tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81462508532664942322024-03-12T18:36:22.714-07:00 Photographic AdventuresNews, musings, stories and travels of D'Elia Photographic by Rick D'Elia
(all content is copyrighted ©2003-2021 and may only be used with permission.)Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-57011318789580598052021-08-09T07:29:00.004-07:002021-08-09T07:29:50.896-07:00A lIttle flight, a little tongue in cheek, the Un-Group photo<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-2BDbZPETU/YQrQXko1ZLI/AAAAAAAAEiU/dyqvpSPDYw0ak83TcEFhIh5YGIJb-WWgACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.Trainual.042021.7722.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-2BDbZPETU/YQrQXko1ZLI/AAAAAAAAEiU/dyqvpSPDYw0ak83TcEFhIh5YGIJb-WWgACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.Trainual.042021.7722.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TRAINUAL Sometimes they take flight. <br /><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Have you ever thought that showingo off your team in a photo just needed a little something? </p><p>Something more than just a shoulder to shoulder, some crouched, some standing, looking full-faced to the camera? <br /></p><p>Me too. <br /></p><p>In the last couple months, I've again had the privilege to make the photographs for AZ Central's Top Workplaces awards. </p><p></p><p>Many of these shoots, 13 this year, involve large groups of team members. When
doing this work, it usually involves a number of people from their
team, maybe a handful, like five or a big group, like 50. </p><p>In
every occasion I try to push us toward something more. It's an idea in my head, it's something a team member said, it's an object in the office, but always, always it is 1000% buy in of the folks participating. I could not do this by myself and when that buy-in happens, the only limitations are time and space. And the space is not always as limiting as you might think! take my background in environmental portraits
and a little humor and we create an Un-group
photo. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQ_F-DFWHBg/YQrHOORUthI/AAAAAAAAEiA/yfe3V7ZrGnIqaeTLPWmeA6-KMZRV7e7gwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D%2527Eia.Cbiz.042021.7465.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQ_F-DFWHBg/YQrHOORUthI/AAAAAAAAEiA/yfe3V7ZrGnIqaeTLPWmeA6-KMZRV7e7gwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Eia.Cbiz.042021.7465.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CBIZ<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some companies opt to stay more conservative in our approach, and there are very good
reasons for this, in keeping with their company mission, culture and identity, but whenever possible I try to get off the beaten path, even for a
little bit to create a crew photo that is different from what we often
see in these. Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's dramatic, but it's always a little visually different and eye-catching. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1vRXXvlZJI/YQrHGr9hCBI/AAAAAAAAEh8/1FlqCLCXf-I8nAkOdRfAmc4gk9ts1W1DwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.Microchip.042021.7805.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1vRXXvlZJI/YQrHGr9hCBI/AAAAAAAAEh8/1FlqCLCXf-I8nAkOdRfAmc4gk9ts1W1DwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.Microchip.042021.7805.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MICROCHIP<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTkOLxEEglA/YQrG68iDv9I/AAAAAAAAEhw/3XehCuwhYNMSHKivOGuNj7-5jDadE6sawCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.STCHealth.042021.7971.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTkOLxEEglA/YQrG68iDv9I/AAAAAAAAEhw/3XehCuwhYNMSHKivOGuNj7-5jDadE6sawCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.STCHealth.042021.7971.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">STC HEALTH<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wCPFrkOvSHA/YQrG2I2euMI/AAAAAAAAEhs/uLNYfxvi0P0d_RWy3OASCXr8Wwgm8QT-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.STCHealth.042021.8237.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wCPFrkOvSHA/YQrG2I2euMI/AAAAAAAAEhs/uLNYfxvi0P0d_RWy3OASCXr8Wwgm8QT-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.STCHealth.042021.8237.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">STC HEALTH<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JmwofYsu8Y/YQrHC0u1zKI/AAAAAAAAEh0/dpJfNlMWltU6Pm0WEJvUBKGaN7-OjlzfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.Turo.042021.2582.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JmwofYsu8Y/YQrHC0u1zKI/AAAAAAAAEh0/dpJfNlMWltU6Pm0WEJvUBKGaN7-OjlzfgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.Turo.042021.2582.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TURO<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rNtNzjEwHcU/YQrQR3Z5AAI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/JX8KOh-EAhk1fbD0EIHl1kVyzLWJKWkEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.EnginrWire.042021.3745.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rNtNzjEwHcU/YQrQR3Z5AAI/AAAAAAAAEiQ/JX8KOh-EAhk1fbD0EIHl1kVyzLWJKWkEQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.EnginrWire.042021.3745.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ENGINEERING WIRELESS<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DekcZSKGMZ4/YQrQlgtMp6I/AAAAAAAAEic/wbPXugsGEMUuLYxggXwPGymTvlViA4bogCLcBGAsYHQ/s634/D%2527Elia.TopCoCOuntryFirst.082420.0439.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="634" height="314" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DekcZSKGMZ4/YQrQlgtMp6I/AAAAAAAAEic/wbPXugsGEMUuLYxggXwPGymTvlViA4bogCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h314/D%2527Elia.TopCoCOuntryFirst.082420.0439.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And sometimes flight takes on an annual tradition. <br />This one from last year seemed to start with Country First Mortgage, <br />and continued above with Trainual in a last-minute impromptu idea that we agreed to pursue <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-51420831712340399572020-10-12T11:13:00.003-07:002020-10-12T11:13:39.621-07:00Working It <img border="0" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bD-CJ781W7g/XvpmWUnCt7I/AAAAAAAAD8I/J79u5AIQIRwoy_196oclel6VzbDcOZmnQCK4BGAsYHg/w780-h520/D%2527Elia.CoronaUrbanC.043020.2217.jpg" width="780" /><br /><br /><div><div class="separator"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pavCqY1ki04/XvogfG1kH6I/AAAAAAAAD3s/cvAaza0Uw4codFe8iM5x3YLvx0xHKHOzgCPcBGAYYCw/w333-h500/D%2527ELia.CoronaPortraits.042820.0826.jpg" width="333" /></a></div> Among the many discoveries, and every shoot has been a wonderful discovery, were the images that would fall in with the overall theme of portraits at a distance/life in a time of COVID-19. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> A friend and colleague at Local First Arizona suggested a couple of businesses who are members of the organization who have figured out how to keep operating, earning some living to keep the doors open and as may of their employees working as was possible while being safe and responsible. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> In the case of Urban Cookies in downtown Phoenix, The turned to contact-less pickup in their parking lot. They continue to bake their incredible cookies (not paid to say this, but yes they are amazing cookies!) as their faithful customers collect their cookie and coffee orders from a table set at the head of each parking space in their parking lot. <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kSVXLosg1aE/XwyyaPD2RNI/AAAAAAAAEQ8/kH_hBsM2jzo3ZFr2KqHKFuA1NH75E08GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.040420.2444.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kSVXLosg1aE/XwyyaPD2RNI/AAAAAAAAEQ8/kH_hBsM2jzo3ZFr2KqHKFuA1NH75E08GQCLcBGAsYHQ/w266-h400/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.040420.2444.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> In the case of Fabric, they began manufacturing a new product, which made them the only manufacturer in Arizona creating protective gowns suitable for healthcare professionals across the state. In their crew professors and students from the fashion programs at ASU augmented their workforce to take on this enormous task.</div><div><br /></div><div> Another newly minted company run by two brothers Marcos and Rui began creating face shields for medical use on their 3D printer using open-source programming. </div><div><br /></div><div> Like with every other shoot, my goal is to be as uncomplicated in technique and use of gear as possible. A challenge to myself while also trying to make the shoots a little easier to manage as everyone navigates new challenges of working in proximity while maintaining space. