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Venus in Fur Set Photography

March 14, 2014 • 1 Comment

Opening April 19 at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, is the theatrical production of Venus in Fur, by David Ives. We recently photographed the signature imagery for this play based on the erotic novel of the same name. So how you do make an image look erotic and seductive without appearing scandalous or offensive to the viewer or client base?...

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Cincinnati Photographic Panoramas, 1910 & 2014

March 07, 2014 • 5 Comments

When the photographers from the Detroit Publishing Company captured their imagery of 1900's Cincinnati they were looking at a downtown full of industrial manufacturing, rail yards and warehouses, these structures dominated the cities eastern side. Cincinnatian's fabricated steel buildings at Edwards Manufacturing, built the carriages and buggies at...

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Photographing Joan The Girl of Arc in Cincinnati's Eden Park

February 28, 2014 • 2 Comments

On a recent assignment we had the opportunity to take promotional photographs for the production of Joan The Girl of Arc, for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 's Off the Hill Family series. We could not have ask for bluer skies or calmer winds, but the 12º was challenging. Batteries and other electronic devices seem to be a bit sluggish anytime...

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Cincinnati, A Century Later.

February 20, 2014 • 2 Comments

In early January I posted an image of Cincinnati from an area known as "Over The Rhine". It was captured as I drove into downtown on one of our many subzero mornings. One thing that stood out in the photograph was it's timelessness, many areas of the city looked like they had not changed in 100 years. This raised my curiosity, I wondered what the c...

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Challenging Family Portraits

February 10, 2014 • 17 Comments

A few years back an employee at one of my favorite agencies asked me to photograph her wedding announcement, I quickly (but professionally) responded that I really did not take wedding or individual portraits. She responded that theirs would not be the typical one, it was more like a family portrait, only her's included three dogs, two cats and her...

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