Several fire truck builders and equipment suppliers made donations to the FDNY after 9/11 to help replace the devastating loss. I visited New York City to photograph several of these units after they’d been delivered. One was this FDNY Haz…
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This is just a quick post to reminisce about an image taken during my youth … an early effort at environmental portraiture on a fire scene. I thought this guy exhibited a lot of character in the way he carried himself. The…
Back in the old days … 2001 … I ventured out with my new digital camera and took in a very smokey 3-11 fire at 1974 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. I was prepared to conquer the world … digital…
We’ve been taught that the viewer’s eye will be drawn to the brightest portion of an image … which promotes the need for an understanding of lighting, composition, and contrast. But what if you have an image that begs to…
Generally, having fun with fire scene photography may seem like it goes against the seriousness of the event. … and in some cases … many cases probably, that’s be accurate. After all, generally someone is losing their home, business, or…
Let’s face it. These days it’s getting harder and harder to get to a fire scene to witness flames and billowing black smoke. There are several factors that come into play here. There are way too many people on the…
Here are a few fire scene photos … no lengthy discussion about the fire or the image creation … just a few images to look at. The captions detail some of the points that are relevant. Talking points are focal…
Photographing a fire scene at night poses several challenges, chief among them being lighting, but smoke, water mist, and rain are a few of the obstacles waiting to trip up a photographer. Realizing also that a fire scene is not a posed…
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…
While on assignment in old Montreal, I had the opportunity to photograph a bridge expanse at dusk. I was fortunate to be on a shipping dock with a large open area that afforded me a great view of the bridge, the…