Thankful for my clients! Exhibits Dec.5 & Jan.10, and I'm on TV

During this season of Thanksgiving, Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and New Year's, I am so thankful to all of my clients for an amazing year! I love my job - taking photos of my clients' beautiful work. May all of you, my clients, friends, family, supporters, colleagues, networking partners, have a safe and meaningful holiday season!

Elisif Photography in Two Exhibits and on Newton Cable TV!

I'm on TV! The Newton Camera Club was invited to be on Jay Sugarman's NewTV show "Museum Open House" to talk about our exhibit that is up right now at the West Newton Cinema through Jan. 25th. Three of us from the club, Marshall Goff, Nicole Mordecai, and I, taped the show with Jay, talking about our work and the work of other members. You can see this half hour episode on google drive. Although I was nervous to do it, it was a great experience and went pretty smoothly. I couldn't believe how young the staff taping the show were - the cameraman and director were both local high school kids!

Save the Date: January 10th opening of the BSA (Boston Society of Architects) Exhibit "The Architecture of Time" at 6pm at the BSA Space, 290 Congress St., Boston. Two of my photos were accepted!

Exhibit Opening THIS Friday Night in Waltham:
Lincoln Arts Project's Small Treasures

All are welcome to join me at the opening reception/holiday party for the invitational exhibit "Small Treasures" at the Lincoln Arts Project in Waltham. I have five very small (4x6) pieces in it - see below. These are part of my "Scale Series" showing one or two people in a large architectural setting. Pieces in many different media, not just photography, will be on exhibit. All pieces had to be smaller than 10 inches (thus "small" treasurers) and priced at <$200 - a good place to shop for unique holiday gifts!

The event is Friday December 6th from 6pm to 9pm at 289 Moody Street in Waltham. I'll be there for at least the first hour or two. At the same time, the gallery next-door, Monique Rancourt Artisan Gallery, is presenting "Ornaments for the Ear," a holiday exhibition of contemporary earrings.

Walking by the ICA, Boston

Two Paths, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis

Stairs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

Looking Up, St. Louis Arch

Phone Call by the Red Cube, NYC

Elisif Photography provides high quality architectural photography to companies in the building industry, including architects, builders, developers, commercial and residential real estate brokers, interior designers, interior decorators, remodelers, and more. Contact me for an estimate on photographing your next project!

You're invited - Exhibit opening reception Sunday 3-5pm

I hope you are having a wonderful fall like I am! I would like to invite you to come see the Newton Camera Club exhibit at the West Newton Cinema. I have two images that were accepted into the show: "St. Louis Street Impression" and "Tadeo Ando Courtyard, St. Louis." Please join the me at the cinema for our Opening Reception this coming Sunday from 3 to 5pm! We will have lots of refreshments and most of the club members who have pieces in the show will be there to answer questions.

I'd love it if you could make it! The show will be up through the end of January, though, so if you can't make the reception, please stop by and take a look some other time. Might be a good way to find a holiday gift for someone!

The image above is "St. Louis Street Impression." It may be a bit hard to see this small. In the show it will be 35 inches long. If you want to know how I created it, stop by the opening reception! Or email me to ask if you can't make it.

This is a photograph of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation building in St. Louis, designed by architect Tadeo Ando. I love the clean lines and simplicity of his work.

Elisif Photography provides high quality architectural photography to companies in the building industry, including architects, builders, developers, commercial and residential real estate brokers, interior designers, interior decorators, remodelers, and more.

BSA Summer Shindig tonight - come see the exhibit!

The BSA is having their Summer Shindig tonight from 5:30pm to 8pm and it is free and open to the public. Let me know if you can make it and you can come see the exhibit, including my photo! More info here.

As you know, I have had a photo accepted to the Boston Society of Architects Juried Exhibition running June 2019 - January 2020! The photo is the one titled "Urban Slot Canyon" that I shot in Toronto (see below). I am honored to have an image included in the exhibit and look forward to seeing the other images chosen!

I call this image "Urban Slot Canyon, Toronto." I moved quickly from seeing it to shooting it, grabbing my cell phone. They say the best camera you have is the one you have with you and I'm certainly glad I did have one with me!

This alley shows the inhuman scale of skyscrapers. The woman is dwarfed by the space and seems insignificant, lost in a no-man’s-land. The advertisement on the next street gives relief and a place where she will emerge back into the human-focused street level of these massive buildings.

Elisif Photography provides high quality architectural photography to companies in the building industry, including architects, builders, developers, commercial and residential real estate brokers, interior designers, interior decorators, remodelers, and more. Contact me for a quote on your next project!

You're Invited! June 6th 6-8pm opening at the BSA

I have had a photo accepted to the Boston Society of Architects Juried Exhibition running June 2019 - January 2020! The photo is the one titled "Urban Slot Canyon" that I shot in Toronto (see below). I am honored to have an image included in the exhibit and look forward to seeing the other images chosen! The opening reception is June 6th 6-8pm at the BSA Space at 290 Congress St. (Atlantic Wharf). Please join me! The exhibit is entitled "New Visions of Designed Environments." Please RSVP here (you don't need to print tickets).

