SCS Engineers is an employee-owned environmental consulting and construction firm that designs and implements sustainable environmental solutions.

Tampa commercial photography, I was contacted by SCS to capture environmental portraits, formal executive headshots, and working images of their teams in the office and in the field. The challenge was to find locations and backgrounds to create a consistent look throughout the various offices in Miami, Tampa, and Boca Raton, Florida as well as Atlanta, Georgia.

We got started close to home in the Tampa office. In order to accommodate everyone’s schedule we shot the headshots and portraits over two days. In between we shot images of the teams collaborating in the office and working in the field.

The office in Atlanta was much smaller and I was able to arrive early to get set up. Luckily I was able to capture everyone’s headshots and the onsite images before one of Atlanta’s rare snowstorms forced the airport to cancel all the flights out for the evening.

I was warned that Miami and Boca Raton would be the most challenging locations to work in. Both had outgrown their size and were in the process of moving or upgrading in the near future. But the show must go on, so we were able to work around everyone and found some great spots to work with.

In Miami we shot industrial photography of the team working onsite in a small patch of grass next to their building’s parking lot and hid the traffic and construction across the street using a work truck.

I scouted inside and out of the Boca Raton office and found a great spot to shoot the environmental portraits in a small courtyard outside. Power for the outdoor setup was provided by the new Vagabond Lithium Extreme battery by Paul Bluff. I replaced the standard modeling lights in my strobes with LEDs so they could run on the battery as well. It worked amazingly well and the outdoor portraits turned out great.

After a week on the road capturing formal executive headshots, environmental portraits, and team collaboration images inside the office and on location I was ready to go home and catch up with the family before processing all the great pictures we shot.

The Wolseley Industrial Group is the industrial division of Ferguson Enterprises based in Newport News, Virginia.

The production team at Ferguson contacted me for a photography assignment at the Wolseley Industrial Group location in Lakeland, Florida. They needed an industrial photographer with experience shooting with a video crew using hot lights to capture still images alongside of the video.

It was still dark when I arrived onsite. The First Unit Productions grip truck and crew where there ready to go as well.  We all met up with the producer  and DP from Ferguson who arrived from Virginia the night before. After a brief tour and overview of the Wolseley facility we unloaded film, video, lighting, and grip gear and went to work.

Once the sun was up we were all set up for the first shot of the day inside a large open area inside the shop. The crew was reluctant to be filmed at first. Once the cameras started rolling they just got to work and ended up having a lot of fun. After a long day in the heat of central Florida we got some great images of the facility and team.

Tampa attorney portraits – The Merlin Law Group is a firm of property insurance lawyers. They represent clients when insurance companies deny, delay, or underpay property insurance claims. With offices in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Red Bank, Tampa, and West Palm Beach they serve clients from coast to coast.

Everyone from the Merlin group was gathered for an annual retreat in Sarasota. So, they contacted me to shoot business portraits of the forty attorneys from their nine offices. The marketing team requested I shoot each person against a green screen.  Later we would replace the backgrounds with a cityscape of each attorney’s home office.

I got to the Hyatt in Sarasota early and set up the large green screen and lighting in a conference room that was reserved for the pictures.  Everyone jumped in for their shots between meetings and in the end we shot forty two headshots as well as a few group portraits. The team at Merlin was great to work with and we got some great portraits. After the session was done it was time to head home and put the backgrounds in place.

In the end the shots came out great and we were able to create some unique images!

Safbon Water Technology (formerly Doosan Hydro) is a Tampa, Florida based subsidiary of Safbon Water Service, Inc. They design, manufacture, and construct custom engineered water and wastewater treatment solutions for both public and private sectors. They also design, manufacture, and supply desalination and membrane treatment products across the globe.

When updating their new website Safbon’s marketing department got in touch with us to update the pictures of their facility as well as team members for both web and print marketing.

On the day of the shoot I set up lighting for company headshots first thing in the morning and captured about twenty portraits of the team against a plain white collapsable background. Afterwards we captured images of the design, engineering, and sales teams working and collaborating on projects together. We finished the day with industrial photography of the shop facility where all of the design and engineering come together.

It was a great experience working with the team at Safbon in Tampa!

Jagged Peak is a Tampa based e-commerce solutions, software, and logistics services provider for a broad range of global clients and industry. Their headquarters is in Tampa Bay with their corporate offices right off of the Courtney Campbell Causeway. They also have one of their fulfillment centers located in nearby St. Petersburg, Florida.

Jagged Peak’s marketing team got in touch when they decided to update their online and print marketing material. We planned a two day shoot to capture both Tampa Bay locations.

Tampa commercial photography assignment. On our first shoot day we started off at the Tampa office. We shot exterior images of the building, interior shots with employees interacting, as well as corporate headshots in the boardroom.  I set up lighting, a gray background, and the tethered laptop for everyone to chose their favorite images.

Commercial photography St. Petersburg, FL. On day two we focused on the St. Petersburg facility to capture images of their fulfillment center as well as setting up for another set of headshots in the afternoon. In the end we got some great images that really illustrate their diverse capabilities and showcase some of their strengths.