Biography

A founding member of the Association of Independent Architectural Photographers and member of the American Society of Media Photographers, Mr. Luria has had his images appear in over 100 publications, including TIME Magazine, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Prevention, Washingtonian, Washington Flyer, Washington Spaces, Food and Wine, and Cuccina Italiana, in the Washington Post, the Hamburger Abendblatt, and the Tokyo Shinbum newspapers. He is also a Contributing Photographer to WHERE Magazine and the NOW Guide, and since 1997 he has done over 3,000 property shoots for the Washington Post’s Apartment Showcase Magazine. He has also been a frequent speaker and competition judge at local camera clubs in the DC area, including the Photography Committee of the National Press Club.. Mr. Luria is also a teacher of photography. A member of the Society of Photographic Education, he is founder and director of the Washington Photo Safari (www.WashingtonPhotoSafari.com), through which he and his team of eleven professional photographers have trained over 32,000 clients on 4,700 photo safaris since 1999 in the techniques of travel and architectural photography. This program, annual winner of Trip Advisor Certificates of Excellence, is now one of the country’s largest providers of photography training field excursions. Prior to becoming a professional photographer, Mr. Luria had a long career in the US and abroad as a senior executive with several international non-profit development aid and citizen exchange organizations, such as CARE, Partners of the Americas, Friendship Force, and Delphi International. An honors graduate of Amherst College and a US Army veteran, Mr. Luria is fluent in Spanish, French, and German. David has also done work for most of the apartment management companies in the DC area,

His work can be viewed at www.edavidluriaphotography.smugmug. com he can be reached at 202-537-0937 and at edavidluria@juno.com

The Presentation

As a prelude to the NVPS competition on architectural photography, David’s will provide tips on techniques such as:

• determining the subject of your architectural photograph
• balancing indoor and outdoor light on interior shoots with strobes
• “packaging” your architectural subject in trees and flowers
• keeping your vertical lines perfectly straight in the camera
• selecting the best time of day to do architectural photography
• use of the kelvin scale to select proper white balance
• shooting on manual Mode for optimal exposure
• use of wide angle and telephoto lenses
• using a shift lens