SCANA Insights

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Three of our photos were published in the latest issue of SCANA's Insights magazine. The photos are part of an article about Carolina Gas Transmission on page 25. A PDF version is available on line here. The photos were made several months ago at the request of the CGT Customer Services group. They were originally to be used for the company's web site, however, they were not well suited for that. A few others were eventually used in the company's customer brochure. Today's publication came as a bit of a suprise. A welcome suprise to be sure.

In the Garden

I photographed these two young ladies this past Saturday in their back yard. Simple setup, just one SB-800 strobe with the shoot through umbrella camera left. There was plenty of ambient light for fill, so one key light was all that was needed.

I am evaluating Adobe Lightroom 2 and used it for these shots. I am quickly becoming a true believer!

Grid Posters

We set up a make shift photo booth at the beach house this summer and did head shots for the yearly art project. Once the shots were complete my Mom, Mimi as she is known to the grandkids, projected them and traced them on canvas board. The kids then each used pastels to create a unique portrait of themselves.

This was all pretty cool, but the original photographs ended up being really good as well. I took 9 of my favorites of Jessica and Taylor and made these photo grid posters. These are being printed up on 16’x20’ and will be framed for display.

This was a neat project. Now that I have gotten the set up in Photoshop, duplicating this will be a snap. This could be great idea for a senior portrait project, or for a Christmas present.

Here's Taylor

The art projects can be veiwed here.

Just another day at the office

I have the good fortune to work for a company that occasionally does some really interesting things. They also ask me to photograph them from time to time. Yesterday I spent a good part of the day shooting welders plying their trade on some 16 inch pipe for a natural gas transmission facility. I don't care where you're from, that's some pretty big pipe.

This was a difficult environment to work in, but I managed to get a few keepers, including this one.

Steve