“Best of Weddings” Grand Prize Winner

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2008 BEST OF WEDDINGS PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

GRAND PRIZE

One Grand Prize winner will receive a prize package worth more than $4000

Prize includes:

• Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro DSLR camera
• Asukabook 10×10 80-side Hard Cover Book-Bound EX-Laminate album
• $500 lab credit with H&H Color Lab OR one 10×10, 24 side custom design, print & bind Black Tie Album
• Six months free online hosting service from Eventpix.com
• Complete Set of Kubota Image Tools Photoshop® Actions
• Complete Doug Gordon Workshops DVD set and Flow Posing Guide

sponsored by Wppi.com, eventpix.com, Fujifilm, Asukabook, Kubota image tools, Doug Gordon Workshops, Rangefinder, H&H Color Lab

Brad Zisow of Owings Mills, MD, has received special honors in the WEDDING & PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS INTERNATIONAL (WPPI) 2008 Awards of Excellence 16×20 Print Competition. Designed to recognize outstanding photographers, the judging was held in Las Vegas, NV on March 15 and 16, 2008.

“Sunlight” received an Accolade of Excellence in the Bride or Groom Alone category.

Zisow competed against an international field of photographers to win such honors.

The Awards of Excellence 16×20 Print Competition awards are presented each year at the largest trade show, educational platform and convention in the United States for professional photographers. The 2008 competition included 2653 prints in 19 different categories submitted by photographers from all over the world.

Annual Survey of Recently Married Couples in Maryland and Washington D.C.
Reveals Top Wedding Vendors

Bradley Images is pleased to announce it has been selected as a 2008 Pick for The Knot Best of Weddings magazine, a coast-to-coast, by-brides-for-brides guide to the top wedding sites, photographers,videographers, and more in over 40 key cities across the United States published by The Knot Inc. (www.theknot.com), the #1 wedding website and most trusted wedding resource.

The Knot conducted its second annual survey of over 20,000 recent brides to capture detailed feedback on every business that couples hired for their wedding celebration.

Maryland and Washington D.C. newlyweds contributed their raves and reviews on the area’s wedding professionals. The newlyweds were asked to rate their vendors on multiple criteria, from creativity to professionalism, and to comment on their experiences. The resulting ratings—and detailed feedback—were aggregated by the editors of The Knot to create this one-of-a-kind publication highlighting the best wedding resources in each region according to local brides. The survey was administered by Harris Interactive.

We hope you will join us in celebrating this tremendous accolade.

Sincerely,
Bradley Zisow

Trust Bradley Images to safeguard the most important moments in your life.

While still photographs capture individual moments, video is a exact representation of those moments as they happened.

Our videographers are in tune with your event and focus on the details as well as the grand picture, delivering high quality, professional videos that you will want to watch again and again.

These aren’t just guys holding cameras and walking around the room — our videographers are professional, experienced, passionate videographers, photographers, and editors who love what they do. Their mission is to capture your day so that you may experience it as it was, possibly even a little bit better than you remembered it.

Cutting edge technology and a team of video editors allows us to deliver the highest level of quality: your video is an entertaining DVD that will captivate viewers, with many customizable features. Music overlay, still photograph incorporation, and much more can enhance your video and make it something you will treasure forever.

Contact us for more information - we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Share your experiences with us so that we can better meet your expectations, and share them with our other clients; we hope that this blog will not only be a source of information for clients, but also a forum where customers can ask questions and learn more about Bradley Images.

We know that our customers’ satisfaction truly matches up to their high expectations, and love hearing about their experiences!

Yours,

Bradley Images

Bradley Images appeared on the popular reality-tv show “A Wedding Story” on The Learning Channel (TLC). In January of 2001 Brad Zisow and his team photographed the wedding of Jodi Goroff and Jason Green at the Ner Tamid Synagogue in Baltimore, Maryland. This episode of “A Wedding Story” chronicled the event which Bradley Images captured.

AN AMERICAN WEDDING, 2005

Bradley Images was featured in the filming of “An American Wedding” in Washington, DC. A real-life wedding was documented for this upcoming reality-tv show, air date TBA. Bradley Images was selected to work in conjunction with The Premier Bridal Mall and a number of other local wedding vendors to execute this event. The episode was filmed at the Evermay Mansion located at 1623 28th Street in Georgetown, in August of 2005.

