140 Main Street, Roseville, California

Mogavero Architects

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Being a licensed 107 Drone pilot it was nice to be able to get a bird’s eye view of the project.

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A good overall exterior view but your hands get’s tied with street lights, you just have to pick the best vantage point. In this case the drone shot works the best.

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Early morning light gives this a nice shadows. I always like to get no cars in my architectural shots but many times it’s very difficult to achieve. This was shot in HDR and combined three shots to lower the contrast.

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This time of the year you always get pleasing shadows, take this same shot in the summer and your shadows that won’t be attractive. What really works for is the architects design of the different planes and the their choice of colors.

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Good natural light brings out the colors and defines the shape of the different planes.

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It all depends on what kind of light you prefer, this is late afternoon hard light. This light gives hard shadows with contrasting colors that are vivid. The light standards are busy but it is possible to retouch them out.

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A similar shot to the above shot but after the sun goes down, I like both views it all depends on what story your going to tell.

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A nice courtyard shot. My first try had to cancel, the ascent lights were not coming on at dusk and no access to the first floor meeting room. Back the second time, all the lights are on, shot in HDR combing three exposures for the final. My final variation replaced the sky with something that was pleasing and looked natural.

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I would have liked to shoot this later to get blue light out the windows but I had many different angles to shoot, can’t be in all of those places at one time.

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I just like the architects selections of colors both inside and outside it all flows really nice.

Ed Asmus

Architectural, People and Drone Photography

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography.com

916.996.7560

St Josephs Catholic Church Remodel, Marysville, Ca.

This church was built in 1855 and Jackson construction was hired to do the renovation and bring this church back to life.

Careful use of natural light and picking a day in the wintertime when there is no fog or bad weather is always a challenge.

We shot the old spire being removed and the new spire being installed along with drone footage. The old spire weights 11,500 pounds. The new spire was made out of fiberglass and weights 300 pounds and was fabricated in Texas.

All of the existing stained glass was removed and sent to Iowa. The stained glass was disassembled, labeled, released, reassembled, welded back together and shipped back to Marysville, Ca.

It’s hard to image that this church is 166 years old and what a fun project to be involved in.

Ed Asmus

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography.com

916.996.7560

St. Josephs Catholic Church Remodel Marysville, Ca.

This church was built in 1855 and Jackson Construction was hired to do the remodel and bring this back to life. It’s hard to image that from these photo’s the church is 166 years old. What a fun project to be involved in.

It’s looks brand new hard to believe that this was built in 1855. Careful use of natural light and picking a day in the wintertime when there is no fog or weather at dawn, is always a challenge.

This was quite a process to bring this beautiful structure back to life. We shot the old spire being removed and the new spire being installed along with drone footage. The old spire weights 11,500 pounds. The new spire was made out of fiberglass and weights 300 pounds and was fabricated in Texas.

All of the existing stain glass was removed and sent to Iowa. The stain glass was disassembled, labeled, re-leaded, reassembled, welded back together and shipped back to Marysville.

It’s hard to image that this church is 166 years old what a fun project to photograph.

Ed Asmus

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography

916.996.7560

Adding People to Architectural Shots

Otto Construction

Project: Riverview Dorms CSUS, Sacramento, California, USA

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With careful placement, it’s always nice to add people and structure to the shot. Supplemental lighting was used in the center shot to create a facial glow that pulls your eyes into the shot. The photo on the left looks real, using blur of motion for human interest. By adding people to our shot on the right, gives the photo just the right amount of balance. These building have motion sensors and are normally dark when no one is present. We made certain that we had people in the building to keep the lighting on.

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With this project we had a large window to get the photo’s done, many areas were not ready to shoot or gaining access had to be planned around semester break where we would have minimum people and cars for the shots. The shot on the right was done in the winter, with a low sun angle which gave us a warm glow in the windows. Being close to the river we had condensation on the windows and some of the siding. The only way to fix this was in photoshop. The center shot was a grab shot just walking by to get another view of the building and I had to stop and get this one.

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The Architect did a great job designing this building. The kitchen and corner areas were designed to take in the views of the river. I particularly like the addition of a person reclining on the couch, adding to the natural, real feeling of the center photo.

