Tag Archives: Perception

Making a Hero Out of Something Simple

My client, Lighting Services, Inc. makes simple, elegant track lighting fixtures. And while this doesn’t look like anything revolutionary, it is. It’s green inside, not in color, but as in low energy use LED technology. I loved teasing out the gradient textures and giving shape to the parabolic mirror. Even the 1980s style blue highlights in the [...]

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.

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 [...]

Pairing Photographs

I’ve been trying to match a hundred or so photographs from my Shooting from the Hip series into complimentary pairs. A lot of questions came up regarding color, texture, light, camera angle, and a myriad of other qualities. But the one overarching question was, what makes two photographs viewed together, side by side, visually more [...]