Professional restaurant photography coveys the ambience

With the advent of smartphones and social media, promoting your business is easier than ever.

Using your phone to capture basic images of your products or services and then share them with your customers is easy and sometimes effective.

“Before and after” photos can also be a great way to market your products and services, helping potential customers to better understand what you can do for them.

There are a lot of do-it-yourself photographers doing the same thing. This approach really applies to just about every product and service today – I guess with the exception of surgery and dental work.

To bring your business to the next level, it is important to showcase with the highest quality imagery.

Whether you provide a service, sell a product or sell a creation, it makes sense to have that initial contact point with a potential new customer be a professional quality image.

A business portrait that makes you look friendly and confident

A business portrait that makes you look trustworthy ans succesful

Make a great portrait of yourself convey the look of confidence, friendliness and a readiness to provide great service to your customers.  Even physicians like new patients to see them as friendly and caring.

A physician that conveys an honest and caring look to patients

Make the product that you sell look its best.  Bring out the quality in every detail with professional product photography.  Customers will be drawn to a quality attractive and nicely styled product image.

If your business is a restaurant, it is important that your restaurant’s interior look warm and inviting.  High quality photos and lighting can give customers a feel of the experience of enjoying a great meal.  The same is true for the food a restaurant serves – why not make a creative styled image that conveys quality and great taste to your customers with professional food photography.

Professional restaurant photography coveys the mood and warmth of the fireplace

Professional restaurant photography that makes the food and drink look great

It is essential for every business to have a website.  Make the essential elements of the website quality business photography to draw in new customers.

Business product photography - giving motor oil a little style

If you are thinking about professional quality photos for your business, photographer Brian Walski and Colorado Visions will ensure that your business is showcased with the utmost precision and attention to every detail.  Call Colorado Visions at 303-346-2070 for all your greater Denver business photography needs.

Close-up detail product photography in studio

To a professional product photographer there are product shoots that are simple and straightforward and then there are product shots that items that can both test a professional photographers ability and patience.

To the average consumer, product photography often looks fairly straightforward and simple.  As a Denver product photographer, those products that appear to be simple, can often be the most challenging to photograph.

Using a studio environment, products can be photographed to highlight the finest details, add color and reduce any glare from a glass or shiny surface.  By repositioning lights and adjusting their output, highlights and shadows can be painted much like an artist’s palette.

To control and shape reflections and glare on a glass, metal or shiny surface, I have built a 5×5 tent of a white silky cloth.  With the product inside and lighting on the top and sides, the camera angle can be adjusted to better remove any reflections from the product surface.

Spices styled and photographed against a white background

Food product photographed in studio with a good looking burger

After the image capture the image post-production begins.  Even though I prefer to achieve about 80% of the desired lighting and color in the camera the remaining 20% is the crucial in fine-tuning and creating a flawless image.  Here I use Photoshop to adjust color, tone and intensity.

Take for example a recent product photography shoot I completed of an automobile dash against the Denver skyline.  This is a virtually impossible image to capture at night.  The finished image is actually the auto’s interior in a studio setting using a long exposure and 3 off-camera light combines with a night image of the Denver skyline from nearly the same angle and proportion.  Then, I used Photoshop to blend and adjust the perspective of both images making it look like an actual driver’s view.

Automobile dash with the Denver skyline

Another recent professional product photography shoot was, again a seemingly simple product photo, a series of a martini glasses.  Here the difficulty was in lining up the glasses properly and straight as well as creating a high-intensity reflection free photograph of multiple glass surfaces.  I started from the simplest lighting setup and built the composition step by step, analyzing the outcome with every change I made during the shoot.

Martini glasses photographed in a white cloth tent

Stainless steel product photographed in studio tent

An attention to the finest details and the ability to fine-tune a product shoot during the course of the shoot is the skill of a professional product photographer.

If you need to have products of any size photographed for your business, Brian Walski of Colorado Visions Photography will ensure that your products are photographed with the utmost precision and attention to every detail.  Call Colorado Visions at 303-346-2070 for all your product photography needs.

To the average consumer, product photography often looks fairly straightforward and simple.  As a Denver product photographer, those products that appear to be simple, can often be the most challenging to photograph.

