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2016 Tysons Exterior – Tysons Corner Center

Tysons Corner Center from Parking Terrace E entrance 2016 Tysons Exterior
Tysons Corner Center from Parking Terrace E entrance

Tysons, VA

Last year, the marketing team at Macerich requested that I make some 2016 Tysons exterior photos of the mall. Unlike event photos at the center, have a large crowd was not an emphasis for these. The images would be used for directories chiefly, so identifiable structures would be the goal. Additionally, the images are planned to be used for an app guiding visitors through Tysons.

Walking entrance from Parking Terrace C at Tysons Corner Center
Walking entrance from Parking Terrace C at Tysons Corner Center
2016 Tysons Exterior of the mall entrance from Parking Terrace C

On this occasion, I was enthusiastic to do this assignment. The biggest challenge was going whenever the weather and the conditions outside were right. Specifically, I was looking for some interesting clouds. For the most part, last summer was good weather-wise, but cooperating clouds were rarer.

Tysons Tower from the Plaza 2016 Tysons Exterior
Tysons Tower from the Plaza

As can be seen in the Plaza photos, I caught some great clouds one July evening. Not only were the clouds interesting, but they made for some nice purple and blue colors in the sky! Hopefully you will catch these images on a directory or app at your next visit to Tysons.

Looking to Tysons Corner Center from the Plaza 2016 Tysons Exterior
Looking to Tysons Corner Center from the Plaza
1861 International Drive in Tysons, Virginia
1861 International Drive in Tysons, Virginia

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2017 May Flowers

Home Gardens

Since it is almost June, I wanted to look back at some 2017 May flowers. Once the April showers end, these pop up right out of the ground. Well, mostly. In this case, I found some flowers blooming in my uncle’s garden. For practice, I brought out a lens that I rarely use. In fact, the 50mm F/1.2 lens was purchased by my father! Due to an unchanging mount on Nikon cameras, it can still be used on my current digital camera. However, it is manual focus only. I do not have much experience without using auto focus technology, so this is an added challenge for me. Surely, I will keep this kind of experimentation to personal projects only. I will have to devote much more time to practice before I can take this lens on a client shoot. Of course, this wide open aperture really makes for some nice out-of-focus areas behind the main subjects.

2017 May Flowers in my uncle's garden ©TimeLine Media
2017 May Flowers in my uncle's garden ©TimeLine Media
2017 May Flowers in my uncle's garden ©TimeLine Media
2017 May Flowers in my uncle’s garden ©TimeLine Media

McKee Beshers

Additionally, we took a trip last summer to the McKee Beshers Wildlife Management Area near Poolesville, Maryland. This year we were a bit late in getting to the sunflower fields. When we arrived, many of the flowers were already half full of petals. What are your favorite Springtime flower locations? What else do you photograph for personal projects these days?

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2016 Headshots – Business Portraits

Joe Mjelde at his Burke, Virginia office of Edward Jones ©TimeLine Media
Joe Mjelde at his Burke, Virginia office of Edward Jones ©TimeLine Media

For this post, I wanted to revisit some 2016 Headshots that were all done with a mobile lighting setup. If coming to the studio is not convenient for you or your staff, it is equally possible for me to bring the lighting on location. As an illustration, both of these sessions were done with a mobile lighting setup.

Burke, Virginia

Joe Mjelde is the owner of the Edward Jones Investments office in Burke, VA. When he needed some images to accompany an article on his services, he hired me to get photos in his newly renovated office. Since it was very clean in his office, I incorporated the environment in the images.

Mobile lighting setup for executive portraits ©TimeLine Media
Mobile lighting setup for executive portraits ©TimeLine Media

Springfield, Virginia

Ted from Dynamic Advertising Solutions - headshot done with a mobile set ©TimeLine Media
Ted from Dynamic Advertising Solutions – headshot done with a mobile set ©TimeLine Media

Similarly to Joe’s session, I photographed Lakshmi and Ted in a conference room. On this occasion, I was a keynote speaker at a networking group. For my talk, I wanted to do a live demonstration for the purpose of showing my mobile capabilities. Both work nicely to me! Having a clean white background really makes images pop out of white backgrounds as seen here:

Lakshmi from Money Equations - 2016 headshot done with a mobile set ©TimeLine Media
Lakshmi from Money Equations – headshot done with a mobile setup ©TimeLine Media

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