Tools of the trade

I've worked with one model maker on projects that require that skill over the course of my career. I love having a reason to go to his shop, he's got just about everything you need to construct something, and he doesn't throw anything away - the place is a wonderful organized mess. We recently worked together on a project where we needed to precisely bend and join small pieces of laser cut plastic. He showed up at my studio with this device - which I thought thought was an amusing custom tool. 

Back in Black

I've been shooting a few pictures on black, some are still top secret - so I can't share. The wraps are off Titleist's new ProV1 as of February, shot these and more right before the holidays.

Thank you. No, thank you.

I'm always impressed with how much you can stuff into these plastic bags without them breaking. 

Say hello to my little friend!

Pictured above is my new Sinar P3 that accepts my 39MP Hasselblad multi-shot back. It's not an inspired image, just to say I've got a view camera again. I had a Sinar P2 view camera forever, shot film with it and then converted it to accept 3 different digital backs. It worked great but it was designed to shoot film and was big, clunky and cumbersome by today's standards. I sold it a few years ago when I got my new Hasselblad. I soon discovered a problem with using a Hasselblad, and that is you're pinned to the focus ranges of their lenses. If you want to shoot with anything other than a 120mm lens and be closer than a couple feet, and get it in focus, you need a view camera. 

Most people don't know what a view camera is, a quick explanation: remember the big cameras with the cloth you put over your head - that's a view camera. They used to accept big sheets of film, this one is specific to a CCD sensor. Besides unlimited focus ranges, you can change perspective and adjust your plane of focus via the Scheimpflug principle. (I love knowing what that means, as well as "bellows extension factor".) Also have other adjustments with these beautiful pieces of Swiss made precision that you can't get with anything else. Very psyched to have a view camera again, especially a "small" one just for digital backs!

Holidays 2012

I've done pictures of my son with Christmas lights to send out as our personal holiday card. He's now 12 so this #13 in the series... He's been a good sport and it's become a fun tradition for us.

First Bike

I often get asked to shoot for Pro Bono clients, I usually do it as it's an easy way for me to lend support to good causes. This one came my way for cyclekids, click on the link for a description of the beneficial work that they're doing. When the Designer was spelling out the project, I shared an episode with my first bike - they came up with a visual and included it the final piece.

Drinks, cheese and different food.

A couple editorial pictures for Boston Magazine. Above is a representation of how many drinks they serve a night at Eastern Standard, there are 100 glasses... Below is the cheese cart at L'espalier. 

Below are ingredients that the chef from Bondir brought by the studio. And yes those are crickets in the lower left corner. Apparently they're a popular menu item. I finally succumbed to peer pressure and ate one, slightly crunchy and buttery....

I had heard of brown bread before we shot this, something to do with a can... Negative space on top and to the right is for type.