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> As a result 95% of everything I've shot in the project so far has been with existing light, creating not only a more artistic feel but a more documentary feel as well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZAh2xXQ7xMc/XwyyZlBY0QI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/Xm3o8MXEusIeBJdAsjAEzEhylhIV2IP1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.040420.2399.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZAh2xXQ7xMc/XwyyZlBY0QI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/Xm3o8MXEusIeBJdAsjAEzEhylhIV2IP1ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.040420.2399.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vymHvRL7jTk/XwymaF7ab5I/AAAAAAAAEPU/6jMlVtSD3CY30vV_rNuMxon_tJxQMhvYACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h333/D%2527ELia.CoronaPortraits.042820.1030.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rFMPhwjqhr0/Xvogg8zMdUI/AAAAAAAAD3o/Ux_D0lzqE7on7Nranp82fDUYTZkkLPmGgCPcBGAYYCw/w500-h333/D%2527ELia.CoronaPortraits.042820.1111.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xl0OdPy8YjE/Xvogpb261DI/AAAAAAAAD3o/Sm7ZVp2RuBoQr58uY7HSuYTE0dK89GyXQCPcBGAYYCw/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaUrbanC.043020.2156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xl0OdPy8YjE/Xvogpb261DI/AAAAAAAAD3o/Sm7ZVp2RuBoQr58uY7HSuYTE0dK89GyXQCPcBGAYYCw/w266-h400/D%2527Elia.CoronaUrbanC.043020.2156.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-3235202770741534762020-08-21T09:36:00.004-07:002020-08-21T09:36:30.057-07:00Leaping Forward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ul42o15PYOI/Xvpej1L-FuI/AAAAAAAAD5w/VUDcubp5b8kmLL-TDcd5wVmseGM1-myJwCK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.7740.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ul42o15PYOI/Xvpej1L-FuI/AAAAAAAAD5w/VUDcubp5b8kmLL-TDcd5wVmseGM1-myJwCK4BGAsYHg/w500-h333/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.7740.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Where will it lead next? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> In my world, in my news-gathering capacity, presidential primary rallies and debates were cancelling, commercial projects in planning stages stopped, the work was starting to dry up. Not what you want to see as a freelancing professional. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> While staying safe, I have to find a way to keep moving, keep sharp and keep expressing myself creatively. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RmzlKqit_mA/Xwzbr7PzaTI/AAAAAAAAERc/p1LWX67QaSQ4OQq0yPanp0BBc7tHeVZ4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.042620.0365.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RmzlKqit_mA/Xwzbr7PzaTI/AAAAAAAAERc/p1LWX67QaSQ4OQq0yPanp0BBc7tHeVZ4ACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h333/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.042620.0365.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /> As I work through my idea loosely defined as Portraits at a Distance, I am finding some joy. Some artistic satisfaction. Some renewed recognition that in crafting art, it's not just accomplishing a task within a well-defined set of rules, it is always a journey of keeping an open mind and discovering paths and methods of expression. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> It's a journey of remembering to listen to the inner artist voice and hear when it expresses interest in something that might, at first, appear to be a left turn, away from the project. Listening to that voice has led me to many satisfying images that, I am discovering, were an integral part of this path for me from the beginning. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMwnC1bSHg4/XwzcsuAT7KI/AAAAAAAAESs/zJIOl7m9PRkUNpRAM7zcFsCKSPpY92dzACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPipers.042420.9452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMwnC1bSHg4/XwzcsuAT7KI/AAAAAAAAESs/zJIOl7m9PRkUNpRAM7zcFsCKSPpY92dzACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h333/D%2527Elia.CoronaPipers.042420.9452.jpg" width="500" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div> In
doing a project like this as a personal project, it is about what I'm
motivated and inspired to photograph and how I'm inspired to photograph. That's the whole ballgame. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div> There was trepidation as I tried to form a methodology during a time when there is so much uncertainty and suggested practices for safety, while also trying to be sure I'm meeting people where they are in their comfort levels. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zMNrEapbK38/XvpejUb0jXI/AAAAAAAAD5s/Uo1620iWSooU-Ox731p1Eo2he5IKZyUXACK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.7682.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="416" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zMNrEapbK38/XvpejUb0jXI/AAAAAAAAD5s/Uo1620iWSooU-Ox731p1Eo2he5IKZyUXACK4BGAsYHg/w625-h416/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.7682.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> For me, my safety rules evolved. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> I've made rules for myself to cut down on the uncertainty of which is the right thing to do. I just do it. I don't try to reason my way to doing less or suggest to myself that I'm doing more than necessary. I just do it. <br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYqvzZ11S0o/Xvpekdq_3HI/AAAAAAAAD50/o1GsdNzkEVMS2sdD2U7AFdr6rkw_xYX9gCK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.8061.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="416" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYqvzZ11S0o/Xvpekdq_3HI/AAAAAAAAD50/o1GsdNzkEVMS2sdD2U7AFdr6rkw_xYX9gCK4BGAsYHg/w625-h416/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.8061.jpg" width="625" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div> I wear the mask now if there is even a chance I might drift inside the six feet while working outside, if I'm in a back yard, that mask is on
all the time. On this project I try to avoid going indoors unless absolutely necessary
and even then, not unless I'm able to keep distance, keep my hands clean and keep my mask on. In 90 percent of the occasions so far, there has been another way, avoiding going inside someone else's space. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K86zmGNuvmw/Xvpel__AeMI/AAAAAAAAD58/BYep0IRebxgQ0M4Mo9bY_r9k1UOtHVEwACK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.8446.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K86zmGNuvmw/Xvpel__AeMI/AAAAAAAAD58/BYep0IRebxgQ0M4Mo9bY_r9k1UOtHVEwACK4BGAsYHg/w333-h500/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortats.061320.8446.jpg" width="333" /></a></div><div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="height: 38px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 83px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="height: 25px; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NIAmcFF2TWc/XvogZuhYiaI/AAAAAAAAD3w/3P1DGMOtPBoY3DT3JRDB-XCPF-1cbNOXwCK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.032620.9967.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="416" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NIAmcFF2TWc/XvogZuhYiaI/AAAAAAAAD3w/3P1DGMOtPBoY3DT3JRDB-XCPF-1cbNOXwCK4BGAsYHg/w625-h416/D%2527Elia.CoronaPortraits.032620.9967.jpg" width="625" /></a></div></div><div><div><br /></div> It started with an inspiration from a colleague who had begun porch portraits in the mid-west. <br /></div><div>I was inspired and decided, before I could bog myself down in over-analysis, that I would plow forward and do it. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> I would figure out what this idea meant for me in real time as I worked it. <br /></div><div><div><br /></div> It has become Portraits at a Distance, Our Lives During the COVID Pandemic. <br /></div><div><div><br /></div> Distancing Together. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> What does life look like in this moment? <br /></div><div><div><br /></div> Start with simple portraits or with activities that have to become a home-bound thing and, while I'm at it, make sure that I am bein<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H0oTWR9OLNA/XvpmT0uSgYI/AAAAAAAAD70/cRnOpnJ92uMBZIZkh5le-p-1rQbxvEhKwCK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527Elia.Coronaportrait.033020.0561.