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Simple... / Encinitas Photographer

Simple Subjects, Simple Design

A vision statement for my work... I photograph simple subjects and use a simple design.

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Classical CD Cover / San Diego Commercial Photographer

This was assignment 11 for Project 52 Pro. Using Black Angels by American composer George Crumb I was to make this CD cover for the string quartet. You can listen to this piece for yourself right here. Below is my interpretation along with behind the scenes...

If you dared to listen to the music I linked above you may understand where I'm going with this shot. My thoughts were to use the graceful lines of the string instrument to bring your eye right into the bow with torn up horse hair coming straight down into the image, like an exclamation point. Below is the BTS...

I used window light but I had the violin about three feet from the window and the window was covered with two cards. Approximately 2/3rds of the window was flagged and the sunlight spilled over the top. You could say I used the window light as a strip light...

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Raspberries / San Diego Food & Lifestyle Photographer

I had lovely window light and my camera...that's it. Oh, and some raspberries...

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Moore Photography / San Diego Food & Lifestyle Photographer / Behind the Scenes

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Project 52 assignment: Recipe Ingredients...Some of the ingredients to Kale Soup. Final portrait to come soon...

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Pears plus BTS / San Diego Food & Lifestyle Photographer

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Here is a photograph I made of two pears (HA!) I saw in the grocery store. And below is the BTS...

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Diffused window light, a bunch of black cards and camera just out of frame at bottom left corner...That's it. 

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Vintage / San Diego Lifestyle Photographer

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This was a photograph made for Project 52. Still Life with a Flower...

Parameters are:

  • It should not require more than 20″ x 20″ of set space.
  • The objects should be simple and NOT shiny. (Please no chrome or glossy black.)
  • The objects should be something you can find around the house, or office, or neighborhood.
  • There should be at least 5 items in the shot.

Special Note:

The still life must include a flower. Fake or real. The flower does not have to be the main focus of the shot, and I do NOT WANT a bunch of flowers to be the shot. In other words, the client wants a flower for a reason, we add it into the mix of other items. It may or may not be the focus of your shot… that is up to you, but the image MUST contain a flower.

The book was written in 1886: The Complete Home, by Mrs. Julia Wright, the glasses are my wife's from the early 1970's, the pocket watch was made in 1925, the bronzed baby shoe is my wife's grandfathers and the spoons...they are just old.

How did I light it? Diffused window light coming from the right with a flag to keep the background dark and a flag in the very front. White card on the right angled just enough to create a small highlight in the upper left of the spoon on the far right and also to bring out the detail of the side of the book's pages.

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