Norm Staples, Photographer
DIGITAL STILLS
Norm Staples is the Owner, Chief Digital Photographer and creative mind behind NAMRON, Inc., a Northern Virginia-based business created to provide excellence in photographic services primarily to the Event (Convention & Live), Television, Feature Film and Newswire (Getty Images) industries.
Norm’s photography background includes a veritable “who’s who” of clients from across a wide-ranging commercial and industrial base. As a freelance photographer, clients include Coca-Cola USA, Pepsico, Home Box Office, Philip Morris Company, Showtime, Budweiser, The Movie Channel, and the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change.
As a Contributing Photographer his work has been featured across the print, broadcast and music spectrum -- periodicals (Time Magazine); television stations (NBC, CNN, TNT); music companies (WEA Records, Island Records); and newswires (AP, UPI, Gamma Liaison). Norm is a recent Getty Images Contributor as well
Norm’s photography background includes a veritable “who’s who” of clients from across a wide-ranging commercial and industrial base. As a freelance photographer, clients include Coca-Cola USA, Pepsico, Home Box Office, Philip Morris Company, Showtime, Budweiser, The Movie Channel, and the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change.
As a Contributing Photographer his work has been featured across the print, broadcast and music spectrum -- periodicals (Time Magazine); television stations (NBC, CNN, TNT); music companies (WEA Records, Island Records); and newswires (AP, UPI, Gamma Liaison). Norm is a recent Getty Images Contributor as well
Background
With over 30 years in the industry - trained by I.A.T.S.E. and N.A.B.E.T. local Cameraman union shops, to shooting across 4 wire services (UPI, AP, Gamma Liasion) including the current, Getty Images.
Event stills photography isn’t just about being on-call with a camera - it’s about bringing imagery to life for a client who needs to catalog it.
Norm was classroom educated @ Columbia College-Chicago, where he took on Photography and Graphic Design course work to shore up his post-education. Also, he's received his Bachelors of Arts @ Purdue University and majored in Business w/concentration in Entreprenuership.
My gear
- Camera bodies: main camera Z7II, backup camera Z6II, D700, D300s
- Wide-angle lens 10-14MM F/2.8
- Wide-angle lens 17-80MM F/4-5.6
- Medium-range lens 17-55MM F/2.8
- Ultra-sharp wide-angle lens 14-24MM F/2.8
- Telezoom lens 180MM F/2.8
- Sports lens 300MM F/2.8