Sometimes work is just too fun for words … like the times that I ask to have a house set on fire for photos … and I get it! The image here is from several years ago and featured the…
Tag: commercial photographer Larry Shapiro explains the process of creating an image for the E-ONE calendar
A few images of fire trucks with dramatic lighting depicting dusk, sunset, and total darkness.
While visiting the fire department in Tifton, GA on a truck shoot, I was taken to the Georgia Museum of Agriculture where we posed the trucks. The facility was closed for the day which made it possible for us to drive…
I had an assignment recently to create a night photo of a fire truck. Here are a few images showing the setup, the crew, and the photographer.
I had an assignment to create a location portrait of an industrial fire engine inside a private refinery, for the E-ONE calendar several years ago. The final images came out great, but there was quite a bit of advance work necessary…
Here’s a busy image of an industrial fire engine at a refinery in Ft. McMurray, Canada. This 4×4 E-ONE custom fire engine was photographed on-location for inclusion in one of the E-ONE fire truck calendars. I probably should have pulled…
A trip in 1984 was my first time photographing fire trucks in Washington, DC. The fire department was known as DCFD, and the apparatus was painted red with a very wide white stripe around the middle. Back then, the stripe…
Some assignments work out better than others. Every time I go out photographing fire trucks on assignment, I work hard to create great images for the client … that’s my job. Bear in mind that these are not big budget…
Here’s another assignment that I had photographing fire trucks for the E-ONE calendar. I visited the Oklahoma City Fire Department who had recently had several pieces of aerial apparatus refurbished and re-chassied. Oklahoma City is the Capitol of Oklahoma and…