On Assignment
The View
Last week, I mentioned a shoot on the streets of New York commissioned by our London office. Apparently they were pleased with the shots that I delivered and asked me for another shoot. This one, however, was to be a landscape of a city. Because it’s being used for the cover of a global publication, [...]
A good week
I don’t have a ton of time to do a full post, so I wanted to share a preview of a project I shot this week. I’m really excited with the results, and I’ll share the full story as soon as I have time write it up. In the meantime, here is a small sample [...]
Working So Hard You Get Carpal Tunnel
One of my clients wanted to add some images of people with disabilities to the library of stock they keep for the company. So over the last few weeks I’ve been shooting people signing, a guy in a wheelchair, crutches tucked into the corner of an otherwise standard office scene etc. I think it’s amusing [...]
View from the Rainbow Room
I shot an event one of the event spaces at the Rainbow Room on the 64th floor at Rockefeller Center last Friday night. The whole place has the feeling of past opulence that has gone to seed. Everything seems like it was totally posh in, say, the fifties, but hasn’t been upgraded since. The wallpaper [...]
DIY Small Format Snoot – Silver Edition
As I’ve mentioned before, a large part of my job is to make portraits of executives at my firm. The new visual identity for the firm which was officially launched today calls for environmental-style portraits rather than studio shots. The more of these that I do, the more I realize how similar all the shots [...]
Photo in TimeOut New York
I had a photo published in TimeOut New York this week. It was from a photoshoot of a theater company that I did some pro bono work for last year. It’s the size of a large postage stamp, but still, always cool to see your work in print. Update: Here’s a link to the article [...]
Business Traveller
Note: This post was written Thursday evening at SFO in California I am currently sitting at a cafe in SFO, awaiting a flight that doesn’t begin boarding for almost three hours. I have a beer and an electric socket for the laptop, so I’m in good shape until I have to get up to go [...]
Mexico City
Sometimes the travel aspect of my job seems like it will be a whole lot of fun, but in the end seems to be more trouble than it’s worth. Last week I was sent to Mexico to shoot a portrait of a partner in our Mexico City office. Initially I was very excited – My [...]
Tough Meeting Candids
My company is launching a new visual brand over the next couple of months, and the photography is changing dramatically as well. The new spec calls for more environmental type shots, which means that I’m likely to get a lot more work. In the past, people have been able to get away with the “stand [...]
Kidsplay at Work
A couple weeks ago I trekked out to New Jersey for an editorial shoot for a corporate magazine. It was a really exciting shoot for me, as it was a good bit beyond the normal corporate work that I normally do. It involved four child models (ages 9 to 16), their parents, the partners who [...]
Corporate Portraits
A couple of weeks ago, I booked a shoot for a corporate portrait. Like most of the assignments I’m getting these days, this shoot was scheduled for a conference room, and we had plenty of time to accomplish what we had to do. Plus, there was the added bonus: the clients had budget for hair [...]
Shots You Don't Plan
Most of the professional work I have done over the last year has been high-key white seamless work for my company’s latest advertising campaign. The general brief is for portraits of a number of individual employees for a particular ad or poster with the understanding that they used individually, or comped together in group shots [...]
Under Pressure
Ok, so I had an experience today which hopefully will have taught me a lesson about reacting smarter under pressure. A request came in today for me to shoot one of our employees for a Spanish newspaper that is doing a profile of him. He was standing at the desk out front and the photo [...]
Corporate Portrait
As I mentioned last week, I hopped a plane to Dallas last week to shoot a portrait of an employee for a career magazine for people with disabilities. It is the first editorial type shoot that I’ve done and I was a bit nervous about the whole thing. As I mentioned, I was worried that [...]
Off to Dallas
The one thing I have to say for my silence here at Exhibit 5a is that I’ve been busy. I wish I could say that I’ve been busy taking tons of great photos, but unfortunately it’s been much more banal work that I’ve been attending to. I did spend some time yesterday on some self [...]
Candid
One of the candids I took while I was on location in Philadelphia. I love the way the man in the chair is headed into the bright light streaming into the windows, completely blowing out the details making it look like he’s rolling into some sort of abyss. Is mentioning the exit sign too obvious…?
Freelance Firsts
Last night was a night of a few firsts. It was the first time I’d set up a full blown studio shot at home in my apartment, it was the first time I shot using a plexiglass base for the setup, and it was the first paid freelance shoot that I did outside of work. [...]
San Jose Followup
I’m back in the office today to begin the arduous task of making my selects from my San Jose photoshoot. I’ld love to post some of the photos from the shoot,but seeing as they are company people rather than models and their release forms only give my company free reign with the shots, I can’t [...]
Dateline San Jose
I am sitting in a rather stinky hotel room directly across from the office building where my shoot tomorrow will take place – they were all out of non-smoking rooms, and even though they assured me that they “air all their smoking rooms out” it seems like they may have missed this one. It is [...]