Event Photography

A New York Gala for Real New Yorkers

Our team of professional photographers have extensive experience covering Award Ceremonies and Galas, Conferences and Meetings, Fundraisers and Charity Events, Marketing and PR Events, Cocktail receptions, College and University Events, Luncheons, Formal Dinners, Holiday Parties, Company Retreats and Employee Appreciation Events, and so much more. Tonight’s fundraiser honored several first generation American’s making strides in their communities.

Lush Unleash The Mischief | NYC Event Activation Photographers

As Professional NYC Event Photographers, we have experience photographing a wide array of brand activations and experiential events. Our approach to capturing these important moments for your brand is to capture the 5 Ws; Who, What, When, Where, and Why of the event. We want our photos to show people engaged with your product/ brand, engaged with your people, and having a good time. While it’s easy to take a photo, it takes an experienced professional photographer to take an engaging photo with value.

As NYC Corporate Event Photographers I know our photos are more than photos. Our photos are a visual representation of your brand. They tell your story.

Jonathan Heisler Photography always brings a unique mix of technical expertise and a friendly, down-to-earth working style to every assignment. Alone or with a team of event photographers, we work seamlessly to capture your event from start to finish. Jonathan Heisler Photography incorporates wide environment photos showcasing your venue and crowd size, large group shots, close up detail photos, candids, and numerous creative point of view photos offering new perspectives. Jonathan Heisler is NYC’s Event Photographer.

Clients: Lush

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Blue Ridge Ironman - Roanoke, Virginia

The 2022 Carilion Clinic Ironman 70.3 Virginia's Blue Ridge race marked the race’s second year in Roanoke, Virginia. The Ironman triathlon showed off both the Blue Ridge Mountains and southwest Virginia to people from around the world and around the country. Triathletes started at Carvin’s Cove with a swim, then biked along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and lastly ran throughout downtown Roanoke.

Photographing an Ironman

Today’s assignment really focussed on capturing the location of the race, and not so much the athletes themselves. My goal and purpose was to highlight the area’s unique mountains, the famous Blue Ridge Parkway, and the terrain. Throughout the day I walked, I hiked up hill sides to get unique vantage points, I hopped on a boat, and I road on the back of motorcycle all to successfully document the Roanoke Blue Ridge Ironman 70.3.

2022 TD Five Boro Bike Tour - Sponsored By Bike NYC

Combining My Two Favorites

I finally got to photograph the world famous TD Five Boro Bike Tour after last year was rained out and the prior year was cancelled due to COVID. Photographing the Bike Tour was an amazing experience combing my two passions, photography and bikes. I worked very closely with Bike NY developing a strategy of how we would efficiently and effectively document the 40 mile ride touching every borough.

How to photograph a large scale NYC event involves planning and some amount of prior experience.

This year, several highly skilled professional photographers were selected to photograph the 2022 bike tour. While there are several dozen photographers capturing the tour, the majority are focussing on capturing photos of just the riders. My goal was to capture the city with rides in it. To tell the story of the day and make the city, New York City, the main character.

Each photographer was assigned a specific section or borough, along with a designated list of key photos to capture. Some of the photographers were assigned specific spots, which they’d walk, while other were assigned large areas only doable by bike. My list was originally just Brooklyn, but it was quickly expanded to the whole route with a focus on Brooklyn. Yes, I biked the whole tour (42 miles and plus some) with my cameras.

Client: Bike New York

Celebrating Google's WAYMO in NYC

Event Photography Tells A Story

New York City is the most densely populated city in the country, with bustling avenues, unconventional roads, complex intersections, even more complex drivers, and constantly changing traffic parterns. Google’s self driving division, WAYMO, designed their driver interface to handle these types of complex and dynamic activities that define city driving. The vehicles, which are manually operated by autonomous specialists at all times, aim to scale self driving cars by learning.

As a NYC Event Photographer it is my job to capture the purpose of the event, the energy of the room, and the details that made the event memorable.

Tonight’s event celebrated the end of six months of successfully testing WAYMO in NYC. Several individuals from the NYC Department of Transportation were in attendance, transportation experts, and the Mayor, Eric Adams. When photographing events I always photograph event signage with branding, guests mingling, and guest having a great time (laughing, smile, speaking with their hands)

Client: Waymo

Venue: Bowery Hotel

Brooklyn STEAM Center x WAYMO - Autonomous Vehicles in NYC

The Brooklyn STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) Center is New York City's first public school program to be co-located within a business environment. The center is nestled within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 1,000,000 square-foot property which provides students with access to over 400 businesses and a 300-acre industrial park as an additional feature of their learning environment. Scholars attend the STEAM center in a shared instructional model exposing them to all different types of businesses.

Today, WAYMO, Google’s self driving car division showed the students their self driving Jaguar SUV and explained how autonomous driving is being researched, engineered, and implemented in the real world. The students asked great questions about the technology behind the car to different potential benefits of autonomous vehicles vs self driven cars. Considering many New Yorkers do not own a car, let alone have their driver's license the students asked great questions.

Photographing School Education Photos

Whether you are launching a rebranding effort, designing marketing materials, highlighting a program, or beginning a national ad campaign, I can help you take your imagery to the next level with world-class photography. It’s easy to photograph students with blank stares of boredom on their faces. It’s another to capture photos of students engaged, actively learning, and excited. Waiting for the perfect moment when student giggles, smirks, raises his or her hand, and speaks with emphasis is what I look for as a professional education photographer.