Products large and small photographed to showcase the finer points. Using a controlled studio environment items can be photographed to highlight the finest details, add color and reduce any glare from a glass or shiny surface. Denver product photographer Brian Walski works tirelessly to guarantee satisfaction. Clients can view images of the photographic process by viewing the shoot with a dedicated online gallery throughout the shoot. Images can then be fine-tuned to the customer’s specifications.

Take for example a recent product photography shoot I completed for an online specialty apparel company.  FLOAT (For Love Of All Things) Apparel (www.FLOATapparel.org) is a Denver owned and operated maker of specialty recycled clothing.  The shoot was to photograph a group photo of their t-shirts, tops, sweatshirts and hats.

For Love Of All Things, or FLOAT, is a new breed of company promoting socially, environmentally and globally conscious consumerism. We create awareness & funding for the world’s best non-profits by conducting limited edition apparel campaigns and contributing $8 from every sale to the current weeks cause.

Every week FLOAT partners with a new charity. We create unique designs that represent the charity’s cause and for every purchase made at www.floatapparel.com during that week, FLOAT donates $8 to the current weeks charity.

FLOAT’s products included hats, t-shirts, and sweatshirts for guys, girls and children.  The professional product photography required shooting the hats and shirts individually and in groups against a solid white background.  Using three strobes I was able to highlight the printing on the clothing with minimal post-production in Photoshop.

An attention to the finest details and the ability to fine-tune a product shoot during the course of the shoot is the skill of a professional product photographer.

If you need to have products of ant size photographed for your business, Brian Walski and Colorado Visions Photography will ensure that your products are photographed with the utmost precision and attention to every detail.  Call Colorado Visions at 303-346-2070 for all your product photography needs.

Djemaa el-Fna - Marrakesh, Morocco 2006

Be A Part Of The World’s Largest Photography Encyclopedia

As a Denver editorial photographer for over 20-years, my assignments have taken me to 49 states (I’m still hoping for that shoot in Hawaii) and 22 foreign countries.  Although most assignments are very specific, I always try to find time to take some travel style pictures that capture the people and geography along with the quintessential tourist locales.

One of my images from a 2011 trip to Hong Kong was chosen by Fotopedia to highlight Fotopedia’s Top 10 things to do in Hong Kong.

Star Ferry - Fotopedia's One of Hong Kong's Top Ten Things To Do

Let me share with you one of the coolest photography websites out there.  It’s called Fotopedia and it’s the largest photo distribution network that is building a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole virtual world to see.

No need to be a professional photographer – though if you are one do add your own photos.  All you need is love and being interested in a topic: from my hometown of Littleton, Colorado, to some far away places like Turkey and Morocco, or even a star athlete or entertainer.  Fotopedia enables you to jump into a pool of millions of photos to illustrate anything that interests you.  Or, just enjoy travel photography from all corners of the globe.  Then use your knowledge to select the most relevant photos and illustrate the encyclopedia articles you like.

Then take a trip to exotic places, enlighten yourself with interesting topics and inspire you more articles. Creating an article is just as simple as adding photos.

Photos are ordered by votes in encyclopedia articles and in search results. Vote on the best photos to give them more visibility. Fotopedia has been praised for the quality of the photos in the encyclopedia. All members and visitors who voted are to thank for making Fotopedia one of the highest quality photo resources in the world.

You can vote for some of my travel photography images at www.Fotopedia.com and searching: Venice, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Marrakech and Jerusalem.

Grand Canal in Venice 2006

Rio De Janeiro 2012

A man prays inside the Sultan Ahmed Mosque - Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

Created in partnership with the UNESCO World Heritage Center, the app takes you on an inspiring visual journey with over 250,000 spectacular photos that depict over 3,000 places of interest.

Fotopedia Heritage is taking a crucial role in raising awareness about our mission to protect the planet’s most outstanding cultural and natural sites.

The Fotopedia.com community of editorial photographers created or contributed the most beautiful and representative photos, while curators carefully sorted and selected them to provide a stunning experience. Keep voting on the best photos to ensure the encyclopedia remains an awesome visual experience.

