Posted on: January 5th, 2012
A new website at last
Being too busy with work will no longer suffice as a reason to not update my website. Stay tuned for more changes in the coming weeks and months. The only excuse that remains is finding time to scan in some older work from film.
As a freelancer I have to focus on keeping productive and keeping my clients happy, and it gradually got harder to keep my second generation website current and with enhanced features. I've now moved the site over to a content management system called Concrete5. Not as well known as WordPress, but easier to edit and add content since you work on the actual page, not in a control panel. Features are easily added with downloaded additions. All the content is sitting in a database so updates don't require me to spend time uploading the entire site when I add a page or change something. Photo galleries can be more interactive and easier to use.
Building websites is fun again. Now I just need to make some time to scan images from my days of shooting film and adding more recent work. If you see anything I really need to fix, or you get lost in here, let me know.
Belmont 2014
Posted by admin on June 18, 2014
A beutiful day at Belmont for the Belmont Stakes, but sadly another missed opportunity to break the drought on awarding the Triple Crown to a horse. California Chrome was the contender, but an injury at the start of the race might have been the reason he just didn't have the energy to pull off a third win, Saturday, June 7, 2014. I had the opportunity to work with Michael Clevenger of the Louisville Courier Journal, setting up several remote cameras (there were more than 100 around the track for all the print media at the race).
Here are some of the better images from the day.
Trading Cards for The Baseball Center
Posted by admin on October 17, 2013
A little bit of new math from our weekend of photographing NY Stars league games for The Baseball Center...12 games = 8,000+ photos. Trading cards are back at The Baseball Center. I've found a good vendor to produce them, now I just need to make photos of 250 players during their games this weekend. The weather should be good (not too sunny) and then I'll be busy producing the designs for all the cards so they can be printed before the end of the season. Fingers crossed I have enough batteries and memory cards.
Parents can securely order their cards online here.
Some of the design samples:
Event coverage at school
Posted by admin on October 17, 2013
A recent commercial by Nokia was a little over the top on what it is like to attend a performance at school, but even their new phone would struggle in the low light prevalent in school theaters. Excited parents make most performances I've been too look like the modern equivalent of fans holding up cigarete lighters at a rock concert as they try to shoot videos or stills with their phones. I can help reduce the scrum of parents charging the stage and produce images a cell phone can't for schools in the NYC area.
High end professional cameras fare much better, but take away even a few lights (with burned out bulbs, assuming there was ever enough light), or a very energetic performance with kids moving quickly on stage and motion blur, shadows and distorted colors become a problem.
So I took a page from my days as a sports photographer and hauled in a couple hundred pounds of equipment to light the kindergarten graduation at Success Academy Upperwest last spring. I may never go back to available lighting. Gone is the graininess caused by shooting at 6400ISO. Like a Sports Illustrated photo, dancing kids are not a blur. Even the tricky orange uniform shirts look normal.
These are photos you can't make with a cell phone. Partly thanks to the long telephoto lenses I can use, but mostly thanks to the better light, which most parents didn't even notice I was using. I may never convince all the parents to sit, relax and enjoy the show, but I think these images might convince them.
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