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We all use social media to keep in touch with our clients, contacts, suppliers, … at least we try to. The question is always how to integrate Twitter, my facebook page, LinkedIn, … with our webpage and our business, our billing and our contact management system. But if you’re like me, we have a handful of applications, websites, clouds, … and try to piece this all together, automating as much as we can to get them to talk to each other. My blog has my twitter and facebook feed; my facebook feed shows my tweets, the website captures lead information into my CRM and my contact database syncs on my computer, my phone and the internet.

But there are still many components that I need to look up and log into. My cloud based CRM does a nice job of keeping all my marketing and sales information together in one place, my social networking presence is webbed together loosley; but that’s just me – just Photography by Depuhl, my commercial photography company.

What if all of that information was in one place?
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Today I photographed for a friend of mine, who designs very cute custom kids furniture. However I shot these inside a giant Convention Center (with horrible artificial lighting – those ugly mercury vapor lamps). However 2 small strobes could easily over power these lights, to make these rooms come alive.

Furniture product photography – Images by Pascal Depuhl

The last few jobs I have shot have been for a variety of jewelers. They have ranged from shooting $400,000.- rings at a jeweler’s store that has been established for over 100 years in Miami, to a brand new website that is launching a new line of custom designed watches to shooting for an old client again that distributes australian designed urban inspired jewelry.

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St. Martin day is a traditional German holiday, where the kids walk the streets, carrying home made lanterns and singing traditional song that celebrate the ‘Holy Martin’. He was a nobleman that was riding along the road one evening and saw a beggar in the snow, whom he shared his coat with by cutting it in two.
The German community in Miami celebrates this holiday every year by having a little parade of these lanterns in the community surrounding St. Marks Lutheran church.

St. Martin parade 2009 – Images by Pascal Depuhl

No, this is not a quick snapshot taken with a point and shoot, it is a complicated shot that was set up and lit, no the snap part of this photograph is the fact that 24 hours ago, I had not spoken with anyone from this company.

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