“Seeing things just a little differently…” June 2013
Stretching it a bit and working to see things a little differently. A few favorites from the last week or so… ~cg. A man photographed in New Paltz, NY on Thursday, June 20, 2013. He prefers to live off the grid of corporate snooping, facial recognition and the like. He doesn’t own a computer, have […]
“On Being Hardcor(e)…” October 2012
Last week I had an assignment to photograph a local high school football player who’s first name is Hardcor. As in “Hardcore…” The young man, Hardcor Coleman is a senior linebacker and tight end at Newburgh Free Academy, known for his hard-nosed style of play, and bone crushing hits. Since the weather wasn’t too cooperative, […]
"Run – Bags, Location Lighting, & Making the Portraits I Really Like…" Late December 2011
Sometimes the pictures are already in your head. You just have to show up. With the appropriate amount of gear and occasionally your “A-Game…” These few images made in the last week or so were just simply fun to create with really pleasant subjects in front of the camera. (3) – Newly elected Newburgh mayor […]
*"Building a Picture…" 14• June•2011
Ken and Jeannie Veltz in the backseat of their 1982 Mercedes Benz 240D outside their Cold Spring, NY home on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. The 60 year-old couple, both established musicians and married for 36 years, and now grandparents, are taking off on a cross-country tour in the car, reminiscing their days as a touring […]
Gerald Celente. Kingston, NY 9•Feb.•11
Gerald Celente during an interview at the Trends Research Institute in Kingston, NY on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Celente is the editor and publisher of The Trends Journal. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record Got the assignment today to photograph author, publisher, political thinker and analyst Gerald Celente in the offices of his Trends Research Institute in Kingston, […]
"The Weather & Recent Work…" July 6 – 17, 2010
Youngsters kept cool in the spray of a sprinkler at Audrey Carey Park on Liberty Street in the City of Newburgh, NY on Friday, July 9, 2010. The Northeast U.S. has endured a heatwave for a week, with temperatures reaching past 100ºF. © www.chetgordon.com/blog Valdrin Muriqi (right) of Newburgh, NY follows through on a punch […]
*More "Juice…" (Sports Photography) 1•July•2010
Poughkeepsie, NY. One of yesterday’s assignments called for coverage of a few local boxers training for a night of boxing next weekend. This was sort a media event in one of their training facilities, at a local college across the river. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t a boxing ring in this converted […]
(Photographing) *The People We Know… June 2010.
HS Cellist @ THE WHEREHOUSE Restaurant. Newburgh, NY. 6•June•10 (Hardware / Software info): Nikon D-1X w/ 28mm – 70mm f/2.8AF. Nikon SB-800 into a shoot-thru umbrella at camera right at 1/4 power. Second small strobe at lower left w/ Stofen Dome on the floor at 1/16th. power. Triggered by Pocket-Wizard Multi-Max’s. ISO 400. 1/250th. sec. […]
"Mastering the 5 – minute portrait…" Newburgh, NY 14•May•10
“Sometimes the images are there waiting for you to just show up …” Graduating college student in an empty hallway in Aquinas Hall at Mount Saint Mary College in the City of Newburgh, NY on Friday, May 14, 2010. She is graduating with her MBA and has a job lined up with a local accounting […]
"Bringing Your ‘A’ Game…" *Musings from late March / early April 2010.
*More on differentaspects of my sports photography – (particularly at the championship level…) I’ve thought a lot lately about approaching the challenges of not only the daily grind, but stepping it up when necessary to make memorable or game telling sports images. Sports portraits also offer that opportunity to show the viewer an athlete’s personality […]
*The making of a meaningful (sports) portrait. Feb. 2010
Eric Culver of New Paltz High School photographed in the pool at SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, NY on Friday, February 19, 2010. Culver is an Olympic hopeful, qualifying for the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON_____________________________________________________ *Sometimes you hit a home run. With the bases loaded, in the bottom of the ninth […]
"Mr. Scalo…" HS Football POY. Dec. 2009
Monroe-Woodbury quarterback Dan Scalo is the Times Herald-Record’s 2009 Varsity Football Player of the Year. (Middletown, NY). He’s seen photographed in his bedroom of the family’s Chester, NY home on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Scalo ran for 1,569 yards & 20 TD’s and threw for 1,143 yards & 13 TD’s. Scalo was also the paper’s […]
*My Photo in USA Today.com 19•Aug.•09
Don Hewitt, former 60 MINUTES Executive Producer photographed in his Manhattan office in December 1995. Hewitt passed away at age 86. (Chet Gordon / The Journal News) *A portrait I made back in 1995 or so of former 60 MINUTES Executive Producer Don Hewitt appears on the USA Today website. Hewitt’s career as a television […]
10-minute "Quick & Dirty" one light portraits – on location. Aug • 2009
Mary Phillips photographed on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail in Highland, NY on Thursday, August 13, 2009. Phillips is known as the trailkeeper of the picturesque 2.5 mile paved path. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON Yesterday I was faced with cloudy skies most of the day for another outdoor feature assignment for our “Go” section, which appears […]
*A Portrait that just ‘Sings…’ Newburgh, NY 22•July•09
It doesn’t happen often. You never, ever know when everything is going to work precisely as planned. Even visualizing the final image in my head doesn’t always reach this level of simple satisfaction. The few images of orchestral conductor and classical composer Marcus Parris of Worcester, MA and Boston, literally jumped out of the camera […]
"Winding Down…" 2009 HS Player & Coach of the Year portraits.
Well, it’s finally over. The basketball season, that is. After a few days of recovery & a good night’s sleep after my third trip to Glens Falls, NY over the weekend (drove nearly 1,000 miles on three trips upstate the past two weekends) in covering Newburgh Free Academy in the NY State and Federation Championship […]
*Honor the Fallen… 6th. Anniversary of the Iraq War.
Sometimes it starts with a single email. Those who know me and my photojournalism career are aware of how important my brief, yet honorable military career was in the 1980’s. Becoming a Marine back then changed my life and my work ethic especially in this business – but that is a story for another time. […]
"Untold Stories…" Darrell White. February 2009 (update).
*(Update): My personal project with Darrell White is coming along quite nicely. I spent the evening with him yesterday and specifically concentrated on documenting his discussion about the various medications he takes daily. Got some amazing quotes and clean audio during our session. Stay tuned. -cg. *Click here to see the initial post when I […]
"Man On Wire" Philippe Petit. Feb. 2009.
Yesterday I photographed Philippe Petit, the famed French wire-walker who stunned the world in 1974 by walking across a tightrope wire strung between the yet uncompleted World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan. The documentary film based on his feat, “Man On Wire” is up for an Academy Award this year. He was really gracious […]
*"Untold Stories…" Darrell White. January 2009.
After a few months of coordinating, phone calls, emails and just plain ‘ole finger crossing, I am embarking on a multi-media personal project here in the area; proving once again that you needn’t travel far from home to find and tell good stories in a true documentary style. Yesterday (January 19th.) I met with and […]