We all know that almost everything is available on the web.  Every consumer is shopping online and that includes vacation rentals.  Every potential renter is previewing and eliminating properties on vacation and real estate websites.

When a customer is searching for that great vacation rental for a week or a month in one of Colorado’s prime resort area, let them experience your property at the fullest.  That feeling will only come through with high quality professional real estate photography.  This includes a home’s exterior, backyard and just about every room.

If a property’s interior photos are dark and blurry your listing could be losing potential customers.  If the interior real estate photos are washed-out and poorly lit, they are not very pleasing to potential renters previewing home online looking for the perfect vacation rental.

Some real estate agents save on expenses by going the do-it-yourself route for pictures of their client’s listing.  Today’s digital cameras produce fine high-resolution files.  But, they don’t create a finished quality interior or exterior architectural image.

As a Denver real estate photographer, when I photograph a property, I use a 16-35mm wide-angle lens that offers a very natural perspective of an interior space.  I then combine the natural available light with on off camera strobe, sometimes bounced off a wall or ceiling.  This method creates a well-balanced interior architectural image.

Another great Colorado real estate photography tool is the 360-degree panoramic image.  This image is seamless 360-degree view of an exterior or interior and is viewed in panoramic image viewer that can be added to the online portal I offer my real estate agent clients is called Tour Buzz.

After much comparison research is was clear that Tour Buzz is the highest quality, most flexible technology solution available for residential and commercial real estate virtual tour presentations.  View a recent Aspen, Colorado condo vacation rental I photographed.  This tour can be modified many ways and completely customizable with an agents name, contact info, company colors and logo.

If you are looking to rent your vacation property for top dollar, showcase it in the best light with professional quality photography.  Give Brian Walski at Colorado Visions a call today at 303.346.2070

To the average consumer, product photography often looks fairly straightforward and simple.  As a Denver product photographer, those products that appear to be simple, can often be the most challenging to photograph.

Products large and small can be photographed to showcase the finer points. Using a controlled studio environment items can be photographed to highlight the finest details, add color and reduce any glare from a glass or shiny surface. Denver product photographer Brian Walski works tirelessly to guarantee satisfaction. Clients can view images of the photographic process by viewing the shoot with a dedicated online gallery throughout the shoot. Images can then be fine-tuned to the customer’s specifications.

Take for example a recent product photography shoot I completed for an online specialty spice company.  Opa Helmut’s Rub is a family owned and operated maker of specialty German spices.  The shoot was to photograph a group photo of their products both in and out of the packaging and then photograph each spice paired with a meat or vegetable that it would highlight each spice.

Another recent professional product photography shoot was, again a seemingly simple product photo, a series of a small perfume bottles.  Here the difficulty was in lining up the bottled properly and straight as well as creating a high-intensity reflection free photograph of multiple glass surfaces.  I started from the simplest lighting setup and built the composition step by step, analyzing the outcome with every change I made during the shoot.

An attention to the finest details and the ability to fine-tune a product shoot during the course of the shoot is the skill of a professional product photographer.

If you need to have products of ant size photographed for your business, Brian Walski and Colorado Visions Photography will ensure that your products are photographed with the utmost precision and attention to every detail.  Call Colorado Visions at 303-346-2070 for all your product photography needs.

As couples plan their wedding day, one of the most important decisions involves choosing your wedding photographer.  Your selection of a photographer is going to have a direct impact on the memories of your wedding day.

Finding the perfect Colorado wedding photographer means asking the tough questions. Choose the photographer that fits your needs and you will have wedding images to cherish forever.

Your wedding is one of the most memorable days of your life – Are you going to trust preserving the memories to just anyone?

Choose your photographer with care and you will ensure that your wedding photographs are perfect, beautiful portraits capturing the emotion of the event.

Here is a list of list of items to talk about when choosing your wedding photographer.

