland breakout rooms. Airwall to the left, airwall to the right. Airwall in front. There were a few round tables scattered about, with slightly stained hotel tablecloths hanging a bit askew. A few chairs […]
I don’t know his name, but over the course of the Skeeter Boat Owner’s Tournament, this kid wandered around riding his bike. The bike looked fierce, and it was clear the kid enjoyed riding it. But at one point I looked up,and he was doing circles in my greenscreen photobooth area. Hmmm. Probably not a […]
I call it “instant intimacy”. My mom calls it “the friendly dog approach.” Whichever. Often we are hired to go to corporate offices, nationwide to photograph the entire team for updated headshots. And, when it’s a large office, that means shooting about 25 people an hour — or one every 2 minutes 40 seconds. The […]