So to speak, it doesn’t take much to breathe life into dolls after they’ve been undressed. They get strange. Take the clothes off the doll and they take on a life of their own. (And, yes, I know, the color of the heads don’t match their bodies — I’ll fix that in post). These are [...]
Author Archives: D.A. Wagner
Product and Packaging Design from 1958
Since I’m sidetracked right now with teaching my classes, this blog post is dedicated to my design students. It’s the cold war. It’s the year after Sputnik was launched by the Soviets. This 1958 film saluting the stylists of the automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design industry reflects the American obsession with consumerism and the future. It [...]
A Hasselblad Masters Finalist. Who, Me?
I’m humbled. I’m a Hasselblad Masters Finalist. No, really, I am. Some time around the middle of last year I entered the Hasselblad Masters Competition and promptly forgot about it. Then I got a “congratulations” email from Hasselblad. And, thinking that everyone who entered got one, thought nothing of it until I went to the [...]
Commercial Photography, Fish, Food, Food Photography, Lighting, Personal Photography, Portfolio, Props
Some Very Cool Fish
Photographer D.A.Wagner uses dry ice to freeze fish, food and props with some very cool results.
Business, Food, Food Photography, Greenmarket in the Studio, Marketing, Personal Photography, Union Square, Vegetables
Well, it’s about time.
After 5 years of photographing greenmarket produce, D.A.Wagner has opened an Etsy store to sell prints of his exceptional digital photography of fruits and vegetables for the kitchen and home.
Commercial Photography, Food Photography, Greenmarket in the Studio, Lighting, Portfolio, Vegetables
Splash!
A behind the scenes video of a recent high-speed digital photography food shoot with D.A.Wagner that yields some interesting images.
Another Photo of the Week
This past week, Calumet selected an outtake from my recent New Zealand job, titled “Corporate Meeting.” You can read about the assignment here. As always, I’m honored and thrilled to have been selected for a fourth time. Thanks, Calumet.
Looking at the 10,000 Hour Rule
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell says, the amount of time required, working at any craft, to become “world-class expert” is 10,000 hours. He also writes that the level of success (I would go further to say that really means, meteoric success) you reach as a world-class expert rests on when and where you were born, something [...]
Reach Out and Touch Someone.
Last month I stopped waiting for phone calls and initiated a digital photography assignment by going directly to a potential client. It worked.
Creative Thinking And Hard Work
During one of my recent web dalliances to read more about how photographers, or humans in general, are creative, I found a 2004 paper published in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review called, The Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity by Arne Dietrich, who is at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon. He’s actually a very funny [...]
