Capturing Moments in Time: Elevate Your Story with Expert Portrait Photography
Professional Photography Specializing in Family, High School Senior Portraits, Corporate and Fine Art Photography
Dan Cleary of Cleary Creative Photography specializes in capturing the moments that matter most. A dedicated photographer in Dayton, Ohio who brings his creativity, professionalism, and passion to every session.
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How Dan Cleary Will Help You With His Creative Photography Skills
Customized Photoshoots: Dan Cleary offers personalized photoshoots tailored to the needs and preferences of each client.
Creative Direction: With his expertise in photography, Dan Cleary provides creative direction to clients, helping them conceptualize and execute their photo projects.
Technical Expertise: As a professional photographer, Dan Cleary has a deep understanding of camera equipment, lighting techniques, composition, and post-processing.
Artistic Vision: Dan Cleary brings his creative vision to each personal and commissioned project. He offers a unique perspective and style that sets his work apart and adds value to the final product.
Personal Branding: For clients needing professional headshots and branding images, Dan Cleary helps them present themselves or their businesses in the best possible light.
Photography Workshops and Classes: As an experienced photographer, Dan Clear offers workshops and one-on-one training sessions to help clients improve their photography skills.
Fine Art Prints For Collectors: Dan Cleary creates fine art prints of his artwork for clients who appreciate high-quality, artistic photography and wish to add it to their collections.
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Dan Cleary is an exceptional professional portrait photographer with a remarkable talent for capturing the essence and beauty of his subjects. With his extensive expertise and creative portrait photography approach, he produces stunning and captivating photographs that leave a lasting impression. If you want to preserve your memories in a truly remarkable way, Dan Cleary is the photographer you need.
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Since 1988, Cleary Creative Photography has been capturing the essence of life's precious moments in Dayton, Ohio. Skilled photographer Dan Cleary brings years of experience, creativity, and passion to every session, ensuring each portrait is a timeless masterpiece. Whether you're seeking family portraits that capture the joy of your bond, high school senior portraits that reflect your individuality, or professional headshots that exude confidence, Cleary Creative Photography is your trusted source for capturing the essence of your unique story.
Dan is a Certified Professional Photographer as designated from the Professional Photographers of America, the leading association of imaging professionals. He also has a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan.
The Dayton City Commission recognized Dan as a Proud Dayton Original. The Commission initiated this award as a nod to Dayton’s long history of invention, innovation and inspiration. Recognition is based on creative thinking, doing, believing and achieving. This honor emphasizes Dan’s creativity and originality.
Wright Brothers: Then and Now
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Dan Cleary has published a book that mingles historic photos of the Wright Brothers at the turn-of-the 20th century with contemporary images of his creation taken in the 21st century.
"Dan's images represent moving back in time while standing in the present day. This historical, engaging project is filled with images from both the past and the present." Lens Culture Review
"Ingenious photography project that transports the Wright Brothers to the present day." Plane and Pilot Magazine
"Dan Cleary has been a time traveler" Washingtonian Magazine
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Family Portraits
“I want to say that Mr. Cleary was a doll, he was very understanding about my requests and the fact I did not have all the things I needed for the sitting, he was fine with that so I would like to thank him for his time, not to mention the beautiful pictures he took of my family, children and grand kids. He is truly a professional portrait photographer and again thank you.”
Judy McCullah, Dayton, Ohio
High School Senior Portraits
“Mr. Cleary, you did a wonderful job with my daughter Alexa' high school senior portraits. She was absolutely at ease and totally enjoyed her shoot. You went over and above the call of duty. I will be telling everyone about your services for the photos, they are absolutely gorgeous. The price of the photos is much more reasonable than any other I have encountered. I do want to thank you again and plan on using your services again in the future.”
Sandy DeHaven, Dayton, Ohio
Business Photography
"It's a major endeavor to redesign a business website and especially challenging when it's for a law firm with hundreds of lawyers. We selected Dan because of his experience, photographic style and attention to detail. Dan did an excellent job on the photographs and in managing the project to completion."
Ellen Geron, Regional Growth Manager, Thompson Hine LLP
Fine Art Photography
"Thanks for all your help with the Kettering Health facilities projects. The photographs look great on the walls."
Lisa Laverty
The Art Company
Latest Blog Posts
Wright Brothers: Then and Now book
On this date, 117 years ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright made their historic first powered flights. Orville flew first, traveling 120 feet. Wilbur then flew 175 feet. In turn, Orville flew 200 feet, and Wilbur made the last flight of the day, going 800 feet. Their flight experiments had worked. Orville set up the Korona 5x7 glass plate view camera, and John Daniels took the famous photograph of the first flight. Daniels was a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Station and knew little about photography. His job was to compress a rubber bulb, forcing air through a tube that pushed the camera lens's shutter release. Daniels didn't remember squeezing the bulb. I am very familiar with this type of shutter release system, and I can imagine that when he saw the plane take off, he pressed the bulb instinctively. The Wrights knew that the shutter had been released but didn't know if they had a photograph until months later when they processed the film in their home darkroom.
