My first professional work was as a news photographer, and I have been able to do that kind of assignment again, thanks to the Lake County Business Journal.
My approach is really the same whether the assignment is a feature picture for a newspaper, or pictures for public relations or annual reports. The picture should tell a story, or have a little drama, or least have a very clear subject!
For instance, the lady shown at right was cleaning the lamp at the Fairport Lighthouse, when I caught her face in the curved mirror.
Below is my first cover for Lake Geauga Family Magazine-- then they asked me back to do their Cleveland edition... with more to come in future months.
The Harleys line Erie St. in Willoughby.
Friends sit outside the ice cream shop.
Grand River at night. A Chef, a CEO.
Airplane mechanic, cooks at work, Jeff Joughin and the 130-year-old store with its tin ceiling.
Below is a young woman caring for Mary's Shrine, and a digital trick puts the VIPs into an artist's rendering of a new fire station.
Total concentration as a speed boat
is put into a storage rack.
copyright 2007 Richard McPeak