Earlier this summer I had an assignment to photograph a fire truck in Zionsville, IN. The fire chief brought me to an area of Main Street with classic old buildings and cobblestone pavement. The truck was positioned diagonally across an intersection.…
Tag: commercial photographer Larry Shapiro explains the process of photographing fire trucks
I traveled to Iowa recently to photograph a new truck. Part of the assignment was a night photo of a fire truck … something of a specialty for me. The shot and setup took about three hours from start to…
What can I say. I enjoy what I do. Unless I’m rushing off to catch a flight home … I keep shooting until the fire department is tired of me, or until I’m no longer able to create an interesting image…
A few images of fire trucks with dramatic lighting depicting dusk, sunset, and total darkness.
As the temperatures outside take a dive, I thought that a fitting image to end the year would be this winter fire engine portrait taken in northern Alberta … when it was extremely cold. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo…
On my way home from Arkansas on Saturday, I found myself at the airport with about a half hour to spare … too much time to spend waiting at an airport (in my way of thinking). Fortunately for me, my…
Part of my time spent in Arkansas involved photographing a Rogers Fire Department house burn down at the culmination of company training. Since my focus for the trip involved new apparatus from Rosenbauer, the fire department had one of the new…
A quick post from Rogers, AR … one of two Rosenbauer Commander engines pulling out of the station. Photographing a fire engine at night was accomplished here using a slow exposure with the camera mounted on a tripod to prevent undesired bout.
During my recent trip to Kansas, I visited the Mission Township Fire Department on the outskirts of Topeka. They have two new units from Rosenbauer America on the Commander chassis. Though they look like twins, one is a traditional engine…
I’m in north Texas today and photographed some new Plano Fire Department fire trucks. These two units were built by Rosenbauer America and supplement a department that is almost fully Rosenbauer or General Safety and Central States (both of which…