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 Even
if work is fun, there can few things as boring as the commute to the office.
After more than forty years of home to office trips in nine cities and
seven states, I've run the gamut of commutes. A sixty minute to downtown
Chicago was the worst; the daily trip to my City of Centerville, Ohio
office is one of the easiest. It's short, but even more important, it
is mostly through pleasant, residential neighborhoods. One stop I look
forward to is that caused by the traffic signal at Main and Franklin,
particularly when I stop on Main a few car lengths north of Franklin.
There I have an opportunity to gaze through my favorite Window on Main
at the wedding and portrait photos of Eric Schryver.
Schryver's window in downtown Centerville, Ohio
is
a favorite of motorists and pedestrians
The
photos are a bit of visual art in an otherwise not unpleasant but mundane
commute between home and office. Take a look for yourself; the photos
are always gallery quality and large enough to appreciate from the street.
Eric does the photos; his wife Sue is responsible for the window display.
Although
eighty-five percent of Eric's business comes from wedding photos,
his work is distinctly different from the typical wedding photoimages.
Eric considers himself a photojournalist and while he does
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do the seemingly mandatory posed wedding shots,
he prefers to photograph the spontaneous activity of people enjoying themselves
at an important family or social event. His photos declare that the joy
of life is best captured unexpected and unposed: the bride caught peering
through a crack in the door at arriving guests, the young flower girls
with disheveled ribbons and slipping stockings on the church steps after
the ceremony, the candid shot of the beaming mother of the bride and so
forth. Schryver claims to have taken as many as 1,400 shots at a wedding;
more typically he takes 700.
The
post wedding work is important for all photographers. The film must be
converted to proofs and selected proofs to photos and ultimately into
wedding albums. Schryver uses computer and video technology to simplify
the task for both the studio and clients. Instead of traditional paper
proofs, raw strips of negative film are edited, story boarded, and then
put on video to be shown to the client on a giant 36" monitor. The
client can quickly view the images and mark them for acceptance or rejection.
Eric
Schryver's Window on Main
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