Atrium Living Centers are rehab, nursing and extended care facilities spread across 4 states in the MidWest. We had the privilege of working with them recently at a couple of their facilities.
Great Lakes Kite Festival
©2015 Green Frog Photo
Can't beat this job! On assignment this week- we had a request to provide photos at the Great Lakes Kite Festival in Grand Haven. Interesting day Saturday, with a glass smooth Lake MIchigan, mist and fog occasionally rolling in to the beach where hundreds of people gathered to watch some amazing kite flying, and generally have a great time.
©2015 Green Frog Photo
©2015 Green Frog Photo
©2015 Green Frog Photo
©2015 Green Frog Photo
Team Work
Kelloggs Mural project
One of the things we believe is Green Frog Photo’s strength is our team approach to servicing our clients. A team approach ensures that our client’s always receive help from a professional with over 25 years of commercial photography experience. Both photographers are comfortable when we are shooting and when we are acting as the set assistant, computer operator, client liaison and shoot producer for the other. Either of us is willing to step into any role to create the highest quality images and video for our clients.
Many of our clients’ commercial photography projects, such as corporate headshots and product shots on simple backgrounds, are fairly straightforward. For these projects, we decide who should be the lead photographer, we work out a shoot schedule, the client comes in, we set up the product/person and lighting, and we get to it. Usually, we only need a photographer and a set/computer assistant. However, other commercial photography projects can get anywhere from a little bit to a lot more involved.
For example, last summer Kellogg’s hired us to do a series of lifestyle/product photos. They planned to use the images to create murals in a new office building. Kellogg’s brought in the product, but for each shot we also needed an approved location (Kellogg’s wanted a range of locations, from a park to various home settings), approved models with a selection of wardrobe, and tons of props for the styled sets.
In this case, since it was food related, we decided JD would be the lead photographer. Unfortunately, he was traveling and not available to plan the shoot. Because of GFP’s team approach, Huyck was able to step in as the shoot producer. He worked with Kellogg’s to determine a working budget and schedule, scouted locations, and worked with a model agency to help find just the right people for each scene. JD contacted one of his favorite stylists while traveling, and we were good to go.
On the first day of the shoot, and with JD back in the studio, we were ready to sit down with the Kellogg’s team for our pre-shoot meeting to iron out details and get to work. Our team approach resulted in great images and a happy client.
After a lot of years of creating images and video for some of the world’s leading advertising and brands, we definitely like to let our work speak for itself. Visit our portfolio and see if you think our team approach could help take your brand to the next level.
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We're all familiar with renewable energy- wind, solar, hydro. You might be surprised at the number of companies here in West Michigan who are quietly carving out a major presence in supplying the industry.
Read MoreShooting Green
I came in to the studio this morning and noticed sunlight glinting off of raindrops on a plant right near our front door. (Ooh shiny!) I stopped to look closer and saw these tiny buds forming fresh growth, and wanted to find a way to get in tight enough to convey the image. We're always working on new ways of producing images, new techniques, new combinations of equipment to create the image we see in our mind's eye.
So...
Triple entendre this time. Yeah, we're Green Frog Photo, so we shoot green in that way. The photos here are of new growth on a plant, following a rain. That's green in the photos. But the less obvious part is being as sustainable as possible when it comes to equipment. We've been around for a while, well, quite a while (stop snickering!). And while computer equipment and camera bodies come and go, the lenses and other optical pieces and parts we've had on hand may get old, they still have uses. Sometimes not the ones they were built for.
These photos were done with a contemporary camera body, attached to a late '70s vintage slide-copying bellows with an ancient lens used on a darkroom enlarger. Stuff that is getting hard to find, but is designed specifically for working at really close distances, and making images from really tiny objects. Subject to lens distance here is about 1.5 to 2 inches.
Jeff Huyck