I’ve had several occasions to play with photographing tow trucks … either for Freightliner, Miller Industries (they build Century, Challenger, Chevron, Vulcan, and Holmes brands), or for a book that I wrote called Tow Trucks in Action. On assignment in Des…
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For several years I had the good fortune of being a go-to photographer for Freightliner Trucks, specifically working with vocational trucks (Business Class models). What this meant was that my contact at Freightliner was constantly seeking out different applications or…
Several years ago I attended the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY on behalf of Freightliner Trucks. One of my assignments was to create environmental portraiture of several owner/operators with their Freightliner trucks. The conditions were not ideal. An enormous…
Here’s another image from a corporate party at the Field Museum in Chicago. A different group of Chinese acrobats performing with parasols under stage lighting. Although the area was well lit on the performers, overall the low light photography considerations…
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…