Today's Guest: Eddy Barry of Gum Street Studio in Yuma, Colorado
Today's Host: John Bentley
August 2007
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Eddy Barry Expert PageANNOUNCER: Welcome to the VTalk Radio's Photography Spotlight with your host, John Bentley.
JOHN: Today's program is sponsored by morephotos.com the online photo sales solution to professional photographers worldwide.
JOHN: Today we are in the Studio with Eddie Barry of Gum Street Studio of Yuma, Colorado. Welcome to VTalk Radio's Photographer's Spotlight, Eddie.
EDDIE: Thank you.
JOHN: Appreciate you talking with us today. Can you tell us a little bit about your business?
EDDIE: Yes, it started about in 2003, we started messing around with high school sporting events, mainly jr. high and high school sports events, and kind of one thing led to the other. We got into videography that same year and started taking pictures at the same time, because people were missing out on their kids' sporting events and we were able to capture some of those moments so they could share it later with their family and friends.
JOHN: Can you tell the listening audience some of the services that you offer?
EDDIE: Well what we really try to do which is a first this year and it's been in quite a demand is we try to go live on the internet this year showing the event live and then later on we come back and focus in on that video and we take pictures out of that and put them into frames for people so they can share it with their families, but it's just a neat thing so nobody will miss the live game or whatever as it's happening and it's been a real reward this year.
JOHN: You've been doing sports photography, you do a lot of action photos.
EDDIE: Lot of action photos.
JOHN: How do you get those action photos to come in so crystal clear?
EDDIE: Well a lot of it is with the cameras that have come out lately, but most of it is because we use computer enhancement too. That helps us out to come out with a better...and also some of the places we send those photos to be developed now are just getting better and better every year.
JOHN: So are you doing strictly digital or do you dabble in film also?
EDDIE: No it's mostly digital. That's all we do.
JOHN: How about some of the communities in the area, cities in the area that you're covering?
EDDIE: Mostly it's northeastern Colorado. We do do the front range. We get up around Fort Collins in the Denver area, but mainly it's our area. Northeastern Colorado is a lot of small farming communities. People don't get out much where they go to see big ball games, but they love their high school sports, and that's where we try to focus in. Sometimes they gather in bigger cities like Sterling, Colorado, which is about 35,000 people and have some tournaments there so that helps us out, but mainly it's the smaller communities that we try to serve.
JOHN: Eddie, what are some of the teams that you have photographed or some of the teams you'd like to photograph?
EDDIE: The teams that we really focus in on are, like I say in northeastern Colorado. It's mostly division 2 basketball and football teams. Lot of girls basketball just because my daughters were in basketball for the last four years; they finally graduated, but that's kind of how we got our start. A lot of it is Yuma, Colorado is a big sporting event town. Sterling, Colorado is big, also Greeley and Fort Collins are big towns that we like to get into, but mainly the smaller towns out here. Yuma, Rand, Otis, Sterling, Holyoke, I could go on. There's a lot of them though.
JOHN: Now you cover more than just football and basketball. What else do you cover?
EDDIE: We tried volleyball this year. That was a hard sport to cover just because there's a lot of action all the time, lots of yelling and screaming, but we like to get in there and make it happen. The basketball is really what started the whole thing. Volleyball has been big staring this year. We love to do football. I'm a big football fan so that's why I do a lot of that too.
JOHN: What would you consider your most important goal when you're shooting an event, Eddie?
EDDIE: I'm shooting an event like I'm the person, I'm the family member there,and I want to see what my kid has done that night, and just because they wouldn't want to miss out on anything and there's nothing like giving a picture that you've taken of someone's child and they're just overwhelmed by how you've captured that for them. So, that's what I enjoy.
JOHN: Now, do you take more than one photographer to an event at a time?
EDDIE: Usually there's just two of us. Mainly it's myself and my wife, but I do have other camera guys that actually they're freelance photographers, and they'll give me some of their stuff too if I can't make that event. We try to capture a lot of things, but that's mainly what we focus in on. Especially we look towards like a weekend event we try to focus in on that especially varsity type stuff, and if we can during the week, we'll try to get into some smaller jr. high activities and that, but most of the time it's just varsity stuff.
JOHN: What about videography? You do a lot of that. Tell us a little bit about that.
EDDIE: Well videography is kind of actually really my passion. I love photography too, but I'm still overwhelmed by the way you can use videos to capture an event and then go back and just make still pictures out of that and just be able to share that in so many different ways. It's just unbelievable what you can do with it now. Especially with the computer age coming in the last 10 years. Especially in the last 2 years, it's just been incredible what you can do on the websites and that. I mean you can capture the whole thing and go back and watch the whole thing or you can watch stills out of it. It's just amazing what you can offer to people from that aspect.
JOHN: What makes your services unique?
EDDIE: I think it's just the hometown touch here. We get in; we know all the people. They know who we are when we walk in. They see the cameras hanging on us and they're excited that we're there. They're excited they're going to have their event captured and the kids just love it. The families love it. We just enjoy being a part of it.
JOHN: If you have your choice of events to shoot or things to take pictures of, what would your dream photo shoot be, Eddie?
EDDIE: Dream photo shoot. Not quite sure. Probably Carmel Anthony at the Pepsi Center.
JOHN: That's a good one.
EDDIE: Really, I love to watch girl's basketball. So that's really my passion. I love varsity football too especially in the high school level in this area. It's all fun for me, but I think girl's basketball is probably my biggest passion.
JOHN: Why did you decide to become a photographer?
EDDIE: You know, I just...one of those deals. I just started messing with it. Never went to school for it or anything, but me and my wife started dabbling with it about 10 years ago, and she thought I was crazy to film different events and show people later and be able to share that with them and she said that would never work, and really been an enjoyable thing to be able to do.
JOHN: Sounds like a great idea. Would you kindly give our listeners your website information and contact information?
EDDIE: Ok. Our website is www.gumstreetstudio.com. You can reach me also at ebarry@centurytel.net or also at gumstreetstudio.com you can email us there, but my phone number is (970) 848-5623 and you can always reach us here to.
JOHN: Well I want to thank you, Eddie, for coming in the studio with us today.
EDDIE: I appreciate you having me on.
JOHN: We've been s peaking with Eddie Barry of Gum Street Studio of Yuma, Colorado. This is John Bentley signing off from VTalk Radio's Photography Spotlight. Have a great afternoon.
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