Sunday, February 12, 2012

Monday, March 29, 2010

We also make art . . .

Even though we are listed as a Boston Corporate Portrait Photographer in the search engine, we occasionally create "fine art." Our homage to Piet Mondrian was accepted in a show at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln MA.

Here is our photo:



Stanley Rowin Photography|Boston area corporate photography.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

How many lights does it take to shoot a box?

In our last post we showed a product photo from our portfolio and now we describe how we lit this rather plain product to make it pop.

Click on the photo to enlarge it some. We used 5 lights to light the "Product" in the center of the photo. Light "E" is a white light in a bank lighting the front of the box. Light "C" with a yellow gel, puts a yellow glow on the box at the top right of the photo in the previous post. "A" and "B" are just things that block the light of "C" to create a shadow on the box. The remaining lights add more directed glows around the product.


Any questions?

Sunday, February 28, 2010

It's all about Marketing

To be polite, the business of taking portraits and head shots of corporate executives has been getting very competitive recently. My web site portfolio of professional portraits of corporate executives in Boston and New England, has worked well for decades, but 2 years ago I knew I would need to supplement that portfolio with more work directed to a different market. So I re-opened my photo studio and now have added product photography to my business model. My new Boston Product Photographer BostonProductPhotography.com, web site is now online.


In an effort to share knowledge, lets look at one of my studio product shots and discuss in the next post the background of this shot, and how we lit it:


Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Rebooting the blog with a wall of chewing gum

We're rebooting the WikiProPhoto blog to focus more on photography, the art of photography and the art of creation of images. There will be less emphasis on the politics of professional photography and more frequent posts featuring our photos. We'll have "how-to-photos," but more importantly, humorous photos from our virtual shoe-box.

For instance, Jan, Barb and I were biking through Unseen Holland a while ago and I came across an alley, where the residents had planted years of chewed gum. Here is a detail from my photo, "Gum Wall:"

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Inside the Polaroid Archives - Pt 3

Hello!

We've moved this post to our "Boston Photographers Blog."
You can use this link to get to this post:
http://stanstudio.com/Boston_Photo_Blog/inside-the-polaroid-archives-pt-3/

Thanks!

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Inside the Polaroid Instant 40" x 80" Camera

Hello!

We've moved this post to our "Boston Photographers Blog."
You can use this link to get to this post:
http://stanstudio.com/Boston_Photo_Blog/inside-the-polaroid-instant-40-x-80-camera/

Thanks!