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David Duncan Livingston: Behind the Scenes Magazine of Interior and Architectural Photography
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Merida Elle Decor Show House
Merida Meridian was one of sponsors for the Elle Decor San Francscio Showhouse. Each room featuring the manufacturer’s great selection of natural fiber floor coverings. In the two-thirds of a day shooting each space had to yield two photos one of an overall and one detail. Another parameter was the the aspect ratio or the [...]
Living Spaces Now
Interiors photographer David Duncan Livingston takes us inside the homes of San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the Napa Wine country. David’s editorial photography style shows us story, pulling you in with a “I want to be there!” feeling. David art directs, styles, and shoots for his clients magazines, manufactures, architects and interior designers. After the [...]
Fine Art Photography: Along the King’s Trail
Modern abstractions of landscape and seascape photography. Fine Art Photographer, David D. Livingston takes us to the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii with these painterly photos of water, sea and coast. Including Hualalai Bay, the beach at Kukio, Beach 69, Pu’uhonau o Honaunau Place of Refuge. These limited edition archival prints can [...]
Kitchens Now
Interiors photographer David Livingston shares the beautiful kitchens he has photographed in California. David works for magazines and interior designers as he art directs, styles and photographs the kitchens. After the shoot, David works with his team to make new brochures and videos for manufactures and designer in his clean and graphic style.
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 [...]
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 its [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]