1. Wedding Experience - discuss the photographer’s experience. While you might pay a lower price for a new photographer, remember this is a once in a lifetime event that is almost impossible to recreate. Do you want to entrust your wedding photos to someone without a proven record of success.
2. Photo style - discuss the photographer’s shooting style. Are they creative and have a style that will have your wedding party posing in non-traditional ways? How will the wedding photographer approach the day? Make sure their creative vision agrees with yours.
3. Quality guarantees - discuss the quality of the photos, including the post-production process. Will you own the digital negatives? All photographers have different post-production processes and use different manufacturers for photographs and for the extras, like albums and frames. What will the photographer do if you have an issue?
4. Other guarantees - your satisfaction should be the priority. Make sure your photographer is professional and prepared for the unexpected, such as emergencies, equipment failures, etc. What guarantees are in place to ensure that you receive the pictures you were promised?  This is the real definition of a professional wedding photographer.
5. Timeframe for finished images - with most services, you receive the final service the day of the event. With photography, you wont receive your images until days or even weeks later. Make sure you know how much time it will take from the day of the wedding until you have your proofs, and how long it takes to receive your final images once you have made your selections
6. Pricing - pricing can include your original package price, plus any extras purchased outside of your inclusions. Find out all costs an ask how long pricing is guaranteed.  Get specific numbers so that you will not be shocked by a large bill later.
7. Sample pictures and albums - ask to view samples of other weddings. Good wedding photographers will have plenty of samples, including complete albums, for you to view and learn from. Look closely, can you see yourself in the images? Do they have the right look and feel?
8. Archiving - find out if your photographer offers archival services. This is important if you ever lose one or more of your photos to loss or damage. More than one bride has lost everything from a computer crash and/or house fire. A trusted professional will be there and have your images in the event of a loss.
9. Staffing your wedding - who is going to be taking the actual pictures. A great interview with a professional wedding photographer will do you no good if their assistant ends up being the one taking the images. Discuss who will be the main photographer and the experience of all involved.
10. Services Contract – have a contract signed by both parties that details all the photographic services and products that include: time photographing your wedding, ownership of images, cancellation policy, payment details and any other services.  This is to ensure both parties meet all agreed expectations.

Finding the perfect Colorado wedding photographer means doing a little homework and asking the right questions. Choose the photographer that fits your style and budget and you will have wedding images to cherish forever.

For details about Brian’s wedding photography call Colorado Visions at 303.346.2070.

Denver Metro Moving's owner poses with the Denver skyline

Professional business photography can showcase the services of small business.  Every business can benefit from professional photography that highlights their products and services to their customers and especially potential new customers.

Two recent examples are the Denver Metro Movers and Cardom Colorado Plumbing and Heating.

Denver Metro Movers are an up and coming commercial and residential moving company specializing in office and senior citizen moving.  The photography highlighted the company movers at several locations and the owner’ portrait overlooking the Denver skyline.

Cardom Colorado Plumbing and Heating is using professional photography to showcase thier more complicated commercial jobs from the PIMA in Aurora and a boiler installation at the historic Annunciation Church in the Denver Five Points neighborhood.

Cardom replaced the 50-year old boiler with a state-of-the-art dual boiler energy saving system that can thoroughly and efficiently heat the sanctuary and adjacent buildings.  The churches 80-year old cast iron radiators were refitted to the specifications of the new system.  The photography shows the intricacy of retrofitting a state-of-the-art system into a 100-year old historic structure showing the installation along with details of the finished product and architectural images of the beautiful historic church.

The historic Annunciation Church

Radiators heat the 100-year old church

Installing the state-of-the-art boilers in the church basement

A modern solution in the historic church

For Denver Metro Movers the photos shoot was to highlight their new business website.

Business photography included examples of the company’s packing and moving techniques along with a portrait of owner Josh Barron with the downtown Denver skyline as a backdrop.  For the skyline photo, I chose a small park on the west side of I-25 at Speer Blvd.

Moving fragile office equipment

Denver Metro Moving's owner poses against the Denver skyline

These are just two examples of how professional business photography can enhance a a businesses first impression to new and existing customers.

Colorado Visions Photography is A+ Better Business Bureau rated.  Brian is a member of the professional associations PPA (Professional Photographers of America), AIAP (Association of Independent Architectural Photographers) and REPA (Real Estate Photographers of America).

My job as a Denver business photographer is to provide the most comprehensive coverage both in straight forward and creative style of photography.

When looking for a professional photographer to showcase your business, get in touch with Brian Walski at Colorado Visions Photography.  When your business image counts, call 303-346-2070 for complete details.

