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SAS
Annual Convention - Miami Beach Convention Center |
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The
Anderson Event Corp of Dallas Texas contacted me about
photographing four days of coverage for their client
SAS. The image to the right and below are from the
opening morning session. To the right Karin
Büttner-Janz, MD, PhD gives her inaugural speech.
Years earlier Dr. Büttner-Janz, a native of East Germany,
was competitive in sports specifically gymnastics. She
won 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze Olympic Medals from the 1968
Mexico City and 1972 Munich Olympics. |
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My team is ready for any
rigorous schedule. Multiple photo and video is
available with same day editing and uploading.
This is what we did for SAS. While one meeting
was happing, and being photographed, at The Miami
Beach Convention Center my second photography and
video crew were working Viscaya for the board of
directors dinner. |
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Candid, groups produced by
professionals who are into creating images. My
team is polite and double equipped, ready to make
your experience easier and more fun. |
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360˚ image of the SAS convention floor
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Fort
Lauderdale Trade Delegation to Munich
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The team leans on a new 325i after
a VIP tour at the world headquarters of BMW |
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Having
traveled over 100,000 miles as the official photographer of
private, corporate and government groups, you can be assured
my team and I have the experience to make your event
photography go smooth. In Munich we were the guest of
the past royal family and King Otto attended events with
us 3 times during the 7 day event. |
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Bernhard
Schutte of Digital Media Network approached me about
attending the this event in April of 2001. In order to
make the event complete he had all scheduled from late
September till early October. Over 50% of the group
had to back out due to the events of 9/11 that same month. |
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5000 people fit into 1 of 20 equal sized beer tents at the
Munich Fairgrounds |
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I stopped to pose with
Steve Queior, Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce President,
and Raymond Fried, Public Relations Director of Siemens
Worldwide in which is headquartered in Munich.
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Above
King Otto, second from the left, working the crowd as our
host of Oktoberfest at the Munich
Oktoberfest fairgrounds. |
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King Otto with the Swiss, American and Austrian delegations
in front of his home, Nymphenburger Palace. |
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Exel
Transportation Company of Dallas Texas at
The Coral Reef Club of
Key Largo Florida |
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Pugliese
Auction in Las Vegas |
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When
I received the call from the Pugliese Company I had never
heard of them. It wasn't to long that the Pugliese
name would become a household word with every person I know.
I was called in to photograph Anthony Pugliese in front of a
map of the city of the future. A city called Destiny
Florida and he owns it. After we created the image to
he and his marketing staffs specifications he asked me if I
would photograph him with his collection. It turns out
that Mr. Pugliese owns a major part of movie memorabilia
from the history of Hollywood. From the images of him
and his collection I created the poster "The Collector",
printed a 24"x36" print and took it to his office to give it
to him. |
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" From this association Mr. Pugliese
commissioned me to photograph and video tape his auction in
Las Vegas. We created the cover portrait of the
catalog and photographed all extra items for the catalog as
well. The wicked witch of the west hat sold for
$65,000 and Indiana Jones whip sold for $45,000. |
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Lloyd
Boston speaks for Tommy Hilfiger at Macy's |
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When
Macy's called about photographing and event for a fashion
artist I had no idea it was for the Executive Vice President
of Marketing for Tommy Hilfiger. The first show was at
Boca Town Center Macy's and I did all the usual ultra angles
with studio lighting. The next day I went to set up
the lighting at Dadeland Macy's for the second show. I
found the event manager and gave her the DVD with the images
form the day before. I had only seen Lloyd Boston for
the first time that day but from that appearance I knew he
has the appearance and manners of a Hollywood movie star.
Ten minutes passed as I was setting up and Lloyd came out to
the stage and asked me if I had taken the photos the day
before. I said yes, he reached to shake my hand and
told me he is a big fan of my work and asked me if I would
take a special photo of him after the show, the image to the
right took only 30 seconds to produce. |
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Florida Trade Mission to London |
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Enterprise Florida called me to be part of their
Trade Delegation to England. I had never been to
England so I got on board and took the long flight.
The delegation was headed by Governor JEB Bush. I
photographed every event back to back without break for 4
days. this included events at the US Ambassador's
Residence, the US Embassy, the London Air show in
Farnborough and a meeting with the prince of Kuwait in
Cardiff Wales. I was able to arrange an
extra day to create the poster "The Doors of London"
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The Doors of London is one full day of photographing over
100 doors and choosing the best ones for this poster.
I know realize that I missed Apple Records and #10 Downing
Street. Hard to say if I could have got close enough
to take the shot at #10 or not. |
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JEB Bush speaks at the British American Club in London
England
Three photographs are blended to create the ultra wide angle
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One
of my duties at the London Air Show was to walk inside the
Secret Service circle with JEB Bush and his personal
assistant. We went to every booth in the Florida
Pavilion for personal time of the Governor and the
participants as well as a group photograph. At one
point two Secret Service Officers picked me up under each
arm and carried me out of the circle. At the next
booth the Governor turned for the photograph and let the
Secret Service know that I was to be within their circle
for the duration of his visitation. |
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Executive Portraiture |
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Once
you have reached the level in life that you need a corporate
portrait there two things that will concern you. How
to look your best and how long is this going to take.
