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Merida Elle Decor Show House

robert007 — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:29:45 +0000

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 proportions of the photos needed to work for wide screen HI-Def. Takle-away: sixteen photos, produced and directed video. Value added the firms logo was animated for the first time and now can be used on other video.

Living Spaces Now

robert007 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:45:38 +0000

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 shoot StudioLivingston creates brochures, motion graphic brochures and short videos of the projects.

Fine Art Photography: Along the King’s Trail

robert007 — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:39:36 +0000

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 be purchased from the artist.

Kitchens Now

robert007 — Sat, 28 May 2011 23:47:27 +0000

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

David — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:41:38 +0000

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 studio for about an hour. Filming, production, editing and titles took eight hours.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Best of 2008 Video

David — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:52:48 +0000

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 change of the photo pace with the chorus is an idea that I would like to explore in other videos.

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Hawaii Seas Video

David — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:51:26 +0000

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 title so the viewer can reference each image. Production and editing time was seven hours.

Click here to view the embedded video.

You can also take a look at my complete Hawaii images or visit my Fine Art blog.

Hi-Def Low-Def: Two Ways of Shooting

David — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:28:08 +0000

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 create, a Low-Def a couple of minutes. By mixing the two types I am able to create a very significant increase in the number of photos from a day of photography. By being fast and flexible, more usable photos are taken in a photo shoot.

The term Hi-Def is popularly used to speak of the quality of high definition video seen in HDTV, digital TV and digital Movies. With increase computer capacity the large digital file can be used with more information this renders images with greater detail and dynamic range.

So to in my still photography practice, the term Hi-Def can be used for the process and equipment needed to give the highest quality of photos for large format uses such as a two page spread in a magazine. These large file photos have greater clarity, color saturation and greater detail in highlights and shadows. The Hi-Def image starts with state of the art Digital camera, costing tens of thousands of dollars, coupled with a studied process of careful crafting the photos composition, adjusting the styling and adding lighting, finally the photo under goes post-production back in the studio with Photoshop software.

A Low-Def photo is one that might be taken with a point and shoot camera or a moderately prices single lens reflex camera (SLR).
These photos most likely are taken quickly, without any or little additional lighting. These “handheld shots” might have digital file size 10-25 % that of a Hi-Def photo and very little post-production time will be given to these photos. Low-Def photos should not be reproduced greater than 8×10 inches and rarely would these Low-Def photos be reproduced in a magazine. These Low-Def photos however look fine within a video montage and when watched on most computer screens the viewer would not know the difference.

Following are examples of the two types of photos taken this winter near Lake Tahoe. Shooting for interior designer Kathy Geissler Best and architect John Malick the 1 ½ day shoot captured over 60 photos.

I have selected 6 of the Hi-Def photos...

And 6 of the Low-Def...

Art Direction: Cropping

David — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:47:13 +0000

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 with website templates favoring square and horizontal compositions, vertical photos need to be re-cropped to fit these templates.

Like the principals of a good painting, re-cropping a photograph seeks to maintain balance, create quiet tension and keep a strong focal point. Years ago I would visit the great museums and study how old masters dealt with the edges of the frame, a skill I use today.

Andrew Fisher and Jeffrey Weisman make up the very chic San Francisco design firm Fisher Weisman. In their wine country home above the Russian River in Sonoma County they bring city elegance to country casual. Here I have made examples of photos from their original vertical format by cropping them into a horizontal format with a 3 to 4 aspect ratio. Vertical or horizontal this home is always a treat to see.

These photographs were seen in the San Francisco Chronicle and Paper City magazine.

www.fisherweisman.com

Here are the original vertical images before they were cropped into a horizontal 3x4 format.