# 8 - Jim Tetro - April 18, 2017 - Manassas, Virginia
Thursday, April 20, 2017
I think I met Jim Tetro sometime around 1995. Jim is a professional photographer. I worked for many years as a freelance photographer's assistant when I got out of photo school and I assisted Jim on quite a few architectural shoots in the mid and late 1990's. Jim got his start making photos back in the 1960's. He grew up in the United States, Italy, and Argentina due to the fact that his father was a high-ranking attaché for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. His family traveled quite a bit when he was growing up. He speaks English and Italian. We both discovered that we both have a love of Italy and nearly all things Italian.
One of Jim's specialties is architectural photography. Give a look at his site. He has "who's who" list of clients and his architectural work has taken him to many places around the United States. Architectural photography can be grueling image making as it often requires staying up all night to work in building spaces that are vacant of workers. It can be a very technically challenging and is often a very precise type of photography. It also requires good people skills as often when dealing with architectural spaces - an architectural photographer often works with people believe it or not - either keeping them "in" photos or "out" of them. Architectural photographers in the past 10-12 years have experienced a shift from working with large format analog (film) cameras to digital cameras. Hardly any architectural photographers still shoot on film now, it does still occur but is rarer than common. Digital capture often can surpass the quality of film with a skilled photographer's abilities, digital capture is in some ways a lot more "flexible" than film. It is often more expedient. Client's like those qualities.
For this photo shoot Jim and I caught up with each other about our lives- we had not seen each other in many years. We had a very casual time walking around Old Town Manassas where I live - finding photo locations and trying them out. The light was late evening clear and crisp. After the photo shoot, which took about 30-45 minutes, we went out to dinner in Manassas at one of my favorite places - barbecue.
One of Jim's specialties is architectural photography. Give a look at his site. He has "who's who" list of clients and his architectural work has taken him to many places around the United States. Architectural photography can be grueling image making as it often requires staying up all night to work in building spaces that are vacant of workers. It can be a very technically challenging and is often a very precise type of photography. It also requires good people skills as often when dealing with architectural spaces - an architectural photographer often works with people believe it or not - either keeping them "in" photos or "out" of them. Architectural photographers in the past 10-12 years have experienced a shift from working with large format analog (film) cameras to digital cameras. Hardly any architectural photographers still shoot on film now, it does still occur but is rarer than common. Digital capture often can surpass the quality of film with a skilled photographer's abilities, digital capture is in some ways a lot more "flexible" than film. It is often more expedient. Client's like those qualities.
For this photo shoot Jim and I caught up with each other about our lives- we had not seen each other in many years. We had a very casual time walking around Old Town Manassas where I live - finding photo locations and trying them out. The light was late evening clear and crisp. After the photo shoot, which took about 30-45 minutes, we went out to dinner in Manassas at one of my favorite places - barbecue.
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