I call this image "Urban Slot Canyon, Toronto." I moved quickly from seeing it to shooting it, grabbing my cell phone. They say the best camera you have is the one you have with you and I'm certainly glad I did have one with me!

This alley shows the inhuman scale of skyscrapers. The woman is dwarfed by the space and seems insignificant, lost in a no-man’s-land. The advertisement on the next street gives relief and a place where she will emerge back into the human-focused street level of these massive buildings.

Having a Great Spring

I am having so much fun taking exterior photos for my clients with the trees and flowers green and blooming! So many interesting things I've photographed this spring - a renovated wharf, a new glass top on an historic building, an inspiring event about diversity in the real estate industry, Pier 4, an office where the beautiful letters spelling the company's name filled a 2-story lobby vertically, the latest build-out for Wayfair, and an X-ray observatory center!

I hope you have all had a great spring too!

Elisif Photography provides high quality architectural photography to companies in the building industry, including architects, builders, developers, commercial and residential real estate brokers, interior designers, interior decorators, remodelers, and more. Contact me for a quote on your next project!

Hope Schreiber Photography - beautiful nature photography!

I have been using Squarespace for my own website and to create websites for two fellow photographers. I offer this as a service now, in a narrow case – for anyone who wants to use Squarespace to make a simple photography website.  Besides my own site, check out the two I helped with – www.aopp.photos and www.hopeschreiberphotography.com to see the beautiful work of these two Newton Camera Club members who are talented, artistic photographers.

Hope Schreiber takes amazing nature photographs. You may have caught her exhibit a few years ago of her ammonite photography at the Newton Free Library. She has been collecting ammonites to photograph for many years, pulling the most beautiful details and colors from these fossils. She has also traveled to Costa Rica and the Pantanal where she has photographed amazing wildlife. Her images are always so sharp that you almost feel you are right there. But most spectacular are her photographs of bats in Arizona - in flight!

Congratulations to Hope on her two photos selected for NANPA’s Top 100!!

The Story of a Photo Shoot

In October 2017, I had an exciting two-day shoot with PCA in North Conway, NH.  Working closely with PCA’s Marketing Director, I photographed the renovations of the existing Settler’s Green shopping complex, the new shopping area called Streetside, and three restaurants, Barley & Salt (shown below), Wicked Fresh Burgers, and White Mountain Cupcakery.  We went to each area multiple times, catching the light as it changed and including people or shooting a space, so that we had a lot of options when selecting photos to use.

Barley & Salt has a beautiful combination of wood and tile.  Sometimes people from my client’s office serve as models, sometimes we shoot spaces empty, and sometimes we just catch the people who happen to be there at the time (usually blurred as they move through the space or move their heads).

Conveniently, the hotel I stayed in was just across the street, so I could come and go for dusk and dawn.  And I can attest to the great food at these places!  It is a new experience to eat dinner at places I'm photographing.

Some storefronts were not yet occupied, but at night, the exterior lighting made it all come alive.  Photo shoots can’t always be timed to happen when conditions are perfect – this area needed to be photographed in the fall while the grass and trees still looked good, even though not all the retailers had moved in and the shoppers were still learning about the new stores.

At Wicked Fresh, the burger place, I loved the way the words on the windows created shadows on the wall and floor, adding a text dimension to an architectural shot.  The red accents of the chairs and the napkin dispensers, as well as the umbrellas outside, provided a way to tie the image together.

Wicked Fresh had a great combination of corrugated metal and wood, and included a garden of house-grown herbs which you can see on the back wall past the counter in the image below.

This shoot was exciting because there was so much to cover, but we needed to capture it in just a few images for the architects’ website and proposals.  I enjoy the challenge of giving a feel for the place and a sense of the design through the photographs.  The more my client can tell me about the story of the design and construction, the better I can show their work in a way that tells that story.

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Elisif Photography provides high quality architectural photography to companies in the building industry, including architects, builders, developers, commercial and residential real estate brokers, interior designers, interior decorators, remodelers, and more.  

Photo Tip of the Month: What Time of Day to Go?

How do you find the best light for photographing a building or waterfall or other site?  I have three iPhone apps I can recommend:  LightTrac, Golden Hour, and Sun Surveyor.  These apps can help you figure out the best light for a given location on a given day.  LightTrac shows you the direction of the sunlight overlaid on a satellite view of the place you want to shoot.  It gives you the angle above the ground as well, so you can tell when the sun will rise above a building that may be across the street from one you want to shoot.

The app Golden Hour gives you the times of sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and blue hour – it can help you decide when to go to get that magic blue sky.  Sun Surveyor gives you augmented reality projections over a live camera view and a map with street view, as well as providing information about the position of moon and the Milky Way, which is great for night shots.

I use these apps not only for photo shoots for clients, but also for trips abroad such as my trip to Italy last year, so I could take light into account in planning my itinerary (weather permitting of course).