The weekend: Part 1

I spent some of Saturday photographing some of Teri Goddard's scarves. I did more than I'd talked to her about shot wise, but I think she'll be ok with that. Most people like free stuff. I ended up doing about 12 shots where I was supposed to do 3. To my defense I couldn't decide which would work best, I'm only going to put one on here for now because she hasn't seen them yet. It's the last shot I did, also the most complex. Probably the most lights and modifiers I've ever used in a single shot. I like it though, I think it came out very commercial/print ad looking. Which is why I left room at the top and bottom, it could be cropped many different ways to work on a card, poster, website...anything.

The other big thing for the weekend was a trip to Atlanta. Julie and I went to the Botanical Gardens and Ikea to celebrate our 3rd anniversary. I'll get a few photos up on the next post...probably tomorrow. That's all for now!

Finalizing

Today was all about getting things completed. I've had a lot of open projects here, and today, I got 3 or 4 of them done. Still 3 major ones left, but thats what tomorrow is for. It's been a great year, a lot of really awesome things have gone on, and unfortunately some really awful ones. A good one this weekend, Julie and my 3rd year anniversary, were planning to celebrate by adopting two little ones. Gerbils of course. Were planning to name them Peepoepowitz and Smachimo (somebody surprise me and get that reference). Come see them in a week or two, they'll be the new studio mascots. I'm putting up random photos tonight. We got bored here at the studio last night and made some funny images using my nikon, a tripod and an old TLR camera. Enjoy.

I'll post some work images tomorrow, I'm finishing up a really cool piece for Ron Gillen, still finishing those pottery pieces I mentioned in my last post...I may post the final design for the brochures I did for Joe Ambuhl as well. I want to see what he thinks of them first. That's all for now!

Cards and Collages

Today and yesterday were fun. I've shot a bunch of flat work in the past couple days and I spent this afternoon designing cards for Julie's aunt in Illinois (image) using one of Julie's Chicago pictures. Earlier (maybe yesterday, I can't remember) I did a collage of all the pieces I'd shot for Jane Tukarski over the weekend, I believe it's going to be the image for the front page of her website. Tomorrow I'm shooting scarves for Teri Goddard and I may try to get around to shooting some pottery for Tom Seelos, an out of town artist. Another client of mine from Atlanta was up for a show in Anderson a couple weeks back and dropped off some of Tom's work. Images coming soon on those.

I'm thankful for the new studio, I never could have handled so much work at the old place. Here I'm efficient enough to get all these shoots done and still have plenty of time left over for quick jobs...so please don't feel like you need to wait to bring me work till I'm less busy, I still have a 1 to 3 day turnaround on most things, 8-12 days on cards. Thanks everyone!

Mondays!

This has been a great week starter here at the studio (not to mention an awesome weekend). Lots of fun things to photograph. Over the weekend I photographed Janina Ellis's mom's artwork (Jane Tukarski - janetukarski.com), and then she had me make 2 posters. They're 20x30 in frames for her show booth, and she ended up loving them...enough to buy the 3rd one that I'd made to put up at the studio! I plan to replace it though, so come check it out in a couple days. Prices for those will be coming soon (somewhere in the 25-75 dollar range, depending on some options).


Today I'm working on brochures for Joe Ambuhl (jajpaintings.com). Joe has a studio down the street in 10 Central Avenue Studios. He gave me permission to have fun with the concept for the brochures, always my favorite thing to hear when I do cards and such. It motivates me to try and do something much deeper than just image/bio/title on solid background. I normally don't show designs that aren't finished, but I really like where this one is going...i'm calling it fun/majestic...a little over the top, but Joe said he was cool with that. I like having the artwork play a double role in print, so having the two matching paintings magically floating the letters seemed like a no brainer.


Oh, the other fun thing today was shooting some counter top samples for Tammy Goben. Many may recognize her work by the countertop on my desk here that she graciously made for me. She makes them out of special paints and epoxy over any kind of solid material (mostly mdf). They're really impressive to see in person, the 3d effect from the layers of epoxy and paint is very cool! This photo hardly does them justice (not assisted by the fact that this one is pretty rough still, edited just for the blog).


There are some more projects I'm starting on tomorrow, I'll post when I have some images.

Tax Day!

I should have motivated myself and made this two posts, oh well...it's tax day and I don't feel like it. It's been an amazing week. I really feel like I'm starting to come into my own. I've felt re-energized...and just in time, because I've gotten some really cool jobs lately where I get to put a little of myself into the thought process.

Yesterday I was over at Phil Garrett's studio shooting images for a book proposal, I wanted to do the absolute best I could because I really want it to happen. I had so much fun shooting Patti's book, but I feel like I know a lot more after going through the process than I did then and want another shot at it. Here's one of the images from that...

philgarrett.com

We can pretend this is a different post altogether.

This morning I got up and payed my taxes (:| yay). I was ready to photograph something when I got to the studio. Janina Ellis left a couple of her mom's ivory (legal ivory) pieces so I could get some ideas before she brings more later for the actual shoot. I wanted to challenge myself and since most of the pieces are an off white, I thought I would shoot on a white background and see what would come of it. I got one shot done before work took over my day. I'm not sure if this is the look the final shots will have, but we'll see. More soon...

janetukarski.com