Duane Beyer Photography

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2010-02-25T20:54:00.001-08:00

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On Assignment - The Zucchini Brothers

2010-02-19T21:28:00.000-08:00

Every now and the you come across a cast of characters that you know have something special. Meet the Zucchini Brothers, Steve, Jack and Sam. These guys know how to rock the kid world (young and old) with some of the best fun, entertaining and educations songs you will ever hear. Performing their original hits like "You Are What You Eat", "Clean Your Room" and "The Money Song" both kids and parents will find themselves singing along.

I first met the Zucchini Brothers at our local local firehouse Family Day and was hooked. After watching them interact with the kids I knew I have to photograph these guys and today was my day. I headed out early this morning to meet up with them at the Steamer No. 10 Theater in Albany NY so I could photograph them live in concert. In no time I found myself tapping my foot to the music and even caught myself signing along as I was clicking away. If you have kids, I highly recommend checking out their website http://www.zucchinibrothers.com to see when they will be performing near you. If you don't have kids, borrow some and go enjoy the show. Also available on their website are podcasts of their weekly radio show and links for ordering their very entertaining CD's and DVD's.

And now it is time to sit back and enjoy the concert.....

View larger images by clicking here for the slidehow.

Just for Fun - Snow Day.

2010-02-10T18:40:00.001-08:00

What do you do when you are stuck in the house on a snow day. You set up a band in the living room of course.

Technical Data: 2 quantum T2's on stand with red and blue gel. One Quantum T5d-r into 15x18 softbox.

On Assignment - Dutchess ARC Foundation

2010-01-27T13:31:00.000-08:00

Tonight I had the pleasure of photographing the First Annual SnowBall for the Dutchess ARC Foundation hosted by emcee Butch Anderson and special guest honoree Fred W. Schaeffer.

Steve Saland and his wife Linda are greeted by Crys McCuin, Executive Director Dutchess ARC.
Dutchess County Sherriff, Butch Anderson, sits down with Senator Steve Saland during the cocktail hour.

Corinne S. Weber, President of Dutchess ARC Foundation Board of Trustees, presents Fred Schaeffer with an award.
While making a joke about the time, Senator Steve Saland recognizes honoree Fred Schaeffer.

New York State Assemblyman Marcus J. Molinaro recognizes honoree Fred Schaeffer.

Senator Steve Saland and Marc Molinaro honor Fred Schaeffer for his for work on making the Walkway over the Hudson project come true.

Fred Schaeffer address the Foundation.

Dutchess ARC Foundation Treasure, Betty Kirchhoff dances with her son Joe Kirchhoff to the sounds of the Dan Bradley Big Band.

Folks watch President Obama delivered his State of the Union address in the hotel lobby after the event.

Never Quit for Chad - You can help.

2010-01-15T16:09:00.000-08:00

I had the pleasure of photographing Jovonna and Chad back in February of 2008. I was updating my portfolio and they were very helpful by posing for me. What a wonderful and happy couple to work with. Now it is my turn to help them.

In October of 2009, Chad was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer know as Ewing Sarcoma. It is a fast growing cancer that attacks the spine area. In Chad's case, the tumors have put pressure on his spine and he has become paralyzed from the waist down.

Chad has been receiving both chemo and radiation treatments in NYC at Sloan Kettering, 100 mile from his home, away from family and friends since October. Jovonna has been at his side since day one. Chad was able to come home for a few days over the holidays.

Just days before Chad was diagnosed with cancer, Jovonna gave him the wonderful news that she was pregnant with their child.

Both Chad and Jovonna have been out of work since early October and are now paying for their insurance out of pocket.

How can you help. For those who are in the Poughkeepsie NY area, we are having a fund raiser for Chad and Jovonna on February 27, 2010 at the Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge, 29 Overocker Road. Please email bauert123@hotmail.com for tickets or write to the address below.

If you are not in the Poughkeepsie area, or are unable to attend, you can contribute in one of two ways. A check can be made out to "Never Quit for Chad" and mailed to:

Never Quit for Chad
c/o Tom Bauer
89 Van Wagner Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

or if you want to post a picture or send a message to Chad, you can buy at $10.00 square at Neverquitforchad.org.

For updates on Chad's progress, read a blog his friends put together at: http://www.mapsalesonline.com/neverquitforchad/blog.php

Please do what ever you can to help out Chad, Jovonna and their unborn child. Every dollar counts.

Thanks You,
Duane

Just for fun - Product Photography

2010-01-03T15:22:00.000-08:00

While on vacation I thought I would take some time to work on Product photos.

