I am approaching the end of the first week of vacation out here in California, and thus far it has been great. We spent the first four days in San Francisco for a wedding (and all of the events surrounding the wedding). There was very little tourism, although we did tour Alcatraz, which was wicked [...]
Ok, so I had an experience today which hopefully will have taught me a lesson about reacting smarter under pressure. A request came in today for me to shoot one of our employees for a Spanish newspaper that is doing a profile of him. He was standing at the desk out front and the photo [...]
Converting a color photo to black and white is a pretty standard way to turn a mediocre photo into a good photo. We’ve all done this in an attempt to hide bad light, rough color, or to make a grainy photo work. But there are many other reasons to shoot color and convert to black [...]
A friend of mine sent me a link to Bill Sullivan’s work, which is really quite interesting. He surreptitiously snaps photos of people in various locations to create some excellent visual collections. For example, he conceals a camera nearby where a confederate is drawing caricatures of people on the street. While the subjects (marks?) are [...]
One of the challenges of my firm’s brand, is their strict rules about icon usage with photography. Often we have a client who has designed (or asks us to design) an icon to represent an idea or a service line, and then asks us to include it on top of a photo on the cover [...]
It’s been a little over four years since I first started hiring and working with professional photographers, and almost exactly a year since I took my first shots as a professional myself. Working as a photographer is maybe only 50% of my workday at the moment, and it’s definitely the fun half. I’m still doing [...]
It’s a banner day here at the office. Long-time readers may recall my distaste for Administrative Professionals day which occurs at the end of April each year. This is mainly because my firm classified me as an “admin”, rather than a “professional.” To add insult to injury, they award people with this (IMHO demeaning) classification [...]
Jonathan Gayman is a St. Louis photographer who specializes in corporate, commercial and food photography. Exhibit5a was Jonathan's first blogging adventure but is largely dormant at this stage. For more recent postings check out Jonathan's new St. Louis food blog called Shoot To Cook