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H0oTWR9OLNA/XvpmT0uSgYI/AAAAAAAAD70/cRnOpnJ92uMBZIZkh5le-p-1rQbxvEhKwCK4BGAsYHg/w500-h333/D%2527Elia.Coronaportrait.033020.0561.jpg" width="500" /></a>g safe, respecting my and my subjects concerns for space, distance and <br /></div><div>any other rules that anyone needs to impose in order to feel comfortable. And yes, most of the time I am wearing a mask now, regardless of distance. The only other rule for me, this is art, listen to suggestions from my subjects and from that artistic voice in my head, and follow it. see where it leads. So far it has led to some interesting places. I am hoping that it leads even further. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> In the beginning, I wasn't exactly sure where this was going or what I thought it should look like, so I started with family. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> The project very quickly told me what it should look like. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Portraits through glass, mom and son out for a walk, a family enjoying each other in the front yard with chalk, bubbles and blended super-hero costumes, a karate class in the only place with room for social distancing, their parking lot, bagpipe practice in the cul-de-sac. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7eW41QdWTW4/XwO_2KOqWkI/AAAAAAAAEK4/WBS7tLTCw1cjz5G6cWK4caMgwspA2q0tQCK4BGAsYHg/s720/D%2527ELia.CoronaPortraits.040920.4314a.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7eW41QdWTW4/XwO_2KOqWkI/AAAAAAAAEK4/WBS7tLTCw1cjz5G6cWK4caMgwspA2q0tQCK4BGAsYHg/w500-h333/D%2527ELia.CoronaPortraits.040920.4314a.jpg" width="500" /></a></div></div></div><div> I wondered whether I would continue once the initial "lock-down" was over. <br /></div><div><br /> I have continued, although at a slower pace. <br /></div><div><div><br /></div> I am open to new ideas and new subjects, in my effort to document this time from my own photographic perspective. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Let me know if you'd like to join in. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It seems like every time I get down or frustrated with challenges in my own life, my clients seem to send me on assignments that provide perspective. These assignments show me something special, introduce me to people who inspire me by how they meet much more difficult challenges. <br />
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Last year, that happened twice, with the same family.<br />
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Two boys, Miles and Caleb Lefebvre were both born with spina bifida. If you're not familiar, it's a disability caused by a spinal chord that didn't develop normally in the womb. Fortunately, both boys were born into a family that fights for their kiddos, tooth and nail. When the family was figuring out what sorts of equipment and services they needed, they also figured out what kind of support was available, to keep the kids happy and healthy and at home where they could be showered with the love of their family.<br />
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The problem is, that a part of that fight involved state agencies that were denying services that they were actually obligated to provide.<br />
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I met the Lefebvres one March morning to film the family in their morning routine and then to sit down with mom, Allison, for an interview that would be come a part for the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest's fundraising video.<br />
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While fighting for her children, Allison Lefebvre sought legal help from ACLPI to overcome the frequent roadblocks to compel the responsible government agency to fulfill its obligations, and to stop denying services.<br />
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Allison's compelling interview became part of a larger video explaining how ACLPI makes a difference in our community overall, while protecting specific clients such as the Lefebvres. <br />
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The video led to a return trip to the Lefebvre household to photograph a day in the life of the Lefbvres while working with the publisher of Raising Arizona Kids Magazine, Karen Barr, to create and extended article in the magazine (<a href="https://www.raisingarizonakids.com/2019/08/super-house-lefebvres-sons-spina-bifida-medically-fragile/" target="_blank">September 2019</a>) telling the Lefebvre's story, exploring their challenges, and how this new normal is filled with the same sort of loving, supportive, fun atmosphere of many families, just with medical equipment and a full-time nurse. <br />
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As we worked together you could feel the love of the household in the air, in the interactions. It was an inspiring day. The boys laughed and squealed with delight as they had breakfast, played with toys in the yard and drew pictures.<br />
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As Miles cuddled with his mom, he started to have some breathing issues. One of Miles' devices told Allison that he needed some help. She began using an ambu bag to help the little boy breathe while the nurse set up an oxygen tank and connected it to his throat tube to resolve the issue. After a few minutes Miles was back to breathing normally. Later, Allison explained to me what had happened and that this is common event.<br />
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That would explain why she was so calm during the entire event and why I had almost no idea that something concerning was unfolding in front of my lens.<br />
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For a visitor it was startling.<br />
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For the family, it's normal.<br />
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Later that day Miles was sitting in the living room with his brothers, happily coloring and drawing pictures with crayons and markers.<br />
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Back to Normal. <br />
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With a blast of action, a remarkable quote, floating on a
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The best video blends action, music, moments, faces, places and details, scene setters and scene stealers.<br />
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Video is an amazingly versatile tool to propel your stories into the world about that wonderful thing that you do.<br />
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Over the last three years I've been developing the motion category to my D'Elia Photographic services, opening new avenues for my creative and communicative tendencies.<br />
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The practices and instincts I've honed over 30 years of visual
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narrative angles and moments. While I've been learning new technical practices, the key foundational aspects such and light, composition, and focus are the same in building the client's visual
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We've told the story of Raising Hope Dogs, an organization that uses dogs in their therapies with autistic children to help them navigate challenges in speech, food and social interaction.<br />
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In collaboration with Read Better Be Better, we forged a recruiting video in short order to attract new site leaders to carry out their expanding literacy program. We shot seven program locations and five interviews in two weeks, and edited more than 400 gigabytes of material into a three minute piece.<br />
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The program filled the vacancies and stood up 70 programs in schools for third graders this January.<br />
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The latest round of video shoots was topped off with a light project, shooting still and video and Re-Opening day at Ultra Suds Car Wash in west Phoenix, to create a package of event photos and an energetic motion snapshot of the operation to get new customers excited about their business.<br />
