Lots of Flying

Going to Minnesota friday to take photos at a Target store, and next week I'm in Seattle shooting still for a video project. Last week was Puerto Rico and the week before that I was in NY.I don't think I've ever flown this much in a single month before. I really love flying, but even I'm tired of it now.

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Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico again for work.It's a quick two day trip and the mojitos alone are worth the 18 hours of flying.

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Light Streaks

Just got my copy of Cinema4D :-) Gonna take me a few months to figure everything out.Here's some fun experiments from the first day.

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Work work work

This month has been a constant (which is good) stream of work. Lots of tedious retouching, and some frustrating photoshoots. I think I'll be done with the current projects by this weekend, and I'm looking forward to a bit of rest and maybe some time for personal photo work.

Work Work Work...

I've been working for more than a week now retouching the heritage McNeil packaging photos; thankfully it's almost over... here's a random tiny detail crop from a photo of pills, before the reflection having been fixed of course ;-)

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yes, it's Neil's head.

Update

Added four product shots to the J&J portfolio. They're for the web, hence the simple views.

Samples from the shoot

Here are four samples from the shoot last month for a jnj design test. They seem to like the photos. The highlight thing is very rough, but it's just a draft to highlight the pain points. They'll look much better after proper retouching...

PA trip

Some photos from the trip with the design team to the opening of the new atrium at Ft Washington McNeil plant on dec 18th. IMGP8504.jpg Starting in Weehawken NJ

IMGP8513.jpg Picked up the rest of the crew at a Dunkin Donuts.

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IMGP8535.jpg On the turnpike at dawn

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And here's some documentation photos of their work

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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays everybody! Had a nice two day shoot of body shots for J&J. It's still a concept test I guess, but I hope they might end up on packaging :-) Rented a nice studio for the shoot, McCaddenSpace, and asked friends to come and model for it. I think everybody had a good time, and the photos look great. Will post some once it gets cleared.

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First of many, one hopes...

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This is just great, I was doing a series of photos of faces like this for Metro couple months ago, now I can't stop seeing them ;-)

NY Trip

Back in NY for the opening of the atrium at the McNeil plant. Can't wait to see how the banners and the wall panels turned out. :-) The little booklet looks great and the photos really work well together. Everybody seems happy... Here's a few photos from today of Neil and Evan in the snow. The snow and the cold is awesome, had missed it so much... and it was much more enjoyable after I bought a pair snow boots and dry socks ;-)

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Neil getting a good workout

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Not a big fan of the cold

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At this point my shoes were totally useless, and my toes were wet and freezing

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Got some dry socks and snow boots here, felt oh so good

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Evan contemplating the taste of snow

J&J Photos Added

Just finished uploading the Johnson and Johnson photos to the portfolio. Hoping that there'll be many more to come :-)