Photography Blog

Welcome to my photography blog! Here are some things I’ve had my lenses on: commercial photography projects and the work behind them. Architecture, product photography, headshot photography, and photography classes.
What You’ll Find Here
This blog is basically my running journal of studio life. Some weeks, that means a full day on location, photographing a manufacturing floor or a construction site. Other weeks, it’s a quiet afternoon in the studio, where I’ll work on lighting for a single product shot until it’s exactly right. I like sharing both ends of that spectrum, because that’s honestly what the job looks like day to day. Not just the polished final images, but also a bit of the process behind them.
Beyond the Studio
You’ll also find posts here about the community work I love being part of, plus local events I’ve photographed and collaborations with people doing interesting things around Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Morrisville, and Chapel Hill. And every so often, there’s a story about a client relationship that turned into something more than just a shoot. In fact, well into this career now, some of my favorite projects have come from people I met through my work.
Who This Blog Is For
Maybe you’re a business owner trying to figure out what kind of photography you actually need. Or maybe you’re an agency creative director scouting a new vendor. Or perhaps you just love photography and want to peek behind the curtain. Either way, I hope you find something useful, or at least enjoyable, in here. I try to write these posts the way I’d actually talk about the work, because jargon and fluff don’t help anyone. Instead, you’ll get what really happened on set and what I learned from it.
Classes, Workshops & Immersions
II also teach photography classes and lessons here in Raleigh, along with multi-day travel immersion experiences for anyone who wants to go deeper than a single session. So you’ll see updates on all of it here: classes, workshops, immersions, and the occasional student success story sprinkled in too. Photography has given me a career I love, and I get just as excited watching someone else fall in love with it.
Thanks for stopping by. Grab a matcha, a coffee, a kombucha, whatever your comfort beverage of choice is, and poke around. If something here makes you want to talk about a project of your own, my inbox is always open.
Raleigh Lifestyle Photographer- Express Yourself
Raleigh Lifestyle Photographer- Express Yourself
Freedom is the ability to capture moments as I see them from behind my lens.
Raleigh Lifestyle Photographer– Express Yourself
Take a look at our clients page to view the growing and humbling list of clients with whom we’ve worked over the years. Once you’ve taken the time to view our work, connect with us through our contact page so we can create images for your unique business needs. Check out more photos and updates via … Read More »
Commercial Photography Raleigh- Global Clintrax
The Global Clintrax team has experience in drafting, negotiating and paying upon quality investigator agreements in over 60 countries. The aggregate knowledge of this team also gives them a deep understanding of global contract cycle times and each country’s regulatory impact on study startup. This enables Clintrax to help their customers accurately plan for the contracting timeline’s influence on Site Initiation Visits. Their team’s combined wealth of experience translates into faster and more reliable negotiations for their customers, allowing them to plan for and complete site startup on time, every time. Meet the Raleigh team…
Brandon Evans – Chief Executive Officer
Elizabeth Easley – Vice President of Global Operations
Russell John – Director of Grants Management
Bradford Evans – Vice President of Administration
Steven Jones – General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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Raleigh Medical Product Photography – SurgiBot
TransEnterix is a medical device company that is pioneering the use of flexible instruments and robotics to improve the outcomes of minimally invasive surgery. Specifically, they are addressing the challenges presented to patients, surgeons, hospitals and payers in laparoscopy and robotic surgery today. The company is developing a robotic assisted surgical system called the SurgiBot™. The system utilizes flexible instruments through articulating channels controlled directly by the surgeon, with robotic assistance, at the patient’s bedside. The flexible nature of the system allows for multiple instruments to be introduced and deployed through a singlesite. The system also integrates 3-D vision technology in which they believe will enhance the quality of visualization of key structures and will support complex surgical tasks.
