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I always enjoy photographing Newark mayor Cory Booker. He has a great look that comes through very well in photographs. Today I set up my lights and a white background to get some nice evenly lit photos. Those looked great but then I moved the lights around and tried for a more dramatic, pensive shot.

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Four chefs, two stylists, a few publicists, a large cow and rain showers rapidly closing in. A magazine cover shoot on location is always fun. For this magazine cover story we had four of New Jersey’s top young chefs. They were all a pleasure to work with and we finished up just as the rain…

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Photographing the Dharun Ravi trial was an exercise in repetition. Ravi walks into the courtroom, Ravi talks to his attorney, Ravi looks back toward his family seated behind me, etc….. Everyday, for nearly a month, it was the same courtroom photos. During the long trial Star-Ledger columnist Mark DiIonno laid the ground work for a…

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As the Giants prepared for the Super Bowl, I was preparing for a photo shoot with Giants fans. The photo shoot was for a Star-Ledger Super Bowl IPad app. The hardest part of the shoot was controlling the fans’ excitement about being on the field at Met Life Stadium. As we set up the lighting…

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