Editorial Portrait – AmeriServ Financial Annual Report I love being a commercial photographer here in Pittsburgh, and one of my favorite things to shoot is an Editorial Portrait. It’s more play than actual work. You go into a location and try to find an interesting and applicable environment that you think will make a compelling…
Behind the Scenes Photography on Autopilot A few weeks back, I bought a new GoPro 10. I already had a GoPro 3+, but I never really liked it. To use it properly, you had to memorize which buttons did what and had to know how to navigate your way through the cryptic menu system to…
Photographing Barges and tug boats on the Pittsburgh Rivers One of the things I love most about being a commercial photographer is the variety of the things I get to photograph. I’ve been in coal mines, up in helicopters, In steel mills while they’re pouring molten steel. I’ve been in operating rooms during actual operations…
Nondisclosure Agreements are driving me crazy! I’ve been amazingly busy lately but I haven’t been able to post photos from many of the jobs I’ve done because of nondisclosure agreements. I had a week-long food photography shoot with Baskin Robbins, shooting “flavor of the month” promotions for their international stores. I’ve been some really cool…
Photographers in Pittsburgh are lucky to have this kind of job Photographers in Pittsburgh get to photograph all kinds of things, and this week, I got to shoot bunch of commercial photography in industrial situations. Since I shoot mostly food photography, this type of shooting tends to be a welcome novelty. I love being a…
Pittsburgh Environmental Portrait Okay… Maybe that last fireman shot wasn’t my favorite shot from that shoot. The fact is, I just didn’t get a chance to look through them all. There are a million great ones! :o)
Pittsburgh Industrial Photographer Shoots Fireman Here’s my favorite photo from a two-day industrial photography project completed earlier today. We were shooting inside a “burn house”, a building specially designed for fireman to practice their skills. We simulated real house and industrial fires and photographed the fireman going through their paces. What I especially like about…
Pittsburgh Photographers Coal Mine Shoot I few weeks ago I posted a “crew” shot of everyone involved with the coal mine shoot, but I thought I’d actually go ahead and post one of my favorite shots from our shoot. For shots like this, I just can’t keep away from using the HDR (High Dynamic Range)…
Pittsburgh Commercial Photography Shoot Here are a couple portraits from a commercial photography shoot I did for an local (international) client. We spent two days in a coal mine in Utah and got some really great images. I’ve been playing with a couple different post-production techniques and each of these I did with a…
Pittsburgh Industrial Photography shoot on location I love doing most types of commercial photography, but one of my very favorites is industrial photography. I find is so interesting to drop into a location or business, and see what it is they do there. I’ve been to some very interesting places over the years, both…