Since it is the holidays, I started with this wooden white snowman to do a little white on white testing. The kind of thing you see on most web pages where the photo and the page background are seamless.

The challenge with this rainbow (RoyGBiv, missing indigo and violet) is to make sure the white tops of the bottles show up against the white background.

A photographer friend of mine from Essence Photography by Eysha Powers pointed out that I should take a look at the actual product website to see how they did the white on white bottle tops. I took a peek and have to agree, so I did a quick re-shoot and this is the result. I'll re-shoot the rainbow this weekend.
More white on white with a little silver.
Chrome is one of the harder things to photograph because of all the reflections. I also wanted to make sure the product name was clear by making the chrome around the name dark.Nothing to fancy here, just playing with reflections.
The goal in this shot of a small flashlight was to highlight the product name with a band of light. I also wanted to show just a bit of the light cast by the flashlight.

On Assignment - Mike and Delphine

2009-10-30T21:09:00.000-07:00

October 30th was a wonderful day for an outdoor weeding. Top that off with standing on the hills of West Park NY overlooking the Hudson river and a wonderful day becomes a perfect one.

On Assignment - Denise Jordan Finley

2009-10-14T10:29:00.000-07:00

On October 14th I had the pleasure of photographing Denise Jordan Finley, Dan Pagdon and Matt Finley in concert. For more information on Denise's music, visit her website at
http://www.denisejordanfinley.com/

On Assignment - The Campaign Trail

2009-09-23T18:06:00.000-07:00

Photos from the May 2nd. Dale Borchert photo shoot have started hitting the campaign trail.

Just for fun - Woods Hole - Cape Cod MA

2009-09-09T17:29:00.001-07:00

I've been going to Cape Cod every summer for the past 46 years and have never taken a trip to Woods Hole, home of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Most people would not find this strange, but for a person who is totally into this stuff and grew up next door to a artist/researcher who had skeletons of fish, birds, reptiles and mammals all over her house, this is strange (But that's a whole other story in itself). So on this trip to the cape I decided to take a day away from the family and head down to Woods Hole.

My plan was to get their early, take a tour of the facility and then spend the rest of the day walking around Woods Hole. So much for plans, since I am going late in the season, actually the last day of the season, the tours have stopped. But I was not going to let a little thing like that stop me.

The first thing was to get there. Not knowing where it was, I set the destination in my GPS to the address on the WHOI website, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. I should have know, this is the address for the main research campus, not the docks where I wanted to be about 3 miles away. From the little I knew about the village of Woods Hole from the WHOI website, I figured if I kept heading down Woods Hole Road I would get to the village. My GPS confirmed this.

What the website failed to tell me is that the village of Woods Hole is filled with street parking and 2 hour meters that only except quarters. So here's a little tip, Park in one of the lots for the Island Ferry and take the shuttle into the village. The parking rates are reasonable and you'll thank me.

Speaking of the shuttles, just add some bars on the windows and you have.... Well, let's not go there, but they could use a little help from a graphic artist.

The first thing I did when I got into the village is go to the WHOI information office and got a great little map of the area. From there I headed along Water Street to get a view of the Tioga. A 60 foot research vessel designed for coastal water day trips with a range of 350 miles.

Next I headed to the WHOI exhibit Center and gift shop where they have a replica of the Alvin deep diving submersible.

The windows on the submersible are over 4 inches thick and have tiny 4 inch opening. It's also very tight inside. Not the place to be if your claustrophobic. I spent an hour or so in the exhibit center before heading back towards the docks.

My next objective was to try and get a good view of the Oceanus, the smallest of the three large research vessels and the only one in port at the time. No matter where I went, I just could not get a good view. I knew it was time to take drastic action. I needed to get out on the water to get a good view. What better way to do that then to purchase a round trip ticket to Martha's Vineyard on the ferry for a whopping $15.00. I studies the schedule and figured if I took the 3:45pm out, I could head back on the 6:15pm and catch a great sunset just as we were getting into port. It was now 2:30pm.

Remember that parking meter, it was about to run out, so I headed back to the car to move it to the Steam Ship Authority Ferry Parking lot (I should have done this in the first place). Oh, and finding the lot, well, that took a lot longer then expected causing me to miss the 3:45 Ferry.

But wait, what's that, a Freight Ferry is leaving at 4:00pm.

It's not pretty, but it got me there. The problem is I wanted to get shots of the Oceanus and this thing did not provide the best sightseeing platform. I worked my way up to the deck and got a nice picture of the Oceanus.