FRESH CHOICES
What’s Your Photographic Style?
By Lana White Austin

Although some consider classic portraiture the preeminent choice for wedding photographs, photojournalism has become increasingly fashionable. Candid shots offer a new perspective.
Many prospective brides, in an effort to define their own styles, choose a combination of time-honored poses and spontaneous documentation. Along with a resurgence of black & white photography, these offer couples fresh choices for wedding photography.
“I incorporate innovation and new technologies into my wedding photography,” said Bradley Zisow of Bradley Images & Photography Inc., in Towson, Maryland. “Wedding photography is not a formal photo shoot anymore. Today’s bride wants to get it done quickly and quietly. She wants to get on with her day. And the photographer wants to capture the day as it happens.”
Zisow said he likes to capture facial expressions and people enjoying themselves. He said he shoots both traditional and photojournalistic pictures, offering brides the best of both worlds. He believes wedding albums should have formal and candid shots to tell the whole story of the wedding.
“Brides like some black & white pictures, and they add nostalgia to an album,” Zisow said. “I do a lot of graphic design. I can take a color picture and make parts of it black & white. A color picture of the bride with flowers can be made to appear black & white while the flowers remain colored. This used to be done with black & white film and hand painting.”

CAPTURING THE MOMENT
Owings Mills’ Bradley Zisow, 25, has his own photography firm.
By Linda L. Esterson
Special to the Jewish Times,
December 29, 2000

He’s young, he’s confident, he’s energetic. At the age of 25, Bradley Zisow owns and operates Bradley Images, a professional photography company based out of his townhouse in Owings Mills’ McDonogh Township. For seven-plus years, Mr. Zisow has captured the moment professionally at more than 700 events, the last three years as Bradley Images.
His work is not limited to social affairs. Modeling portfolios, digital imaging and restoration, commercial photography, digital videography, and Web site design are all part of his services.
Mr. Zisow became interested in photography early. A graduate of Friends School, during his free periods he’d visit the photo lab instead of the study hall. “I lived in the photo lab,” recalls Mr. Zisow, who subsequently attended Villa Julie College to study photography, marketing and management.
Initially, he went into the photography business with two friends, but later branched out on his own. Mr. Zisow estimates he now spends more than 80 hours a week working. How about something as mundane as sleep? “Who needs to?” he retorts. “Work now, retire early. I’m young, I can do it. I need to keep it up while I’m enthusiastic.”
Enthusiastic is an understatement. Just watch him light up as he discusses his method for taking photographs at, for example, a wedding. “I’m not there to change the moment; I’m there to capture the moment,” he says. “When you’re dancing or cutting the cake, I don’t tell you to tilt your head. I capture it as it happens.”
His method includes not interrupting the bridal couple as they participate in the activities around them. “We’ll ask them but don’t drag them,” he says. “If the bride and groom don’t want to leave the reception, we don’t make them.”
So unobtrusively does Mr. Zisow work that, says Michelle Goodman, who used him for her wedding two years ago, “I didn’t even know he was around once the portraits were done.”
“I like the way he takes pictures,” says Jason Porter, who hired MR. Zisow for his April wedding. “They’re a little different, they’re edgier. He’s good with the camera.”
Mr. Zisow was one of the first in Baltimore to give newlywed couples and b’nai mitzvoth their proofs within days of their events – online. Using a security code on his website, clients and their families and friends can view the complete set of photos and select what they’d like to order. Ultimately, he predicts, proofs “in hand” will become a thing of the past. Everyone will view their proofs online.
With a staff of eight photographers and six videographers, Bradley Images can handle up to three events a day. Mr. Zisow feels that’s the maximum number of events the company can cover and still maintain its quality level. Mr. Zisow trains his employees to “shoot my way,” and he looks for people like himself – young and energetic.
“You can train technical but you can’t teach personality,” he says of his employees.
Mr. Zisow’s youth sometimes causes comment. “My favorite thing is when I walk into a job and I hear under [people’s] breath, ‘God he’s young,’” he says. On occasion, he adds, his youth also works to his benefit, especially in putting bar and bat mitzvah children he’s photographing at ease.
Mr. Zisow’s aspirations are high. They include, he said, “being as good as Shlomo [Cohen]. He’s an artist. Hid lighting, technical skills are excellent, his eye is excellent.”
Richard Dalcin, owner of Richard Dalcin Studios, a Pikesville photographer for 20 years, praises Mr. Zisow. “He reminds me of myself when I got started. You can see it in him that eh loves what he does and is excited about what he does.”

-Linda L. Esterson is a local free-lance writer.