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Bob Skalkowski Photography is a leader in creative photographic illustration for business, industry, advertising and academic clients both regional and national. Bob draws on his more than three decades of experience in commercial photography to create images that communicate with and inspire the viewer.
Equally important is Bob's sensitivity to a client's deadline and budget. He becomes a working partner and contributes not only his photographic and creative talents but also his experiance as a producer by bringing in other talented professionals to a project as needed.
His considerable skills with people, product, food, editorial, PR, interior/exterior and travel photography round out an ability to shoot for a wide variety of subjects and clients. But images are often more powerful then words so you are invited to review his on-line portfolio.
Price is often one of the considerations when planning a project but since photography for a project can vary widely in it's scope and complexity there is not a "one price fits all" attitude at BSP. New and existing clients are urged to call or email the studio so we can review your goals and budget to create an estimate that best meets your needs. Count on our experiance and creativity to find the best photogrpahic solution.
About Bob
Looking back on my career after all of these years, I guess I could say that it all started with this old Kodak Brownie Target Six-20 box camera. The picture quality was terrible, by todays standards, but it was the point and shoot of its day. All you needed to do is to take the black and white film to the drug store for processing and wait a few days for the results. No instant gradification back then.
I first picked up this camera when I was very young, maybe five or six and remember running in and out of the house with this strange and fascinating black box that reproduced the world for me not in film but through the small rectangular viewfinders. One for vertical and the other for horizontal with a real time view of the world depending on where it was pointed. I never took a single photograph with this camera, which I still own, I guess because my mother had wisely never bought me film for playing with it. But this little black box is what I think sparked that early urge in me to make pictures.
After graduating from high school, I attended a technical institute for electro-mechanical drafting because at the time I still didnt know what I wanted to do with my life. I landed a job with a sign company who manufactured those big illuminated highway signs next to gas stations and other types of stores that you see along the interstate. The whole time I had photography as a hobby and I took workshop courses with working photographers in the Philadelphia / Southern New Jersey area.
I never considered photography as a vocation but rather an avocation until one day a co-worked of mine, who held a degree in fine art from a very prestigious college, asked to see my portfolio. Back then I didnt even know what a portfolio was but I did tell him that I had a fair number of prints I could show him. How naive I was then! The next morning he told me that I was wasting my time in my present job and that I should work to becoming a professional photographer.
It sounds silly today but that was my a ha moment. My epiphany. The day it all clicked for me. Soon after I left the sign company and landed my first job in a commercial studio as an assistant making a third of what I had been making as a draftsman but with ten times the joy and satisfaction that I had finally found my path.
The rest, as they often say, is history. I went onto working as a full time photographer at that studio and then as a freelance photographer in the Philadelphia area. My move to Harrisburg was because of a friend that told me about a studio doing some nice commercial work for local and national clients. I worked there for about thirteen years until I once again went freelance and opened my own studio in Middletown, PA, a small but pleasant town between Harrisburg and Lancaster, PA.
I could go into my style or philosophy on photography but I wont do that here. My images speak for themselves and so I invite you to look them over. I will say this however; I consider every assignment a partnership with my client. I can teach anyone to operate a camera and most consumer cameras are as easy to use as that old Kodak box camera I played with when I was a young boy. But my mission statement, if you will, is to produce the best image to suite your needs and create a photograph that attracts and inspires your target audience. Its much more then lights and cameras. To me its telling a story about your product, service or point of view.
Yours Truly,
Bob Skalkowski
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100 east brown st - #11
middletown, pa 17057
717.944.6599
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