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We live in a voraciously visual society where images and video together provide a potent package of inspiration for potential customers and clients. When we show our audiences what is great, they are inspired and excited to take action.Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-32387977253152922172019-09-10T13:28:00.003-07:002020-02-10T13:32:34.164-07:00Introducing D'Elia Photographic Motion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year, my favorites so far include the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and a client success story, Read Better Be Better's site leader orientation for a local literacy program, and A Fine Art painter who lets her brushes do that talking. </div>
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Last spring I spent about three weeks running all over the Valley creating a collection of corporate team photos with an eye toward doing something more. In many cases, the expectation was pretty simple. Line up a group of anywhere from five to 50 and, it was hoped, with some sort of branding in the frame.<br />
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All of these companies were on the list. A list of finalists for the
Top Companies to work for in the Valley. Group photos are often not seen
as sexy or choice among assignments, but in my world I always try to
change that by finding another level of creation and delivery.<br />
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I love the job, and I love especially when my clients afford me the
time and sense of fun, that sense of collaboration in trying, even in
some small way, to take the work up a notch.<br />
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Like
punching up a picture when we have no choice but to photograph outdoors
at noon by overpowering the sun and blasting a group of 25 tech workers a
bright red car with all the power my light kit could muster.<br />
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Or make some financial folks look a little like a rock band in suits on
their CD cover. (anyone out there still buy cd's?), or just having fun
with whatever occurs to all of us in the moment.<br />
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So, with no further adieu, let me share my favorites of this year's Top Companies to work for in the Valley. </div>
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The 2018 Golden ticket is here!<br />
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Anyone want to save 30% on a Small Business brand-ready photo shoot?</h4>
Read on for details. <br />
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Chef Gio Osso</td></tr>
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Local First Arizona is an organization of
local business to encourage investing your purchasing dollars with local
companies and stores and less at big box and out of state companies.
The idea is that by shifting even 10 percent of spending to your local
businesses has a real impact on your neighbors and on our local economy.
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For my part, as a sustaining member of LFA, I am also offering a deal with the Golden Ticket.<br />
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I
recently began offering a Business Photography Package for smaller
businesses to get to work with more of our wonderful local outfits.<br />
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If
this package addresses your needs, if you've been putting off using
professional photography to improve the presentation of your brand, this
just might grab ya.<br />
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Here's the deal, take 30% (not 20!) off of my Small Business Package.</h4>
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<b>The Small Business Package: </b><br />
Companies
up to 50 employees, FIVE hours of photography, which includes 10 final,
print and web-ready images to use as you like. Shoots like this, for
large companies usually cost about $1600.<br />
<b>The D'Elia Photographic Business Package, on the other hand is only $1,000.</b><br />
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WITH THE LOCAL FIRST, GOLDEN TICKET DISCOUNT, this price <b>drops to $700!</b> That's $900 below average market pricing.<br />
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How do we get this rolling?<br />
First, go to the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Local First Arizona website</a> and get your Golden Ticket. (actually, if you wanted to, you could probably just drag and drop the coupon above!<br />
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Then, during Indie Week, June 30-July 8, call me at 480-452-5723 or email at <a href="mailto:rickdelia@deliaphotographic.com">rickdelia@deliaphotographic.com</a> and set an appointment to do your shoot. We don't have to complete the shoot that week, we just have to get it on the books.<br />
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Don't
forget to go have a look at my website at deliaphotographic.com to see
what kind of work I love to do for my clients. Also, feel free to dig
deeper into my blog here to see more find things as well. <br />
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I
am soooo very lucky to do what I do for a living. Creating photographs
as a profession is the BEST! the thing that makes it even better,
incredibly cool is getting to work with some really incredible local
business owners who have taken advantage of my passion and vision to
show of their company and tell their story in a way that excites their
customers. These are the best days at work.<br />
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Lets get
together and talk about how we can have another great day at work that
also takes your business's public face up a few notches!<br />
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may also go to the LFA site to find other locals who are participating
in the campaign at
http://www.localfirstaz.com/independents-week/golden-coupon.php.<br />
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BUY LOCAL!!Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-17771971053872824482018-03-30T06:45:00.003-07:002019-02-01T16:22:27.680-07:00What Huzzah! Looks like<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'd taken a break.<br />
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It had been a very long time since I'd last passed through the gates of the Arizona Renaissance Festival. I think it was 2010. Is that possible?<br />
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But, I think my eye was worn out. Lots coming at me, much that I'd seen, it was starting to be difficult to see things new and fresh. The Fest for me had always been a trip. It's a far away place, a culture, just the thing I needed, especially when I hadn't traveled far away for a while. But over time, the differentness became common, I was just not inspired anymore<br />
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And so I returned this year with friends, who hadn't been to a fest in many years and never to the Az fest. Just to explore, to laugh, have fun, no pictures required. No assignments. Yet I made a handful of images anyway, not when I felt a professional requirement, only when I happily felt it.<br />
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Photography is a job and a passion. Usually they go hand in glove, but sometimes you get burned out on something and it becomes just a job. The little break of something like eight years, let me see a few moments with a clarity and a humanity that moved me, without sense of obligation, to make a few images that make all of us happy. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaun Breese, of Urban Cookies with her sons Charlie, 4, and Oliver, 8, making pumpkin-flavored specialties in some re-imaginings of recipes with the favorite gourd of Thanksgiving. </td></tr>
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I'm not known as a food photographer.<br />
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Sometimes I discover that I'm only known as that guy that goes to
Africa all the time. I'm not known as a food photographer.<br /><br />
For the record, I have photographed projects on
two trips to Africa in the last 36 months, that, after having not traveled there in seven years. Of course I wish it was more, but those
projects just don't come up every month.<br />
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My portfolio actually includes far more domestic, lifestyle,
healthcare, active living, and other interesting subjects for many
clients around the Valley of the Sun.<br />
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And food. <br />
