Peoria Home Show.

I popped in at the Peoria Illinois Spring Home Show to pick up cards and potentially meet venders, but more specifically see the booths utilizing my photos. This past year I did work for two builders in the area - Hoerr Building Group and Dan Waibel Designer/Builder. This coming year I'll be continuing work for each of these guys along with picking up some new ones. Anyway, here are a couple photos of the booths at the home show.

Don Hoerr of Hoerr Building Group

Will Waibel of Dan Waibel Designer/Builder

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David Price,
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Product Photography

So I decided to do some product photography, but challenge myself with highly reflective objects - a decorative knife and sunglasses. Yes, sunglasses are probably the most photographed products around, but they do offer a unique trickiness to light without getting unwanted reflections in the final image. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the images I captured.

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Dumit Ghantous - Environmental Portrait

So I'm just now wrapping up the editing on a shoot I had earlier today. This was a personal project, I have always been fascinated by environmental portraiture. Not to be confused with Environmentalism or going "green", environmental portraiture is the act of photographing a person in their own environment. For Dumit Ghantous, I chose his tailor shop. Mr. Ghantous is good friend of mine and I've been eager to photograph him at work. After 60 years at work he still staying active, working alongside his wife in their home. I'll be adding a link to a gallery once I get them uploaded - stay tuned!

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Milwaukee, WI - Architecture

This past Wednesday I made my way up to Milwaukee for a photo gig. After the photoshoot, I managed to walk the street and take pictures of a lot of beautiful architecture in the city and yes this includes the magnificent Art Museum. However, I wasn't able to shoot everything I wanted to due to time and the fading light I got a lot of great shots. I hope to go back this summer, I completely missed a lot of the incredible churches that Milwaukee is home to.

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Hoerr Building Group - New Construction

Yesterday I photographed the interior of one of Hoerr Building Group's new constructions here in Peoria, IL. This was a fun job due to the large wall of windows that allowed a lot of natural light to pour in, not to mention the house was gorgeous to start with. You can view more images on my facebook page.

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Another Hoerr Building Group Project

Early this week I got pulled in to photograph a "basement" remodel for Hoerr Building Group. However as you'll see from the photos it's not your typical basement. This particular basement's feature list is endless. Here's a couple that might not be obvious from the pictures... Backlit marble counters and liquor shelf, flat panel TV behind bar mirror, and ventilation system for cigar smoke throughout basement. Enjoy!



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99th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's Birth

I was called in for an assignment to photograph the Eureka College's Reagan Society event featuring Michael Reagan. This event celebrated the 99th Anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's birthday. I love working with the event coordinators at Eureka College, they make everything run smoothly and provide ample direction for me to know what I need to capture. The event took place at the historic Hotel Pere Marquette in Peoria, IL. Below is a picture of me with Michael Reagan.



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Head vs. Heart: Behind the Scenes

Here's the behind the scenes video from a Sean Hagwell Inc photoshoot. The campaign was for Head vs Heart fashion t-shirt line. His photos will coincide with the launch of their new website. Hope you enjoy the vid!



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Black Olive Photographic + Sean Hagwell Inc.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to shoot behind the scenes footage for Sean Hagwell and his crew. The photoshoot was for Head Vs. Heart fashion T product line. It was a long day, but everything smoothly and we even wrapped on time. The image above is a teaser of what's to come.

Head Vs. Heart is going to be launching a new site soon so make sure you visit back soon.

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Here's a new thing for me...

Having a day were I needed a break from the same old, same old, I grabbed my camera and dug up some old antiques we have laying around the house. I found a good window, providing more than adequate light. If you're interested, you can visit the link below and see the full gallery on my facebook page. Enjoy!

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Morning Center - Peoria, IL: Corporate Headshots

This past weekend I photographed some corporate headshots for a local ministry. The Morning Center, is a new ministry focused on bringing awareness to the millions of lives taken by abortion.



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David Price
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Publicity Photo Shoot: Dr. Joshua Russell

This past week I had an opportunity to use my new softbox during a publicity photoshoot for a local concert pianist. If you ever get a chance to hear Dr. Russell, take it. Enjoy!



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Human Target - Photoshoot on Hulu

I thought I'd share this. Hopefully you'll see me in this situation sometime in the "near" future.



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Samaritan Ministries Int. - Commercial Photography - Peoria, IL

Samaritan Ministries Int went live with their site a while back, but I just recently noticed. Their new design is using a collection of images I captured for them a while back. As a medical need sharing ministry I was trying to display the community factor of their ministrty. For those who don't know, Samaritan Ministries is a Christian alternative to health insurance. Thousands a Christians worldwide share millions of dollars in medical burdens with others within Samaritan community. This is a great ministry and a great work of faith.


Check them out! oh and take a look at my images.

Samaritan Ministries Int.

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Wandering Around Peoria, IL

So for some reason I forgot post this... I went out with a friend, wandering the streets of the industrial locations of Peoria. For a small city, we really have a lot of interesting locations for great photos. Here's cross-section of approximately 5 blocks.




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THEMES: Fight Club

This past weekend we had our first "THEMES" Peirao event for the year. Our subject... a sequence of photos from a fight club event. While we had more photos we intended to shoots, we ran out of time and had to cut back on a rather ambitious schedule.

Here are the resulting images... hope you enjoy!



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CG + Architecture + Photography

This is indeed a fantastic short film. Very meditative showing the beauty of both architecture and photography through the brilliance of CG. Watch it and soak it in. This is one of those instances where I'd love to say I could do that, but I would be lying.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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David Price
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Create Lighting Diagrams on your iPhone/iPod Touch

I just downloaded this sucker and I can already see it's potential. Actually I could see it's potential before I even downloaded it. What a great way to quickly show you assistants how to arrange the lights for a particular shoot. With the ability to create & save diagrams you can even doodle when you're board and come up with new ideas to test out in the future. It then allows you to save and send via email to anybody you'd like. Thanks to the guys over at Strobox, this app is fantastic!

Check it out! app.strobox.com

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Alien Bees Order has Shipped

As you can imagine, I'm pretty excited. I just go notified last night that my Alien Bees order has shipped. Now, I already have two B400 along with stands and umbrellas, but I felt like I was missing out on something big. This past weekend I ordered 24x36" medium sized softbox along with their new cybersync radio triggers.



According to UPS tracking my goodies should arrive sometime tomorrow.

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Dairy Barn?

This past week I was pulled in to photograph the interior of a barn in a small town in the Peoria area. I don't know about you, but I don't see barns like this everyday. To say the least I was impressed. Now, before you start thinking the entire barn was like this let me just say that through the doors at the end of the hall it quickly begun to look like your typical barn.





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