It's always nice to get your pictures in the paper… This month a couple of my infrared photographs from Semester at Sea (Fall '97) were featured in the Faces & Places article in Ventana Magazine. May 2015 Ventana Magazine The first image is a picture of a kindergarten in Shanghai, China … Guzeng concert in…
Author: HABS HAER Photographer Stephen Schafer
Teaching Lighting at Los Angeles Center of Photography
I'm teaching the 'Light Anything, Anytime, Anywhere' lighting 101 workshop at LACP this summer, August 1, 2015. Here's the link: LACP
PRE and POST Apartment Photographs
Here's a couple of pre and post photos from a recent project in Los Angeles. What once was a massive rail yard is now housing. Taylor Yard After Taylor Yard Before Stephen Schafer HABS/HAER Architectural Photography www.habsphoto.com Related articles Architectural Photographs PRE and POST
PRE and POST Architectural Photographs
A couple more "Before and After" photos from a local project for Shea Apartment Communities in Oxnard designed by Architects Orange … and yes, it really did rain the day we did the photography. Artisan Apartments, Oxnard, CA in the rain.
Ventura Botanical Gardens Photography
Just giving back… here are some photographs that I donated to the upstart Ventura Botanical Gardens for use on their website…
Balboa Highlands HPOZ Eichler Tract on NPR
NPR just used one of our photos from the Historic Places LA postcard launch project on their All Things Considered program. The feature titled: With Sunny, Modern Homes, Joseph Eichler Built The Suburbs In Style by Susan Stamberg. If you have seven minutes, have a listen by clicking on the story link above. Our friend and fellow…
HistoricPlacesLA Postcards for the Getty
For the Launch of the HistoricPlacesLA.org website and the public launch of SurveyLA – the Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory – we were asked to create a series of images of historic sites in all fifteen LA City Council Districts. Some of the HistoricPlacesLA.org Postcards Working with the Getty Conservation Institute we documented historic sites…
Architectural Photographs PRE and POST
A friend of mine was looking at the little before and after photography gallery on my phone and reminded me that I should put some of the "PRE" and "POST" images on my blog and website to show how and what I do to make a picture of a building into what I call a…
Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects new website features Santa Monica Reststops
RNT Architects just announced their new website and one of the portfolios featured is the award winning Santa Monica Beach restrooms. We photographed these in November 2011 when they were just completed. The sides of the restrooms are perforrated stainless steel panels and at a distance they form a halftone pattern that depicts scenes of Santa…
Acronym Day: New HABS HAER HALS album on APT website
Just uploaded a few choice Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) photographs to the Association of Preservation Technology (APT) website. Stephen Schafer is a HABS Photographer based in Ventura, California. 805-652-1000