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What is a commercial photographer?
Who loves looking at photos of food? High quality food photographs are essential if you run your own restaurant. Have you ever seen bad photos of food on a restaurant chain's website, or in their marketing material? No, not ever! That's because they know food...
How To Prepare for a Product Photography Photoshoot in Five Steps
How to prepare for a product photography shoot (5 tips) Planning, planning, planning Introduction So, you've decided to have a commercial product photographer capture beautiful images of your product. That's a feather in your cap. How you decide to prepare for the...
Car Photography For EuroSport Tour 2022
They came, They saw, They received a splash! What makes a supercar owner happy? A dry road! That was what we saw on Sunday, September 11, 2022, on the first leg of a trifecta driving tour through Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. We started under a light...
Mark Gilvey interviewed for Street Photography Podcast
In November 2021, I was interviewed on Street Photography Magazine's Podcast I spent over an hour talking it up with the editor and publisher of Street Photography Magazine; Bob Patterson. It was a wonderful time, and I was finally glad to meet Bob in person. But that...
Car Photography: Pt.3 – Supercar Photography
Faster than my Acura SUV! What makes me excited? Super Car Photography, that's what! What gets me going? Seeing lots of supercars gets me going. In September 2021, my wife and I had the opportunity to participate as staff members of a sports car driving tour...
Car Photography Pt.2 – Luxury Rides
Automobiles For Kings and Queens I never thought I would have the honor of doing luxury car photography for a client with so many cars. One beautiful crisp and clear day, you know the kind; you can see for miles where the sun is shining. It's the kind of day that...
Car Photography PT.1
I've been keeping a secret from you. Car Photography. I've never written about this subject in a professional capacity before. Since COVID has been pushing businesses big and small into oblivion, I thought I would write about something dear to my heart and try and...
Macro Product Photography
Tiny products make big impression for museum visitors and eCommerce with the right product photographer. Photographing tiny products takes a lot of patience. It requires the right equipment and a lot of skill—especially when the software lets you down. I have been...
New Photo Studio Lights Up Woodbridge
Creating a photo studio to serve commercial product photography needs of Northern Virginia businesses. Today I have the honor to announce that I am opening my photo studio in Northern Virginia. Like many photographers, I started out working in my basement. Today I'm...
Connecting Dots Around The World with Commercial Photography
Working with multiple stakeholders around the world to assemble content about Remote Tower technology for aviation industry magazine I really shouldn't be surprised but I just find it interesting how projects come together. Recently, a friend of mine (Carsten Schmidt,...
Quick And Easy Video
Understanding how much time (really) goes into making a quick, short video. Yaaay! It's tres magique! "I just need a super simple, easy video. Nothing complicated. It can even be a single cut from one camera angle. Isn't that how Alfred Hitchcock shot the movie...
Picture Restoration Of A Discovered Past
OUR PHOTOS, PARENTS PHOTOS, GRANDPARENTS PHOTOS, AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS PHOTOS ARE FADING INTO MEMORY I recently had a very nice lady contact me about restoring several photos that had come to light about her family's past. It must have been heart-lifting for her to...