Scott Nibauer Photographer

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2011-04-14T19:05:00.005-04:00

Hello world!!! It's been forever and a day since my last entry. Blame it on FB! I want you to know I will now be sharing images from a slew of weddings and portrait sessions I've been shooting. I really would love your feed back as the images are posted. So PLEASE don't be shy let me hear what you have to say! Sit back and check back often to see what I'm up to.

Thank you! Scott

2010-03-18T14:30:00.003-04:00

It's been SO long since I've last updated this. I'm sorry to all my friends who have followed me here and I haven't posted in such a LONG time! I've been using FACEBOOK as my new blog. So please Friend Me on FB! And also become a fan of Lien/Nibauer Photography!

Here are a few pictures of a recent trip to the Philippines and Tokyo. They are amazing places to be! I had a small shoot outside of Tokyo but found most of my interesting subjects in the Philippines. I have a friend who lives on a small island in the Philippines. To see more pics check me out on Facebook!

See you soon. :-)

Scott

Wedding - Mike & Rebecca's

2009-05-22T11:51:00.003-04:00

Through out my business carrier I've always shied away from shooting weddings. I would only shoot them for good friends and family. However in the last 3 to 4 years I've been asked by many people, who have seen my work if I would photograph their wedding. I still don't shoot many about 6 to 10 a year. And I must say - I have been having a blast shooting them!!! The creativity and energy is a BLAST!

Here are a few pics from Rebecca & Mike's wedding I photographed last weekend.

Recycled materials

2009-05-08T16:07:00.003-04:00

I was asked recently to help create a book about recycling! SO all these "things" attached to the models are being used for at least the second time. :-) We had a team of stylists in the studio creating and just having fun. The ideas of what the models should be costumed in came from the art director - and the team followed.

Letters from June

2009-04-06T13:51:00.003-04:00

A few years back a a band called Splinter asked me to shoot their CD cover and a poster for them. We had a lot of fun doing it. Though some of the band members weren't happy with my choice of location. Not that it wasn't "picturesk" it just was a bit nerve racking to have these guys climb up this crumbling tower of concrete located a dozen or so stories above the streets of Philly! While I stayed in my cat-bird seat safe and sound! Everybody was safe! And no one got killed in the making of this photo.

A while back Kevin Hill the drummer from Splinter splintered off from the group (I had to use the word splinter -it was to easy!) and started his own band with Joe Caliva, called Letters from June. He asked me to shoot their new cover. A bit of a departure from his old band in musical style but wonderfully melodic just the same. If you ever get a chance to hear them you should.

Europe

2009-03-08T06:22:00.003-04:00

Last week I was sent to Stockholm, Sweden to shoot for AstraZeneca. I'm currently in Brussels, Belgium and this afternoon will be flying to Manchester, England. All for the European and global version of a day in the life of AZ. To pull this together not only have they employed my services and my business partner's services, Peter Lien but many other photographers around the world. In countries such as Japan, India, Australia, Malaysia and more.

It's been a lot of fun and I have to say a bit tiring. It's taken me days to adjust to the time zone. But now that I'm finally use to it I'll be leaving for the states in just a few short days. :-( I'll have been on this "tour" for eight days.

I've been shooting heads of AZ and some of their operations. The people I've been photographing and meeting have been wonderful! I want to show you a few of those pics but mostly some of the sights that I have enjoyed while traveling.

Disney

2009-02-06T12:46:00.002-05:00

I needed a bit of a break from this cold weather so I decided to look at some recent pictures from Florida to help me keep warm. At least keep warm in my mind! Here is my son Jake & I fishing and traveling to Disney!

Warm & Sunny

2009-01-21T16:26:00.003-05:00

I went down to SUNNY, WARM Florida last Friday to shoot for A Z. This is a continuing campaign for Nexium where I've shot in Philadelphia, Chicago & now Florida. I'm following a film/video crew to all these exotic locations where they're shooting patient testimonials. At some point during the filming, when time permits I take the patient into my makeshift studio and have fun with them! I set up anywhere there is enough space to shoot on a white seamless. In Chicago I shot in a neighbor of the patients living room. In Philly I shot in a bed room and down in warm Florida it was the garage! By far the best & roomiest spot! Chicago had no less then a foot of snow on the ground when I got there! Needless to say Florida was a warm welcome! So welcome I decided to bring my son along for an inprompto vacation. I gave him a camera to shoot while I was shooting. He, we had a blast!

The people on the white: The client Tim jumping over the scooter. Ron the film director - jumping! And the patient's son Kyle standing on the scooter. Then of course there is my son shooting me while I was shooting him. There is a shot of me and Tim. Then there is a shot of some of the clients beating me! It's a rough job being a photographer! And the rest are just shots from around the shoot!

