With Dale’s Pale Ale in hand and a Sam Adam’s Utopias up for grabs, I made my way to Fell’s Point, Baltimore, to capture the launch party festivities for a new “Pandora for beer” app called BrewKeep. The launch buzzed in the neon air of Max’s Taphouse (who seriously managed to secure the domain “Maxs.com” which amazes my inner nerd), and, I’d venture, everyone who attended had a pretty good time. I didn’t win the Utopias, but I did make some new bearded, beery friends (and some without beards, too).
As usual, I’ll let the photos do all the real narrative work.
(Full disclosure: founders Sean and Matt lubricated my photographic adventure with a couple of free beers.)
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Tagged: app, app launch, baltimore, bar, beer, beertography, brewkeep, craft beer, event photography, fell's point, max's taphouse, party, photography
Tagged: app, app launch, baltimore, bar, beer, beertography, brewkeep, craft beer, event photography, fell's point, max's taphouse, party, photography
Literature and Libation 
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I’m very flattered for this nomination; thank you! I wrote a post on this topic a while back that might explain my lack of involvement a little better:
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Cheers!
Great photos (although it’s hard to wrong at Max’s, what a backdrop). I thought getting a new camera and taking a rip of pictures at events was going to be a chore. But I’m finding I actually enjoy that sometimes more than the actual writing for an event. I even recently started shooting RAW, which I swore I’d never do and even that doesn’t seem like an extra burden.
Thanks Ed!
Shooting in RAW is fantastic if you’re using Lightroom. Otherwise, high res JPEGs are fine for most online applications. My inner writer and photographer are always at each other’s throats, but I’ve come to realize that when I’m writing I’m often visualizing my metaphors, and when I’m photographing I’m trying to capture a story, so really, they’re the same art in differing media.
I don’t have Lightroom, but I do have the RAW software that came from the camera. It’s pretty good. I actually shoot RAW + LARGE. That way if it’s a picture that needs a little work, I’ve got it covered. If not, I just resize the JPG.