Posted By craig on January 13, 2012

After much delay, I’m back from traveling and blogfailing. I swear that things stack up and stack up and then, what the hell, it’s been over 2 months since I’ve updated this thing I’ve promised to update weekly. Anyway, while I was away I found out that a really cool shoot I did before wandering away from the east coast for a bit was published by OVERFLOW magazine. You can read the whole story here (it’s the winter 2012 issue). We had so much fun shooting this talented ukulele builder and I think it shows. Here are the two images that ran:

So, best to you all in the year of 2012 (the year of destruction??? LOL, silly Mayans, we have been destroyed for decades and traveling through space in our imaginary something something).

-Craig

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Posted By craig on October 24, 2011

I just want to give a thank you to the students in Susie Cushner’s class at the International Center for Photography. She had me in a couple of weeks ago to have a talk with her class about my experiences working in this business. I half jokingly wanted to give a lecture titled “How to Stay Broke for Ten Years in Photography and other Adventures” but instead had a great Q&A session with a roomful of fellow shooters. Susie has a great take on creativity and the process of finding yourself in your work. I was glad to be able to throw my dish on the table at the pot luck of that classroom.

Cheers.

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Posted By craig on October 21, 2011

I just mailed out the first batch of fall promo cards. I had planned on doing these in September, but September and the first half of October turned out to be very busy with several productions and a couple of travel jobs.

Plus, this promo was WAY more time consuming to assemble than I had originally planned. In the end it’s a simple looking trifold, but because I’m picky I chose to adhere prints back to back using Scotch 666 (awesome to work with, I used a similar technique to build my portfolio pages as well) vs using any of the double side paper available. I have been loving Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl for the past 3 years and have not found a duel sided paper that matches it’s feel. It feels like an ilford glossy fiber gelatin paper, but has a brightish white base that shows color really well with my printer.

The problem with doing back to back paper that is thick to begin with (285gsm) is the surface on the outside of a fold breaks when folding the card. To get around this I actually cut the outside of the trifold into three separate panels and then used a bone to get the inside of my fold to be neat (I used a sheet of acetate between the bone and the print to not scratch through the surface). After getting the folds in I did a final edge trim on the ends with a rotary cutter and did a top and bottom cut with an exacto and a tear bar.

On the first inside image I adhered a business card with removable mono adhesive. I had actually planned the exact spot for it and the image has a red outline where the card lays. The outline perfectly frames one of the subjects in that image.

I’m very happy with the final outcome.

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Posted By craig on August 19, 2011

Earlier I mentioned that I’ve spent a bit of time over the past couple of years working with the Roger Grey production group. Just before wrapping up a long job in Santa Barbara, John decided to treat himself to a good old fashioned straight razor. Look closely at the etching on the blade. This guy was quite the character.

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Posted By craig on August 9, 2011

ya know?

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Posted By craig on August 8, 2011

I had a chance to schedule a portrait of local family business owners Greg and Mike O’Connell from the O’Connell Organization. They are sponsoring The Fast and The Furious down at the pier later this month.

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Posted By craig on July 28, 2011

Over the past few years I’ve spent a bit of time on the road working on photo shoots with Roger Grey Produces, a production company run by my fellow shooters Randy and Ruzanna of RomanLeo and long time industry producer John Babor. We always try to do something interesting during off days. This is a shot of Randy during a weekend expedition to The Salton Sea.

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Posted By craig on July 22, 2011

Muzzy-everyone. Everyone-Muzzy. This guy is my buddy. He is NEVER lacking in the love department. We were lucky enough to find him in the ASPCA in August of 2006 and he has been following me around since. He likes yogurt and steak. He hates getting his nails trimmed. See you next week. Try not to melt in this heat!!!!!

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Posted By craig on July 20, 2011

I’ve been having fun just taking “snapshots” again. It’s been a while since I’ve carried a simple camera in my bag. It’s sort of been an all or nothing type deal, which has driven me crazy when I missed shots. I’d gotten so used to taking the bigger cameras out when it was time to work on a project and just using my iphone when I wasn’t planning on anything else. There are some really great photographs out there with the quality of iphone cameras increasing so much, but I still felt a bit lacking in the control department. I just picked up a new “daily driver” to ad to the arsenal so you should hopefully see some more candid moments being mixed in here.

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Posted By craig on July 18, 2011

I’ve recently made a promise to you. I had promised to update this place on a daily basis. Well, not that it was a surprise, but a recent event completely took over my life. On the 4th of July, my wife and I were lucky enough to welcome Mihika Magdalene LaCourt into the world. She is a healthy 10 fingers and 10 toes type of deal and we couldn’t be more happy. I do plan on updating all of you with what I’ve been up to and will be up to. I also promise that it won’t be filled with stories of nightmare diapers or ear piercing screams…

…too often.

So after these last 2 weeks of just taking it all in, it’s time to get back in the saddle and flog the horse I rode in on. Baby needs new shoes. Literally…

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