Featured Contributor: Steve Williams
For the past 25 years, Orlando based commercial photographer Steve Williams has been shooting on location for advertising, editorial, corporate, video magazine, architecture and sports clients. Steve attributes his years of success to two key components: experience and trust.
“Experience is knowing that good communication and preparation always triumph
in the end…Experience breeds the ability to solve and problem and get along
with any person, which leads to confidence, which keeps heads cool, and which
ultimately creates happy, repeat clients,” Williams writes on his website. Of
trust, Williams says, it “…is what comes from the combination of vision and 25
years of experience. It’s when an art director just knows ahead of time that
they’re going to get great results when we work together. They know I’m going
to give my best every time, that I’m going to have lots of ideas about how to
solve their visual problems, that I’ll have the best interest of their client
in mind, and that the whole experience will be fun.”
Steve’s conceptual photography is rendered beautifully through an incredibly vivid color spectrum, while his personal work is elegant – filled with real life mermaids, flowing feminine bodies wrapped in silk and depictions of the poised, naturally sculpted human body. He boasts a tremendous corporate portfolio and a heartwarming selection of inquisitive, imaginative children in the “kids” section of his site.
We’ve featured Steve Williams’ work previously on our blog. Steve was recently approached by a design firm to photograph some brand new, magnificent architecture in Orlando. As a continuation of his success, we’ve caught up with Steve regarding his latest project.
Officially called the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, this new half Billion dollar building is a landmark architectural gem for Orlando. Designed by Barton Myers in L.A., it houses a 2700 seat hall for Broadway theater events and a 300 seat venue for smaller productions. A 1700 person acoustic hall will be added soon to house ballet and opera.
I was hired by Great Big Circle design firm to photograph the building with people in activity, as they already had some interiors that ended up looking kind of sterile without patrons. Most of the photos you see here are multiple layers of images so that I could show more people in each shot. If you look closely, you might notice the same people in different areas of the same photo. When I shot the exterior image there were no people outside, so I combined that shot with one I took on a different night with patrons exiting the building.
For juxtapositional purposes, this is what the PAC looks like during the daytime from an adjacent rooftop
