Old Castle Building Envelope, Dallas Texas

April 6, 2022 | Ed Asmus

Assignment: To photograph the window wall system at Kaiser Hospital.

These kind of projects always have their challenges. I scouted the project prior to figure out what was best for the most dramatic shots. This project had a north orientation with no sun on this side of the building until June. The solution was to shoot a pre sunrise or a dusk depending on the which way you want the light. To eliminate the cars shoot on a weekend but the energy management system had all the interior lights off, “had to cancel”.

Yes you come back during the week and take your chances with the cars, one car in the shot. I am very patient waited to shoot my final of this view after the car was gone, sometimes it’s all about being lucky.

This works very well and has a nice perspective that shows off the window wall system. My final view, I moved to the left 10′ to be able to see the end of the building.

This was just a kind of a grab shot that showed off the entrance and had great reflections in the glazing at sunset. Clean, crisp and your eyes end up at the window wall.

Excellent composition, nice curves that pull your eyes into the photo.

Shooting at pre sunrise we get to capture and nice glow in the glazing, timing is everything.

Let’s move to the other side of the building at sunset and capture a partial elevation.

Ed Asmus

Architectural, People and Drone Photography

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Hyatt hotel, Sacramento, Ca, USA

January 27, 2022 | Ed Asmus

I always like to have a money shot as one of my finals. Up early our ar dawn because of the building orientation.

Pre sunrise is when all of the magic happens. Some things are out of my control like the cars parking in front of the building.

It is always difficult to not get people in your shots after the hotel is open. The best way to achieve that is shoot at pre sunrise and use the outside light as a contrasting color.

I always start with a long shot and work my way in closer.

It is either early morning or at dusk when all of the magic happens.

Ed Asmus

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Del Campo Science Center, Sacramento, Ca.

January 3, 2022 | Ed Asmus

It’s always nice to shoot at pre sunrise or dusk to capture dramatic photo’s. In this case

I was shooting at dawn, I usually prefer to have the sun to my back, it acts as a fill light.

I just had to grab this angle to get the warm glow of the morning sun which contrasts all the blue colors.

Shooting at dusk, coordinate window blinds, have extra people to keep the lights on for the motion sensors.

I always like to grab partial elevations and just love the warm glow from the morning sun.

The front was shot at pre sunrise and after the sunrise early morning shots with clouds were captured.

This is shot at dusk and there is always something which is out of your control. In this case we had temporary fencing up to protect the new grass, too much to take everything down for the shot. A couple of hours of photoshop and the problem was fixed

Clean nice use of color and graphics. My client always provide extra people so I can art direct from behind the camera, lots of moving furniture and cleanup to get these shots.

I always pay get attention to the details, all of the props we gathered from other classrooms to get the final shots.

This was a very cost effective photo shoot my fee were split four ways, Nacht & Lewis Architects, XL Construction, Kitchell & Degenkolb Structural Engineers.

Ed Asmus

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Bowling Ball Beach

September 20, 2021 | Ed Asmus

Bowling Ball Beach, Point Arena, California

This is truly an amazing place to visit. I prefer the black and white over the color, but both have their place.

It’s all about being at the right place at the right time. You don’t want to be here at low tide the rocks are high and dry and at high tide they are all covered up. A good tide table helps you pick the ideal time to be there for photo’s. We struck out our first time here.

At high tide not many rocks to see, some shots to get but we are not here at the ideal time, reschedule.

The magic comes in when you dial in the tide graph, you have to be able to pick a tide that is half way up at sunset, many variables to put you here at the right time. All of my exposures were at 32 seconds I wanted movement of the water and clouds to become design elements.

The magic happens for me, when I move in a different direction than the normal. Trying something new like long exposures adds a lots of depth and creativity.

The ocean, peaceful. the sound of the water is quite soothing to the soul, just a great place to explore, I just plan to do more of this type of photography in the future.

I am hooked on long exposures and they have a creative place in shooting my architectural work. There are times when my exposures are eight minutes long and if you shoot three shots to be safe and you are there at least half hour for one shot.. I am sure Ansel Adams would love shooting like this.

I recently printed an images out of this series, huge and framed it, all I can say it’s awesome. One of my fellow photographers in Las Vegas Eric Jamison also wanted the same print, it’s just extremely nice to share this with my friend Eric.

One of my favorites, I just love the row of rocks in the foreground in the dark, while you got the island of rocks out further with the movement of the water and clouds. This just gives this images a soft silky feel.

Both the color and black and white are powerful images. What a joy this was for me to capture stunning images of Bowling Ball Beach.

Just a fun place to shoot and the possibilities are endless if you slow down and let the creativity happen.

Let’ end with a close up of some shells many things to see if you slow down.

Ed Asmus

Architectural, People & Drone Photography

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Hyatt Hotel, Davis California

September 2, 2021 | Ed Asmus

The HR Group of Architects, Sacramento, California.

It is always nice to capture a great detail shot. This was shot at dusk because of the building orientation. I especially like the reflections at the far end of the building with the sun setting in the glazing.

This has a north orientation of the building and only lights up during the month of June, timing is everything. I picked the most dramatic angle which shows off the building under natural light. I tried to work with the Hyatt and house keeping to see if I could get all the blinds open and some things are completely out of your control.