Philadelphia Panoramic

2009-01-13T15:26:00.004-05:00

A client wanted me to shoot a city scape panorama from their offices located about 15th & Market here in Philly. The job was shooting their employees working and interacting with one another. The panoramic was an after thought which I kind of thought would be fun. We had to go to the building at night and shot this from their roof. It's a combination of 18 shots put together to make the final image. The image was used in their brochure. When the building owners saw the image they bought it from me and blew it up to ten feet wide and it now hangs in their lobby.

Kitty-Litter Cake

2009-01-08T16:21:00.003-05:00

A few weeks back I was asked to shoot a job for Digitas Health for a product that helps with dry mouth. (They have drugs for everything!) The idea was to create a piece of cake that just by looking at it would make your mouth DRY. The A.D. came to me and asked if I had any ideas as to how to achieve this. He knew or thought the cake should be made of sand.

I knew that it required a great prop? SO I called my food stylist & chef exstrodinaire - Iris Richardson. I use prop stylists as well but thought Iris would be a better choice as we were still creating a piece of "food". Iris & I have been working together for years on food ads, menus & cook books. So here was our first assignment together that we had to make something look like food but look un-editable. She made a bunch of different cakes made of sand. In person they looked - dry. But once in front of the lens the sand took on the essence of sugar. And they all started to look- editable. We showed the client and brainstormed more ideas as how to make it look drier.

SO back to the studio Iris went and thats when the proverbial light went off in her head. Actually it was her cat using its kitty-litter box! She decided to make the cake out of kitty-litter! And that was the winner! The Kitty-Litter Cake.

Happy New Year

2009-01-08T13:03:00.006-05:00

Way to long since I've updated this. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

This past month I've been shooting for AstraZeneca. They have sent me from New Orleans to Boston and many places in between! Working on a project called The Day in the Life of AZ. It's been a lot of fun. All the shooting has been a photo-journalistic style. It's a bit of a departure from how I normally shoot but I loved it! Meaning natural lighting, a minimal amount of equipment to lug around and a very small crew. We shot fast and as unintrusive as possible.

I was back up to Boston this past Monday for the AZ shoot. As I was sitting on my Southwest flight waiting to depart for Boston about ten secret service agents entered followed by Vice-President Elect Joe Biden and his wife. They sat two rows in front of me surrounded by secret service. Way to go Joe! Flying coach on Southwest! Sorry no pictures.

Franklin Mint Magazine

2008-10-30T16:54:00.004-04:00

OK so it's been to LONG since my last post. And I have much to show & talk about - but not here! Just want to show you this job I finished for Franklin Mint Credit Union. I shoot for their magazine. It's always a lot of fun. I get to shoot their clients for stories written about them. I shot this woman & her horse and after I finished shooting the horse he decided he wanted to see the pictures too! Then we shot this guy with his Smart car. I got to drive it. It was a blast! They're a lot roomier then you think. The first person in front of the car is my assistant Justin. The second person is Peter the art director on the job. The last is the person we were photographing. I asked him if he could lift the car - it looks more like he's humping it! NO this image wasn't used in the article!

Caribbean

2008-08-13T14:14:00.003-04:00

A few weeks back I spent some days on the French side of St. Martine. Absolutely Paradise. Besides the water being clear blue and soft perfect sand the airport was fascinating. The arriving planes come in about 50 feet off this beach on the Dutch side of the island. People just lay on this beach all day while these jumbo jets appear to fall from the sky!

Six String Shooting!

2008-08-05T13:25:00.003-04:00

The "Bring People to Philadelphia" campaign moves on! Here is another set of images from the series, all taken in Valley Forge National Park for the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Office. My assistants were slack in terms of taking all the "behind the scenes" type shots. Actually I am being nice, they totally forgot and I was too busy fighting with pesky park rangers with guns as to why we couldn't hang a rope swing from a tree! After all we had all the correct permits to shoot in the park but when we started putting the swing up I almost had a heart attack when the rangers pulled out their guns! Well not exactly but their aggressive attitude implied they would at any moment. For some reason they were really pissed off!

We shot two couples in different areas of the park. Here are some of those images. Including one of me strumming my six string while the talent were being made up and styled in the RV. We rented a Vespa as a prop and it was a blast racing it through the park after the shoot!

Philadelphia Tourism

2008-07-17T19:45:00.005-04:00

It's been way to long since I've updated this blog. I know all of you have been bombarded with news and videos of Peter's escapades out west. Exciting they are and it would be great to be seeing all his travels first hand! But alas we can only thank Peter for his fun stories and countless hours of video. I'm sure it has kept you entertained! So while Peter has been traveling the world somebody, namely ME has stayed back and has kept the great machine - Lien/Nibauer Photography taking pictures & making money so Peter can go off to exotic locations and report from all around the globe! These are exciting times!

