Greg Smith lives on the tidal May River west of Bluffton, S.C., less than 20 miles from both Hilton Head Island and Savannah, Ga., and just a couple hours drive from the Columbia, Charleston and Jacksonville metropolitan areas. From this bucolic but accessible base, he offers photography, writing, editing, production and consulting services to clients who range from local families and tourists, to publications and corporations.
His personal photography focuses on wild- and human life near his salt marsh home and in the changing S.C. Lowcountry. His professional disciplines include journalism, documentary, corporate and institutional photography, with emerging skills in multimedia and video production. Other professionals and professional organizations seek his writing, and particularly, copy editing skills. A longtime specialist in 35mm black-and-white location photography, with considerable background in color and other formats, Greg has spent the past decade becoming an expert in nearly every aspect of digital imaging - for print, Web and broadcast, equipping himself accordingly. He has been a key editor for both the UPDIG and PLUS standards efforts. He spent some of 2008 and much of 2009 working to edit and coordinate events for the Stock Artists Alliance Photo Metadata Project, produced under an award from the Library of Congress.
Greg earned a cum laude Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism at Ohio University and was named outstanding journalism master's candidate when he returned there in 1983-84 for graduate studies. Some 23 years later, he was readmitted to Ohio, attending classes for a quarter on campus at age 49. In June 2009, he graduated as a Master of Arts in Visual Communication. His multimedia master's project, "Keeping the May River Wild" has received local acclaim and was selected among 20 projects in the Best of ASMP 2009. His career has seen him work as a news photographer, a newspaper editor, and a writer of both news and public relations copy. Since striking out on his own in 1995, Greg has refined specialties in location lighting, technology, outdoors, wildlife, action, portrait, wedding and aerial photography. He is a graduate of the first Platypus Workshop in video storytelling and the 2002 Visual Edge multimedia workshop. A Macintosh computer devotee, he consults on a variety of imaging issues, from color management to archiving.
Greg's handcrafted prints of the Lowcountry and elsewhere are available at the S.C. Artisans Center in Walterboro, occasionally at other galleries and directly from his online storefront. In 2003, the University of North Carolina Press published Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, a collection of recipes, tales of subsistence living on a remote sea island and Greg's pictures, which he helped Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson write. Bestselling author Pat Conroy (Sallie's seventh-grade teacher on Daufuskie) wrote a foreword for the book.
Listed on the S.C. Arts Commission's Roster of Approved Artists since 1997, Greg teaches occasionally at K-12 schools and summer arts programs across the state, and he has been a guest lecturer for several college courses. He has been a local leader of the American Society of Media Photographers, and a committee chair with the National Press Photographers Association. He was an early member of Editorial Photographers and posts regularly to several photography email lists. A former, longtime youth soccer coach, he has also been active in his local community, including efforts focused on Bluffton's library, recreation, growth management and education. He continues to seek opportunities in higher education and presents lectures to civic groups.
His wife, Janet, is Opinion Page Editor of The Island Packet newspaper and his partner in mediaSmith. They are the parents of twin sons, now grown, and a college-age daughter, all reared on the salt marsh where they built their own house..
Gregory Wrenn Smith
Greg Smith lives on the tidal May River west of Bluffton, S.C., less than 20 miles from both Hilton Head Island and Savannah, Ga., and just a couple hours drive from the Columbia, Charleston and Jacksonville metropolitan areas. From this bucolic but accessible base, he offers photography, writing, editing, production and consulting services to clients who range from local families and tourists, to publications and corporations.
His personal photography focuses on wild- and human life near his salt marsh home and in the changing S.C. Lowcountry. His professional disciplines include journalism, documentary, corporate and institutional photography, with emerging skills in multimedia and video production. Other professionals and professional organizations seek his writing, and particularly, copy editing skills. A longtime specialist in 35mm black-and-white location photography, with considerable background in color and other formats, Greg has spent the past decade becoming an expert in nearly every aspect of digital imaging - for print, Web and broadcast, equipping himself accordingly. He has been a key editor for both the UPDIG and PLUS standards efforts. He spent some of 2008 and much of 2009 working to edit and coordinate events for the Stock Artists Alliance Photo Metadata Project, produced under an award from the Library of Congress.
Greg earned a cum laude Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism at Ohio University and was named outstanding journalism master's candidate when he returned there in 1983-84 for graduate studies. Some 23 years later, he was readmitted to Ohio, attending classes for a quarter on campus at age 49. In June 2009, he graduated as a Master of Arts in Visual Communication. His multimedia master's project, "Keeping the May River Wild" has received local acclaim and was selected among 20 projects in the Best of ASMP 2009. His career has seen him work as a news photographer, a newspaper editor, and a writer of both news and public relations copy. Since striking out on his own in 1995, Greg has refined specialties in location lighting, technology, outdoors, wildlife, action, portrait, wedding and aerial photography. He is a graduate of the first Platypus Workshop in video storytelling and the 2002 Visual Edge multimedia workshop. A Macintosh computer devotee, he consults on a variety of imaging issues, from color management to archiving.
Greg's handcrafted prints of the Lowcountry and elsewhere are available at the S.C. Artisans Center in Walterboro, occasionally at other galleries and directly from his online storefront. In 2003, the University of North Carolina Press published Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, a collection of recipes, tales of subsistence living on a remote sea island and Greg's pictures, which he helped Daufuskie Island native Sallie Ann Robinson write. Bestselling author Pat Conroy (Sallie's seventh-grade teacher on Daufuskie) wrote a foreword for the book.
Listed on the S.C. Arts Commission's Roster of Approved Artists since 1997, Greg teaches occasionally at K-12 schools and summer arts programs across the state, and he has been a guest lecturer for several college courses. He has been a local leader of the American Society of Media Photographers, and a committee chair with the National Press Photographers Association. He was an early member of Editorial Photographers and posts regularly to several photography email lists. A former, longtime youth soccer coach, he has also been active in his local community, including efforts focused on Bluffton's library, recreation, growth management and education. He continues to seek opportunities in higher education and presents lectures to civic groups.
His wife, Janet, is Opinion Page Editor of The Island Packet newspaper and his partner in mediaSmith. They are the parents of twin sons, now grown, and a college-age daughter, all reared on the salt marsh where they built their own house..