Archive for the ‘Commercial’ Category

Today’s house hunters are turning to the Internet more and more when looking for a home. What does this mean? First impression is something that you need and its only a quick click and they move on to the next house listing on any Real Estate Website. How easy is it to take a picture of the interior of a home? Grab a point and shoot camera and start taking pictures. The one thing that you want to ask yourself is – am I doing right by my clients in showing images of their home that were taken in a hurry and that does not properly show off their home to attract the most number of clients possible?

Recently I was able to help out a local Real Estate Agent, Patti Oney (from Whipple Realty), to photograph the interior of a home that she is showing in the Alliance area. The images below are an example of what I captured using a point and shoot camera, and using a professional grade camera with the skill that a professional photographer can offer.

Living Room

As you enter the house you see the living room first.

From a point and shoot camera

Dinning Room

Dining room – professional image

From a point and shoot camera

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom – professional image

From a point and shoot camera

Bathroom

Bathroom – does it look like the tub is filled with water?

From a point and shoot camera – impossible to capture everything that was captured
on the image above this one. Is this a half bath or a full bath? It’s difficult to tell
from this image, but not from the one above.

If you are interested in finding out how we can help make your listing “POP” compared to other Real Estate Agents, and get an advantage over your competition – contact us and we will be glad to help you in selling that home for your clients.

What is a wedding without a great cake? That would be like having a wedding without a GREAT photographer (I know one or two – drop me a line and I can help you).

We met the owners of A Catered Affair, LLC at a bridal show a few years ago. We were blown away with their cake designs and the taste of their cakes. Please visit their site to see more examples of the cakes.

They were approached by a Wedding Cake Magazine, to have an original cake photographed and placed in the magazine. There were some rules that must be followed to have the images of the cake be included in the upcoming edition. It could not have been displayed at a bridal show and/or photographed for magazine, website or any other form of publication. So the cake that you see pictured in this post is not the one that they are sending to the magazine, but they had with them as I photographed the cake that they recently built. I should have permission to place the images of their new cake on my site soon – I don’t want them to have spent all of their time coming up with a concept, designing, making the cake and transporting it to our studio for nothing.

Let me tell you – these sample cakes looked SO good that I could have taken a bit out of them. Interesting fact that I was told about the sample cakes – you can smell the sweetness of the fondant for up to 2 years after it has been made. My studio smelled like a bakery for a couple of hours after they left.

Our local chamber of commerce had their annual golf outing. In attendance were some of the top businessmen from Alliance and some surrounding areas, plus the president of the local college was out to have some golf time as well.

This year the winners were the Mount Union College team.

Nicole and I were there to capture the groups that played as well as some action shots so that they could be used in the chamber’s newsletter.

After one of the final pictures that we took, Nicole took off with the Golf Car and I tried to catch up. I understand why golf cars are used, it’s a little bit of a walk from the back of the course to the club house.

Trying to catch up to my ride.

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These put themselves in harm way to save our houses, come to our help during car wrecks and most other emergencies in their small community.

They wanted to get a group picture – why have them line up like it was a class picture? Most of these guys have been out of school for a few years. Having their equipment that they depend on to do their work, placed behind them would show them as they are – guys who are guys.

Thank you for being there and protecting us. My hat goes off to all of the volunteer firefighters around the USA and around the world.