photography for compensation
This is a sampling of my photographic work during my time at
Eastman Kodak Company.
A majority of the Kodak images were used for brochure and trade show purposes. The work here bears my copyright unless otherwise noted...
From February of 1989 until February 2001, I worked at
Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester NY. At first I was assisting. I worked my way up to the Illustrative, Developmental and Industrial Studios. The Illustrative Studio was the plum job.
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I spent most of my time in the Developmental Studio (where they test the film) assisting and in the Industrial Studio for seven years as a photographer.
The work above are from the time when I worked with the early digital cameras. The manufacturing engineers would bring the cameras to our studio for us to put the cameras through a real world application as apposed to firing the camera at a test target.
The engineers came to the studio with the request. The first photo (above from the left) was the first appearance model for the DC 210. They asked for a shots of the front and back. It was suggested that we should try to get the front and backs together if we had more than just the one camera. Voila, the power of Photoshop
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With the coming of digital cameras, in-house photography became a more of a necessity than the luxury it used to be. Instead of a week or so, or even a three day turnaround for the finished images, it has become a "we-will-wait-fro-the-prints" affair.
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The convenience for the customer has become the driving force in digital photography. The use of images for sales, demonstration purposes and even decor have become common place in the corporate world. Below on the left are two images of the Kodak LED Printer. They were taken on the factory floor and were originally to be used for the documentation purposes. They are still being used to day on their website and in a pdf brochure for the product almost 4 years later.
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The five images below are from a test lab for circuit board manufacturing. The client wished to have records of the configuration, but the machines were to be crated for shipment at the end of the day. Under normal conditions the room would have been clean and lighting arranged for the shoot. This time all the cleaning was done in the computer and the lighting under room conditons (multiple exposures composited for clean lighting).
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These last five images are from freelance work. In Rochester, Sea Breeze Amusment Park, had a 100 year old wooden carousel that burned to the ground one winter. Six horses were being reconditioned at the time. A fiberglass horse would cost almost $15,000 while a wooden horse carved ran about the same price or even cheaper. They replaced 30 horses and the shots below were used to showcase the work.
Instead of shooting weddings (as every photographer does at some point in their career) I focused on wedding portraits. The woman below was having a evening wedding in December. I photographed her in a old cemetary in September and retouched a scan of the shot , had it printed on canvas and framed for display at the reception. I believe it show the beauty of her dress.
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