• 30
    Mar

    “You don’t think you’ll take the last photo of mom.”

    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 […]

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  • 18
    May

    How We Get Great Headshots in 2.4 Minutes

    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 […]

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  • 06
    Dec

    My Big Fat Hairy Idea 2021

    To understand the Big Fat Hairy Idea that slammed into me at the end of 2021, you have to go back to 2005.  I was sitting in a cab with my dad in Las Vegas, NV, going between the first conferences I’d ever photographed and the second conference I’d ever photographed.  Sitting in that cab, […]

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  • 25
    Oct

    COVID and Events: Uh-Oh, Attendance

    Events are coming back.  At least, they are beginning to come back.  For 2022.   2021, not so much. However, just as you thought our international collective nightmare of COVID, DELTA, and all things variant is winding down, and just as search traffic for keywords related to event planning is starting to tick back up, and […]

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  • Photographer Mike Gatty, Owner of US Event Photos, photographing in Baltimore during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    02
    Nov

    When you are sitting next to a president, Chapter 4

    It was an exclusive executive party in Orlando, Fl.  An early spring had sprung, and big, puffy clouds scooted overhead.  The brick courtyard stretched in back of the five-star hotel; French doors spilled participants onto a manicured garden. High top tables with tiny tea candles and long white cloths dotted the patio, and a portable […]

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  • Photographer Mike Gatty, Owner of US Event Photos, photographing in Baltimore during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    03
    Jun

    Building your event photography business

    Even while stuck at home during COVID-19 The more things change, the more they stay the same.  During this once in a century pandemic, it’s hard not to feel trapped in amber.  Everything. Is. Stopped.  Just as you start to feel normal as you venture out to the big box store, you remember you have […]

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  • 25
    Jul

    Moments

    I call them moments.  When I’m traveling, and it’s raining, and the music in the Uber is perfect, and Matthew is next to me, and I think: all is well.  It’s a moment. What Denver International Airport looks like at 4 am. When I’m laying in a hotel bed, and a storm rages across the […]

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  • Singing In The Rain Green Screen Moment
    17
    Feb

    How Penn and Teller Helped Define the Brand that Became US Event Photos

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  • 05
    Feb

    HBO / AT&T Kickoff Event Los Angeles

    The HBO / AT&T Kickoff Events continue, this time at the Marriott Marquis in Los Angeles.  HBO is trying to schedule talent from the new season of Strike Back, on Cinemax.  Either we’ll have members of the new cast, or we’ll do the (in)famous Pick Your Series and Live It green screen photo booth.  This […]

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  • 28
    Jan

    Travel and Adventure Show Chicago Green Screen Photo Booth

    The world famous Travel and Adventure Show Destination Green Screen Photo Booth will travel to Chicago on the weekend of February 10 and 11.  Held at the Rosen Convention Center, this week’s destination is Key West and the Florida Keys.  Click HERE for more information about the show!  The show is open to the public, […]

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