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Manufacturing Photography Raleigh – BISM
We had the recent opportunity to work on an inspiring manufacturing photography project with Rob Ennamorato from Blind Industries and Services Maryland, at their newest location in North Carolina (acquired from the Raleigh Lion’s Club Operations). Our mission was to capture the real-life action of the services that these hard-working and dedicated employees provide.
Blind Industries and Services of Maryland (BISM) was established in 1908 as Maryland Workshop for the Blind by the General Assembly to provide vocational rehabilitation, continuous employment, and other resources to blind adults of Maryland. In 2009, they entered into a partnership agreement with the Raleigh Lions Clinic for the Blind (NC) whereby BISM would manage the textile cutting division. This agreement prospered and expanded and in 2014 culminated in BISM’s complete takeover of all the manufacturing at that location. Subsequently, we moved our Raleigh manufacturing operations to a new … Read More »
Business Portraits Raleigh- Develop your personal branding
Your professional business portraits allow you to create and develop your own unique personal branding. This means that your LinkedIn picture should look similar to the in-person you, your Tweets and any social media posts should stay within your market niche and your in-person behavior should be representative of how you want others to perceive you. So, if you’ve branded yourself in social media as an approachable business person, then make sure that extends to how you come across in person (attire, hair, makeup, etc.). However you choose to brand yourself, we can help you achieve your goals.
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Product Photographer Raleigh- Eaton Corporation
Eaton Corporation Plc is an American multinational power management company headquartered in Ireland providing solutions to its customers to manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power efficiently, safely and sustainably. Here are some product photography shots that we captured at their facility located in Raleigh, NC.
Whether it’s for your website or a magazine ad, our product photographers will make your products pop off the page! We know that these images need to sell your items and display them just as you intended consumers to see them. That’s why our product photographers are amazing at creating photos of your product line. We understand that you want it perfect, we understand that the photos need to sell and represent your line well.
Each project is different so you can share the style, usage and vision that you … Read More »
Event Photographer Raleigh-North Carolina Heritage Calendar Event 2014
We had a great time photographing The 2014 North Carolina Heritage Calendar Event. Here are some of the fun and moving images we captured at the Governor’s Mansion that evening.
To see all of the photos from this event click HERE
Event Photographer Raleigh-North Carolina Heritage Calendar Event 2014
Event photography and celebrations of any kind are one of our areas of expertise. Our Event Photographers love the opportunity to capture the action and passion that happen at corporate events or parties, galas, conferences, conventions, award ceremonies, concerts, and all the other shindigs a person or company can throw! Really, anytime that people gather and you want to preserve and record that occasion with photos. New Image Studio can provide you with unique photojournalistic-style photography. Our studio has photographed hundreds of events over the years! We know (and take pride in) how to … Read More »
Architectural Photography Raleigh-Documenting Your Development
Documenting your development with architectural photography will increase the excitement and interest of your future clients. This is why Grubb Properties hired us to photograph their newly developed complex in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Link Apartments Brookstown. Take a look at some of the photos we captured on this shoot.
Are you seeking high end commercial <a title=”architecture photographers” href=”http://newimagestudio.com/about-us/commercial-photographers-raleigh/” target=”_blank”>architectural photographers</a>? If so, we provide this service for the interiors and exteriors of buildings, your commercial offices, and residential spaces. Whether you need clean, crisp images of your building for promotional pieces or artistic and post-production representations of your architecture, New Image Studio can make either scenario happen. Please call us and one of our architecture photographers can help you create an image for the building you have in mind. Let us know … Read More »
Manufacturing Photography Raleigh-Robling Medical
We had a great time capturing the manufacturing photography for all of the processes that take place at the Robling Medical Inc. plant in Youngsville, North Carolina! Robling Medical Inc. fulfills the needs of the medical device industry as a full service contract manufacturer. They provide the personnel, facility and “know how” to a wide range of customers in order to launch their products to markets around the globe. Robling takes their customer product from concept to market by providing product design for manufacturing input, assembly process design, manufacturing, packaging, sterilization and distribution. Each step of the process is performed following their high-quality design, development and production standards and comprehensive procedures and systems.
