The latest issue of Macworld Magazine gave me the chance to use my new 100-400mm lens. San Francisco is the perfect city for it! Every neighborhood has a view. It is crazy how many tourists come and go to famous landmarks. They take their photo an...
Read MoreThe Brokenmusicbox Single
The Brokenmusicbox has a new single out, "We Will" from their upcoming album. You may remember their first album from when I used the song, "Time," for my video, "Macworld Cover Creation."I was very excited they asked me to collaborate on the albu...
Read MoreMacworld January Cover
The iPhone 4s has been unleashed all over Macworld Magazine, inside and out. The cover may look nice and clean but the set to light it was a mess. If you're traveling for the holidays, load your iPad up with the Zinio version or look for the analo...
Read MoreEames: The Architect and the Painter
About a year ago (November 2010) Dwell magazine hired me to photograph a bunch of cool chairs. Of course one of the chairs was a requisite Eames chair. Dwell had asked if a film crew could come by my studio as well since the editor of the magazine...
Read MoreRed, Red, Red
San Francisco Magazine approached us with a fun idea for "The Trend" section of the December 2011 issue. They wanted to incorporate the color red in an over-the-top fashion. They provided a selection of red products to pick from to form the groups...
Read Morecity lights
It's always fun when we collaborate with clients and come up with bright ideas. This time we captured the luminance of lamps against a city background for the Dec/Jan 2011 issue of Dwell Magazine. It took a few extension cords to get all the lamps...
Read MoreAperture Smart Albums
People often ask about our Aperture workflow so I've decided to once in a while share little ways in which we work. You can see all my past Aperture posts by clicking on the Aperture category on the right side of the website. For this post, I want...
Read MoreClutch Bags With SF Magazine
Now that the we finally got the blog up and running with Posterous, we are playing catch up with a few new blog posts of recent work. The September 2011 issue of San Francisco Magazine includes three of my photographs in it's "The Trend" section. ...
Read MoreBlog Now Powered by @posterous
I made the leap and migrated the blog to Posterous (a more robust blog platform). I know what you're thinking, "it looks the same!" Thanks to Good Dog Design, the Posterous blog looks good and integrates well with my site. My blog needed updating ...
Read MoreDwell: Desks
For the September issue of Dwell magazine we photographed desks. We worked with a set builder to make custom pedestals, which looked great but moving things around was no easy task! When asked if we could move a pedestal "a little to the left" we ...
Read MoreDIY: Overhead Camera Stand
Studio stands are great but when shooting from above, the legs of the stand will get in the way of the shot. Hence, we created one ourselves. We got two 20ft. aluminum squared pipes, three pieces of plywood, two Avenger plates and two tall boys to...
Read MoreDIY Macworld
Rob and Kate from Macworld were on set for the "Do It Yourself" feature of the magazine. Kate doubled as the hand model in two of the photos. In the spirit of "Do It Yourself" I ended up making a rig to support the iPad Kate was holding to help ke...
Read MoreDwell House Party
Who doesn't love a House Party? It's always great working with Dwell, this time it was especially cool because we got to work with their kids. We spent the morning organizing various playhouses and lighting. I decided to use a more spotted lighting arrangement to add some depth to the photo. In doing this I had to predict the areas where I thought the kids might play. Once the kids arrived we let them play as I snapped the photos. After that we had them each play in predetermined areas so that all the kids were evenly dispersed among the playhouses. Of course once we got a successful photo, all the adults jumped in to join the fun! You can find the issue on newsstands now.
Snakes with SF Magazine
When SF magazine approach us to photograph snakes and shoes I was very excited. Michael my assistant wasn't, he has an extreme fear of snakes. Luckily the snake handler (what a cool job title) from the Academy of Science took care of all the snake...
Read MoreMacworld iPad on Location
I love how Macworld Magazine switches things up. It's always something new and exciting. This time, rather than shooting the feature in studio, we ventured off to different parts of San Francisco with two models and two iPads. They wanted more of ...
Read MoreSF Magazine Hanging Watch
I got the call from San Francisco Magazine to photograph a watch...but not just a typical watch photo. They wanted something monumental and fun. They wanted something in line with my Donut series. After work on my way home I saw the cranes in the ...
Read MoreMacworld Beyond Cable
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 MoreDwell Cheap Seats
The Dwell spread about cheap seats is now out and on newsstands. This was the photo session that had been filmed for a future episode of American Masters on PBS about Ray and Charles Eames. You can see some behind the scene photos on my previous p...
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