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Art Direction: Cropping
Re purposing photos for the web requires making the perfect crop. I have always taken pride in my balanced compositions and how they would stand on their own. For many years I sought to make vertical compositions that worked great for the covers of books and magazines and excelled as a full page bleed. Now [...]
Hi-Def Low-Def: Two Ways of Shooting
In my videos I combine Hi-Def and Low-Def photos that become the montage of still photos. By mixing the two types of photos I am able to use more unique photos that have been taken in a day of shooting and add interest to the clip. A Hi-Def photo takes upward of an hour to [...]
Best of 2008 Video
In DAY BY DAY 2008 I wanted to show the range of interiors and clients that I photograph for. In a simple hip way, the video sought to to be fun, lively and not too formal. Just a few hours of production time was available and a the collection of photographs was rather random. The [...]
Hawaii Seas Video
Hawaii Seas is a short video showcasing my fine art seascape photography. I used subtle video production techniques for transitions between frames, panning down the vertical images. My voice over tells the story with a soft ocean wave soundtrack in the background creating ambiance. At the end I bring out each photograph separately with [...]
Samantha Lyman Video
Samantha Lyman is an interior designer in Ross, CA and this case study is of a home in Pacific Heights (San Francisco). Samantha designed the living spaces, the kitchen and the bath.
Taking the limited still photographs from the day of shooting I created extra vignettes from within the photos and later interviewed her in her [...]