At 177 feet, this is only a mid-size research vessel designed for two to three week cruises. But to me, it was a thing of total coolness.

Once we were out of port I really did not know what I wanted to do for the next 40 minutes so I started walking around talking to folks. I love to meet people and find out their story.

This is Dave, a lawyer from Detroit. He also missed the 3:45 ferry (and his Family) and was meeting up with them on Martha's Vineyard for a short vacation. Great guy, we talked a bit about the economic situation in Detroit.

The rest of the trip I took a few pictures passing sail boats and ships.

Once I arrived at Martha's Vineyard, I had just enough time to grab a few shots around the ferry terminal and a bite to eat at O-Sun Asian Kitchen before heading back to Woods Hole to photograph the sunset.

However, every now and then you see something that just makes you stop and say, hmmm, this is different. Meet Anthony, a Taxi driver by day and a musician by night. I spotted Anthony in his taxi practicing and knew I had to stop and get a few shots. Great guy, check out his music and band "Day Factory" on my space at:

myspace.com/anthonyesposito ... myspace.com/dayfactory

After a few shots of Anthony, I headed back to meet my ferry for the trip back to Woods Hole.

On the ride back I got talking with this very nice couple (whos name escapes me) form Rhode Island. We started talking about cameras and then the conversation moved to blood sugar monitoring equipment. Great couple, and if they are reading this, please drop me a note with your names.

The timing was perfect, we arrived in Woods Holes just as the sun was starting to set. I could not have asked for a more perfect ending to a great day. Oh, and Tom K, if you happen to be reading this, thanks for the wonderful clouds for the sunset photos and will meet up at some later time.

Enjoy the sunset, if you read this you deserve it..

On Assignment - Susan and Bob

2009-08-22T21:06:00.000-07:00

See all the photos from Susan and Bob's wedding at: http://duanebeyer.zenfolio.com/marcotte

On Assignment - Dutchess County ARC

2009-08-18T19:33:00.000-07:00

This week I have been shooting promotional photos for Dutchess County ARC to use in and upcoming brochure. The folks are great to work with and they love to smile for the camera.

On assignment - Foolball Season

2009-08-16T17:37:00.000-07:00

Getting ready for football season with a couple promo photos for cards and posters.

Outdoor Studio

2009-07-21T18:55:00.000-07:00

Starting to work on the outdoor studio that will include a swing and arbor. Hope to have ready for fall photos.

On Assignment - Graduation, mini style

2009-06-15T18:43:00.000-07:00

These folks are getting ready to make that big step to Kindergareb. I give you the 2009 Graduation class of pre-schoolers .

On Assignment - Town Hall Web Page Photos

2009-06-11T18:56:00.000-07:00

Today I shot the head shots for the Town of LaGrange web page.
15x18" soft box to camera right and a 43 westcott to the left. Bare strobe on background.

On Assignment - It's all about the dogs.

2009-05-23T15:53:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it all about the dogs. In this case, it was a new dog park in the Town of LaGrange. Today the town held a Ribbon cutting and dedication for the new Dog Park.

Wendy Greenfield cuts the ribbon to the new park as LaGrange Town Supervisor John Wagner watches.

Wendy Greenfield creator of the See Spot Run Off Leash Area.

Just for Fun - Late night painting.

2009-05-22T02:33:00.000-07:00

1:30AM - On my way home from a gig tonight I came across this crew painting the crosswalks on Rt. 55. Judging by the amount of work they had to do, this crew will be out till dawn. Better them then me.

On Assignment - Campaign Photos

2009-05-18T16:46:00.000-07:00

Today I photographed the Town of LaGrange republican party candidates f0r the election in November.

On Assignmnent - Dutchess ARC 2009 Laurel Run

2009-05-17T17:14:00.000-07:00

The Laurel Run raises money and awareness for individuals with disabilities. For more information goto http://laurel-run.org/pages/about-trc.html or Dutchess County ARC at http://dutchess-arc.org/

Just for Fun - From the Hill Top

2009-05-11T21:21:00.000-07:00

Saw a great sunset on my way home today, drive up to the top of the hill for a nice view of the Mid-Hudson Valley.

On Assignment - Campaign Photos in the Park.

2009-05-02T20:35:00.000-07:00

I started shooting the campaign photos today. Guess November is just around the corner.

On Assignment - Kathleen Durham

2009-04-27T17:48:00.000-07:00

Kathleen Durham, Executive Director of the The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill spoke at the Arlington High School Student Achievement Night on April 27, 2009.