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Tom Stock offers high-quality photographic services from his new studio.
Courtesy Stock Studios Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Rod Bacon<\/p>\n

One of the area\u2019s premier photographers has relocated to downtown Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n

Tom Stock, owner of Stock Studios Photography, continues to provide clients with exceptional images from his new studio in the Shannon-Rose Design building at 65 Clinton Street after selling his building on West Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the whole second floor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is exactly the same size as the main studio area of the building we just sold. It\u2019s everything I could have asked for.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For 35 years, Stock has been offering a wide range of services that include architectural, advertising, food, product, portraits\/lifestyle, and aerial photography.<\/p>\n

Locally, he has worked with all of the hospitals, banks, and law firms in the Capital District, as well as many area architects and building contractors. He has also provided images for the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).<\/p>\n

He noted that he has worked with Saratoga Hospital\u2019s marketing department for 30 years, shooting everything from staff portraits to operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>From 1994-2024 he provided images for the Saratoga Business Journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the past year he has photographed the renovations of four local hotels and has two more to do this spring.<\/p>\n

He recently shot a series of photographs for a company that has a line of healthy protein pancake mixes, as well as shooting artwork for a high-end artist in the Capital District.<\/p>\n

Nationally, among others, he worked with the marketing department of Nucor, North America\u2019s largest steel manufacturer and recycler.<\/p>\n

He estimates that 60 percent of his clients are from the Capital District to the Adirondacks and 40 percent are on the East Coast and nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mostly commercial, industrial, advertising, and business-to-business photography,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A Gloversville native, Stock enlisted in the United States Army after high school graduation, and was posted in Germany with the military police. He also served as a member of the Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC) ski patrol in Bertchesgarden, Germany.<\/p>\n

Upon his return he took advantage of a veterans administration scholarship to attend Syracuse University, graduating cum laude in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.<\/p>\n

He then went to Key Largo, Florida, where he had hoped to do underwater photography, and worked as a scuba diving instructor.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderwater photography was going to be my thing,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, there wasn\u2019t a lot of need for it where I was and the scuba company I worked for had me working twelve-hour days so there wasn\u2019t time for it anyway.\u2019<\/p>\n

He next moved to Delaware where he worked for a company called the Church Directory Service. He traveled up and down the East Coast with a mobile studio photographing family groups in churches. Within a year he had accepted a position as staff photographer at a commercial studio and lab in Wilmington, Delaware, where he made images for corporate clients such as DuPont, MBT Bank, and Gore-Tex. After three years he decided it was time to open his own shop.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He wanted to return to the area in which he grew up and chose Saratoga Springs because he felt it gave him the best opportunities for economic success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, of course, he shot with film, developing the images in his studio\u2019s darkroom. In the mid-1990s, one of his clients was Delmar Publishing, a representative of which suggested it would be more economically feasible to shoot in digital format because all film images had to go through a multi-stage process to become suitable for print and digital photographs would streamline that process. The next week he purchased a digital camera and Photoshop program suitable to meet the client\u2019s needs and he has never looked back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was cutting edge and it saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I became their go-to guy so it was a good business decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While Stock uses high-end equipment for his professional shoots, he says that advances in cell phone cameras allow users to produce only \u201cgood\u201d images. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCell phones and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the biggest disrupters of the photography business these days,\u201d he said. \u201cTo produce great marketing images you have to learn about lighting, color and composition. Those things take time, commitment and expertise to achieve professional results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stock is also a skilled craftsman who built his own house on 80 wooded acres in Greenfield Center. It is off-grid, powered by solar, wood heat, and wind power. Each year he hosts a party called Woodstock where participants help replenish his wood supply from trees on his land in exchange for good food and drink (after the work is done) and camaraderie.<\/p>\n

He has been married since 2005 to Roberta (Fuerst) Stock. She owns and operates Roberta Stock Bookkeeping in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n

Stock has no plans to retire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will continue to provide my clients with high-quality digital photography, on time and on budget,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For further information about the services he offers visit saratogaphotographer.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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