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Creations that set the mouth to watering at the site of the photograph, even without benefit of taste or smell.<br />
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A little highlight there, a little shadow over there, give the plate a cozy comfortable and natural feel to the edibles that I'm asked to bring to the clients' viewers.<br />
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Most who know me, know that, coming from the newspaper world of my early career and sometimes still, you have to be able to handle many different types of subjects. Breaking news, sports, portraits, and food. You have to be able to draw at least one good, telling image from each assignment, regardless of time and light restrictions.<br />
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Food is something I didn't set out to work on, it worked on me.<br />
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No studio, no white seamless background, sometimes no room to place gear,
but rather a tiny restaurant kitchen, dining room, or a home space complete
with reflective stainless steel, all kinds of
distracting backgrounds and surfaces, sometimes with business being conducted
all around.<br />
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Cramming the lighting gear into the corners, finding
outlets that won't show a cord in the photo... yeah we can Photoshop it
out, but it's much easier for the cord not to be there in the first
place! or finding a way to make camera-sized strobes look like studio-sized light. No fake tricks, no white glue for milk, or casting resin ice cubes, just highlights, shadow and food.<br />
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Glorious food!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Derrick Widmark uses all local ingredients including local, grass-fed, open range, <br />hormone and antibiotic-free beef of Diablo Trust for his creations at Diablo Burger</td></tr>
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<br />Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-4258916226196882472018-01-09T14:51:00.001-07:002018-01-09T14:51:26.716-07:00Adding some tools<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first concerted attempt a a video production with my Nikon D500s. My intention is to create a value-added service to my photographic activities, while seeing just how my still-photography sensibilities translate into motion.Have a look at a bike ride across some beautiful landscape right here in the Valley of the Sun. Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-19483730316666974102017-11-08T09:55:00.000-07:002017-11-28T15:24:45.839-07:00They Day the Earth Shook, Sprinter Wins Sr. Olympic Gold at 74<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Blasting out of the starting blocks and thundering down the track Ray Beaufait, 74, rocketed his way to many spring victories that would have left men half is age gasping for air and choking on his dust.<br />
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More than a year ago, Ray emerged from an illness that left him weak but determined that it was time to get in shape. At Arrowhead Health Centers he underwent further treatment to enable his knees to cooperate as he developed his softball skills and sprinting speed. A year later he scored Arizona Senior Olympics sprinting gold.<br />
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The story for which I was assigned to make these images can be viewed at this link. <a href="https://issuu.com/raybeaufait/docs/summer-2017" target="_blank">Defying the Odds</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crew at First Place, where this night, the downs residents cook dinner for the senior residents. First place is a community where people with downs syndrome live an autonomous life in their own apartments in a complex with retirees who have their back when they need a little help or guidance. First Place is constructing a new complex right on light rail on Central Avenue. </td></tr>
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So the Goodmans folks had an interesting idea they wanted to bring to life, and at the recommendation of a friend, they had a look at my work, and decided my style and approach fit seamlessly.<br />
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The project, to photograph some of the organizations that the office structures company supports in the Phoenix and Tucson areas. Document what they do, for the creation of huge black and white prints to hang in the newly remodeled Goodmans office space to serve as a regular inspiration to Goodmans employees who work often split their work days between office structures sales and installation with their ongoing support of selected non-profits. <br />
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It was a fun and amazing project and I wanted to thank Julia Zolondz, Allison Van Dyke and the crew at Goodmans Office Structures for the opportunity to create this work. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the Read Better Be Better program a "Big," reads for his two "Little" charges in the RBBB after school reading program designed to raise the reading level of third graders when it is most critical.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goodmans own AIM to Make a Difference program re-purposes used and refurbished office furniture to give to 501(c)3 organizations who need the help. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Free Arts gives access to the arts to at risk children to harness the healing power of the arts. We spent a wonderful day documenting Free Arts' good works at the Children's Museum in Phoenix. </td></tr>
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about sustaining local markets by switching at least ten percent of
their spending power to local businesses, keeping income local, and
circulating in the community, and supporting the many small businesses as a result.</td></tr>
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With Helene from Local First on of the organizations that is supported in part by Goodmans. </td></tr>
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One steamy Scottsdale morning he works out. He blasts through the air demonstrating for my camera and me, this return aloft after being grounded by a bulging disk. As we shoot images for a Living Well article about pain management, Dan is eager to show how a pain center's treatment enabled his return to training.<br />
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He volunteered to do some strength drills for the image, and was incredibly patient as I sketched
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head just two days earlier when the assignment landed in my inbox. <br />
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jumping from standstill. As we did this in a sand volleyball court, to
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Discovering the composition I wanted, we spent more time with more jumps, fine tuning until
his extended hands didn't cover his face, and the sun didn't throw
shadow of his hands onto his face. I got low enough to separate him from the landscape and place him against the
puffy clouds that were nice enough to show up for us that day. <br />
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That done, we explored some other ideas giving my editors plenty to chose from, whether the layout called for one image or many. <br />
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Over delivering in a case like this is actually delivering just what the client needs to have options if space allows to pursue a collection of layout possibilities.<br />
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Earlier in the summer, we worked on a story with Raising Arizona Kids Magazine talking about Kinship Care as a fostering option.<br />
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Grandma, Kelly Ray jumped right in when her kiddos needed her with a great mix of stability, discipline, love and fun. <br />
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On this day while they play
in the courtyard of the apartment complex she challenges the grandson to
a little one on one.<br />
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Then she spreads out a blanket on the grass in
front of her apartment and breaks out the coloring books. The kids swarm
to join her in some coloring before homework time.<br />
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the sun begins to wane, it's time to join her at the table for homework,
