Professional Photographer Ed Sharp

Ed Sharp Photography
Custom in home & on location Photographic Portraiture
"Capturing who you are, not just what you look like"
Serving Upstate New York and Beyond

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Ed Sharp is a custom professional portrait photographer from Greenwich NY (12834),with a unique style derived from a lifetime behind the camera and perhaps an uncanny ability to empathize with his subject. In order to properly photograph a person, one needs to first find out who the subject is and at the same time have the technical ability to create the perfect environment of light and pose that tells us the subject’s story. A 1985 graduate of The Rhode Island School of photography, Ed studied Photojournalism, Commercial and Portrait Photography and worked in both black and white and color darkrooms.

His career path has lead him through an expansive and diverse photographic world, a world in which he has photographed subjects from Presidential candidates to Grizzly bears, a leaping wide receiver to a sleeping baby and list goes on. In photographing all these different subjects and situations there is a common thread, this is the desire to capture that fleeting sliver of time and preserve an image to remind us of “what was”and the feelings of that moment. It is our life experiences that playa major role in who we are, and as a photographer this is what defines ones style. Ed began his photographic career as a photojournalist for small town newspapers. This was Ed’s first experience with working on a deadline, creating feature images, covering spot news and photographing sports. Working at a weekly paper required the wearing of many hats including working in the darkroom, something most of today's photographers will never experience.

In the 1990’s Ed was working as freelance photographer with a special interest in Wildlife and Nature Photography. Following his passion he traveled to Alaska to photograph Brown Bears and the beauty of Alaska, living in South East Alaska for a short time. The Adirondack mountains of upstate New York were also a subject he became involved in photographing with his 4x5 view camera. He has spent many hours hiking the trails of the Adirondack High Peaks in search of that perfect sunrise, sunset and all that the land has to offer an eager and willing photographer. As a freelance photographer Ed’s work has appeared in countless publications from News Day to Adirondack Life Magazine, Art Galleries from East coast to the west coast and his nature images have been used by many corporate clients.

In 2001 Ed began working as a photographer for the Pulitzer Prize winning Post Star in Glens Falls NY. This was his first taste of working with professional digital equipment and it was love at first click. His days of working in a smelly toxic darkroom were over. This also provided an opportunity to work with an amazing staff of writers and photographers, covering stories and creating feature photo art for special projects. The tight deadline and fast pace of a daily newspaper position, helped to create a self confidence as an image maker that can not be earned in any other field. The stress level can be high at times, but this more often than not brings out the best in all parties involved. Equipped with a press pass and given free access to restricted areas as well as VIP subjects, let him see things from a unique perspective that the general public will only know through the photographer’s images that they see in their newspaper.

Today Ed owns and operates Ed Sharp Photography, providing custom portrait photography to subjects from infants and children to seniors and engagement sessions.Ed owes much of who he is as an artist to all the life experiences you have just read about.

When he was just starting out in photography Ed asked a very talented photographer by the name of Leonard Lee Rue the question “How do you become a great Photographer?” His reply was both simple and genius,
he simply replied “Just keep taking pictures young fella”, then smiled and slapped Ed on the back. 30 years later Mr. Rue’s advice seems even more profound............. and oh yes...