Wow, clean colorful, excellent composition, attention to detail is a must. Thus was shot at dawn 5:20 am to eliminate the people and the blue light out the exterior windows to contrast with the warmth of the interior colors.

Excellent design and color, the architects did a great job designing the space. I always like to shoot one point perspectives, they just push your eyes to the center of the photo.

All I have to do is pick the best angles and execute.

Excellent colorful art, the wood and furnishing, looks awesome. It would say a great job on picking the best angles in the space and delivering, clean, crisp colorful photo’s.

Ed Asmus

Architectural, People & Drone Photography

Ed Asmus Photography

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Behavior Health Hospital, Santa Rosa, Ca.

July 29, 2021 | Ed Asmus

This facility is not open, waiting for their license and we had to shoot around areas that were not complete, but we made the best of it.

Part of our shoot list we had a short window to shoot the CEO’s, supplemental lighting and the shots turned out great. In the center photo very natural and real.

We wanted to show off the expanse of the courtyard and with careful placement of people it works very well.

I always like to add a motion blur which gives lots of human interest to a static shot.

We had to show off the patient rooms and because they were not open everything had to be staged and setup for the shots.

All of these shots are very humanizing with the people placed in the right positions.

Ed Asmus

Architectural, People & Drone Photography

Ed Asmus Photography

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Del Campo High School Career Technology Center

June 25, 2021 | Ed Asmus

Nacht & Lewis Architects & XL Construction.

This project gave new life to an old structure, a complete face lift inside and out.

I wanted to shoot at dusk and have the interior lights on at dusk. My client always brings a team of people so we can have people in the interior to keep the lights on because of the motion sensors.

Clean, colorful, excellent use of colors.

Let’s move in closer for a partial view.

What’s real cool, the architect had a competition with the students, the winner get’s to have a piece of art on the wall. Such talent at this school and what a wonderfull idea from the architect to add some students art to the wall, pretty cool. This shot was not on my shoot list but a great grab shot to add.

Having a team of people, I am able to art direct from behind the camera, major clean up to get the final shot. I really like how the architect pulled back the ceiling to be able to see the existing light from the windows, pretty creative and well thought out.

Being in Covid times, no students were present to use in the shots, so I used my client, add some movement to get a blur of color and you get a bold exciting photo.

Who would thing that a high school would have a classroom for firefighters, shoot when I was in high school we had manual typewriters, makes me feel like a dinosaur.

TV Broadcasting, social media wow the opportunities kids have today.

It’s just like a real television station

Ed Asmus

Architectural, People & Drone Photography

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Del Campo High School, Career Technology Center, Sacramento, California

June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 | Ed Asmus

Nacht & Lewis Architects, XL Construction. Degenkolb Structural Engineers, & Kitchell.

This was an awesome remodel, exciting to see how they bring new life to an old structure. The building faced North, no sun on this side of the building until the month of June. I wanted to shoot at dusk with the interior and exterior lights on.

Shooting at dusk allowed me to have a colorful mood from the interior lights. We kept extra people on site to keep the lights on because of the motion sensors.

When I was in high school we never had a fire fighting classroom, only typewriters.

I have had a long working history with Nacht & Lewis 30 years plus, we work together as a team, they usually bring 3-4 people to the shoot, I art direct from behind the camera, time is efficiently spent and the results are always turn out awesome. I really like how the architect pulled back the ceiling to allow for the natural light to enter from the windows. I captured this photo so the photo can tell a story.

Pretty amazing that they have in high school a media television broadcasting class. Fun job to photograph.

Ed Asmus

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Sacramento Behavior Health

May 26, 2021 | Ed Asmus

This is a project that has been in the works for sometime. My pre production scouting shots started back in November 2020 and June 2020, politics is always gets in the way. The architect and the builder wanted to use their own photographer, simply out of my control. My client got their final images back and only one or two images were usable.

This building has a north elevation with no sun on the North side until the month of June. This was critical to capture this in the natural light lighting with the sun lighting up the North elevation. The solution is wait until June 2021 shoot ground exteriors and drone shots then. Being patient, waiting a year to do it the right way always makes all the difference in getting a hero shot. We are now close on re visiting the exteriors for the final hero shots. Let’s start the interiors now.

We finally get the approval to start photography in February 2021. I always make recommendations from my pre production scouting in this case, I recommended adding art to walls for color, I was overruled. How to do take a static shot and add some dramatics? I decided to had some motion blur to the images with people. Careful placement of the people adds just the right amount of human interest. We will be coming back to add video at a later date.

A nice lobby shot to show the brick add some people and shoot late afternoon, so there are no reflections in the glazing at the reception desk.

The nurses station let’s continue adding a motion blur where it works.

Adding a couple people, setting the furniture correctly all help make this work.

I did not have control of the time of day to shoot this shot, but to control the contrast in the windows three HRD shots were combined to make this shot.

Clean and simple and again HDR was used to combine three shots together.

What to do do in a shot like this? There not enough in this room to make this really pop but it is a required shot. Let’s add a motion blur to add some human interest.

We had to shoot in several different areas to show a patient group meeting.

All of out shots were done with and without facemasks. I actually shot this with many variations and really like slowing down the shutter speed to get some movement in the hand gestures, it just adds action and human interest.