I grew up playing deep-sea diver, cowboys and Indians, and playing war games. My parents encouraged it, I don’t know why. I would have never called dolls I owned “dolls” but soldiers and warriors and my time was spent setting them up to kill the bad guys. So here I am, years later, still playing [...]
Tag Archives: Commercial Photography
Are Photographers Healthier and Smarter?
Are photographers smarter and healthier than their sedentary counterparts? I stretch things a little but rely on John Medina’s brain research for some factual background.
Shooting Editorial, Part One
One Girl Cookies is a homey bakery on Dean Street that has a simple understated sign hanging outside that only says “cookies.” Inside is more like what you’d expect to find in a small town, not Brooklyn, there’s even a family tree of the owners, Dawn and Dave, hanging on one of the walls. It’s [...]
Commercial Photography, Commercial Photography, Food Photography, Lighting, Portfolio, Props, Twitter
Twitter Works. Really. It Does.
Twitter works. Maybe in mysterious ways, but it works. Since I started tweeting a little less than a year ago I have been asked to write for Leaf Digital, Photocrew, The Photo Argus and other photo communities and blogs. I’ve met some pretty interesting photographers, retouchers, assistants and art directors. Many are just people I [...]
Polishing Chrome
DA.Wagner not only cleans his props before shooting digital photographs of them, he cleans his kitchen faucet the same way.
Embracing Change, Part II (okay, I’m done after this)
Light Before 1880 being a photographer entailed a fair amount of knowledge in chemistry, science and physics in order to make a camera, mix up a batch of emulsion (film), and develop and print the photos. Light was almost exclusively relegated to the great outdoors and those privileged enough for studios with oversized windows and [...]
Embracing Change, Part II (okay, I'm done after this)
Light Before 1880 being a photographer entailed a fair amount of knowledge in chemistry, science and physics in order to make a camera, mix up a batch of emulsion (film), and develop and print the photos. Light was almost exclusively relegated to the great outdoors and those privileged enough for studios with oversized windows and [...]
Embracing Change
D.A.Wagner looks at groundbreaking Russian photographer, Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky and his relationship to today’s changing world of technology and photography.
Jewelry and Food (Perfect Together)
I came across Kora Designs through a friend of a friend while looking for new and unusual jewelry pieces to shoot for my portfolio. Amy and Maxandra were really open to loaning me some pieces and they spent a few weeks sending snapshots of their inventory for review. I had chosen a couple bracelets from [...]
The Quest Begins… (sounds like a knight in shining armor story, but it’s about food)
Food photography is this totally different animal; it’s nothing like shooting products. Lighting for food is different. There’s a time limit when shooting food. You can’t leave food on set for three days waiting for someone to come back from a long weekend to approve the shots. There’s a different passion on set when there’s [...]
