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Marc Melvin Modern
The recession ends many business models and the publishing industry is one of them undergoing great transformation. Most publishing is maintained by a strong cash flow from advertising. With Ad sales down, production costs up (paper, printing, postage) and subscriptions down, publications are squeezed from many sides. To its greatest degree ever we are finding viewership increasing online and are finding print readership in decline. Yet more eyeballs are looking at more media than ever before. Successful publishers will be the ones adapting these trends by creating revenue streams to maintain their publications. Interior designer Marc Melvin asked that I photograph this ...
Restaurant: Brix in Napa Valley
Brix Restaurant, the Napa Valley staple, recently under went a fresh and colorful face lift. The interiors were transformed in ten days and the menu is now farm to table fresh. The creative director heading up the change is David Gingrass with noted chef of Hawthorne Lane (now Two Restaurant). Photographs for the website, magazine stories, and ads were created with close attention to capturing the feel of freshness and wine country casualness. Over two days of shooting, the tricky art direction required the same photographs to stand alone as either wide panoramic banner for web use or a traditional square/rectangle ...
Portraits on Location
Often as a part of telling the whole story or the story in itself, my portraiture work cares the same natural feeling as my interior photographs. Shooting people on location for magazines, companies and corporations I create my portraits in situation and with the context of the environment. The subjects are captured with positive, open expressions, that are welcoming to the lens and viewer alike. I strive to maintain a similar lighting style as the rest of the photos from a given shoot. Art direction elements involve selecting the location of the portrait and helping with wardrobe selection, ultimately making it ...
Architect Andrew Skurman
Andrew Skurman carefully proportioned this pre-war town home with his repertory of classic details. By adding elegant arches to the home, a peaceful repetition quietly defines the space. Jeffry Weisman and Andrew Fisher, of Fisher Weisman, brought in a calming palette and a wonderful modern mix of furnishings.
About
As an architectural photographer I have been photographing homes for interior designers, magazines and books for over twenty years. Using both natural light and strobe light I create the editorial feeling you see here in these photographs. The Bay Area and San Francisco is where I grew up and where I shoot the most. I travel to the Silicon Valley, Carmel, Napa, Los Angeles, Seattle and Hawaii regularly.
I wear many hats on a photo shoot bringing a multi disciplined approach to your project acting as required as producer, art director, photographer and stylist. My clients look to me to give vision to their story to make it engaging and thoughtful.
I have been the sole photographer for five books of interior design, among them San Francisco Style and California Country Style by Chronicle Books, Hawaii a Sense of Place by Mutual Publishing, The New City Home and Patterns of Home by Taunton Press. Among the many architectural photographers, art directors and clients seek me out because of my regularly published work. The photos I create live on in portfolios, brochures, magazine stories and now video productions.
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