Dancing at the Curtis Hotel

It’s the season for Holiday Parties and many companies put a great deal of planning and expense into giving their employees and valued clients a great holiday event.

Colorado Visions was hired for general event photography for several holiday parties that included the stylish party for the national mortgage company American Financing at the Curtis Hotel along with a more traditional holiday party  for Whiting Petroleum Corporation at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Holiday decorations garce the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel

As a Denver event photographer, it was great to be a part giving guests both quality portraits and fun party pictures.

The chic Curtis Hotel located across from the Denver Performing Arts Center was the location for American Financing’s Saturday evening cocktail, dinner and dance party.  I set up a photo booth style area with a backdrop and studio lighting for professional quality portraits of guests.  Then there was time for pictures of guests at all the table and some fun pictures of everyone enjoying an evening of dancing.

Dancing at American Financing's Holiday Party

There was a karaoke competion

A photo booth style location for group and couples portraits

The glamorous and historic Brown Palace Hotel was the scene for the annual holiday gala of the Whiting Petroleum Corporation.  The Denver based Whiting Petroleum Corporation, is an independent oil and gas company that acquires, exploits, develops and explores for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids primarily in the Rocky Mountain, Permian Basin, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast and Michigan regions of the United States.

Whiting’s afternoon party was a more formal affair with a reception, lunch, an award and presentation from CEO Jim Volker followed by an afternoon of dancing.

The Whiting Petroleum party at the Brown Palace Hotel

There was a live band and dancing

Group photos under the Christmas Tree

One of the key skills of a professional event photographer needs is the ability to understand lighting in uncontrolled and changing environments and react quickly to changing light.

There might be the need for an experienced event photographer to shoot a high quality speaker shot.  This can be a client’s most important request from a corporate event.

Colorado Visions Photography is A+ Better Business Bureau rated.  Brian is a member of the professional associations PPA (Professional Photographers of America), AIAP (Association of Independent Architectural Photographers) and REPA (Real Estate Photographers of America).

My job as a Denver event photographer is to provide the most comprehensive coverage both in straight forward and creative style of photography.

Whether you are hosting a corporate event, trade show or party, the event photography of Brian Walski at Colorado Visions is second to none.  When image counts, call 303-346-2070 for complete details.

As a Denver architectural photographer most of the interior spaces I photograph are newly designed large sweeping interiors.  For this shoot my shoot was confined to a six-foot by six-foot reflective area.

I was hired by Eklund’s Inc. in Grapevine, Texas to photograph their finished elevator cab work throughout the L. Carr Justice Center in downtown Denver.

Eklund’s provide the building industry with vertical transportation solutions – elevator design. Eklund’s has been in business as a custom elevator cab manufacturer and cab interior finish-out fabricator since 1983. Eklund’s produces specialty elevator cabs and entries including glass observation, freight, service, front and rear opening and a wide variety of specialty components including custom elevator panels, ceilings, and handrails.

The majority of the required images were interior photographs of the elevator entrance area, elevator doors, elevator interiors with details of the marble tile floor, stainless steel walls and button panel.

I was able to produce some of the interior photography using only available light, then layer masking in post production to control contrast and color balance.  I used my Paul  Buff Einstein 460 strobes with pyrex glass dome bounced into white umbrellas when the available light alone would not give us the results that we needed.

As Denver architectural photographer, I strive to produce a natural view of a building’s exterior or interior space.  Composition and camera placement are the keys to a quality architectural image.  A precise blend of natural light and studio style is needed to create an image to showcase a space.  Most architectural interior shoots can sometimes be a tedious process of portable studio light placement and adjustment to highlight every detail.  I work meticulously to photograph a high quality image that is sharp from edge-to-edge.

I was able to produce some of the images using only available light, then layer masking in post to control contrast. Strobes bounced into white umbrellas were used when the available light alone would not give us the results that we needed.

Whether you are selling a home or building, showcasing an interior design for marketing or chronicling an architectural project, let of Brian Walski at Colorado Visions architectural photography is second to none in quality, style and value.  When image counts, call 303-346-2070 for complete details.