If you're like me, you can never have too many camera apps. I'm always asked what my favorite photo apps are. Here's a run down on some of my favorite and some that I'm just trying out. PictureShow Picture show is my favorite photo app. If I could...
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 MoreMusic for Video
For me, the soundtrack is one of the most important things to consider when making short films. There are tons of great songs that I'd love to use. Unfortunately, the licensing fees required to use them legally are out of my price range. Like phot...
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 MoreAPA Talk
We had an awesome turnout at the Apple Store for my APA talk last night. Thanks to everyone who attended and for all your insightful questions. It was great to finally meet some of you that I only know from cyberspace. I was very nervous about the...
Read MoreAPA talk approaching
The countdown has begun. I'm learning Keynote and preparing my talk for the APA/Apple Creative Professionals Series. Come join me upstairs at the San Francisco store (Stockton Street) this Thursday, Oct. 14th at 7pm.
Read MorePlow
I had fun taking some photos for a new restaurant that just opened here on Potrero Hill. The couple who are starting the restaurant have created a beautiful space full of reclaimed materials. In fact, the office space was an architect's studio pre...
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Come see me speak at the Apple Store, One Stockton St. (upstairs), San Francisco as part of the Creative Professionals Series presented by Apple APA, Oct. 14th, 7pm-8pm. Any suggestions on what to discuss? I want this talk to be about what people ...
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 MoreiPhone 4 goes underwater
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13491167&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1 Recently my vacations have been very water based. I think my kids might be part fish, they never want to leave th...
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 MoreVideo: The Darkness
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11413780&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1 I've really enjoyed making videos. My latest one is a study in making movement and interest with stationary objec...
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...
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