RIT Alumni are amazing. From tech photo guru Andrew Davidhazy to Pixar animator (he did Jessi in Toy Story 2 and Mater in Cars!) Michael Krummhoefener and the entire group shared wonderful stories of their success and years at RIT. I wish I had time to properly rave about each one, but at least you can enjoy my Photos HERE
I’ll just let these fine, artistic images speak for themselves. This is from a shoot for Nazareth College Theatre and I must say it was surreal to have a monkey sitting in the audience and stromping around to his marks. These aren’t show photos, just goofing around between scenes.
I’ve been fortunate to be asked to do copywork and retouching on two waves of historical images that the Friendly Home is putting on display. The long-time Pittford photographer Paul Spiegel gets all of the credit for these wonderful images, I’m only scanning them in and retoucing the bad spots in Photoshop.
If you are by the Friendly Home on East Avenue, the display is just inside the doors, in their entranceway. I copied the first images using my camera, but for this newer set, I have a better scanner and was very pleased with the results. If photos are too large to scan, or if there are many images of very similar size, doing them as copywork with a good digital camera is often faster than scanning.
Retouching Old Photos:
People also ask me about what can be retouched and I always tell them that I can retouch anything with some ‘reality’ around it. If a bad spot is surround by lots of good, similar area, it’s very easy to retouch it. If there is little ‘real’ material near the bad spot (or similar material somewhere in the photo), it’s hard to retouch without the results looking faked.
As an example, if there were parts of thw wood missing in the swimming photos, or a corner of the sky or grass in the kids line (a problem I did have), that’s easy to fix. If someone’s face was mostly missing, what could you take to replace it?
Every year I get to celebrate the joys and sorrows of the Jewish community here in Rochester. Recently we had the Yom HaShoah (holocaust) remembrance, but most events are the lively joyous family events and famous visitors (see my entry on Leonard Nimoy HERE)
The event this week combines both aspects as we remember the fallen in Israel’s wars, but also party with an Israeli musician as we celebrate the 59th year of independence.
Great fun and couldn’t be more visual for my photos, eh 
Sorry, I scheduled to have my winter tires rotated off of the PT Cruiser today and I know that jinxed the whole eastern seaboard.
You have my sincerest apologies. I’ll never be that optimistic in tire swapping again.
Ken
I love doing these event books because they really show off the whole range of photos from an event and let me add the creative detail photos and ‘quiet/behind the scenes moments’ that I love to shoot.
If you hover over the example above, there are some captions here and there. Also, clicking on it will take you to a web page where you can see all of the photos. The first shots are from the Highland Hospital Gala and later are from RIT. I create the books in Apple’s Aperture software.
I’m doing 7 books for RIT Alumni from the even I shoot tonight, so you know what I’ll be doing Monday.
And the price I charge right now is just $100 to create the book (which honestly takes 2-3 hours or more), and then $100 per printed, hardcover 8.5×11″ book. I’m sure in time those prices will have to go up, but I’m thrilled clients are getting into the idea more and more.
