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Fruit Of The Vine

craigphoto — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:34:10 +0000

Saw this bottle of wine with the embossed grape and leaf logo and thought it would make a good prop for a stock photo about wine. Took off the label and placed a wine glass behind the bottle which created the illusion that the glass was in the bottle. Placed a sheet of plexiglass a couple of feet behind the bottle and only used one Arri fresnel shining through the plex and bottle to light the set. Used a Cambo 4x5 view camera with a 6x9cm roll film back to record the image on Fuji tungsten transparency film and then scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000 scanner.

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Pharmacy

craigphoto — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:15:05 +0000

Shot this for the cover of an annual report for a hospital with a Cambo 4x5 view camera and Kodak b&w film. Used one Speedotron strobe in a soft box for illumination. Props are on a hand painted canvas. The original film was hand developed in Rodinal and custom printed on fiber based paper and given to the client to scan.

I did do an interesting experiment to prepare the image for this blog. Instead of scanning the 4x5 negative I shot it with a Nikon D2x and 55 micro lens on top of a lightbox. Imported the image into Photoshop and inverted the negative image into a positive one. Was very surprised at how well it came out and there was an added bonus, normally when scanning you get a lot of dust that has to be cloned out but this way it does not show up.

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And You Hate Your Job?

craigphoto — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:21:36 +0000

How would you like to be this model and get endless pies in the face? And to top it off when you put it in your modeling book nobody can tell that it is you because your face is hidden. Shot this for a mall to use in its food court advertising. It was going to be used large so we shot it on 4x5 film using a Cambo view camera. It was a really messy shoot and I was cleaning up whipped creme for ages as it got all over the studio.

The model never actually got hit in the face. We rigged up a compressed air tank off the set and snaked the hose from behind the models head and aimed it at the pie pan. An assistant would hold the pan filled with whipped creme in place, another would turn on the compressed air at my signal while I clicked the shutter. Used several Speedotron strobes to light the model and seamless paper backdrop.

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Squirt Gun

craigphoto — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:19:24 +0000

Stock photo of a child's squirt gun. Used a Cambo 4x5 view camera with selective focus to emphasize gun barrel. Arri tungsten fresnel lights were used for gun and background which was a large sheet of fine art paper. Film was Fuji tungsten transparency film and was scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000.

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Lock It Up

craigphoto — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:46:59 +0000

Another photograph of a child's toy safe for stock. Placed safe on green seamless paper and used a Cambo 4x5 view camera with selective focus to emphasize the key pad and handle. Tungsten Arri fresnel lights were used for illumination along with Fuji tungsten transparency film which was scanned on a Nikon Coolscan 9000 scanner.

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Still Life

craigphoto — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:29:53 +0000

This is something I shot for stock and has been licensed a number of times. Was trying to get an abstract dreamy quality to the picture. Used a Cambo 4x5 view camera with Fuji tungsten transparency film and twisted the standards all the wrong ways to get the focus effect. The background was a fine art paper I found at an art store and used Arri fresnel lights for illumination.

Do You Feel Lucky?

craigphoto — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:35:08 +0000

This is another stock photograph. Shot with a Cambo 4x5 view camera and Fuji tungsten transparency film. Used an Arri fresnel for lighting and placed the dice on a sheet of fine art paper.

Photo © Craig Brewer

Journée de la Randonnée Pédestre entre Rhune et Nive

Pierre Gites64 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:58:48 +0000

Le 9 Juillet 2008 autour de Cambo, Espelette, St Pée sur Nivelle et Ascain.

La Randonnée « Entre Nive et Rhune » est une manifestation grand public qui s’adresse autant aux randonneurs avertis qu’aux marcheurs du Dimanche, résidents ou touristes, pour la cinquième année consécutive.

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- Des départs de chaque village (Cambo, Espelette, St Pée sur Nivelle, Ascain) et une arrivée de tous les randonneurs au coeur du village de Sare qui accueille ce jour-là sa grande foire artisanale
- Trois durées de marche de 3h , 5h et 7h , correspondant à trois niveaux de pratique différents , sont proposés, afin que cette journée s’adresse à un très large public : (familles, individuels, groupes)
- Un encadrement par des bénévoles licenciés des Clubs locaux qui accompagnent les marcheurs pour plus de sécurité et de convivialité
- Des navettes bus gratuites permettant aux marcheurs de regagner leurs véhicules, laissés au point de départ de la randonnée.

Découvrez le programme de la journée

Découvrez les chambres d'hôtes autour d'Ascain, Cambo et Espelette

Découvrez les chambres d'hôtes autour de Saint Pée sur Nivelle

Workers

craigphoto — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:17:36 +0000

This is a photograph of some workers for a family run company that has been around for many years. They operate cranes, do construction, rigging, etc., and since they had been in business for so long and had an archive of old black and white photographs they always used one on the annual company calender.

