While I was working at a corporate event recently, one aspect of the event involved photographing performers that were entertaining the guests. A company of Chinese acrobats put on several exhibitions involving different talents. The event space was dark and…
I spent several years photographing work trucks for Freightliner. Some assignments were more interesting than others, some more fun, and some just plain lucky. I had the good fortune to be granted access to the field side of Kennedy Airport…
For several years, E-ONE Fire Trucks wanted their calendar to include images of their trucks in action. They were sticklers for detail and the manner in which their product was displayed. As such, they wanted clean, well lit, nicely posed…
I made another stop while photographing fire trucks with people for the American LaFrance calendar in York, PA. The York Fire Department consists of full-time and volunteer firefighters from several fire companies. Two of these companies had American LaFrance apparatus,…
Another series of assignments photographing fire trucks with people was for the American LaFrance calendar. Owned at the time by Freightliner, they had begun showing images of their trucks shot on location with firefighters. I had seen the calendars that they produced…
This post is more about photographing fire trucks with people from an assignment in Eureka, CA. In the last post I wrote about the first dramatic location that I used, a lumber mill with huge piles of cut logs. I…
Here’s an example of another assignment that I had photographing fire trucks with people. I went to the town of Eureka in northern California. Known for redwood trees, I knew that I wanted to incorporate that aspect of their environment…
This will be the first installment in a series of posts about photographing fire trucks with people. For several years I was contracted to provide the calendar photography for Pierce Manufacturing. I travelled on-location to the fire departments that owned the trucks…
In my mind, responsible fire scene photography includes doing your best to catch the action and document the incident. Sometimes those tasks are the same, but many times they are not. We all want to shoot the massive smoke and…
A bit more about fire scene photography in Detroit. First of all, time is often … of the essence. Here is an instance where we spotted the header in the sky minutes before there was a dispatch. Since we had…