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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 The Dots – Photographing Remote Tower Technology
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...
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, GRAND PARENTS PHOTOS, AND GREAT GRAND PARENTS 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 families past. It must have been heart...
Making a Beautiful Occoquan Home More Beautiful
What goes on behind the smoke and mirrors of an architectural photographers camera during a cover shoot. Creative photography can be accomplished in a single click. Extra special photography, images that evoke an air of dreaminess, perceived reality, or...
Woodbridge Photographer Image Chosen For Regional Magazine Cover
PHOTOGRAPHERS NOTES on photographing the Dale City Farmers Market. Ok, the title and sub are hokey! I get it. But have a bit of humor because I'm happy to announce that one of my photos is on the April 2015 cover of Prince William Living. Prince William Living is a...
Published In Advanced Photoshop 126
Mark Gilvey contributes three restoration tips to professional photo-retouching magazine. In August 2014, I received an email from a freelance writer who was working on a feature article for Advanced Photoshop. Based in the UK, the magazine specializes in...
From Print to Motion Graphics
Leveraging photographs for multiple media A few months ago I wrote a post about how quality photography can make a difference in your marketing. Today’s post illustrates how animation (motion graphics) can take still photographs and graphics to a whole new...
Are You Ready For Your Close-Up?
The head shot, business portrait, or the action portrait; which is best for you!? Business portraits are an important tool for anyone who needs to be recognized. Customers, shareholders, organization members, and the general public all benefit by being...
Corporate Portrait Becomes Photo Illustration For Local Book Author
Author chooses MGC for photography and book production. Henrik de Gyor, host of Another DAM Podcast and Another DAM Blog consulted MGIW to do a couple of corporate portraits for an upcoming book he was writing called “Another DAM Podcast...
Panoramic Architectural Photography For Prince William County Bar Association
Selecting the right architectural photographer can make your structure or property do more than just make it recognizable to the public; it can project and image or an impression. I was recently contracted to provide photography and SEO services to the Prince William...
How Commercial Photography Pushes Marketing Materials to New Level
Quality photography matters in marketing! Great photography can take a business’s marketing materials from just getting by to wow! Business owners who understand the value of good photography realize that it’s more than just a matter of pointing a camera...