Day 16 of 28: Fall in Line
I tried my best to fit 16 Red Stripe Beer bottles on my counter but I had to settle for 12 instead … With my beer propped up by a hair clip I created a DIY snoot, using cartridge paper and pointed the speedlight at ...
Day 15 of 28: Perspective
For years I’ve struggled with accepting noise and lens distortion in photos. Primarily because my love for photography deepened when I started purchasing stock images for clients as a graphic designer. The more I read though is the more I understood that lenses are just ...
Day 14 of 28: Lean on Me
“It’s Valentine’s Day and my original idea is a bit too complex and my not be interpreted well…” is one of the many thoughts that went through my mind on the drive to the store to get the Red Stripe Light Beer. Then suddenly I ...
Day 13 of 28: Coming In From the Cold
Have you ever heard the term “Trigger Words”… ? Well! This photos was inspired by a trigger thought. I’m just being silly … Not really … Initially I thought about TRON Legacy when I considered taking this photo, which then lead to keywords like cold, ...
Day 12 of 28: On White
In addition to portrait photography I love product photography though I don’t do it often … Well! While I was unavailable on day 11, attending to my son I got a request from a client to photograph two bottles of their product for a presentation ...
Day 11 of 28: Award Winning Beer
By far this was the hardest day. The younger of my two boys wasn’t feeling well and had to stay home with Daddy. Need I say more?! … At the end of the day I was exhausted and all I could think about was sleep. ...
Day 10 of 28: The People’s Champ
Okay! Okay! Okay! … Can you tell how excited I am about this photo? … Okay! On Day 3 I went to get a prop for that day’s photo and I saw these miniature boxing gloves so I bought them with the whole concept of ...
Day 9 of 28: Beer Belly
I turned the pages of my note book (Yes! A literal note book made with paper) and used my pen to cross out the ideas I’ve executed so far. Unfortunately, the remaining ideas didn’t grab me; they had to be done in the day time ...
Day 8 of 28: The Gathering
Most days I have an idea of what I’ll be photographing (here’s a little secret… I wrote down a few ideas at the start of the challenge) but there are times when I have no clue. This was one of those days. All I knew ...
Day 7 of 28: On Set
Once I decided I’d be photographing a bottle of Red Stripe Beer I knew I wanted to do a shot with a green screen. I became a bit frustrated because the angle I was shooting from didn’t embody the vision I saw in my minds ...