REVIEW: Stock Guide 2005
REVIEW: Stock Guide 2005
Lisa Loucks Christenson has been a working photographer and writer for more than 20 years, maintaining two studios in her home-one for shooting food and one for products, pets and requests-as well as a small studio in the same Rochester, Minnesota building which houses her and administrative offices. Her files contain between 60,000-80,000 images, covering mainly the United States with an emphasis on the Midwest. "About 80 percent of our photo assignment workload is requests for digital," Christenson says. "We keep the medium-format camera systems, but they are getting used less and less as the demands for same-day delivery of digital previews and high-resolution needs have increased. "Currently most clients e-mail or call in photo requests and we set up a lightbox, or they can set up their own lightboxes for selection of images," she says. "We keep and rotate FTP servers for high-resolution pickups." In addition to her own work, Christenson owns several small private collections of historical images from the 1890s through the early 1960s. In addition to international images, these range from vintage shots of downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, to the Westminster Dog Show, the Chicago State Fair and the Barnum and Bailey Circus train. With specialty subjects including nature and wildlife, pets and livestock, zoos, families, Americana, humor and travel, as well as food and drink, her client list is large and varied. Valutec Card Solutions, Esquire, Self magazine, Woman's World, Prentice-Hall, IBM and Bubba Gump Seafood Co. are just a few from her long list. --Stock Guide 2005
Lisa Loucks Christenson has been a working photographer and writer for more than 20 years, maintaining two studios in her home-one for shooting food and one for products, pets and requests-as well as a small studio in the same Rochester, Minnesota building which houses her and administrative offices. Her files contain between 60,000-80,000 images, covering mainly the United States with an emphasis on the Midwest. "About 80 percent of our photo assignment workload is requests for digital," Christenson says. "We keep the medium-format camera systems, but they are getting used less and less as the demands for same-day delivery of digital previews and high-resolution needs have increased. "Currently most clients e-mail or call in photo requests and we set up a lightbox, or they can set up their own lightboxes for selection of images," she says. "We keep and rotate FTP servers for high-resolution pickups." In addition to her own work, Christenson owns several small private collections of historical images from the 1890s through the early 1960s. In addition to international images, these range from vintage shots of downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, to the Westminster Dog Show, the Chicago State Fair and the Barnum and Bailey Circus train. With specialty subjects including nature and wildlife, pets and livestock, zoos, families, Americana, humor and travel, as well as food and drink, her client list is large and varied. Valutec Card Solutions, Esquire, Self magazine, Woman's World, Prentice-Hall, IBM and Bubba Gump Seafood Co. are just a few from her long list. --Stock Guide 2005