Well… many of you know us for our wedding and portrait photography, but yesterday I returned to my roots, commercial photography. This usually happens a few times a quarter, but I generally don’t post the pics online or FB. But this time I thought I’d share. I did commercial photograpy almost exclusively for years after photography school. (I avoided weddings… they were scarrrry) I like photographing products, building interiors, exteriors and aerials because the subjects never complain. A product will sit on a table all day, it will sit there quietly if I leave for lunch and still have its best side waiting for me when I get back. This can’t always be said for the art directors 
. I’ve come to learn that 112.2% of my portrait clients don’t like something about the way they look and I can’t take that sort of stuff personally.
Yesterday we did a product shoot for Southern Bride and Groom Magazine, thank you Donna. These will come out in the next edition of the magazine. For the last several years we have photographed all the “must have” things every new bride and grooms “needs”. Things like chocolates, wedding dress shaped cookies, wedding picture frames (with our pictures in them), special pocket books, earings, necklaces, and flower girl dresses etc.
The fun side of product photography is the technical side, see pictures. I got to hook the camera to the computer to the network storage system and finally to the big screen TV so we could look at the results of our work in Real Time. We could look at placement of products and the picture framing with our “live view” and all could see exactly what the image would look like.
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For those of you who don’t have our web site set as your home page… We have updated our website with over 500 new images! We are excited to get the new work out to the world. Check it out all the new galleries! For Maximum impact, make sure to click the “go full screen” button on the lower right corner of any of the Galleries to see the images full screen.
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Inspired by the 2009 NACE Fundraiser: “Wicked Table Top Competition” Each year we get to think “out of the box” on how to display our images- we’ve done images on cakes, table runners, isle runners, ice sculptures, confetti and more. This year as we move to make our studio as Green as possible we came up with the concept of Foto Furniture. It pairs my love of thrift shops and color- with my husbands photographic and carpentry skills. We found these great old chairs that were begging for a new life- painted them and reupholstered them with photographic images on material. These “chair children” are 7 nieces and nephews in there portrayal of what they would look like if someone sat on them. What a scream to photograph! Our table won for its catagory and the chairs were a huge hit- with many asking how they could buy their own!-M
It is photography, it’s furniture and art. It is totally cool because it is a nexus of a number of things we think are important. It has a photographic component, it is funky artsy and it is Green. From a “Green” Perspective it is a perfect “Recycle, Reuse & Re-purpose” project. In this case, the chairs were no longer wanted. They were a little soiled and beat up, but in great shape structurally. We had the funny photo idea of putting faces on the chairs with the notion of “what face would you pull if some one was going to sit on you”. The picture on the seats and bold color gave it a funky out of the box look that you won’t see anywhere else.
We cleaned, painted and then printed images on fabric to recover the seat. (note: we do the fabric printing in-house). When completed they are a great art converstion piece and functional. Our next project is reworking a table… We have the table, now we need the right photos. We will post photos of the table when we complete the project.- S
To all of you who have asked- YES We can make these for you! We can use your chairs and table or we can provide you with options. These are speciality projects and will be priced individually. Variables to consider include the origins of the furniture, the photographs and the timeline for production. They will generally take several weeks to produce.
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Christmas Holidays = 70% of couples get engaged = It must be time for Wedding & Bridal Shows!
We are very excited about 2010.
We will have booths and show our photography at the following shows. We hope that you will come to see all the new photography and albums we will have on display. We will be at the folling shows:
#1 Forever Bridal Show
When: Jan. 2 & 3
Where: Jim Gram Building, NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, NC.
Information, Registration & Directions.
We are in section 300. Please say “Hi” and let us know if you read this on the blog.
#2 Once In A Lifetime
Wedding Workshop and Designer’s Boutique
When: Jan. 10, 2010
Where: Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, Durham, NC.
Information, Registration & Directions.
Please say “Hi” and let us know if you read this on the blog.
#3 15th Annual Bridal Fair – Carolina Inn
When: Jan. 31, 2010
Where: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC.
Information, Registration & Directions.
WE HAVE TICKETS for FREE —- Visit our studio and we will give your tickets, $10 each!
Please say “Hi” and let us know if you read this on the blog.
#4 Umstead Hotel and Spa - The 4th Annual Cary Magazine Elegant Weddings Gala
When: March
Where: Umstead Hotel and Spa, Cary, NC.
Information, Registration & Directions.
Please say “Hi” and let us know if you read this on the blog.
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