Keeping it simple: learning, photographs and technological health care

Surgical robotics.

          One of the many beauties of photographing for clients, is the constant growth, not just of experience but of knowledge. With nearly every assignment, I'm learning about a new technique, practice or product.
In healthcare many of the advances are subtle or hidden unless you're a patient. The assignments teach me about many things I would have missed.  Sometimes it's a new robot, or a new method of hip replacement or advancements in managing chronic back pain.

          I'm always trying to visually tell this piece of the story while changing up from what I've done in the past.

          Sometimes the most important thing is keeping it simple; doctors and equipment.

         When I'm working on these images I often have a short amount of time to accomplish my final frames for my clients.  Most of the doctors I photograph are specialists and leaders, they are consulted as experts on a particular topic, which also makes them very popular and very busy in their practice. As specialists in the Valley of the Sun, they are at a premium (it seems there's a shortage in many specialties). I'm surprised I don't walk into some of these offices and operating theaters to find docs on roller skates!

          If I'm able to get an hour to work with someone, it's rare, so I try and get to the, um, heart, of the matter, quickly, add some nice indirect light and critical shadow to better define an object, and get as many options into the camera in the time I have, while always looking for something even a little different that that which I've done before.

The heart workshop

Start simple, get a nice image "in the can."

And then try something else if there's time. I've photographed so many
CT scanners over the years, I found something a little different.

Technology and back pain. This one, shot for a possible magazine cover, thus the extra space.

One Hip Surgeon