For this feature, Macworld wanted to showcase each product from the review in their own setting. In order to keep the set budget down, we got furnishings from West Elm and Ikea in exchange for giving them credit in the magazine. For the opening ph...
Read MoreDwell View
Dwell called at end of the day on Wednesday to photograph Thursday afternoon. They needed the view from their office photographed for an upcoming story. When we first arrived we did several quick test photos of the view with different lens options...
Read MoreMacworld iPad 2
The new cover of Macworld magazine is outfeaturing a photo that I took. Luckily it was Macworld's iPad, I wouldn't want to tape my iPad up like this. I've included some behind the scenes photos of the cover and one of the photos from the iPad 2 ar...
Read MoreiPad at work - Macworld
The new Macworld magazine is full of photos I've taken to help illustrate using an iPad at work instead of your laptop. It is refreshing that the art director, Rob, is always interested in trying new things with the images. The hanging notepads im...
Read MoreWhich Mac? Macworld Feature
The cover of the new Macworld magazine features a photo I took of the new MacBook Air.Inside the magazine there is also an article featuring photos that I took at various location around Potrero Hill. It was fun to be able to do something a little...
Read MoreFilm Crew
Had a great photoshoot with Dwell and the Eames documentary crew. It will be for a future episode of American Masters on PBS about Ray and Charles Eames. Here are some photos from the photoshoot.
Read MoreDwell Vacuums
We had an amazing two days with Dwell Magazine. This time, we got creative with vacuums. They all sucked! The process started off by using a rough overlay of the spread from Brendan, the art director. This allowed us to map out where the crumbs an...
Read MoreDwell - Make It Yours
Here are some behind-the-scenes photos for the current cover of Dwell's "Make It Yours" magazine. It was like a puzzle figuring out how to fit all the pieces together. Good thing we had donuts to keep us focused.
Read MoreMore Macworld behind-the-scenes
As you may have noticed, I was really pleased with the September issue of Macworld. Here is one last batch of behind-the-scenes images. I've also included a set of images which I used to compose into one of the shots. To see the final composited p...
Read MoreVeins
I'm sharing even more behind-the-scenes images from the September issue of Macworld since people seem to really like seeing what goes into the shots. These images were taken during the shoot for the overhead image of two people playing Scrabble at...
Read MoreiPhone 4 photo closeup
Some folks have been asking for a higher res example of the iPhone 4 cover photo. The sample that I posted here was a screen grab from the Zinio version of the magazine. Zinio adds compression to photos to save on spacenot the best way to judge qu...
Read MoreMacworld "Living with your iPad"
Not only was it exciting to shoot the iPhone 4 with the iPhone for the cover of September's Macworld, but there were cool photo assignments for inside the issue as well. One of the shots is the opening spread for the article "Living with your iPad...
Read MoreMacworld iPhone 4 cover
Ive always thought it would be cool to photograph the cover of Macworld magazine using an iPhone as my camera. When the new iPhone 4 was released with the 5MP camera, the editors at Macworld were excited to see if it could be done. What better way...
Read MoreJuly Macworld behind the scenes
Here are some behind the scenes photos from the July issue of Macworld Magazine. Because of time restraints we used Rob Schultz, the art director at Macworld, as our model. He was photographed in the studio then composited with a photo I took on a...
Read Morebehind the scenes of "The Darkness"
Here are some behind the scenes photos form the making of my video, "The Darkness." One of my goals with this project was to see if I could make the video without using any of my hot lights or renting any additional equipment. Could a still photog...
Read MoreMacworld iPad cover
The iPad is gracing the cover of the new Macworld magazine. I'm excited about the new cover layout. This is one of the first times that the product hasn't been in the bottom right area of the layout. In fact, the photo is so big that it even cover...
Read MoreWeekly photos April #1
Here are some more photos from my "Weekly photos" series.You can read more about the series here. http://www.peterbelanger.com/posts/45-weekly-photos
Read MoreWeekly photos Feb #1
Here are some more photos from my "Weekly photos" series. You can read more about the series here. http://www.peterbelanger.com/posts/45-weekly-photos
Read MoreMacworld GPS opener
I'm working on the opening photo for a Macworld article about iPhone GPS software. Unlike last month's red carpet shot, we didn't start with a sketch. This time we discussed in length what they were looking for. The concept is to show an iPhone mo...
Read MoreWeekly photos Jan #4
Here are some more photos from my "Weekly photos" series. You can read more about the series here. http://www.peterbelanger.com/posts/45-weekly-photos
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