A selection of my favorite large format negatives from the last couple years of Historic American Buildings Survey photography (HABS). By Stephen Schafer, Ventura, California, (805)-652-1000
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New Book About 1500 Mission Street, San Francisco
Announcing the publication of the 1500 Mission Street Historic Building Documentation book.
New Book About San Francisco’s Pier 70 Buildings
Announcing the publication of the softcover version of the San Francisco Pier 70 Historic Building Documentation book.
Photographing the First California HAER Documentation, HAER-CA-1 (again)
We executed a documentation mitigation to HABS/HAER/HALS standards to be transmitted as an addendum to the 1975 materials. New drawings and report were prepared by historical architecture firm Garavaglia Architecture in Downtown San Francisco and we were brought in to document the exterior and interior before changes were made.
Lighting Workshop April 2, 2017 at LACP
Photography strobe lighting 101 workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography April 2017
Ventura, California Featured in Preservation Magazine (With my photos)
It’s always nice when my town gets kudos from the media and even better when they use my photos to illustrate the story. A view from the Ventura Botanical Gardens was the lead image, along with Watermark on Main and Paradise Pantry. Historic Ventura, California is featured in the new Summer issue of PRESERVATION…
Not just HABS/HAER photos but also Teaching … and more Teaching …
It’s a busy year (semester?) so far here at HABSPHOTO.com headquarters. We’ve been juggling a new set of projects like Ascent Apartments, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Mt. San Antonio College, and the San Francisco Presidio HABS projects. But I’m also teaching Advertising Photography (Art 455 B/C) at California State University Northridge (CSUN) this semester. If…
Self Publishing Your Photo Book Workshop in Los Angeles at LACP
A new workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography; an introduction to self-publishing your own photo book using digital on-demand-printing.
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
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…