and when the kids get a bit rambunctious, a little study break for a game that involved some energy-burning jumping, all before dinner. <br />
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Photographing kids who are in foster care, even if related to their care-giver ,
always involves obscuring the kids' identities. It's a challenge for
a photojournalist whose work largely depends upon the emotional
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When in a story you're not able to show faces, your creativity kicks into another gear as you try to make photographs that tell the story and are visually interesting, if not intriguing, without fully showing faces. <br />
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Sometimes the primary shot is just not clear. The best thing to do when subject are
willing, is to simply try it. An editor or art director can't say no to
photographs that don't exist and they most certainly can't say, "hey
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husband Ferris, at their community fitness center for an article in
Banner Health Smarts for Republic Custom Publications, we tried a number
of different things over the course of the shoot: wider views that
showed other people in the environment, more isolated angles and
exercises, and a wonderful little unplanned moment as the
couple shared a kiss.<br />
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Once we had this good selection of image options, I wondered whether we should turn this thing on it's ear just a bit and then decide later whether it will fit the article. If it fits then, we have something that pushes the expectation a bit, that will do it's job while grabbing the eyes of page-turning readers. Jane and Ferris were good sports and were enthusiastic to play along. Ultimately, they didn't fit with the article about her recovery from knee surgery, but we all had fun making them and the inspiration will carry over to future assignments. </div>
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Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-1940090331049106602017-03-29T07:03:00.000-07:002017-03-29T07:03:18.051-07:00Sticks, Bricks and Education<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Giggling and shouting filled the air, the volume growing to match the rumbling and banging of the approaching pickup truck, tenderized by the harsh village roads of central Uganda. As we crested the hill, the school of bricks and sticks came that into view, the school yard alive with playing children. </div>
Our second stop on the day's phtographic agenda, the need for better facilities was immediately evident as David, the director of Bega Kwa Bega (Shoulder To Shoulder) and approached the scene.<br />
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While part of the school is made up of a more solid, brick and mortar structure, the dirt floor and basic surfaces are beaten down from heavy use. The majority of the students at this village school, actually attend class in the adjacent wooden-planked building in classrooms barely separated by paper-thin, reed walls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An independent school in Kampala, children receive instruction in a <br />
well-constructed environment, using more varied educational tools <br />
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Breached in many places, the walls provide minimal separation for wandering eyes and diverted focus from adjacent classrooms. It’s a testament to the will of the children to learn, that they filter out sights and sounds spilling through the holes to neighboring classrooms to absorb the lessons of the teacher in their own classroom. <br />
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The village school was quite a contrast to the school in the capital, Kampala, where we started the day. Built with finished floors and walls, well-furnished with child-size chairs, bright educational materials and a small library the school appeared closer to it's overseas cousins than it did to the schools only a few kilometers away in rural villages. Our mission on this day to simply document the variety of conditions in the area where Bega Kwa Bega, supports children by covering school fees and other costs, and provides ongoing teacher training, knocking down barriers to attending school.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deteriorating screens of reeds are the only thing <br />
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Although public school in Uganda is technically free for primary schools, families have to buy uniforms, shoes, lunches, notebooks and other supplies that often take schools out of financial reach. When they are attending class, students are frequently sardined in with as many as 100 children in a single class. A number of other systemic problems (A 2012 study found that two in 10 seventh-graders couldn't read at a second grade level) drive parents to try and get their children into one of the many independent schools for a decent education. Also, when children fail to learn, parents begin keeping their children home, not seeing the value of going to school.<br />
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BKB allows parents to chose where their supported children go to school and will try to get them into the private and better schools whenever possible, not only for quality instruction but often for more convenient location. Even in that context, private schools sometimes started by village and religious leaders for their own children, struggle for resources and teacher training to educate their kids as best as their resources will allow.<br />
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As those resources flow or trickle in, school operators make progress, purchasing more educational and construction materials, improving conditions incrementally while moving education forward, conducting classes in partially finished structures, until more resources allow completion.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Children work on a lesson while facing their teacher, as other kids face the opposite <br />
direction to participate in lessons provided by the teacher on the <br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gR8NeUOTNfA/WNA25IUZfbI/AAAAAAAADEI/6Ea3uLoJZWIZFLAqgaKDC9tHuZGYx3A0ACLcB/s1600/D%2527Elia.BKB.110116.0207as.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gR8NeUOTNfA/WNA25IUZfbI/AAAAAAAADEI/6Ea3uLoJZWIZFLAqgaKDC9tHuZGYx3A0ACLcB/s1600/D%2527Elia.BKB.110116.0207as.jpg" /></a> At a third village school on our two-day agenda, children attended class in small brick classrooms, the walls unplastered, the tin roof not completed. A chorus of voices work a recited lesson while others sit facing the opposite wall and a second blackboard as a second teacher conducts a different lesson: two classes in the same tiny building with nothing but focused attention to the lesson forming a barrier between the two.<br />
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On my many assignments in other countries I always seem to learn something or see something I've never seen before that either startles me or simply gives me hope for the future of the people I'm photographing. This one was no different. The meager dividers and the complete lack of dividers between classes was a new one for me, but I think it also tells me that the world of development is an always changing always improving world, always with the goal of trying to bring forward a better world. <br />
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<br />Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-87795364707603927312017-03-22T11:46:00.000-07:002017-08-31T09:20:07.500-07:00No Faces, only challenges<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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You can come make photographs, but you can't show the kids faces.<br />
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Ummmm.<br />
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Okay, usually the best thing about photos involving kids, are the expressions on their faces, especially when you're shooting for a parenting magazine. Yes, photograph a news story but don't show what happened. Ouch!<br />
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Photographing a people-based story, which is to say photographing most
stories, means telling peoples stories and showing their faces. It is a
counter-intuitive challenge that is a little like telling me not to
breathe.<br />
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That said, in this case it was necessary. Child Crisis Arizona is a shelter for children with families in crisis. Hiding their identities is a necessity. <br />
