Artwork photography workshop

For the past few years I've tought a short workshop to Corcoran book-arts students about photographing their artwork. In this workshops I focus on simple techniques that don't require a lot of equipment.

One of the things I like best about these workshops is getting to see the student work. Most of the time the students are early in their studies, so a lot of them have the same basic types of books. Where the work differs is the content they put in, and the artwork that fills the book.

Book Arts students preparing to photograph artwork.

Corporate Photography - Fundraising Gala

Non-profits all over the country use fundraising events and galas as ways to meet their operating budgets as well as raise money for new endeavors.  Over the past few years, I've photographed a number of fundraising events for organizations around the washington area, and I've seen first hand that when the events are well run, they can be extremely benificial to the organization hosting them.  

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Wedding Photography - Engagement session at Longwood Gardens

I am originally from Pennsylvania, and occasionally go back there to photograph weddings and other things.  

I recently went back to Longwood Gardens (where I hadn't been in years) to photograph Joanna and Del's engagement pictures.  

Corporate Photography - Portraits in a museum

One of my larger projects this year was to make portraits of the senior management at the Corcoran.  

When I've photographed management at the Corcoran in the past, it's mostly been on an individual basis, making it hard to get a good cohesive group of images.  This time we were able to shoot everyone against the same white seamless with the same lighting, as well as in a space around the gallery.  

This time, I had a dozen different people to photograph over two days.  I brought an assistant, and had help from the Corcoran's communications department in scheduling everyone.  

I've previously written about taking photographs in a museum.  Many of the same considerations of copyright and permissions came into play when making these portraits.  When scouting the different locations, I had a list of approved artwork that could be shown in photographs.  

Wedding Photography - Meg and Dan

Meg and Dan's wedding in was in the beautiful St. Agnes Church in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  

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