Gene X Hwang

We’ve done a lot of work shooting custom stock for various companies who don’t want to pay the royalties for stock photography. This was an outtake from a law firm and if I had to keyword it, I would call it: “Reading a book to a skeleton”

Yesterday Fareed Zakaria was the opening keynote speaker at PCBC 2007. Having read his work for quite some time, it was nice to get to meet him and listen in to his speech. Later in the afternoon, branding guru Martin Lindstrom spoke and as always we try to apply what we’re listening to while we’re shooting. Luckily for a photography company, location does matter and with the dynamic nature of events and quality and style of photography [...]

We shot an event for the Commonwealth Club where the two founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chan spoke. Afterwards there was a party at Otis and the two enjoyed a few cocktails. Both guys are really down to earth and happy to sit through being propositioned and hero-worshipped. It’s always good to see laid back guys who have hit it big and kept humble…

Annette Benning took part in City Arts and Lectures at the American Conservatory Theater this week. She was a wonderfully polite woman who we overheard offered to take her own cab to the airport, to not inconvenience her hosts, but they insisted they take her themselves. She stayed to the very end of the reception making sure to say hello to everyone and was happy to take photos with whomever wanted a shot.

Last night I was covering the 2007 NPC Contra Costa Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure Championships and guest posing was current Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler. He’s always known to go out into the crowds to pose and did that once again to the delight of the fans (even those in the balcony).

Last night being the only night I’ll be in San Francisco the rest of this month after returning from shooting up in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to go out and my friends were invited to see The Lovemakers play at the DNA Lounge in SOMA so I took along my camera and snapped a few shots off during their set. I hadn’t heard them before, but it was a pretty good show.

Last night CeU played the Independent. I had heard her music and an interview on NPR early on Friday morning and decided to check it out. The show was a great way to spend a Friday the 13th.

So I took this shot at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero today for a shoot and loved how it looks like a face. It’s the interior of the Grand Ballroom.

We (me and Kevin) were in Las Vegas the past couple of days for WPPI, being held at Paris Hotel. One of the products I think attendees were most excited about was Adobe Lightroom, released a few months ago. I was able to attend a few seminars which introduced me to a lot of neat features. While I’ve been using it regularly, I was unaware of just how dynamic it is. I have to say I’m excited [...]