Welcome to my blog. It's January, so I thought I should start out by showing you highlights from past jobs. Enjoy...
This 1st image was shot for M.I.T. for an article in their alumni magazine, to illustrate an article about the subject's donation to the school's new sci-fi library. I have been doing photo-composites a lot, but this was the first time I had created an entire fictional world. The biggest challenge was to make the subject come off in a flattering way, and minimize any characteristics that would indicate she was not a professional model...
This next image was shot for Brandweek Magazine of Geico's Ted Ward. It was for an article on the Marketers of the Year. Brandweek chose not to run this one, but ran a more conservative option (seen here) I did of Ward holding a photo-composited Gekko in his hand. I like this one better. It plays off the idea that Ward is an idea man, and he came up with a huge idea... Through the use of a fish-eye lens I made the tiny bulb he was holding into a huge "idea" above his head, and to make the idea even bigger, the bulb is being lit by the sun in the sky. Oh, and he's standing on a road as a symbol of auto insurance... I thought it was brilliant.
This Image was shot for the University of Buffalo's alumni magazine. This man works at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, so I was hoping to get him inside a diorama of cavemen or something similar, as if he had become a permanent fixture there, but the folks at the Smithsonian shot me down. He was also in the middle of doing a lot of travel and had a very limited timeframe available for me. So, since there was no budget for a scout day, and there would be no access to any exhibit areas, I asked my contact to think of interesting locations where I would be allowed to shoot. When I arrived on location, they had picked out one location, on a roof with the Capitol building in the background. From the Smithsonian, the Capitol was barely visible through the haze, and the sky was white. I was able to persuade them that we should shoot the front of the building even though "it's been done hundreds of times already". I pulled out my battery operated lights and started setting up just as the clouds began to break. I shot him exactly where I wanted, and in 15 minutes he was free to go. I then made a few exposures for the sky and the building. Back at my studio, I carefully blended all the different images together to make what you see here. Hopefully they've not seen something like this done hundreds of times!
Phew, I didn't think this would take so long. More later...
Thanks for looking!
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