• May 08, 2013

  Published in print & on web!

  

  Another way my images help tell my clients stories.

  Clients Balfour Beatty and MWH received recognition in American Infrastructure Magazine (in print and on the web) and my images contributed to telling the story of Sacramento Area’s largest water treatment plant. “Vineyard” is a LEED Gold $255 million facility capable of up to 100 million gallons of drinking water can be treated per day! More about it here: http://americaninfrastructuremag.com/spring-2013-44.php

• May 01, 2013

  Playing Nice With Others

  

  Playing nice with others on a job site is one of the skills I do very well on.

  This image is of the recently remodeled Grand Hyatt Event Center in downtown San Francisco. The builder Howard S. Wright and designer indidesign are responsible for this impressive interior. The constraint here: Project deadline (24 hrs. away) with workers/equipment all over this interior! As a commercial photographer one of the hardest things to do is ask others to stop working so I can turn their workspace into my temporary studio especially with this deadline looming.

  Time is money for everyone on a construction job, not to mention knocking people out of their working rhythm just so the photographer can get a “picture”. So when I shoot in these circumstances, I’m not only thinking about the shot’s composition, I’m thinking about lowest impact to all. This means setting up the camera position then lighting around others work apparatus. It means communicating to others how long the photo will take to capture. It means I have only one chance to make it count. In the end, from when the room was cleared of all workers and tools, to all lighting possibilities being captured, only a total of 10 mins. lapsed with worker down time. Just one of the skills I bring to all jobs!

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