So i bring you a small snippet of a campaign I've been shooting for the city of brotherly love! GPTMC Greater Philadelphia Tourism & Marketing asked me to create images to help bring tourist from around the country to come to Philly to vacation and spend countless dollars! It's been a wonderful campaign to shoot. My crew of Susan, Justin, Tom, Jason, Linda, Michelle, Meradith and Scooter have been fantastic in keeping things organized, staying on top of all technical issues, propping, wardrobe, makeup and just having fun as well as being true professionals! Great job all!!!

Over the next week I'll post images from all the various shots I've done for this campaign and a small behind the scene view as to how these shots have come together.

The one you are viewing here is titled "Independence Hall" for obvious reasons. We closed down Chestnut street between 5th & 6th in front of Independence Hall from 2am to 6:30am to create this shot. We brought in a double-decker bus, an articulated scissor lift, a dozen or so talent/models, a cast of clients, police, park rangers and the occasional drunk! That's what you get for being on the streets of Philly at 4 in the morning!

WWW.LNPHOTO.COM

2008-05-08T12:27:00.003-04:00

One of the projects I've been working on - for what seems like forever is my new website. Drum roll please!!! It's done!

WWW.LNPHOTO.COM

Please check it out. Let me know what you think. Here's a picture of my dog Odie calling the studio. He liked it!

Production stills

2008-05-02T15:45:00.004-04:00

There have been so many things going on in my life as of late. Work wise I've been shooting a cookbook for the last month for Merck & Company. They're using the images to help create a better nutritional balance & a healthy lifestyle for their clients. On top of this I've been shooting for AtlantiCare still images for a new ad campaign and videos for Fox Chase cancer Center.

The images here are production stills of me operating the GlideCam. It's the little sister to the SteadyCam. There's nothing "little" about it!

Fox Chase Videos

2008-03-11T15:18:00.004-04:00

As of lately I have been shooting for many different hospitals. Those of you who have been following this blog have seen some of my still images here. But on top of taking still images I have been creating videos for patients and web use. These videos have been used as informative pieces to help promote cancer prevention, cancer education as well as an introduction from the doctors to the patients. Here is one I did recently for Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Texas Cowboys

2008-03-06T11:52:00.003-05:00

One of my most favorite photographs was taken for Vanguard Investments. They sent me out to Amarillo Texas to do a campaign surrounding cowboys on the ranch. I've been to Texas many times on shoots but usually to the larger cities. So this was my first time - on a shoot -going into the Texas "outback". I spent a week in Palo Duro Canyon shooting cowboys - mostly riding & working in and near pickup trucks. The shots were being used for a "feel good" campaign - ads & brochures all for the midwest. Well as I was shooting these three cowboys in back of one of these pickups the youngest of the three started jumping through a rope. I was really intrigued. I asked the A.D. if she mind if I shot some of this kid jumping. She was fine with it. Shooting this wasn't in the schedule but it turned out to be the main image in the ad campaign.

There are many times where I start shooting with a client with a preconceived idea as to what they/we want. And as I'm shooting I see something that peeks an interest and I always try to find ways to capture it.

Our guide in the canyon was this 70ish year old Texan Cowboy. He had broken his back years before and had a few of his vertebra fussed together. At least that's what he told us. He couldn't turn his head side to side but instead would move his whole body to peer left & right. It made driving in & out of the canyon quite the experience! Going down steep dirt roads with hairpin turns - no more then a foot of road between you and a 70 foot cliff made for a lot of thanking G-d and drinking at night! It was a great trip! Got to love Texas!

Nurses

2008-02-26T13:35:00.003-05:00

I find I've been shooting for many hospitals lately. Last week Fox Chase Cancer Center, who I've been working with for over 20 years hired me to do a campaign about the nurses at the center. The images will be used on billboards and banners to help recruit. We travel around the hospital shooting nurses in a variety of different settings. For some reason we are always fascinated with the O.R. area. Maybe because we get to dress-up like docs! We'll it use to be like that. Now they give us these "bunny suits" to wear. I liked it better when they just gave us scrubs.

Orange County Choppers, Paul Teutul & Tony Stewart

2008-02-12T16:48:00.000-05:00

I got a call from my rep Ken Leyden to go to Orange County Choppers head quarters and photograph Paul Teutul Sr & Jr. along with race car driver Tony Stewart. The project was for

GlaxoSmithKline and their new pain relief medicine called GOODY'S. It's a powder you mix with liquid and drink. GSK wanted a new ad campaign and hired an agency in North Jersey. Which in turn saw my book -hence the job!

