News and Information About HABS, HAER and HALS Photography
Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about the Vaillancourt Fountain at the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. The fountain is historic, and these two photographs were taken of the plaza and fountain in 2022 when I was documenting the Market Street Historic Landscape District, a 2.3 mile-long section of Market Street from The Ferry…
Take a look at our latest projects, interesting HABS tidbits, and random architecture sightings on the @HABS_photographer Insta. HERE: https://www.instagram.com/habs_photographer/ If you’d like more information about HABS/HAER/HALS photography take a look at our website. HABSPHOTO.comStephen Schafer,Architectural Photography,Ventura, CaliforniaPhone: 415-857-HAERE: schaf@west.net
There’s a really good (ongoing) discussion on the Large Format Forum about camera-scanning 4×5 and 5×7 negatives for HABS, HAER, or HALS. I use a DSLR (or Mirrorless) camera and a copy stand to photograph my negatives and create 30+ Megapixel digital photographs. Follow the discussion here: https://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?157757-4×5-amp-5×7-Negatives-Camera-Scanning-with-Nikon-D800E&highlight=habs
There’s a really good (ongoing) discussion on the Large Format Forum about doing 4×5 photography for a living as a HABS, HAER, or HALS Photographer. Not working for the National Park Service or Heritage Documentation Programs, as an in-house photographer, but rather doing freelance HABS/HAER photographs of historic places for Cultural Resource management firms, cities,…
As one blog ends, another begins. Here in September 2025, my blogging platform since 2010 – Typepad – is going offline. So, I have migrated some of the old posts here to HABS-HAER-HALS.com at WordPress. I’m still not sure if that old Typepad blog will go away or be frozen as an archive. From 2025…