Photographing Food and Beverage for Bluestone Lane

The past couple of days I have been photographing food for the new app that Bluestone Lane will be launching in the coming weeks. Although a lot of the concept was to shoot uniform images of all food and beverages, there is always an opportunity to capture some subtlety. Although I’m not a full time food photographer, I really enjoy capturing content for clients who work in the food industry.

And here’s a behind the scenes of the setup for both days of shooting food.

Las Vegas Conference Photographer

I love traveling as a photographer for clients. It allows me some time to see new places and work for new people. Of course a lot of my work is based in New York, but this month I travelled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles for Proscenium to cover 2 large conferences. My main juseob in Las Vegas was to document the incredible set, stage and lighting built and designed by Proscenium. I setup a few remote cameras around the venue at The Sands in Las Vegas and fired them while also shooting center stage with a long lens. I use a few Canon 5D Mark IV bodies with pocket wizard triggers and have found the new Fuji XF10 is a really great little remote camera to shoot stages with. It has a built in intervalometer and 24 megapixel APS-C size sensor. The files are perfect.

Las Vegas Conference Photographer based in New York City

Remote Camera Setup at Conferences and Events

I photograph a lot of amazing conferences and meetings for so many different brands across the country and always try to setup a remote camera or additional wireless camera to act as another photographer from a fixed angel. The remote camera setup allows me to move around more for different and often more creative angels, while I can still guarantee that we have straight images of the stage and speaker setup. I'm often hired by the people who designed and created the stage so I have to document their work as well as photograph the meeting or conference in progress. Often hiding a remote camera can help create an image that wouldn't be possible from a standard photographers perspective, and I like to mount cameras on monopods to reach different angles.

Remote Camera Photography

If you need a conference, meeting, party or gala photographed and you think a remote camera would be a nice addition, please don't hesitate to reach out and email me here. I'm always happy to make new contacts and work with new clients. I'm also available for headshots, portraits and lifestyle shoots. I have a great team who can help produce some amazing content.

Conference Photographer and Remote Camera Setup 

Shooting Fireworks with remote cameras

There are lots of ways to correctly photograph a fireworks display on the fourth of July at Whippoorwill, but with all of the options, why just stick with one method. I mounted 2 cameras on a tripod and set the shutter speed to 4 seconds and the aperture at F8 (ISO 200). Both cameras were triggered by a Pocket Wizard that was fired when my other Canon 5D Mark IV took a photo. One of the tricks I learned was to unmount the pocket wizard from the hotshot of the Canon, as it was causing a domino effect and shooting the other pocketwizards

Canon 5D Mark iii with 16-35mm F2.8 lens and Fujifilm GFX 50S and 63mm F2.8 Lens

Remote Camera setup by Ben Hider