1. I could get used to this →

    This is one of the shots from my recent shoot with robin bacior. If you dont know her you should check her out. Awesome sound. www.robinbacior.com

  2. The Center This is a shot from a recent interior shoot I had in the garment district.

    The Center


    This is a shot from a recent interior shoot I had in the garment district.

  3. Pull back shot from Juliet Supper Club

    Pull back shot from Juliet Supper Club

  4. Muffin Outtake This image of a muffin wrapper is an outtake from a recent shoot. I have a crazy story about the fate of these muffins that I’d be happy to share in person over a drink. In the meantime, I will say that food photography can be very delicious.

    Muffin Outtake

    This image of a muffin wrapper is an outtake from a recent shoot. I have a crazy story about the fate of these muffins that I’d be happy to share in person over a drink. In the meantime, I will say that food photography can be very delicious.

  5. A Lesson in High Key

    In a few minutes I’ll be shooting the MC clothing line’s debut look book. There is a lot that goes into a book like this and it has to be amazing.

    The designer wanted a high key setup for the first model. If you have been to my studio you know two things 1, It’s small and 2, it’s small. I can shoot tabletop images, headshots and 3/4 shots all day long. However, high key full body images require a few things to do properly. The first being lights, the second being space. I have the former and not much of the latter. To compensate I had to be creative.

    I stapled the white seamless to the back wall to free up some extra stands (and the back drop support that is now a clothing rack). I bought some white tile board from lowes for $20 to bring the floor to an overexposed pure white and to give me the reflections from the model. Its basically an affordable way to get that plexi look. Now, i will admit that this isn’t my brain child. I picked this up from zack arias another photographer with an amazingly detailed step by step for HK lighting.

    For my setup I’m using two bare bulb lights behind cut black seamless on booms to act as foam core. This achieves two things, 1 it prevents the bg lights from hitting the model and 2 it provides a dark shadow around the model that will help separate her from the sea of white behind her.

    As my key light I have a “Chinatown Special” beauty dish with a 30 degree grid. For fill I have a 36” x 36” softbox with a 50 degree grid. Since I’m not working with a lot of power and I’m using two modifiers on each light they are both jacked to give me proper exposure at the f stop I want to use.

    What does all this mean? It means my studio is jammed full of booms, lights, modifiers and paper. If you are here to watch the shoot you are not seeing much.

    Images to follow.

  6. High key

    High key

  7. Caught this over at 14eleven this morning.  I did like Rocky and it appears I may indeed be a fan of kinetic typography!

    14eleven:

    Not much of a fan of kinetic typography or Rocky (because I’ve never watched any of the films), but you know what? These words are truth.

    via Quipsologies.

    (Source: kargov.com)

  8. Shooting Glass

    Glass is one of those things that is easy to see but difficult to photograph unless of course, you know what you’re doing. I did some research before I shot the Godinger tests and I learned two valuable lessons.

    1) you need to understand the angle of incidence. This rule dictates the way in which you can light glass. The trick here, is to light the area around the glass and not the glass itself. Essentially, you’re lighting the reflections and those reflections will define the edge of the glass.

    2) tilt the surface of the object your photographing towards the backdrop. I used a 30 degree pitch in this sample image and that seemed to be a great angle for the background and wasn’t too steep so the object would slide off. As a precaution I placed some foam and canvas in a beauty dish to catch the crystal in case it were to fall.

  9. The other day I had to clean my apartment.  Needless to say, I wasn’t thrilled about it.  I had spent the day before shooting crystal candle sticks as tests for a client and had relied on tethering my camera via the EOS Canon Utility.  While playing around the software (which is pretty brilliant) I realized I now had the ability to perform seamless time-lapse photography.  Naturally, I married cleaning and photography and this is what you get!

  10. A New Day

    After months of neglect, I am bring fotografieplease back to life.  This new life will focus more on my fotografie experiences and techniques and less as a portfolio.  Fotografieplease will be a fine balance of work and play.  I look forward to speaking to you indirectly and to you following me without my knowing.

    To our future