120 Casual Portraits in 74 Minutes

I recently coordinated and participated in the Hood College "Six Words, Six Photographers" project.  Toward the end of this five week largely photojournalistic endeavor, I became aware that Hood tends to need a lot of tight, energetic, images of students for current and future marketing purposes.

On my last two visits to the campus as the project wound down, I photographed 120 students in a total of 74 minutes of shooting time;  all with a D300 and an 85mm lens, and largely at f2.

They're not all great photographs, but they're all representative of the typical Hood College student in 2010.

You can see them here, here, here, and here...

All. By. Myself.

A Few Recent Covers

Recent Covers

Me On the Web

The Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc.'s home page currently features several of my photographs.

Another FCC Ad Campaign Shot

...with thanks to Pierre Bowins for giving it the star treatment.

FCC Ad Campaign Begins

The first ad I shot for Frederick Community College's latest campaign ran in print and online recently. I really like the design of these.

Sweet(s)

I don't do a ton of food shoots, but for whatever the reason most tend to be of sweets; candy, cookies, etc.

This is great, because we always have to have more product on hand than needed for the photos.

I'm not talking about morsels that we've had our hands all over and arranged in the studio, but the extra pieces which are left in the packages after the ones for the beauty shots have been selected.

I'm the lucky guy who gets to keep most of the leftovers.

Yesterday I shot a number of products for Catoctin Popcorn. If you visit their web site you'll see that this is not your everyday popcorn.

Tuxedo is one of their newest specialties, and it tastes as good as it looks in the photo below.

Here's a quick G9 snapshot of some of the other leftovers which currently reside in both my kitchen and my stomach:

While popcorn is this company's specialty, they also have numerous other treats available, including gormet nuts, brittles, and more. Good stuff!

Latest Cover

I have the cover shot on the new Destination Frederick County magazine, published by the Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc. and designed by Jean Peterson Design.

REALLY Heavy Metal

By choice, I shoot very little work for artists, because there's usually just too much baggage attached.

It's usually the I don't know what I want but I 'll know it when I see it! syndrome along with You want HOW MUCH to photograph my artwork?

But today was different.

Back in the dark ages of the early 1970's, I knew Scott Cawood casually at our small high school. Then, we went about 30-couple of years without any contact.

We hooked up last year via our mutual client, Metropolitan Choppers. This will give you an idea of the kind of stuff Scott is into these days, among other things.

He does a lot of other extremely unique things too, and you can see them on his web site.

Scott would be the first to tell you that he had no real inclination towards art while a student, but after doing some time in the Coast Guard and then working for a company that produced exhibition mounting fixtures for museums, he just knew he had to do it.

And do it he does.

We shot two of his latest projects; both completely hand fabricated custom motorcycle gasoline tank motifs. These things just knock you over with their awesomeness!

Scott said he has a bunch of other ideas in mind for more of these unique sculptures, and I can't wait to see them. He's a really good guy and and as far as I'm concerned his mind is just up there on the astral plane when it comes to creating things that fulfill his vision.

Bear in mind that Scott starts out with scrap metal.

Here are a few of the photos:

New Brochure Cover for Carroll County, MD

If you want to know what's going on in Carroll County, Maryland in 2008, you need one of these, which happen to have my photo of Cygnus Wines on the cover. The pictures was taken at the Carroll County Farm Museum. The brochure was produced by the Carroll County Tourism Office.

New Brochure Covers

Here are three of four recent brochure covers I shot for the Frederick Community College Foundation Inc. What great subjects!

My Latest Book Cover

My photograph of the main entrance to McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland wraps around the cover of Fearless and Bold; A History of McDaniel College, by James E. Lightner, professor emeritus of mathematics there.

My Latest Magazine Cover

This is one of the photographs I made for the Frederick News-Post's quarterly magazine called Elegant Living. I never figured I'd get a cover out of the assignment, but I always look for a strong vertical with copy space at the top when I shoot this kind of a job. It helped that my subjects were so great to work with and didn't have any problem with my intrusion on shoot day. Gotta love those holiday sweaters!