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Full disclosure, several years ago, the Virginia Piper Foundation
selected me to photograph what was then known as the Child Crisis Center
to provide them with professional-quality images without having to hire someone out of their own budget. It was part of the Picturing Maricopa project that matched 15 photographers with 15 Maricopa County organizations. It was a challenge that I spent parts
of five days working through. It worked out with a significant amount of
experimentation, searching for interesting compositions that also told
us stories without visually disclosing the identities of children who
lived at the shelter. <br />
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Given enough time and situations, it's doable and, in reality, is a great exercise in pushing outside your own creative boundaries to pull it all together. <br />
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<a href="http://www.raisingarizonakids.com/2017/02/arizona-children-foster-care/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.raisingarizonakids.com/2017/02/arizona-children-foster-care/" target="_blank">RAK Article online</a><br />
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Brumble, brumble, pop, brumble, pop, pop, brumble, whoosh, it sounded like medal against a grinding wheel, but felt more like a passing top-fuel dragster.<br />
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As the 10-year-old skateboarder passed within inches of my head, and then pivoted at the top of the ramp and passed again, I flinched and missed the peak moment of the shot. Twice.<br />
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I thought of the bizarre sensation accompanying the covering of drag races, years ago, and the counter-intuitive mindset needed to figure out my timing for the image.<br />
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If you're not familiar with live drag racing, imagine standing next to the track, as the engines fire up. Imagine the air molecules around you begin vibrating at high speed against your skin, gaining in violent intensity as the car approaches. It's a bizarre sensation that forces you to reflexively and simultaneously turn away and duck as the car approaches.<br />
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In order to make photographs, I had to struggle against the
base-level reflex to turn away as the car passed. Of course, if I turned
away, I would miss the image. <br />
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Over the course of this shoot I developed a
great deal of confidence in these young ladies I was photographing. I
had already witnessed Mia's and Levy's skill as we created several
options for the Raising Arizona Kids Magazine cover story. They flew
through the air over five-step staircases and ground out a slide maneuver
along a metal railings in this indoor skatepark. <br />
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They knew exactly what they were doing. <br />
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I love to cover programs that not only teach fun things but also
try to make a difference in their little corner of the world. When it comes to
giving girls the same opportunities as boys, it's how it should be.
The fact that in the past, and, too frequently even today, there exists this
strange division on these things is absurd to me. If someone, regardless
of gender, likes flying on a skateboard off stairs and over railings, or
loves science or fixing cars, who is anyone to stand in that
person's way? In breaking down these barriers, we only help our whole
society to benefit from the best of 100% percent of the population.<br />
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On this recent Saturday this took the form of making sure the young
ladies had the space and instruction to pursue a hobby that is not only
just a lot of fun, but is a great confidence-building exercise as the
skaters build their skills. A skate clinic for girls. <br />
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Surrounded by great moments, finding images was simple, getting to them safely, a little more daunting. <br />
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Navigating traffic as skaters as little
as 4 years-old made moving about the indoor park proved as tricky
as crossing rush-hour traffic. Once finding a small island of safety I kept my head on a swivel, emerging with no more than a minor bruise on my shin from an errant board as a result. <br />
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By the time we completed some of the options for the magazine cover, Mia, 9, and Levy, 10,
demonstrated just
how skilled they are as I photographed them sticking
their landings like Olympic ski jumpers (ever see Eddie the Eagle?). <br />
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Impressed enough that when my art director Michelle and I wondered
about me lying at the base of a tall ramp to shoot up at the skaters as
they passed and made 180 degree turns above me, I thought it was worth considering for something a little different. <br />
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So we conferenced with the final authority on the matter, Mia and Levy, describing the idea and letting them decide whether they felt safe and comfortable with the plan.<br />
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"No problem," they said with confidence and in unison.<br />
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With a bit of lighting adjustment for the odd-ball angle, and a few trial skate passes, it was time to bring out the drag-race technique, no flinching. <br />
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<br />Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-71774922086728681892016-06-24T07:14:00.000-07:002016-06-24T07:14:07.649-07:00Soaring landscape and grain; The Grit Fits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Re-shooting something when I know there’s another opportunity, to see if I can find a better image than what was made before.<br />
<br /> Four Peaks, snow, saguaros; hot and cold in one. A description of Arizona compressed in one 300mm/2.8, 1000 ISO frame. <br /><br />
In one frame you see the warmth generated by the colors in the frame. In another there is a sense of puffy softness to the saguaro, like a stuffed animal, maybe, and an otherworldly color to it, with a cold, cobalt sky behind the mountains, suggesting a more accurate coldness of the time of year that the image was made. <br /><br /> The deep shadows, the distant, tangled, prickly forest makes it an image to linger inside.<br />
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I made the image at dusk, or perhaps even darker than dusk, with a higher ISO that adds a grainy grittiness that usually feels out of place to me in a landscape of beauty, pattern and comfortable light. There’s a smoothness and an uplift that, like with a song filled with major chords, overcomes the grit that, in my mind, suggests an imperfection of execution, some perceived shortcoming of technical practice.<br />
<br /> The grit fits.<br />
<br /> It serves more as an expressive reminder that amid this explosion of visual notes in the higher register of the scale, the warm, glowing, fuzzy leafless giants preside over the hardened, bristling, rocky substrate of the desert. It’s a reminder that this inviting, comfortable colorful fuzz is actually a tough, sharp, perforating defense against forge-like heat that sears its skin against further assault.<br />It’s also a sort of illustrator of the that these centenarians struggle against every storm and every parched period that seek to contradict and topple their strength in an often unforgiving and unwelcoming environment. Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-12688374389561156282016-06-15T06:55:00.001-07:002016-06-15T06:58:27.468-07:00Keeping it simple: learning, photographs and technological health care<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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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.<br />
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. <br />
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I'm always trying to visually tell this piece of the story while changing up from what I've done in the past.<br />
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Sometimes the most important thing is keeping it simple; doctors and equipment.<br />
