I wrote this series six months ago. Time to show what’s changed in just 6 months…. ****** In the last couple of weeks, I’ve written two series: the first on trends affecting photography and, second, portraits. I like this format, I admit: if you’ll indulge me, I let my mind mull over a subject, and […]
This year’s busy season (which stretches from mid-February to Thanksgiving) is winding down. A few shoots left, and the year will wrap. Tornadoes. Ice chunks falling from the sky. Severe thunderstorms. Locust. Drizzle. Wall of Fire. Earthquake. Even tsunami warnings were all part of this year’s photo executions which spanned from coast to coast. You […]
We rushed from San Francisco International Airport to Tampa, flying in on one early Fall Saturday, spending Sunday house hunting, before flying out later that evening. The first four houses we’d put offers on fell apart. The latest, a Spanish style 1920’s stucco and tiled roof hacienda with a view of the Gulf of Mexico […]
I am a geek. On a Friday night, I’m more likely to be figuring out how to automatically download photos from Instagram and Twitter — and print them — as I am to be going out. Out, like, I don’t know, dancing. (Dancing queen, only 17! Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmmm Dancing queen….! Oh yeah….!) […]
In the last blog post, I showed two examples of photos from green screen executions at the Long Beach IndyCar race this past month. One was from our photo set — which utilizes Arri video lighting, a 20′ green screen scrim, prop car, a DSLR Nikon transmitting photos via ethernet to a laptop. Photos are […]
Part 7? Really? Who knew? In the last post, I talked about our green screen photo execution at the Long Beach Indycar race for Honda. We were one of about six experiential photo marketing booths: the others utilized iPads or iPhones to capture images, and one a more traditional setup like ours. I showed a […]
Yes, part 5. A month or so ago, I wrote about trends I saw affecting the professional event photography industry, and discussed in some detail everything from iPad green screen photo booths to iPhone photos broadcast by news channels. About six weeks have gone by since I ranted, and in those six weeks, even […]
This series has eyeballed style, and, in corporate speak, style translates to brand. It’s a hard series to write — brand is something written about, constantly, and what (tf) can I possibly add that gives any worthwhile tidbit of knowledge? After all, my company isn’t exactly Fortune 500, I don’t employ thousands of people, I […]
For the last two blog posts I talked about how everything builds toward your brand — and once you find your core values, stick to them. Build your company around those values: continually polish image but remain focused on those key, bedrock elements. For example, US Event Photos, the company I co-own with my mother, […]
For the last couple of blog series, I’ve ranted about trends affecting the photography industry, shooting portraits, and selecting equipment. All of which are great topics, and topics I am passionate about. That’s why the rant. But they are also topics which speak to an overall style. Style is an odd concept, isn’t it? Style […]