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An Eye For Creativity
Photography • Stage Lighting • Video Editing & Production
STAGE LIGHTING
Matching the desires with an organization's budget is essential to bringing viewers into another realm. Designing small to moderate lighting configurations will create an atmosphere transforming an event into an experience.
While most lack significant, multi-million dollar budgets, the key is to make a $5,000 light show appear to be a $50,000 visual production. Implementation of DMX programing offers endless possibilities, including laser systems and a wide range of atmospherics such as smoke, haze, CO2, and dry ice systems. Training the people responsible for operating and maintaining custom configurations is an integral component in successful operation. Rob's experience in stage lighting ranges from plays, to houses of worship, to nightlife establishments, and dance clubs.
Work Sample - Entertainment Company
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rob has been captivated by photography since early on, getting a taste for composition and the development of 35mm film while in school. Since then, he has developed his portfolio to include event, landscape, portrait, nightlife, and other genres of imagery. Rob is a former Senior Correspondent for First Responder News and Photo Editor of Quo Vadis News, winning several State awards. He has made regular submissions to numerous press agencies and has performed educational photography seminars.
Since 2009, he has worked tirelessly at his passion and has progressed from a Nikon N90 film camera to being equipped with professional full-frame digital imaging equipment. This has granted him the opportunity to successfully capture moments he once was only able to envision. Now, a professional member of the National Press Photographer's Association and Nikon Professional Services, he has expanded his reach, regularly covering an area stretching from New York City to Philadelphia, and across Central New York, including Syracuse, Rochester, Binghamon, and Utica.
VIDEO EDITING & PRODUCTION
Rob Rivera is a native of New Jersey and currently resides in Syracuse, New York. He holds a Masters from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication and is proficient in photography, videography, cinematography, and editing. He is the winner of 3 NPPA awards, a member of the New Jersey Press Association, and a Professional Member of the National Press Photographers Association.
He work includes being the Co-Director of Photography for several projects on-location, in studio, and virtually, using chroma key techniques. These included several shorts such as "Born Again," produced by Tony James and Heath Snow, and the full-length independent film "Supposition," from Godsend Entertainment. Currently, he owns/operates a photo/video production company primarily serving Central New York, New York City, and Philadelphia. In his spare time, he volunteers with the American Red Cross's Public Affairs team, where he deploys to disasters and produces content in support of relief efforts.