I have spent the last four years traveling various locations where the Wright Brothers did their flight experiments and demonstrations. I've revisited the sites where the Wright Brothers did their early flight research and demonstrations to create modern images. These include many locations in Dayton, Ohio, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Detroit, Michigan, Le Mans, and Pau, France. and New York City incorporated a retelling of early flight experiments.
I have shown many of these photographs in the past four years, and given artist talks about the work. At the first artist talk, I was asked when will the book for this series be available? I am happy to announce that I will have the book Wright Brothers: Then and Now completed and ready for purchase in about two weeks. The bookstore at Carillon Park has ordered copies. The bookstore at the Air Force Museum is interested in putting it in their inventory. You can pre-order the book right now by emailing me at Dan@ClearyCreativePhoto.com or calling the studio at 937-298-6776. As soon as I have the book in my hands, it will be available for purchase from ClearyFineArtPhoto.com. There will be a couple of additional online sites soon, including Amazon.
Landscape photographs for your company’s website
This week I’ve been working with a local company to update their website with photographs from the Dayton region. The two photos that they requested are my night photograph of the Miami River with the Dayton Art Institute, the Masonic Temple, and Grandview Hospital in the background. They also wanted this photograph of a couple sitting enjoying the view at Taylorsville Five Rivers Metro Park. The night photograph of the Miami River was created for Kettering Health Network and is part of a wall display in the waiting room at Grandview Hospital in downtown Dayton. The photograph was taken in June about an hour after the sunset. The night was almost black, but I had to wait that long for the Grandview sign to light up bright enough to see it. I made my first set of photographs on a Thursday night, but I didn’t like the sky in the images, so I went back on Sunday. The sky was better on Sunday, but the Dayton Art Institute turns all their lights off on Sunday, so it was dark. I had to take the exposure for Thursday photograph of the Art Institute and insert it into the Sunday photograph to make the final version. I also did some enhancement work to the Taylorsville photograph. I created this photograph in early October, and the leaves weren’t at their peak color yet. The grass was dry because we hadn’t had much rain. The picture also had a typical Ohio blue fuzzy cloud sky, so I added a healthy cloud formation to the photograph. The sky came from Santa Fe, NM. Fortunately, for me, these are all things available today to enhance pictures and make them better than the original images. To see a Youtube video on how I created the Taylorsville photograph go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZUTlEzJVY&t=300s. You can see 200 or more landscape photographs that are ready to be displayed on your walls or on your website at www.ClearyFineArtPhoto.com.
Photoshop Tutorial For Landscape Photograph
Here is my latest, Cleary Creative Photography, YouTube PhotoShop tutorial. In this video, I will go through all the steps I took to create this photograph of a couple sitting enjoying the fall landscape at Taylorsville Metro Park, part of Five Rivers Metro Parks. I liked the picture of the couple sitting on the swing looking at the landscape, but I thought the original photograph could be better. I decided to enhance the color in this photo and replaced the sky. The video will show you the steps I took to make these changes and create a better image. I use the latest version of Photoshop CC 2020, along with built-in filters from NIK and Topaz. Many years ago, I switched from using a mouse only to using a Wacom drawing tablet. The drawing tablet lets me be more precise in working on photographs like this. You can see more of my landscape photographs from the region at www.ClearyFineArtPhoto.com.
Dan Cleary is a portrait and fine art photographer from Dayton, Ohio. You can see more of his professional work at www.ClearyCreativePhoto.com. You can reach Dan by phone or text at 937-298-6776 and email at Dan@ClearyCreativePhoto.com.
Dan holds photography classes at his studio throughout the year. They are called The 7 Steps To Better Photography. There he will teach you how to use your camera. He'll teach you what every button is and what every setting means. Right now, the classes are on hold with the pandemic but come 2021. Dan will be teaching again, so stay tuned for upcoming dates in 2021. To read more information about Dan's Photography Workshops go to www.ClearyPhotoWorkshops.com.
Graduation Photographs
I’ve been doing many graduation photographs lately. Graduates come in all ages. I received a call from a mother who wanted pictures of her son, who was graduating from kindergarten during the pandemic. The school didn’t bring in a photographer this year because everything was shut down. So after the shutdown was over, she called me, and I photographed her son in the studio. He was a great kid, full of energy, and was very happy to be here. I created a few photographs of him wearing the mask that all of us need to use right now.
My second graduate was from the University of Dayton. He is from the Middle East and graduated with an engineering degree. In his home country, everyone has their photograph taken in their robes, and this year because of the pandemic, they had no public graduation. He wanted a good picture to send back to his mother.
My third graduate is a woman who has spent the last number of years working on her Ph.D. in Ministry. She works as a hospital Chaplin. Now everyone at the hospital has to call her Doctor also. She is an interesting person because her undergraduate degree was in music. I first met her when she needed an updated professional photograph for her opera singing career.
I am also photographing many soon to be high school senior graduates. But they aren’t graduates yet.
