2010 ASID CA Peninsula Designers Challenge

2010 ASID CA Designers Challenge Fashion Show Winner

Last night was the 2010 Designers Challenge Fashion show for the CA Peninsula chapter of ASID. It was a lot of fun and I was very impressed by the high quality of the designs. I guess that’s what happens when you put a bunch of highly talented designers together on a project with instructions to “Be Creative.”

You can review more of the shots in my portfolio gallery by following this link.

2010 Interior Design Student Career Forum Design Competition Winners

Yesterday I had the opportunity to help Lilley Yee photograph the winning entries in the Interior Design Student Career Forum 2010 Student Design Competition.

It was a lot of fun seeing the boards and the students who won definitely did a great job.

Lilley was surprised at how easily I overcame the challenges associated with photographing these design boards. To shoot something like this really requires a tripod and soft lighting. The glare from the acetate overlays the students used can pose a problem but after twenty-five years of photographing glass walled rooms, mirror or marble walls, and enamel kitchen cabinets I didn’t think about what was required, or how difficult it could be. I just did it.

Oh, well. Chalk it up to the benefits of experience, and move on to greater challenges.

I have the boards posted in my portfolio gallery but I won’t release them for public view until after the ceremony. You’ll just have to wait to find out who won.

Now, it’s back to the electron mines for me.

Ciao.

An Award of Merit from the IESNA

2009 IESNA Award of Merit High Dynamic Range Imaging

I am proud to say that yet another client of mine, OMM Consulting has won an Award of Merit from the Golden Gate Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) for 2009 using the images I created. This has been a very good year for my clients in regard to design competitions.

OMM Consulting is an electrical engineering firm specializing in lighting design. The photographs for this competition were required to be shot using existing light with no supplemental lighting of any kind. My twenty-three years of experience working with challenging lighting situations, combined with my mastery of High Dynamic Range Imaging techniques resulted in capturing the  spaces and structure in it true glory – as the designers envisioned it.

Maintaining fidelity to the designers vision is what helped them win the award, of course they did an award winning job of lighting the project. You can review all of the images from this award submission by following this link.