Architectural Photography in the time of COVID-19

Elisif Photography is open for business! I have spent a lot of the time in isolation catching up on all my projects, improving all my business procedures with new project management tools such as Gantt charts, and doing lots of networking via video conference. I've now joined the Boston Society of Architects, American Society of Media Photographers, and several chambers, rotary clubs, and networking groups.

I have a COVID-19 policy and have started doing photo shoots now that things are opening up. It is actually a good time for architectural photography with so many buildings mostly empty outside and inside. My COVID-19 policy includes everyone wearing masks at all times on a shoot, assurances beforehand that no one is showing symptoms of COVID-19 or has been in close contact with someone who is sick, minimizing the number of people on each shoot, and wearing gloves or using hand sanitizer and washing hands often. As photo shoots are planned, I make sure my clients and I are all comfortable with the safety precautions in place before the shoot. On one shoot recently, my client had someone follow along to clean everything I touched as I straightened a space to make it neat for photography, which I think worked very well.

As I schedule shoots out the next few months, I want to make sure I can serve all my clients' needs! Please contact me for scheduling. This is a great time to do shoots with fewer people to disturb in occupied spaces, and of course a great time to photograph empty newly completed spaces or spaces for lease.

Exhibit Opening this Friday 6pm-8pm - BSA Space, Atlantic Wharf

Happy New Year! 2019 was an amazing year and I'm looking forward to a busy and exciting year for 2020! I started off the year right with a shoot in Manhattan for Newton architect Stuart Parsons on Jan. 2nd, a beautiful condo overlooking the Hudson River. Looking forward to serving all my clients' needs for photography this year!

"The Architecture of Time" Exhibit Opening
at the Boston Society of Architects

Please join me this Friday between 6pm and 8pm for the opening reception of the new photography exhibit at the BSA Space at 290 Congress Street (Atlantic Wharf). The BSA Exhibit includes pieces by many different photographers, featuring "photography that represents creative perspectives on the built or designed environment dealing with time or history through an architectural lens."

I was lucky to have two pieces selected for inclusion in the show.

This was shot at the beautiful Metropolitan Waterworks Museum by Cleveland Circle. If you haven't been there you really must check it out. The Great Engines Hall, pictured here, houses coal-powered, steam-driven pumps three stories tall that were used to pump fresh water to the city of Boston in the 19th century. They are beautifully preserved by the museum.

The second photo of mine that was selected for the exhibit is "St. Louis Street Impression" which I shot while riding along a street in St. Louis in my sister's car, looking out the passenger window and recording this panorama on my phone. The car moved faster than the panorama could be recorded, so it jumps and gives more of an impression of the street than a clear record. I've since been taking these types of moving panoramas in other cities to see if they result in photos that represent some aspect of each city's architecture or environment.

I hope you can join me for the exhibit opening! Many of the other photographers chosen are my fellow professionals, students from the New England School of Photography, and amateur photographers from around the area. The last exhibit had a high level of quality and so I expect this will be another great exhibit at the BSA!

Elisif Photography provides high quality architectural photography to companies in the building industry, including architects, builders, developers, commercial and residential real estate brokers, interior designers, interior decorators, remodelers, and more. Please contact me for an estimate on your next photography project!