Category: Photo Shoots
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Seattle Real Estate Photography: Updated Ballard Craftsman
I was never sure what neighborhood to say this house was in. I preferred to call it Ballard, but since it was east of 8th (by just a couple feet) and north of 65th (by less than half of a block), some said it was in Phinney Ridge, while others said Greenwood. So I coined…
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Seattle Real Estate Photographer: Phinney Ridge Craftsman
Today’s real estate market in Seattle is brisk. There’s very little inventory available; houses don’t stay on the market very long. I’ve been working with Cynthia and Mack – a husband and wife team with Nice Seattle Homes – to photograph their real estate listings, and today’s was a treat. Seattle may not have homes…
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Making The Shot: Skagen Watch
I saw it – I loved it – I wanted to take a picture of it. The mesh strap, the carbon fiber background, the small pops of color on this Skagen Watch… Yeah, let’s do this. First, let’s talk set-up. I really wanted to go minimal on this one. 1 light, no special equipment, kitchen…
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Making the Shot: Macrina Chai
Inspiration can strike anywhere, anytime. I had just received a new camera (a Panasonic DMC-GX7, which I’ll blog about soon) and was on my way to a business meeting at Macrina on 1st Ave in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. Wanting to test the camera, on my way I saw some fog being lit up by a…
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Seattle Holiday Portraits: The Watershed Company Holiday Portrait
Each year, companies around the world send out holiday cards to their customers, clients, employees, contacts, vendors… Anyone that they have touched in the previous 12 months. The Watershed Company, an environmental consulting, environmental engineering, environmental planning and landscape architecture firm in the Seattle area, is one of those companies that wanted company holiday portraits…
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Light Painting the 4th
A camera sees light. Where you have exposed light, the camera will capture it. Where there is no light, nothing appears in the photo. Based on that, given the right environment, you can control what your camera sees and what it doesn’t using a light source that you control, known as “Light Painting.”