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Product Photography on Location
Brownstone Furniture is a mid-size furniture company embracing today’s global market realities. They commission fresh designs and work with a range of quality manufacturing partners. They then layer on stylish marketing and provide timely distribution fulfillment. Brownstonis on steady 20% growth path year over year. For this two day photo shoot I brought my gear [...]
Photo Styling: A Harmonious Palette
Styling interiors is much like finishing a puzzle, putting in the last piece to create a whole. Here are some examples of styling elements that blend in, add life, give texture and feel natural. For me the elements of scale, color and texture need to come together supporting the balance and harmony of the space.
Art Direction: Samantha Lyman
These photographs showcase an editorial and graphic perspective of Lyman’s work with a San Francisco home in a series of duets. Samantha, who has had her practice for three years in Ross, wanted me to create photographs that would be paired together on her website samanthalyman.com. She sought to showcase the broad strokes and tasty [...]
Restaurant: Le Colonial in San Francisco
When restaurant Le Colonial wanted to update their website they needed a photographer who understood the food, felt the mood and could deliver photographs that are inviting. A lean team of just photographer and assistant created over a dozen shots in a day. The photographs had multi uses for Web, Print Ad & PR along [...]
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 [...]
Photography: Lighting Interior Photographs
A photograph holds a composition and captures light. Throughout the years, the lighting style in my photographs has been soft, natural and light handed. Whether working with digital cameras or film cameras, the need is the same: to reduce the contrast between the highlights and shadows. I like the analogy of what we can see [...]
Photo Styling: Sub-Zero
Photographing a home to feel inviting and natural in a fresh style is truly an art form. Recently I shot a project for Sub-Zero, who wanted an editorial look for their magazine. Here from Sub-Zero are styling guidelines that are right on the money and a great help in prepping for a photo shoot. Photography [...]
Hotel Renew Honolulu
The hotel photography of this Waikiki boutique property wanted a clean departure from the traditional Hawaiian mindset. Situated a block off the beach, Hotel Renew is providing a modern oasis in the land of tiki torches. Less than a year after it was re branded as Hotel Renew the property ran at the top of [...]
Art Direction: Ironies Furniture
Ironies is a California based luxury furniture manufacture always at the design forefront. Here they show off not only great furnishings but also a clean modern take on styling. The principals of Ironies and I took a great monochromatic assemblage of forms and textures and used a lighting and photography style to create a soft [...]