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CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 5: Data Management

With gigs and gigs of data from 9 event photography shoots in 7 cities in less than a month, how do I manage the workflow to make sure I don't loose images? Event Photography ©2015 Ari Shapiro - AShapiroStudios.com

7 Cities. 9 Events. Still Photography and Video. Gigs, and gigs, and gigs of data.  As I write this, we’re barely over half-way through this run of 9 shoots, and – including the transcoded and rendered video files – we’re already over 1 TB of data.  How to manage it all is a big question. […]

CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 2: Planning The Trip

Event Photography: CONCACAF Gold Cup Photography Part 2: Planning the Trip. Event Photography by Ari Shapiro - AShapiroStudios.com

I’ve said the words many times. I’ve heard many-a-person say the same. “I’m A Planner.” Well, I think everyone is a planner… to different degrees.  Sometimes when I talk about my travel and event photography work, I see a lot of gaping mouths and a lot of ‘wow’ comments; the same as when I watch […]

CONCACAF Gold Cup Event Photography – Part 1: Getting the Call

Event Photography: CONCACAF Gold Cup Photography Part 1: Getting the Call. Event Photography by Ari Shapiro - AShapiroStudios.com

I don’t know how they got my name initially. I wish I did. Octagon is a Sports, Music and Entertainment Marketing company based in Connecticut, with 68 offices spread around the world.  Their team in Chicago, among other things, manages their Allstate Insurance business and their sponsorship of soccer events throughout the US.  I first […]

Introducing The Perfect 10 Business Package

10 Photos - Countless Options - One Price: The Perfect 10 Business Package from AShapiro Studios

10 Photos – Countless Options – One Price The Perfect 10 Business Package from AShapiro Studios gives you the professional images you’ve always wanted for your business – at a perfectly affordable price!  Think you can’t afford high-quality commercial photography? We created The Perfect 10 Business Package with you in mind. It’s designed specifically for […]

Seattle Real Estate Photographer: Phinney Ridge Craftsman

The final finished photo of a kitchen in a home in a Phinney Ridge Craftsman-style Nice Seattle Home - Listing soon! ©2014 Ari Shapiro - AShapiroStudios.com

Today’s real estate market in Seattle is brisk.  There’s very little inventory available; houses don’t stay on the market very long.  I’ve been working with Cynthia and Mack – a husband and wife team with Nice Seattle Homes – to photograph their real estate listings, and today’s was a treat.  Seattle may not have homes […]

Seattle Holiday Portraits: The Watershed Company Holiday Portrait

The Watershed Company Holiday Portrait 2013 - Final

Each year, companies around the world send out holiday cards to their customers, clients, employees, contacts, vendors…  Anyone that they have touched in the previous 12 months.  The Watershed Company, an environmental consulting, environmental engineering, environmental planning and landscape architecture firm in the Seattle area, is one of those companies that wanted company holiday portraits […]

New Website in 5 Days (while still working)

New Website

I’ve been planning on a rebrand for a while.  New logo, new marketing material, new email templates…  all important, and a new website was pretty close to the top of the list too, and somehow I got it up in less than 5 days, while still keeping up with everything else. Day 1 – 11:30p […]