Over the past month we’ve been working on a catalog for Coralia Leets Designs, a jewelry designer based in Orlando, Florida. Coralia prefers a white background that will merge seamlessly into her websites and print materials. When shooting large fashion jewelry, we like to leave a subtle reflection/shadow to ground the product and make the colors within the piece snap. Above are a few samples from the bracelet portion of the shoot.
ALO Audio is a Portland based company that manufactures and sells hand-made, high-end audio “interconnects”. You may be wondering what the heck an “interconnect” is, well, basically it’s any device that comes between your audio source and your ears, such as cables, amps and headphones. If you’re still confused, check out this link for a better explanation from an industry expert. Otherwise, all we can tell you is that they look really cool and we wish we had better headphones.
Anyway, back to our photography. ALO prefers a simple, clean look so we decided to shoot the majority of their product on white glass to add a reflection, which we think helps “ground” the product. Photographing high end electronics is similar to the challenges of shooting jewelry as there are tricks to illuminating the product without blowing out the highlights. One way we get around this problem is by merging multiple exposures in post production. This can take some extra time but we feel that the results are worth the effort.
We now live in a world offering many options of how images are created. While much of our work is done digitally, the darkroom process remains a large part of our business. I continue to be mesmerized by producing photographs with film—using light, optics and chemistry. For the past seven years, I’ve carved out a niche exhibiting and selling this work through galleries, magazines, museums, interior designers and private collectors. These photographs are made using Leica range-finder cameras and Ilford black and white films. Each print is made by hand, using traditional darkroom techniques and fiber-based paper.
The majority of my work has focused on Idaho and Montana, as I’ve always been fascinated with trying to capture the emotions and lifestyles that define rural America. My approach is almost always serendipitous. I guess you could call it “Rural Street Photography”. Weather I meet a ranch-hand at a gas station in some remote town, hang out at a local swimming hole, or stumble upon a rodeo, I’m looking for those fleeting moments that can only be recorded by a pressing the shutter of my camera. Above are four images taken from rodeos, ranch-hands and small farming towns in Eastern Idaho.
