Goza&Honnold Law Firm

Here are a couple of shots I did last week for attorneys Kirk Goza Brad Honnold and Roger Nail.  Their offices are really great.  Clean, crisp and modern. Imagine that, they were designed by my buddies at Eldorado.  These images are for their new website and I wanted to try and show a bit of their environment.  Tricky with lots of mixed  light sources and color temperatures but I am happy with the end result.

Portrait in new space

This is one of the first shots I did in my new studio space.  Great natural light with north windows.  This is for a lady who is starting a new exercise blog.  Kate is fun and easy to  work with.  I love the high ISO with the MkIII.

New Woodside ad running

Here is a new ad running in local papers.  I was hired to shoot new imagery for their re-branding campaign and it has been a blast.  There are brochures, banners and now ads.  Everyone at the club has been absolutely great to work with.  My hat is off to them for running a great business from top to bottom.

Judicial Portraits

I am excited to have been selected to shoot the portraits of judges retiring from both the state and federal court.  Today Judge Holliger came to my studio and  I shot this image.  It will be printed 20x30 or so and then hung in the courtroom from which he retired.

I went to the courthouse earlier this week and spent quite a bit of time studying the oil paintings that had been done of the past judges.  I tried to emulate the style and especially lighting used in those historic portraits.  I took the task of providing a bit of history to the courthouse quite seriously.

New commercial interior shot

Yesterday I had the opportunity to work with a local designer Renee Grissom for a magazine article about her work.  We shot this conference room in Overland Park.  I tried to make the photo consistent with her work.  Clean lines, elegant but yet very striking.  It was quite a small space and a bit tricky to make look "normal" while using a very wide lens (16mm).

New home

Well, this week was comprised of moving all of my stuff from Digital Labrador  into my small home office.  It resembles a submarine navigation station, lots of electronics crammed into a small space.  The big difference is that when I sit at my laptop I have an amazing view of downtown.  The look of the city varies so much from day to day.  I promise to post some pics of the view soon.

As many of you know I have been looking for studio space to rent now that the new location of Digital Labrador does not have enough room for me to shoot in.  The cost was through the roof!  I was looking at 3,000-4,000 a month just in rent. In this economy?  Crazy right? So, after doing a lot of soul searching about space and the type of work I shoot, the solution was right under my nose. 

We live in this great old three story brick school building that just happens to have an extra room that was originally to be the developers office.  Our awesome neighbors Jim and Jean, who own it, have agreed to let me rent it.  It is about 14 feet wide and 28 deep and has its own entrance.  There are nice north light windows and a wall with some exposed brick.  Amazing how the best solution was right here the entire time.  

There is no kitchen in the space so for my food shooting, I will shoot out of our loft.  I just had my first food shoot here and it worked out great.  I have some pics of the setup and will post soon.  The food stylist loved cooking on our Viking range and there is tons of counter space.

Bartimus Frickleton Robertson and Gorny holiday card '08

My former law firm asked me to continue producing their holiday card.  It is usually a run of 3,000 that are sent around the country.  I have used many Plaza lights photos in the past and this year they picked a fun image shot in the River Market.  It was one of those great, incredibly quiet, huge snowflake snows that are so spectacular.  My thanks to the firm for their continued support of my photographic endeavors.

For the last 8-10 years I have worked with Payson Lowell at Greyston Graphics to print the cards.                                                  

Once again my hat is off to Payson , Jeff and Don at Greystone. Making a black and white image produce well in a large run is a real art.  I went this morning to watch and approve the duotone run.  Using an incredibly complex press and laying down just the right amount of grey and black ink, they have done it again.  It has nice rich blacks and holds the detail in the midtones and highlights.  Here are a couple of pictures taken with my iPhone.

Above are Jeff and Don working their magic on the press, and to the right is Payson near the proof viewing table.  Again, thanks to all who made this card look great.