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.  

Corporate Photography - Portraits on a blue backdrop

Earlier this summer, I shot portraits of the staff for The Corcoran's pre-college program.  Some of the people I had already met through my work at The Corcoran, but most I had not.  The portraits were scheduled during a break in training for the summer staff.  I was able to spend enough time with each person to get some of their personality to show through in the images.   

 

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Wedding Photography - Allie and Jon's Engagement Photos

A few months back, I shot some portraits for Allie and Jon.  I was also the photographer at their wedding a few weeks after that, so more pictures of them will showing up on my blog soon.  

We took the pictures in Old Town Alexandria along the waterfront.  Thankfully the rain held off for a little while, and we were able to spend a few hours making some pictures outside.  Both Allie and Jon were great to work with.  The best pictures came when I took a step back, and letting them be themselves together.  

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Corporate Photography - Festival

 A few weekends ago I photographed a cultural festival for interns spending their semester in Washington.  I photographed the same event last year, so I knew what to expect the second time around.  

I knew before hand that the images are going to be used in two ways.  In the short term, the photos were posted online for the event attendees to view.  The longer usage is in support of the collateral material produced in house by the organization.  To meet both of these needs, I was looking to feature as many of the guests as possible, and also produce images that fit the organization's visual style.   

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Personal Work - Building Museum

The image below is from a trip I made a few weeks ago to the National Building Museum.  The sunlight shinning through the buildings ceiling made for dramatic patches of light across the different levels of the building.  

If you're in DC,  I recommend checking out the building museum.  They have an impressive exhibition of Lego Architecture on display until September 5th, 2011.