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
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…
San Francisco Heritage News Spring 2014
Built in 1925 and designed by Timothy Pflueger, the 26-story Art Deco tower for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was one of the first modern skyscrapers in San Francisco. All photos from the two-day documentation were…
Ventana Magazine April 2014
… it seemed obvious that black and white would be a great way to show off this distinguished residence.
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…
Can You Say Ironic Mr. Jackling?
Steve Jobs' Calif. home gets historic designation Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' childhood home in California gets historic designation… http://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-jobs-calif-home-gets-140908413.html#!
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…
Amazingly Unretouched Architecture
A couple of nights ago I had the privilege of doing architectural photography for Ventana Magazine in Ventura's historic Hobson Heights neighborhood. Historic buildings are my favorite subjects but they often need a little help in Photoshop before they are ready for a centerfold. On this night I was fortunate enough to have clear skies,…