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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!<br />
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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.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And then try something else if there's time. I've photographed so many <br />
CT scanners over the years, I found something a little different. </td></tr>
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<br />Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-32909429299505059592016-06-13T07:38:00.000-07:002016-06-13T09:33:03.582-07:00Light and Granite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spent some time in Tucson a couple weeks ago doing a couple of business images at A&E Recycled Granite for Local First Arizona.<br />
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Helene and I had a great time working with the owners, Josh and Julie who were patient with the process while being ready to move, clean, adjust or clamp down, anything in order to help make the photograph just a little better.<br />
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These folks take all the leftover granite from other projects and turn it into of a variety of brick, tile and veneer products used all kinds of design projects.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've never met a ladder I didn't want to climb to change the perspective of my image, or a white wall that I wanted to bounce my White Lightings off of in order to fill a part of the room with soft side-light.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the small space of their backshop, I wanted to show industrial activity. <br />
I added a small camera strobe on a stand from behind the wet saw to <br />
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<br />Rick D'Eliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18248694323482112110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146250853266494232.post-31086091995822540332016-05-16T07:29:00.002-07:002016-06-06T10:56:18.420-07:00Taking the plunge, photographing under water<div style="text-align: right;">
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Where will you go to make a different picture?<br />
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Sure this isn't putting on a bee suit to photograph a beekeeper at work or flying halfway around the world to work in a rural environment until recently a war and cholera zone, but it is a little different, shooting a swim article from below as well as above water.<br />
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Sometimes it's about a simple question, what can I do that's a little different?<br />
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Jumping
in at great risk of electronic bodily harm to gear, I trusted an inexpensive camera
housing to do something a little different for a cover/feature shoot for Raising Arizona Kids Magazine at
Hubbard Swim School in Phoenix. Of course, I tested it at home first, ensuring an absence of leaks. Still nervous about the quality of the
what could more accurately be called a waterproof bag for the camera, I held my breath and went under to photograph my first subject. <br />
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<i> (For the record, I used a <span class="productName"><span class="brandName">DiCAPac </span>WP-S10 Waterproof Case purchased from B&H Photo. The material is a thin plastic and it is challenging to manipulate camera controls but it did work and did not leak.)</span></i><br />
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In the two minutes or so that I could stay down, I discovered that
finding the viewfinder and double-checking focus as the subject moved toward me proved more difficult that one would imagine. You discover just how quickly you're able to retrain yourself when challenged by the shooting environment. <br />
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It became a process, count down with the subject, take deep breath, dive, find the viewfinder, find the subject, shoot, surface, check the bag for leaks, check images and, if necessary, open the now wet bag to change camera settings before carefully resealing the bag for another go. <br />
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I've
only shot underwater a couple times before, the first, long ago, with a
disposable, film camera, while swimming the Great Barrier Reef in
Australia. The extent of the challenge, then: looking through the scuba mask, and through the viewfinder while watching for the flash ready-light to light up Nemo and his friends. <br />
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The second time, in a freezing backyard pool, (summer covers
are shot in the early spring, after all), using a partially submerged fish aquarium to create an underwater window pane through which I could shoot with a dry camera.<br />
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The hardest parts that day, holding the camera at odd angles and aiming it without the benefit of the viewfinder, while two moms held the aquarium, fighting the buoyant
force of the aquarium, pushing up against the glass.<br />
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For this latest shoot, I wondered whether there might be a better method, and looked for options and talked to colleagues. I came upon this plastic bag idea which was suggested by two colleagues, one of whom works in the ocean frequently, so I figured it was worth a try. <br />
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When working with uncertainly, never put all
your eggs in one basket when your client needs a nice choice of images
for the cover of their May magazine. Try multiple methods for multiple results. I kept the aquarium method in my back pocket as a "plan B".<br />
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The bag system did expose a technical wrinkle after I'd spent the first 45 minutes setting up my studio-style strobes in a scheme designed to turn the pool wall that would be behind me, into a wall of soft light for my
subjects. Apparently radio slave triggers don't work very well under even a very shallow amount of water.<br />
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So after experimenting for a while with the bag using available light, I
switched to partially submerging the fish tank so that the radio slaves would
be able to fire a flash signal through the air space.<br />
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In all a fun day at work, breaking from routine, confronting technical challenges and working with a fun group of kids and grown-ups.<br />
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Last fall, my assignments included spending some time with two couples who were confronting Alzheimer's disease. Ron and Pat Carmichael and Harry and Marianne Mitchell.<br />
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When covering this there always seems to be a certain level of profundity to the experience, largely based on the way that a spouse is handling the illness of their beloved mate, while making a statement about lifetime love through their actions. <br />
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Ron spends time helping his wife, Pat with tasks at home that she sometimes needs a bit of extra dexterity, lovingly brushing her hair or engaging in a favorite activity, assembling a puzzle, which also gives Pat's mind a workout.<br />
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With the Mitchells it's a bit different as Marianne now lives in an assisted care center.<br />
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Just after completing my time with the couple on their Saturday routine I posted this to my friends on Facebook, careful not to include names as the piece hadn't been published yet.<br />
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"Just spent time with a couple where the wife has Alzheimer's and they
were spending the day out away from the care center. Even though the
wife' conversation doesn't make sense anymore, I witnessed amazing
perspective into the wisdom of how he handles it in happily engaging
her, not dwelling on the sad part of the situation, but asking
questions, responding positively regardless.<br />
"He said for her it is not
so much about what is said, but the engagement that creates a "feeling"
about exchange. As a result his high school sweetheart takes that visit,
that FEELING, into the week and is happy." <br />
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