We loaded up the car - well Justin loaded up the car - and Peter, myself & Justin set out on he journey. I would be responsible for the "white-set shots" while Peter, my business partner would shoot more journalistically out in the shop - where they make the choppers. It was very exciting! Truth is I never saw the show Orange County Choppers - not till after the shoot and I'm not a race car fan. Sorry Tony. But who's to say that can't change! After 4ish hours of driving for an early morning shoot and four gallons of coffee between the three of us we arrived in desperate need of the bathroom! Thank G-d we were early!

Everyone was great! Paul Sr. has a sarcastic sense of humor but once in front of the camera puts on a persona as being tough as nails. His son Paul Jr was constantly joking - on & off the set. When Tony Stewart showed up I didn't know what to expect. He is a very down to earth guy. So what he just flew in on a private jet and had a small entourage he traveled with. He was easy to get along with.

The shoot lasted all day. We had a good time dealing with all the designers & art directors and talent. There also was a video crew who was taping for an upcoming episode. Who knows you might even see us on one of the shows!

One clear day we made it snow!

2008-01-30T11:38:00.000-05:00

When Tom McGivney Creative director from ABC Advertising asked me to produce a series of ads for NYU Hospital I was psyched to be part of the team! One of the ads created an unusual challenge in that we needed a woman holding her arms out looking up into a snow storm. My first thought was "here comes Aspen!" But once it was made clear to me that it wasn't in the budget to fly my whole crew plus their crew (ad agency & clients) out to the snowy slopes of Colorado we had to come up with a different idea. My first thought was putting it together in the computer combining a combination of shots - woman, background & snow. Now shooting the woman in the studio and combining her with a background would be easy but adding snow would be very, very tricky. It would be to time consuming seeing that snow is translucent and has a slight "blur" as it falls. Then I turned my ideas on snow making machines. I spoke with a couple of different film directors who have made snow in their movies and found out they use a combination of different types of machines and fake snow depending on the look they wanted. Renting snow machines could of been away to go but it was also very costly. And though NYU Hospital is huge they still didn't want to put up the thousands of dollars for the machines. So I turned my attention to the theater and looked into how they created a snow scene. They won! Outside suspended between two stands, about 20 feet apart we hung a few large plastic boxes with the bottoms cut away and chicken wire put in its place. Filled them with fake plastic snow and I had two assistants shake the pole that supported the boxes slowly as I shot. The model stood underneath. I also had a third assistant in front throwing snow up in the air in front of the camera. This helped create the depth of the snow. Thus we turned a clear day in to a winter wonder land! Way within budget!!!

Red Head Betty Takeout

2008-01-24T12:22:00.000-05:00

I received a call from my friend Martin who is a creative director at Merck. He asked me if I'd like to shoot a band called Red head Betty Takeout. They have a sound like Barenaked Ladies but more soulful! Turns out - Martin is a friend of the band and they were in need of a photographer. They came to the studio where I shot them for their new CD cover. Then they put on a little impromptu show - which was amazing! Then I took them on a late-night subway ride throughout Philly - where I shot them some more.

Make-up

2008-01-23T16:07:00.001-05:00

One of the nicest people I've ever worked with! Susan is a talented make-up artist! When she's not touching up faces she's also a wonderful prop stylist. She's been part of my photo team for at least 15 years. - Clients ask for her by name - that I should hire her as the stylist on the set.

Tea Time

2008-01-23T15:30:00.000-05:00

My assistant Justin enjoying a spot of tea from the Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union shoot.

My kids

2008-01-23T15:12:00.000-05:00

Just being kids

Hats

2008-01-23T10:58:00.001-05:00

My daughter & her friend wearing hats on South St.

Odie the wonder dog!

2008-01-21T22:45:00.000-05:00

Odie is a mix breed. Half Jack Russel and half Pug. The "breed" is called a Jug!

My dog.

My daughter

2008-01-21T22:26:00.000-05:00

My daughter - Love this girl!!! Here she is with her brand new pink braces!

My Son

2008-01-21T19:40:00.001-05:00

Here is my son riding the high-wire bike at the Franklin Institute - about 50 off the ground!

Personality

2008-01-21T19:20:00.000-05:00

Shooting in an assisted living facility one day I came across these wonderful people!!!

2008-01-21T19:12:00.000-05:00

Everything has personality - it just depends how you look at.

Personalities

2008-01-21T18:04:00.000-05:00

Before I talk about my kids which might bore you. I thought I'd show you a few images that I have been working on lately. I love shooting "personalities" - People, food, animals...it doesn't matter - I love finding the laughter - the child in all of us!