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Can an architectural photographer come in and shoot on the same day? Of course. Should they? Absolutely not. A photographer who doesn’t want to familiarize himself with the subject first is a sign that they lack experience. But more importantly, without that walkthrough, the quality of your photos will suffer. Here are just a few ways a walkthrough can turn a photo shoot from good to great.
Read MoreWhen it comes to getting shots of a home or commercial building, you can do a lot from the ground to showcase general or specific details. But for showing the scale of your architecture, your landscape, and your relation to the places around you, you need to go higher. Today we go over using helicopter aerials to get those perfect shots, and why to choose them over alternatives.
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The end of summer and beginning of fall is a busy time for landscapers and construction companies. With an office, apartment, or other commercial architecture, you want to wait until everything is perfectly complete before you call up a photographer. However, mother nature may not be so accommodating as recent hurricanes have shown, and cleanup might mean your first photo op is in the dead of winter. If you’ve got an unfinished landscape and construction, that doesn’t mean you can’t have great architectural photos.
Read MoreSo, your architectural photographer just handed off your photos. What now? While you probably had a project in mind for your photo shoot, you could be doing a lot more with your digital photography to increase your online presence and find more clients and investors for your business. Let’s look at the top four places to showcase those new building photos.
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When it comes to architectural photography, not all times are created equal. There will be times of the day and times of the year where your building looks better than others, and there will be times where getting the best shot will take much more work. Shooting in twilight can make for some excellent shots that make your buildings stand out, but it also takes some work as the owner to make sure you get the best shots possible. Here are my tips on how to prepare to get the best twilight photo shoot.
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We have always lived in a world where images hold attention far better than text. When it comes to the highly competitive world of online resort and hotel bookings, the quality of your photos plays a huge role in capturing and keeping attention. The use of comparison sites and online search engines means someone looking for a hotel or resort has a lot of data bombarding them: great photography of your resort of hotel allows them to easily use visual information to pick you from out of the crowd.
Read MoreTo increase your presence, from online websites and social media to brochures and product guides, you need professional photography. And that means finding a professional photographer. Here are the tips I recommend when looking for a photographer that will help you separate the enthusiastic amateurs from the professionals.
Read MoreHere is how to design a Facebook Cover.
Read MoreKitchens are often the most important part of a house. It is where everyone congregates. It is where we normally go to first. At a party, it is where you will find the most people.
Read MoreEvery file has metadata incorporated into them. Camera settings, date, time, GPS (in newer cameras equipped with that information), creator's information and copyright restrictions.
There are several ways to review the metadata.
Read MoreHappy Holidays. This is the first Blog on my Squarespace site. Previously, before Squarespace offered blogs on this template I had my blog on www.BostonPhotographer.co . With the help from Alex at Vision Advertising we have moved the blog to here. Here is how I produced this year's holiday card.
Read MoreThe fine people at Northland Investment Corporation commissioned me to photograph the newly finalize and populated MERC on Moody & Main. With the project in the troughs of finishing up I was tasked to capture as much as possible but had to have final processed images for a presentation to take place yesterday. Today it was talked about in the Boston Globe story Newton Retail strip might get a major makeover. Kent at Northland said “We prepared two boards of MERC pictures to show the community the quality of our work. Your pictures help make us look very good!!” I photographed the final images on Oct. 25th and delivered them on Friday Oct. 28th so they had time to produce the boards. Even finished planting the missing landscaping through the art of Photoshop. Prides me to see it all work out.
Read MoreCloud based file storage is the new tool to move/transfer digital files and folders between vendors (photographers) and clients. It has many names. Dropbox, Box, Microsoft’s OneDrive, Google Drive, Adobe file share, to name a few. In this blog we'll look at transferring large files through Dropbox, and the limitations that the various versions of this program have.
Read MoreSteve Collotta of Creative System, one of my first and oldest clients, contracted me to photograph an outdoor project that incorporated a high-quality 130″ LED TV that was designed to rise from the floor of a pool house. The images were to be featured in Boston Design 2015. New England weather and construction delays pushed us to the wire. Steve and I know with a little luck we would make the deadline, all the while capturing the required and visually exciting images. Here is how the shoot went with the fine help of the home owner:
Read MoreThe latest update to Adobe Lightroom includes a remarkable new tool…Dehaze.
Read MoreI am now offering my clients a way to save money on Mass Sales Tax and deliverables. Mass Sales Tax is now not needed to be applied to photographers fees if the files are delivered electronically only. Like through DropBox. But if any of the project is delivered physically, like a DVD or Flash Drive, then the whole project is subject to MA sales tax.
Read MoreLast fall I was honored to photograph the new Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center & Surgical Pavilion in Needham for Bond Brothers.
Read MoreIn early December, I learned about and subsequently photographed a Net Zero House in Ashland, MA built by Mike Kane. But quickly learned he actually has built 2 of them. The first was the one I photographed.
Read MoreWe are in the middle of a record snow fall which we may not see again in many years. Last time I remember depths like this in MA was as kid in Topsfield MA. That year our road was finally plowed out by a large bucket loader with a eight foot tall snow blower attachment like you see at Snowbird UT. We had 10 days of school in the month of February. With Blizzard Juno 2015 and all the snow since, lots pictures are being taken.
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Today I officially launched my new web site. It has been 6 months in the making. Enjoy..hope you like it. Let me know your thoughts.
- Gregg Shupe
