Producing and shooting an editorial assignment
I often get asked about how I work, so here’s a look at how I produced and shot a low budget editorial assignment. The approach is similar to one I’ve used for some corporate assignments.
Category: Photography technique
Photography for a newspaper restaurant review: a follow-up
I was finding some shortcomings in the photos I had been taking for the restaurant reviews in the NY Times (don’t tell my editor, OK?) so I revised my methods and gear a bit for
A restaurant shoot for a newspaper review: Part 1, Planning
I was asked to shoot a new restaurant for the local paper, and thought the experience would offer some insight both for photographers new to the restaurant photography scene and photo editors as well. (OK,
Street Photography: an alternative approach
I have always done a lot of street photography, starting in my late teens and continuing on to the present. My earliest photographic hero was (of course) Henri Cartier-Bresson, and he remains one of my
Location portraits when you can’t control the light
Location portraits are a specialty of mine, but as I was covering the Architectural Digest Home Show recently, I came across a frequent problem: how to deal with making interesting portraits in places where you
Author Portraits on location in New York
I like making author portraits. I read a lot. I write some. I like spending time with smart people, and if they’re wide-ranging Renaissance types, so much the better. So when I recently had the
Chocolate and Light
There I was, happily working my weight down to where I want it, when Karen Seiger at Sirene Media Works and Markets of New York City asked me to shoot the New York Chocolate Show.
Five-minute headshots
As a people photographer, my ideal is to spend some time with the people I’m shooting, even for something as basic as a headshot. Why bother? My take is that a headshot is often the
Photography of musical performances
I like music. OK, I really like music. It’s embedded in me somehow. I usually wake up with a tune in my head, a fact to which my wife will attest. And I like to