Photography strobe lighting 101 workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography April 2017
Photography Technique
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 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.
Chicago Theater Photo Lesson
If you're in Chicago with all your camera equipment… …And you can get a hotel room across the street from the Historic Chicago Theater… on the 7th floor… above the 'L' tracks… and you've talked the theater owner into turning on the marquee lights even without a show… and nobody parks a truck in front… and it…
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.
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.
HABS Photographer Stephen Schafer Selected for Best of ASMP 2011
I’m excited to be one of twenty photographers chosen… for the seventh annual Best of ASMP 2011… (and the first HABS photographer).