So today it was beautiful and sunny in the afternoon but this morning I had an assignment to shoot for Riverbed. They were moving into their new offices officially and they had a parade to march from the old location on 2nd Street down to their new digs at 199 Fremont. As you can see, the weather wasn’t quite cooperating. Luckily our trusty Canon 1D series bodies were up for the rain, even if my outerwear and [...]

Today we shot the annual San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s CityBeat Luncheon. The mayor was there as usual and the Chamber had some interesting poll results they shared with everyone. Unsurprisingly the #1 issue facing San Francisco they found was homelessness & panhandling (41%) with homeownership & cost of homes coming in in 2nd (25%).

Shoe and fashion designer Steve Madden was at Nordstrom today. One of the interesting things he talked about with his fans/shoppers was when two younger kids asked him why he loved shoes, and what was the most amazing thing that happened to him.

I dunno if every photographer does this but when you get a new lens or other equipment it’s hard not to just wanna use it right away. It doesn’t result in much of anything except that you can test the thing out. In that tradition, we just got a fisheye in and here’s the ceremonial (and boring) first shot (that’s Andrea designing an album in the foreground with her back to us and Kevin intently staring at [...]

So this is the setup we used today for our headshots. This is quite a typical setup that we use when we have one shooter taking care of everything. There’s a seamless roll, 2 lights, a reflector and single umbrella. Pretty portable and easy to setup and breakdown.

We’ll be covering the annual San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s CityBeat Luncheon on the 19th of March. Look for our ad in the program and at the event. This year the event is at the San Francisco Marriott.

Today I received a DVD and replacement compact flash card from Lexar. As is wont to happen with any technical product, eventually something may go wrong and that’s what happened with this card. It had performed flawlessly for thousands upon thousands of shots and numerous shoots. However, this last time it worked fine in camera but attempting to download the images, it crapped out so I sent it off to Lexar after trying a few image rescue [...]

Another nice thing about our jobs is getting to learn about things. With the more technical things, it’s often hard to know what’s going on, but we got to shoot on a city tour this week and I learned a lot more about San Diego. The military has a strong presence here, and there are two aircraft carriers berthed in San Diego Bay, with the USS Nimitz being the one show in this photo. It was amazing [...]