Photographer: Scott Chandler
Website: https://www.scottchandlerproductions.com/
Location: United States Reno, Nevada
🖼"Commercial photographer specializing in aerial, food, landscape, portrait, and real estate visuals."
❓ Who or what influenced you as a photographer the most at the beginning of your journey?
🗣 Nobody in particular. Just fascinated me to capture moments in time with a camera.
❓How did you start your professional career?
🗣 As a young buyer with my first camera, I started snapping photos of trains and railroads, and over the years, it blossomed into what my business is today.
❓ What software and hardware do you use, and why?
🗣 Recently switched exclusively to Sony mirrorless cameras from Canon. 95% of my workflow is in Lightroom, the difference in Photoshop.
❓ What does photography mean to you, and what motivates you?
🗣 The passion of creating visuals with my own style, constantly pushing myself to be better at everything I do.
❓What was your most challenging project, and why?
🗣 A recent $7 million, 12,000 square foot home with endless windows and white tile floors. Managing to avoid any reflections in the windows of flashes, strobes, or myself.
❓What was the most important skill that you learned, and how does it help you now?
🗣 Advancing with real estate photography brought me into a full-time business for myself. It required many years and a lot of money, but it’s what catapulted my name and reputation to where I am today.
❓What is your dream project you're starving to try in the next 10 years?
🗣 I want to master culinary and beverage photography. By far, it is my favorite genre of photography work.
❓ Can you tell us about a personal or professional project you are proud of?
🗣 An astrophotography project I photographed this last summer of the Milky Way above a creek and canyon in my hometown where I utilized a drone to light paint the canyon and creek, but the Milky Way still lit up the night sky.
❓ Do you have any passion projects you're working on or plan to start?
🗣 Food photography. Gearing up my skill set and market plans for it currently.
❓If you had just one question about anything that you could ask and get an answer, what would it be?
🗣 Nothing comes to mind at the moment….