AShapiro Studios – Commercial Event Photography

Tag: Commercial Photography

  • Seattle Photography Workshop: Tabletop Product Photography

    Seattle Photography Workshop: Tabletop Product Photography

    Learn how to take photos for your online store! Are you an Etsy seller?  Want great DIY photos for your blog?  Looking to make your ebay photos pop?  Trying to get your Craigslist items shine?  This is the workshop for you! Commercial Photographer Ari Shapiro of AShapiro Studios will walk you through the basics of…

  • Making the Shot: Macrina Chai

    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…

  • Seattle Holiday Portraits: The Watershed Company Holiday Portrait

    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…

  • 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.”

  • Happy Canada Day!

    Each July 1, Canadians celebrate Canada Day which commemorates the joining of separate colonies into a single country – Canada.  In 2011, we were doing some work for RIM (Research in Motion, a Canadian Company, who makes Blackberry phones) and were in Toronto for Canada Day celebrations. There are about as many different ways to…