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…
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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
Architectural Photography = A busy 2014
2014 started out clickin'… Some challenging architectural photography projects sent us around the state of California to photograph apartment buildings and pools in the Bay Area… Elan Apartments, San Jose, California. Shopping centers on the Monterey Peninsula… The Dunes Shopping Center, Marina, California. We spent a couple days…
A Day In The World Book Selection, Oxnard Documentary Photographs
Costco-Oxnard is famous now. ADAY.org book inside spread. Photo: Stephen Schafer. On May 15, 2012 a non profit organization, Expressions of Humankind based in Sweeden, set out to document the world by encouraging photographers of all skill levels to document a 24 hour period on one day, May 15, and upload the photos to be…
Photoshop Translation (quote)
"I'll fix it in Photoshop™," This quote is usually loosely translated to: "I'll screw it up in camera." Client: Cardkey, Model: Brian Kent, Photograph by www.schafphoto.com
Nikon D800E – For Architecture + a Moiré Hunting Safari (Updated 5-’14)
11 things a still photographer found out about the Nikon D800 and/or D800E when it showed up yesterday. And a link to full size photos on Flickr showing uncorrected D800E moiré.
HABS on HIGH -Sonoma Blue Wing Inn Survey
While the rest of the visitors to Sonona taste wine and cheese, we’re surveying the Blue Wing Inn Adobe to add to the HABS documentation from 1934…
Bixby Bridge HAER (Historic American Engineering Record)
Bixby Bridge HAER… This photo speaks a thousand words, (it’s two 5×7 negatives, so maybe 2000 plus a couple hundred to descrbe the itching and the perfect weather conditions) and it’s a panorama though not quite 360 degrees. I think the photo title should be 1000/360.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (or Dusk)
Architectural photography in Southern California allows for a lot of sun-lighting variation but inevitably the south facing buildings are finished in summer and the north facing ones are ready in winter… Must be Murphy’s Law of solar frustration.
Exercise in Lighting…(or lighting as exercise)
This week my photo assistant Dave Sanchez and I put in three long days in the Sierras above Bishop, California photographing a Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation of some hydro-electric powerplants.