Recent Articles

• Atmel Quartely Report

  April 28, 2009 in Photo Illustration, Retouching

  This was an interesting one. Broom and Broom needed the background on a stock image of a hand blown out to white, while keeping the lighting on the hand somewhat realistic.

• Charlene Court

  February 21, 2009 in Product Photography

  This is some product photography I shot for a local designer years back. They already had a design concept so I styled and shot the images to reflect that. Here are a few screen shots from the completed web site.

• Choosing the time of day

  July 25, 2008 in Compositing, Retouching

  This photo for Sutton & Suzuki Architects was shot a few months after the original interior shoot. There were several exterior shots taken that day, but this one was wanted by the client to finish the story. Due to scheduling this shot had to be taken close to high noon in summer, where as the [...]

• Guerilla Styling with Photoshop

  July 18, 2008 in Retouching

  On several magazine shoots I have assisted on, and done the retouching for, we were required to shoot the scene with specific retouching in mind to appease compositional concerns of the designer or art director. In this shot for a California Home and Design story, the designer brought in art by a local painter that [...]

• Composite portfolio shot for Robert Nebolon Architects

  July 12, 2008 in Compositing, Retouching

  Often photographers find themselves physically limited by equipment and space constraints. A perfect example of this would be a recent shoot for Robert Nebolon Architects. A photo of the exterior needed to complete the story was impossible to capture in one shot, due to a steep drop off on the other side of the street. [...]

• Turning a studio corner into a home for Brownstone Furniture

  July 8, 2008 in Compositing, Retouching

  This was an interesting retouching project for Brownstone Furniture. In order to reduce the cost of shooting on location for new product lines, we helped Brownstone build a studio in their local warehouse. With a little bit of paint and styling, along with a healthy dose of Photoshop work, we were able to create the [...]