June 2009
9 posts
Paper Route - Enemy Among Us
from the new album...
Recent Interior Shots
Product Photography
Another form of photography that fascinates me is product photography. It’s very difficult to get a professional look with limited resources. Most people build an entire white box to shoot in, but I haven’t done that. I don’t even use soft boxes, I use umbrellas (cheaper and more convenient, though they have their drawbacks). So depending on what I’m shooting, I have to rig...
I Put Out a Fire!
Last weekend my pal Johnny and me were sitting around the house, trying to be as unproductive as possible. Suddenly we smelled smoke and knew something was going on. It wasn’t the normal burned pizza smoke smell, it was the “your stuff is on fire” smoke smell. We looked out the window and saw that our neighbor’s big green roll out to the street trash can was a giant...
Big News!
So at work I have this binder that I put all my important stuff in: contracts, notes, designs, stuff like that. I was getting so much stuff in there that I decided I needed a new binder. One that can handle anything I throw its way. One that will laugh at all the crap I want to store in it and say, “bring it on,” then thank me for playing and send me a free t-shirt. I found that...
Portraits
I stayed busy shooting a lot of portraits this spring, mostly for the magazine. We had a feature called “Charleston’s Most Influential People.” I had to find a fine line between making the portraits look professional and magazine worthy but not too dramatic or artsy. I used a strobe off a silver umbrella or two for most of these, but lately I’ve started getting into turning...
Over the past year, I’ve disappointed myself...
Engagement Collage