They wanted to break from that and show something more contemporary but still give it an old traditional feel. So the art director decided to use one of their warehouses and park a crane in it with some of the workers and their tools of the trade. We decided to keep the old time feel and a certain rigidity that I would shoot with a 4x5 view camera on black and white sheet film. Used all natural light but was having trouble with the crane and subjects blending in with the background. I had some "smoke cookies" with me so we lit them off and had an assistant directing the smoke behind them. That did the trick perfectly to separate them from the background and also gave the photograph a more atmospheric feel.

A couple of these guys were some pretty macho characters and of course complained about having their picture taken. We shot at the end of the workday and as soon as the siren sounded to signal the end of the shift that was it for these guys and they just walked off the set to punch the clock without so much as a goodbye and nothing we could say brought them back. Luckily we had the shot.

Photo © Craig Brewer

Time Zones

craigphoto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:09:24 +0000

This is another picture shot for stock. Wanted to get a little wild with the colors so used some fine art paper that I bought at an art store for the background. The clock is actually sitting on my tweed covered guitar case that houses my Fender Stratocaster.

Used two Arri fresnel lights, one for the three time zone clock and the other for the background. Cut out some holes in black illustration board for the light to pass through and give it a dappled look. The camera was a Cambo 4x5 view camera with a 6x9cm roll film back filled with Fuji tungsten transparency film that I scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000 scanner.

Photo © Craig Brewer

A Good Concept

craigphoto — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:03:00 +0000

So much advertising is predictable and without thought. Here is an ad I shot many years ago but has always been a favorite because the headline, the body copy, and the photograph all work together to sell the product. The Bible was not a weathered prop but belonged to someone the art director knew. Photographed on grey seamless with a Cambo 4x5 camera, one Speedotron head in a soft box, on Fuji transparency film.

Do you know your rights?

craigphoto — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:25:09 +0000

Many people like to talk about our rights as American citizens, but surprisingly have never read the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. This organization wanted to make it easy for anyone to have the info readily available so they printed a pocket sized booklet with both printed out inside. An artist made and aged the props since it would be impossible to photograph the real documents. Found the nice antique wooden table in a university library lobby and shot it after hours to minimize distractions.

Needed a really good sized table because the props were large and the booklet had a wrap around cover so a lot more wood is showing than in this cropped version. Used a Cambo 4x5 camera and Fuji transparency film and Speedotron strobe lights in a large soft box.

Tragedy and Comedy

craigphoto — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:39:20 +0000

This was shot for a theater group upcoming play. The comedy/tragedy masks used to be used frequently many years ago to denote acting. Don't know if younger people today would make that association upon viewing it. Was a really simple shot that didn't take much time at all. Had someone go out and find the masks, then I cut some lumber and laid it out to simulate a wooden floor and propped the masks up from the back for a good angle to the camera. Used a Cambo 4x5 camera, Kodak transparency film, and one Speedotron strobe head in a softbox to the side to capture the image.

If I Had A Hammer

craigphoto — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:59 +0000

Here is a shot that has sold a number of times as a stock photo. Was shot with a 4x5 view camera on tungsten transparency film. Used 3 Arri fresnel lights for lighting. One had a light blue gel to light the front of the hammer and give the metal a cold look. Had another with a yellow/orange gel on the background to warm it up. And one more light with no filtration for fill light on the side of the hammer.

The shallow depth of field was a combination of a near wide open lens aperture and moving the lens standards in opposite ways to achieve the desired result. With photographs like this I am trying to get more of an illustrative look than literal and leaving the picture open to interpretation by the viewer.

Següent fase de la tesi

Marc — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:02:08 +0000

Aquests dies estic treballant en el tercer capítol de la tesi. Intento explicar el desenvolupament industrial de la regió metropolitana de Barcelona i la relació dels actors de la regió amb l'Estat espanyol a través del seu projecte del que havia de ser Catalunya. La idea és veure com es configura l'empresariat actual i els seus esforços per desenvolupar models de creixement econòmic local i regional. Per acabar, una perla de Francesc Cambó:

"Preferim que el poble de Catalunya mereixi la llibertat i no la tingui, que no que la tingui i deixi de merèixer-la i utilitzi la seva llibertat per destrossar Catalunya"

Curiós en Cambó. Té una estatua a la via Laietana, i els seus hereus ara diuen que "som una nació i tenim dret a decidir".

Votre séjour en gite, en chambre d'hotes au Pays Basque et Béarn

Pierre Gites64 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:02:15 +0000

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