New Image Studio commercial photographers provide the Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas with award winning commercial photography, full service cinematography, and video production. We offer … Read More »
Architectural Photography Raleigh-Building Exteriors
Are you seeking high end commercial architectural photographers? If so, we provide this service for the interiors and exteriors of buildings, your commercial offices, and residential spaces. Whether you need clean, crisp images of your building for promotional pieces or artistic and post-production representations of your architecture, New Image Studio can make either scenario happen. Please call us and one of our architecture photographers can help you create an image for the building you have in mind. Let us know how we can assist you in getting the photo that will give your building the best presentation and look.
Take a look at our clients page to view the growing and humbling list of clients with whom we’ve worked over the years. Once you’ve taken the time to view our work, connect with us through our contact page so we can create images … Read More »
Branding Photography Raleigh-Cassidy Turley Commercial Real Estate
Branding photography is one of the most valuable investments that you can make when trying to reach and captivate your target market. Cassidy Turley is a Raleigh, North Carolina Commercial Real Estate company that recognizes the value in this.
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New Image Studio commercial photographers provide the Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas with award winning commercial photography, branding photography, and full service cinematography and video production. We offer our clients high resolution digital files along with high end retouching. Our commercial photography is powerful and will captivate the viewer. We love to create dynamic, communicative images that will stick in people’s minds. People come to us for advertising photography such as architectural photography, headshot photography and business portraits, product … Read More »
Event Photography-Big Muddy Challenge 2014
Check out some of the event photography that we captured from this year’s Big Muddy Challenge…
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Take a look at our clients page to view the growing and humbling list of clients with whom we’ve worked over the years. Once you’ve taken the time to view our work, connect with us through our contact page so we can create images for your unique business needs. You may also want to check out more photos and updates via Facebook.
New Image Studio | Commercial Photography | Product Photography | Portrait | Lifestyle Photography
Event photography and celebrations of any kind are one of our areas of expertise. Our Event Photographers love the opportunity to capture the action and passion that happen at corporate events or parties, galas, conferences, conventions, award ceremonies, concerts, and all the other shindigs a … Read More »
Medical Photography-TransEnterix
Medical Photography is a specialized area of photography that concerns itself with the documentation of the clinical presentation of patients, medical and surgical procedures, medical devices and specimens from autopsy. The practice requires a high level of technical skill to present the photograph free from misleading information that may cause misinterpretation. The photographs are used in clinical documentation, research, publication in scientific journals and teaching. Here are some of the photos that we captured for TransEnterix.
TransEnterix is a medical device company that is pioneering the use of flexible instruments and robotics to improve the outcomes of minimally invasive surgery. Specifically, we are addressing the challenges presented to patients, surgeons, hospitals and payers in laparoscopy and robotic surgery today. The company is developing a robotic assisted surgical system called the … Read More »
Lifestyle Photography with Children
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Lifestyle Photography captures images that reveal a story and capture the emotion and expression of everyday life | Lifestyle Photography with Children-Children’s Lifestyle Photography
Take a look at our clients page to view the growing and humbling list of clients with whom we’ve worked over the years. Once you’ve taken the time to view our work, connect with us through our contact page so we can create images for your unique business needs. You may also want to check out more photos and updates via Facebook.
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Editorial Photographer Raleigh
Editorial photography is one of my favorite styles to shoot. It illuminates who you are and shows what words cannot communicate.
Editorial photography is a genre in which our clients usually want something above and beyond what’s expected. So we like going outside the box. You are guaranteed to walk away with photos unique to you, something that’s different and sets you apart from everyone else at the casting! The goal is to give your agency images that will make a big impact. These can be used in your portfolio to show modeling agencies or potential clients for advertising. Or they can supplement work that you already have. The results will be clean, glossy, magazine worthy photos that will leave an impression. Each model and shoot is different so contact us to design your theme.
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