This was my first time up at Congregation Keneseth Israel in Allentown. The shule, although small, was beautiful all over with natural light everywhere to play with. This portraits below was taken using window light only. Oh and Aaron was not shy at all. He was a lot of fun and had some ideas of his own. I liked his outgoing personality. Not afraid of the camera at all was Aaron.
Lots of fun yesterday with the Markovitz family down at Or Shalom in Berwyn, Pa. Mindy, Marli’s mom, found me through her sister when I photographed her nephew’s Bar Mitzvah down in Baltimore. Everyone was in good spirits yesterday and made the day so much fun. If yesterday was any indication on the level of fun we are going to have Saturday nght I had better bring my helmet to the party on Saturday. =)
Here are a couple from yesterday. See you on Saturday Markovitz family.
Jordan is full of personality! I enjoyed working with them so much. They were a fun family!
This was unique for me as it is rare I get to photograph two siblings at the same time. They both were from the same family yet their personalities were so different. They rounded out their wonderful family very well. This was special for the entire family. I tried to make sure I got portraits of each of them alone to emphasize their individuality.
The party is tomorrow! This is going to be a fun party!
Ah yes. Never before did I think I would laugh so much inside a Shule (temple). Enter the Lipka’s. Laughter certainly doesn’t run short in their family.
Despite all the humor, PG-13 moments and , ’someone from above’ speaking to us over the microphone we certainly got some amazing portraits. Here are a few from last night.
The best part of my night was practicing my Espanol with the closing custodian at the Shule with the night custodian. He couldn’t speak english and I only remember what they taught me in 9th grade. I did manage to ask him his name…Lucas was his name. He helped me carry the equipment out to my car.
It was a good night and I look forward to the reception on Saturday.
First. Congrats to the Lipka family. Bruce, Nicole, Jess, David and Samantha. They will be celebrating Jess’s Bat Mitzvah in March and want to thank them for choosing me as their photographer. We are all going to have a great time creating some amazing portraits for you.
Second I recently had the pleasure of doing some photo editing work for MODE. If you are from Harrisburg you may have already heard of this monthly gem. It is by far the most entertaining and creatively designed magazine/newspaper in our area. I would even go as far as saying that if it were not printed on newspaper stock and instead a bound glossy magazine stock it would give “Harrisburg Magazine” a run for its money.
Scot Giambalvo, Mode’s Publisher, recently sent me an image that he created for his cover story and asked if I could help clean it up in Photoshop and make the image shine. The image was already a perfect straight-out-of-camera image so this made my job much easier.
I wanted to share the great compliments that were published about josh Barry Photography (ME) for my role in helping this image come to life. In the “About The Cover” section inside the magazine Scot Giambalvo had this to write about it:
Special Thanks go out to a handful of fast-acting people involved in the start-to-finish production of this month’s cover in under 24 hours.
ROBIN BAKER, makeup artist did an “Mardi Gras” look with precision and clarity. We highly recommend her for creative makeup work.
MEGHAN KAUTZ, Modest Model, rose to the occasion of an early Sunday shoot with sunglasses, a Red Bull and six-inch heels. You go girl.
JOSH BARRY, Photoshop image magician, ,made what was already a stunning image pop and scream with radiance. His work is exemplary.
Take a look below at the results.
All images copyright Scot Giambalvo
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After
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THANK YOU SCOT AND MODE MAGAZINE FOR THE WONDERFUL COMMENTS.
I treat each image from my own portrait sessions with same amount of love and care. All images are enhanced and retouched (I call mastering) using the same methods as demonstrated above. This gives all of my clients an image that pops off of the photographic paper and screams with depth and color.
THIRD
I have begun processing another Bat Mitzvah’s portraits. Rick Weiner’s wonderful family was met by me down in the Baltimore area for Gabbe’s Bimah portraits. We did some natural light work and brought out the Torah for some other portraits as well. That is my main focus this week as all of my other projects are currently caught up. I hope to have these finished and posted online by the end of the weekend.
AND FOURTH
I can’t get enough of my website. It looks so great to me compared to my old site. It clean and easy to navigate. Who cares that it’s flash and the web-crawlers don’t see it. I use pay per click so I show up when necassary in the google search results. IDEA: bookmark my page. Link to my page whenever you guys can. THAT is something that will help my rankings more than anything. Thanks for the already positive feedback I am getting about the website. 2008 is already starting off on a good note.
THANKS ALL
BAR MITZVAH PHOTOGRAPHY
