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.

California Home + Design Hit List Winner

Recently I photographed a custom made cabinet for Frank Cooper, a local artisan working in wooden furnishings for the home. He entered his cabinet into the California Home + Design “Hit List” competition and out of approximately 1600 entries Frank was chosen as one of the top ten by readers.

The piece will be published in the November/December issue. I’ll post more about this once the article hits the street, but for now you can view the images I created of Franks designs by following this link to my portfolio gallery.

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.

More Architecture, Construction and Interior Design Award Winning Projects

News of awards I was unaware of is rolling in. I just added two more awards from the Western Council of Construction Consumers. This is great news to start the day off with.

If any of my other clients have awards that I haven’t listed my Award Winning Architecture and Interior Design Projects Gallery please let me know.

Architecture and Interior Design Awards Portfolio

Yesterday I assembled a portfolio gallery that showcases  projects I have photographed that won  architectural or interior design awards.

It was really a lot of fun to go back through my archives to find the projects and review them once again. I am surprised at how many there are, they just kind of creep up on you.

I only included the seventeen projects that won awards from 1999 through today because I was out of time and the deeper I dig into my archives the less well organized things are, and the documentation becomes difficult to decipher and cross check. I began my conversion to digital photography back in 1998 and since that time my digital asset management has gone through major evolutionary changes. So, I just didn’t see it as worth while to dig throught my digital catacombs in search of files that no longer represent my style or my level of professional expertise.

I am very pleased to see that 2009 was a watershed year for me and my clients. Collectively my clients five ASID design awards this year, and the feather in my cap is that every one of my clients that eneterd the competiton won an award. And Joseph Hittinger of Joseph Hittinger Designs won three awards for projects I photographed for him.

I’m very pleased and look forward to outdoing myself next year.

2009 ASID California Peninsula Chapter Design Awards

I am proud to announce that all of my clients that entered the 2009 ASID Design Awards competition won gold or silver awards and will be featured in the upcoming issue of Gentry Magazine. This is quite a coup for any architectural photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

And now the awards my clients won – in alphabetical order…

Joseph Hittinger Designs

1. Silver Award – Single Family Residence under 3000 Sq. Ft
2. Silver Award – Kitchen
3. Silver Award – Bathroom

Miller Design Company

1. Silver Award – Single Specialty Space

Viscusi Elson Interior Design

1. Gold Award – Single Family Residence under 3000 Sq. Ft

You can review all photographs for each project by following this link to my portfolio galleries. And you can see the ASID slide show of all the winning entries by following this link.

We all know how important design competitions are, and photographs play a critical role in the presentation of your designs. Throughout my career as an architectural photographer, my clients, both  interior designers and architects, have have used my photographs and consistently won design awards.  I am very glad to see that my track record in helping my clients win professional acclaim is continuing in my new home.

My photographs help my clients win design awards because of my ability to capture the emotional content of the spaces I photograph, my talent for visually communicating the design concept, my use of sophisticated composition, and close collaboration with my clients.

All of these award winning projects were photographed using various forms of the High Dynamic Range Imaging technique I am working with, and the results are impressive. The fact that these HDRI photographs are part of the award winning entries speaks volumes for value of this innovative technique.