A story on urban farming and delivery in the latest issue of Jewell.

Mobile chicken coop

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Appearing in this month’s EGM is Randy Pitchford, CEO of game developer Gearbox and professional magician.  These look different from some of my other recent work, so read on for some thoughts on the creative process I use for making pictures.

I’m a subject driven photographer.  Rather than trying to force every subject into a style box I’ve made for myself, I aim to adapt my style to them.  While I do have an extensive library of visual methods built over the years, this keeps things authentic while telling the story.  In this case, I tossed some ideas back and forth with Tom Russo who would be interviewing Randy and we decided to try something with playing cards to call attention to his magician skills.  This would be interesting visually and possible in the time allotted.

After this I sat down to think about the photographic aspects – the composition, the lighting, colors, mood etc.   I sketched out a few designs in a book I keep.   I decided to go with something dramatic on total black with no environment, almost like stage lighting.  This was a location shoot, so the set had to be compact yet flexible to allow for movement.   I also like to keep my designs open enough for unscripted things to occur.  Knowing the unpredictable nature of the shot, I let the lens flare and ignored the mixed strobe recycle times.  Randy was a great subject and very enthusiastic about the different approach we were taking.  After seeing the images on the screen, he came up with several more things to try, even postponing a meeting until we got it.

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Hey (Austin) folks, we shot November’s Austin Monthly cover and feature story.  Go get yourself a copy, then go eat.

I don't know how all that chicken and waffles is gonna fit in this belly, but I'll try

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Featured in this month’s Tribeza are some images made for a story (read here) on local Etsy successes.  Here’s an alternate that I also like…

Vintage reseller Misty Incontrera's pictures are made by her 11-year-old son and photographer, Alex.

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A few weeks ago we photographed a unique project in the Texas hill country – an African bed and breakfast tent called Sinya.  Check it out

Yes, it's air conditioned.

We’ve also recently updated our architectural photography site, known as places.

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Featured in this month’s EGM is gaming luminary Warren Spector and his latest project Epic Mickey.  I watched a demo of this while at their studio and it reminds me of the Mickey of olden days – darker; mischievous.

So I wanted to make a picture that referenced this, and there happened to be a huge painting in the studio that made a perfect background.

Warren Spector photographed at Junction Point studios on May 14, 2010

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Warren was a friendly guy.  Years ago I had played another project of his, Deus Ex, and there was a fanboy moment.  Then we watched Mickey Mouse cartoons in his office.

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Recently we did some cool location work for Volkswagen’s Tiguan.  You can see more here.

Worked with art director Drew Wallace on this one.  The agency is Labov.

Oh hey, we have a new website!

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