Dr. Ferguson was pleasantly surprised that the photo session
only took 15 minutes. When she saw the final images
she knew she had made the right phone call. |
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Dr. Enid Ferguson - San Fernando Hospital, Panama City
Panama
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Orly
Penate - Fort Lauderdale Florida
One of the selections from the original first album of Orly
Penate, international music artist. |
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#1 Auto Sales - Hollywood Florida
Special thanks to Regent Bank
I broke out the
ladder to capture the full feel of the business façade
capturing as many cars in the image as possible. We
waited for the right day for a subdued lighting for nice
even shadowing and no squinting. |
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Selective Brands - Deerfield Beach Florida
Special thanks to Regent Bank
I like to highlight
the product within the Executive Portrait. This image
is on the wall, at Selective Brands of Deerfield Beach,
in 48"x24" size to show off, the detail throughout the
entire warehouse is incredible . |
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Head Shot
Portraiture
Food
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I started
my food photography in the
1980's with Adam's Mark in St.
Louis. When I met Julie
Gerber and was offered to
photograph the monthly circular
for Bread of Life Supermarket I
jumped at the opportunity.
After Bread of Life Supermarket
was sold to Whole Foods Market
the management upped the
photography to cover the Florida
Region. The salmon on the
right was just one of hundreds
of specialty images I create for
the Whole Foods Florida Region.
All shoots include the chef, the
marketing director and the art
director from the advertising
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Lighting and ambiance are the
ingredients that Big City Tavern wanted for their
photo shoot. The wood bar with the bottles in
the background worked for the look. When the
chef brought this burger out the entire management
group came over to see how the photograph was being
taken. The staff was most
impressed by the technique to light the back of the
glass of beer. |
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Sushi Ray of Boca Raton is one
of the most exciting restaurants in the Japanese
cuisine realm of South Florida. I took this
photograph 3 years ago for Sushi Ray's advertising.
The image below was taken August 2010. |
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Interiors
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Coral Springs
Marriot
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Hotel Rooms can be
tricky because no lens is made wide enough without
distortion.
The trick to distortion free images is to take three
individual photographs and merge them together without any
flaws to show the blending. These are just two of 18
rooms we photographed for the hotel brochure. |
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South Point Tower - Miami Beach Florida |
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The Interior Decorator of this
multi million dollar condo on South Beach wanted to
be in Interior Design Magazine. I met with the
house director to map out what time each
room would be photographed according to the
right day light coming in the windows.
Some rooms took only one light but others
took 6 flash strobes to give the even look
of professional lighting required by
Interior Design Magazine. Our crew of
6 people worked from dawn till past dusk to
creatively document the masterpiece of
Interior Designer Clare Tully. |
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Exteriors
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Before
Photoshopping |
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After Photoshopping
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Regent Bank
is the home bank of Fort Lauderdale Florida. I
have banked there for over 10 years. I have
photographed many of their events, brochures,
interiors and exteriors. This is their new
facility in Pompano Beach. built from
the ground up, it is a state of the art bank ready
for business. Every
building has its right time of day and cloud cover.
Once the layout is established and the formatting is
done, the photography takes place to accentuate its
architecture and style.
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Products
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Victor Harvey
of Georgio Vodka came
to me with only the black bottle. He didn't know that
color addition was possible. Using Photoshop I
created the blue and red bottles from the black bottle
image. This is why there is absolutely no difference
in the highlights on each bottle. I then silhouetted the black bottle and created
the large bottle background with a different image taken
from an elevated angle. Victor Harvey thought he would
have to wait for the two color bottles to be created before
he could finish the photo shoot, I was happy to show him
what the right image with the right Photoshop expert can do. |
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When a national
telecommunication company called
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have hundreds of
blue tooth ear pieces photographed we sought out to
win the bid. The specification was to have the
pieces floating on an angle with shadow to
complement the angle of the direction of light.
No problem, my team completed 120 unique
pieces with Photoshopped images for delivery in less
that 48 hours. The client was ecstatic and
calls on our services around 6 to 8 times a year. |
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The Pultrusion Machine will
make anything out of carbon fiber. This one
was only 5 foot from the wall on the near side.
I places the wide angle to get the front and back,
one inch more and the back would not show.
Three stand mounted lights were placed on the far
side of the machine to bounce off the near wall and
reflect back into the machine. After
silhouetting and shadow creation the image of a
clean environment machine was ready for management
to sell. |
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The lighting is the least of
all variables within a fashion shoot. Creating
the mood and body language is what makes fashion art
directors come back to Spurlin Photography. |
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Photography by Spurlin Photography:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1998
Plano, Texas 1999
St. Louis, Missouri 2000
Panama City, Panama 2001
Munich, Germany 2001
London, England 2002
Anchorage, Alaska 2002
Vancouver, British Columbia 2002
Panama City, Panama 2004
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada 2007
San Juan, Puerto Rico 2008
Panama City, Panama 2009
Panama City, Panama 2010
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