Bright Lights, Small City
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I was very excited to have an opportunity to work with Joan Steiner. If you haven't seen any of her "Look ALike" books, you are missing a true visual treat. Here is what Amazon.com says about these books:
"A three-dimensional miniature metropolis that's meticulously, ingeniously crafted out of everyday objects from mousetraps to milk bones. At first glance, a fancy hotel lobby seems just that, but take a closer look and you'll see a sofa made of gloves. In a sunny street scene, a building façade is laden with crackers, crayons form fence posts, and the tree is shaded by a stalk of broccoli. Children and adults alike will love poring over each picture, most of which contain more than 100 objects cleverly arranged to delight and deceive. Kids will easily identify many household objects, and the ones they may not recognize - a hosiery garter or flour sifter, for example - they'll learn from either the guide in the back or from a helpful parent. Good humor, a keen eye, and hours of hard work went into this visual marvel."
As the photo we took hasn't been published yet, I can't show it to you. This single shot, taken in 8 x 10 format took three days to set up and shoot. By the end of it, I think I had used every clamp, boom, light and gadget in my studio - and even a few special items I had to rent. We even used a fiber-optic light set to pinpoint spotlights on the tiny set.
Project: Project
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During a recent shoot for a large paper company, the art director asked if there was a way to project the client's logo onto the set with colored light. The client had a jpeg file of the logo on her laptop but the laptop didn't have a floppy drive. Fortunately there's always a workaround! We asked her to go online and email the jpeg file. With the logo in our computer, the art director reversed and sized the logo with Photoshop to fit my Balcar strobe projector. The image was printed on transparency film with our Alps printer, inserted into the strobe projector, and a colored gel was added to match the corporate color. The logo image was then projected onto the set with the strobe adapter with very cool results.