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Working with What Is
Mary Baker Eddy lived in Lynn, MA where she wrote what would become the foundation for the Christian Science religion. Her home there has just been restored and is a museum. My assignment was to...
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Inside Out
There are times when I actually photograph outside of a commercial setting. I’m posting some images I took on the back shore of Gloucester during a summer road race. I used flash to illuminate the...
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Make it Rain
Sunny day. Warm and worthy of an 8 on the nice day scale. This is the day we need a storm. Olympus makes a product that detects the integrity of materials out in the field, like the Alaska pipe line....
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Oh Baby
So you stored your childrens’ portraits thinking they were safe. Years later you discover the storage area roof is leaking. Those pesky mold critters have found a new home on your cute little boy. You...
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Making Stock Work
Though I’d love to photograph all the images for our clients, sometimes it’s more timely and cost effective to use stock. Of course, there can be a fair amount of time involved finding images that work...
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Photographing Art
For this post I’m going to outline photographing artwork, specifically flat art, though much of the thinking can be applied to 3 dimensional art. If you’d like to photograph your own work there are...
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Fun in the Sun
Bright sun is fun to be in, but it does present a few photographic problems. On this assignment we arrived for an 11:45AM group portrait. The sun couldn’t have been any brighter with just a few...
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Clean it Up
Sometimes there is no perfect image to tell the story and an image needs to be created that tells the message in a clear way. Without misrepresenting, we have used 3 images and a range of image editing...
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Hello in There
Two images arrived needing retouching attention. Looking at them raised the question “what did they look like when they were new?” We have tools to clean up and technically bring back an image close to...
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We Can Build It
Yes, photographing an original item is the ideal. However, in the real world, that can’t always happen. Sometimes a client has the need for a different version of a product and, for one reason or...
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Pump it Up
Time to make an image speak a thousand words for a local auto dealership. We first did a little day time scouting, shot a number of views, put them up on a site for the client to review, and here’s the...
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Getting the Most Out of an Image
Photography today gives us quite a bit of latitude when exposing for an image compared to the past. Sensors today permit us to shoot in low light and still capture an image that is recognizable without...
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Creative Focus
You can do a lot with a camera to focus on a subject. If you want everything in focus you would strive for the greatest depth of field. However, you may want to key in on a part of the image, to direct...
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