Can you "See the Difference"?

For those who are choosing a wedding photographer. How important is your wedding to you? How important are your wedding photographs? Can you "See the Difference"?

Offering FREE Senior Portraits !

I need a list of names and addresses for the Class of 2012 for Charleroi HS, Belle Vernon HS, and Elizabeth Forward HS. If you can compile such a list, I will do your senior portraits FREE of charge.

David Savarino Event Photography

I have launched a new websight http://www.dseventphotography.com/ . I am seeking corporate clients for all types of event/commercial/industrial photography. I started my photography career 38 years ago doing industrial plant photography for McGraw Edison, RCA Broadcast, and Lee Norse Company. I created images for technical bulletins for McGraw Edison at their plants in Canonsburg, PA and Zanesville, Ohio. I photographed very large broadcast radio transmitters for instruction manuals for the RCA Corporation in Meadowlands, PA. I also did a lot of underground mining photography and product photography for Lee Norse Company in Charleroi, PA and Beckley, WV.



I have decided to return to where I started. Since those first years, I have gained so much experience by way of wedding photography, portrait photography, and sports photography. I have been presented with many scenarios and have been very successful in handling every situation. I want to use this experience to pursue new challenges in all corporate/commercial assignments.



I don't plan on changing what I do now, I just want to branch out and do some different things. This should be fun!

Be My Valentine

Today was the first day of "Be My Valentine" children's portrait promotion at Savarino Studio. Here are some portraits from today. The three children are the grandchildren of an old friend of mine from my teaching days, Gloria DeRosa McClain. They children are Wes, Elena, and Magee.

October 10, 2011 - The Final Day of the "Project"

Well, I started this project on May 16, 2010 and now this the last day of photographing, October 10, 2011. It didn't have to take this long but I had to delay the project when I got busy with high school seniors. This day I finished the project photographing 5 bridges, Jackson Mill Bridge, Krepps Bridge, Lyle Bridge, McClurg Bridge, and the hardest one to find the Pine Bank Bridge. I followed my Tom-Tom GPS as I always have to where it took me. I ended up on a road so narrowed that it became a foot trail. I had to back up and start all over. I finally found the bridge in a place called Meadowcroft. It is only open to foot traffic.

Now that the photography is finished, I have to work on every image. I removed all objects that I thought distracted from the bridge. I want each bridge to be a work of art. I also used artistic treatments. I felt that the Krepps Bridge was in a very difficult and unattractive location, so I placed it in a field that I had photographed near another bridge. I might have to do this one again in a different light.

October 3, 2010 - Covered Bridge Project

Well, it has been a long time since I have posted to my blog. I apologize for that. I could say I was too busy, but that was not the case. I just didn't know what blogging should be. I'm going to try to catch up.

I resumed my covered bridge project on October 3. That day I photographed 4 bridges, the Ebenezer Bridge, the Henry Bridge, the Leatherman Bridge, and the Wright Bridge. I have to say that finding and getting to the bridges is not an easy task. Sometimes the roads get a little narrow or end up as a dead end. The hardest bridge this day was the Wright Bridge. I have seen this bridge many times passing on I70. I could see it but I could not figure out how to get to it. Only after finding and photographing the Leatherman Bridge did I find my way to the Wright Bridge. It is actually on a farm and leads to a dead end. I had to park my car and walk through the bridge into a farm field to photograph the bridge. As with all my bridges, I had to remove all the signs and other distractions to make the bridge look really good.

Here is my version of the Wright Covered Bridge, one of my favorites.