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When you started your company, you commissioned a photographer to shoot custom photos or you chose stock photography for your brochure or website. In the early days, the photography looked very good, but as your business has grown have your photos lost their fresh new...

3 Reasons Why Professional Photography Matters to Your Clients & Customers If you’re a building contractor, architect or interior designer, using a professional interior photographer is a smart investment.  Your work is incredible, your meticulous with all details...

A photographic montage combines multiple images juxtaposed in size and placement to emphasize a message. When used in advertising photography and marketing pieces, the contrasting elements of photo montage creates a striking visual effect that arrests the eye and...

When it comes to representing your business, you may be happy with the quality of printed text and copy that tells the world who you are and what you do. But no matter how good that copy is, the truth is that there is little competition between columns of text in...

Cell phone photos may be free but they look like cell phone photos.  There is a noticeable difference between well-lit pro photos and cell phone photos.  Your business or product is too important to use amateur photos.  Any good marketing expert will tell you pro...

Ted DeCagna has been shooting construction photography since 1997. I have a current contract shooting the progress construction of the State Attorneys Building in Brooklyn New York which is undergoing major renovation.  While shooting on a construction site can be...

We’ve all seen phone product shots that save money and look like amateur photos. Ted DeCagna shoots dynamic product photography for web sites that pop off the screen and communicate a message. Ted was recently given the assignment of shooting a metal chain to...

Ted DeCagna has been shooting construction photography in New York City for 24 years. Recent assignments include the Verrazano bridge renovation, Bronx High Point Tower Museum Restoration and Shirley A. Chisholm State Office Building in Brooklyn. Several basic but...

Did you ever find your real estate subject is hit with bright sun light on one side and extreme dark shadow on the other side?  This is a common problem when shooting outdoor real estate especially when a 3-quarter view of the building is simply the best angle of the...

June 2021,  Ted was recently commissioned by a large UK tanker company, Suttons International to capture one of their tanker trucks just outside the Bayonne, NJ  container terminal and requested that The New York City skyline and Statue of Liberty to be in the...

It doesn’t happen very often but once in a while a happy accident photo opportunity comes along.  Above is a recent construction photo Ted was assigned to take at Newark International Airport. What he captured was four construction workers pouring cement for a new...

Ted DeCagna was awarded a 24-month contract shooting the restoration of Shirley A. Chisholm State Office Building at 55 Hanson Place, Brooklyn.  The 106-year-old state building, erected in 1914 is badly in need of exterior stone and brick and restoration. ...

Often photographers are given challenges to get a good shot but there are obstacles that are in the way or out of our control.  Recently Ted was asked to shoot a roofer demonstrating a roof safety clamp product on a typical house roof. Ted was able to capture the...