We were able to succeed in capturing the photo’s with and without people. Movement using people humanizes the photo’s. Although sometimes difficult to provide people in the shots at dawn and dusk, we were able to achieve this, thanks to Otto Construction. Having the pre production scouting shots done prior to the shoot we were able to know where we wanted people for all of our final shots, no guess work.

Bedding, props, and artwork were not provided in the dorm rooms. Otto Construction brought in all the bedding and props all I had to do is style the shot. I particularly like the contrasting colors of the bedding in these rooms. I added the artwork on the walls in photoshop.

Ed Asmus

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography.com

916 996 7560

Here is a quick look at a building in Natomas, short deadline.

DesCore Buillders & Vitae Architecture

I have always have used pre production scouting to tie down the scope of work and address any problems prior to a photoshoot. This has always been a great tool and makes for cost effective photo shoot. In this assignment everything was due in a week, the only problem is that there was a chain link fence around the property which had to come down in order to get great photo’s. The scouting identified the main problem and on Monday the fence came down, shoot at dusk on Monday, back at dawn, any pick up shots on Tuesday at dusk, photoshop on Wednesday, delivered to the client on Thursday one day before the deadline.

Here is a final with the fence down, clean, crisp and colorful. With massive trees behind me I wanted a warm glow in the glazing but the trees were to big to do that. I decided to have the trees frame the shot and have the trees reflecting in the glazing for the final.

These shots had a north orientation which meant no sunlight on the north side of the building until June. The only solution was to shoot at pre sunrise and dusk. I actually like the dusk shots better the pre sunrise shots and these kind of shots always depends on the building orientation.

After the major exteriors were completed at dawn, I flew the drone to capture some birds eye views of the project.

On the interiors there was a major problem holding detail in the light fixtures, the solution was to bracket five shots and put those shots in an HDR program to reduce the contrast in the ceiling. The exterior interior view was something that just caught my eye and had to shoot some variations of this shot.

Ed Asmus

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography.com

916 996 7560

A look into Eithopia’s Omo Valley

This is the “Surma Tribe”, off the beaten path three long days of driving on dirt roads to get there. The people were “Stunning”. Please put this in your book to come see this show.

Ed

Sierra College Kitchen Remodel

Nacht & Lewis Architects

I always like a one point perspective it’s simple and both sides of the photo just pulls your eyes into the photo. I would have preferred to have all of the trays filled with food but because of Covid-19 the kitchen has remained closed, so we do the best we can with good clean composition.

All of these shots we had a team of three people to help clean the space. With the school shutdown because of the Covid-19 we had lots of cleanup to do. Since we do not have any color in the trays for the food, I decided to add some movement of people for human interest.

Lots of cleaning the stainless steel and all of the glass counters had tons of dust on them, major cleanup to get the finals shots.

Ed Asmus

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography.com

916 996 7560

Golden West School

Manteca, California, USA

DLR Group

My plan was to set up at pre sunrise, turn on any interior and exterior lighting and shoot from a 12′ ladder. The idea was good but when you got to the top of the ladder we got to see all the mechanical equipment on the roof, cancel that idea.

I do like this shot and carefully placing the fence in the foreground eliminates the pavement.

I always like to have as many partial views as possible.

We move back inside after we complete our exteriors. Our client wanted to have some people in the shots to help humanize the spaces.

This works for being in open shade, nice scale of placement of the people.

Clean, simple make it look real and shoot the final image.

I think we covered all of the areas that we needed to shoot.

I like this shot not to busy with to many people in the shot.

Ed Asmus

Ed Asmus Photography

http://www.edasmusphotography.com

Normandy Medical Center, Stockton, Ca.

All of my work involves pre production scouting, it ties down the scope of work, answers problems prior to the photo shoot and I get to decide what is best for each illustration.

Excellent use of stong colors and these shots had an western exposure with glazing, harsh daylight entering the space the solution shoot at dusk when the outside light values start to change, this was determined thru the pre production scouting.

It’s aways nice to shoot one point perspectives it just pushes your eyes into the composition. This also had to be done after the sun went down to lower the contrast out the exterior windows.

I always like to shoot over the paritions to get a birds eye view which just adds depth the the final illustration. We always like to include a typical exam room, excellent color, rasting colors and great artwork.

Client: WMB Architects

Ed Asmus
Architectural, People & Done Services
Ed Asmus Photography
http://www.edasmusphotography.com
916.996.7560