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My assistant Dan and I traveled to Ashland, OR to photograph this assignment for the July issue of Natural Health. The Boutenkos (or Raw Family as they are more commonly known) live a pure raw food diet and were super cool! They made us feel really welcome in their home and gave us some cool cookbooks and DVDs. We photographed them making a tasty raw pizza and a spinach smoothie, eating at their table, and hiking in a nearby park. The shots came out great.

At one critical point during the shoot, Dan was outside with a strobe shooting in to the kitchen for some back lighting. All of sudden, it started hailing really hard just I was taking the critical shot of the smoothie being poured into a glass. Dan had an umbrella outside because it looked a little stormy. His quick thinking saved the shot, himself, and the light all at once. Cheers to Dan!

I had a lot of fun shooting this one with Jen Davison and Rachel DeSchepper for Portland Spaces. The shot’s really about the product, but there’s so much life in Joanna’s face that it really makes it something special. I also love the bold color tones all complimenting each other. Fun stuff!

Recently, I photographed a remodeled home for my newest architectural client, Jessica Helgerson Interior Design. Jessica’s clean and modern design aesthetic was perfect for a young hip family relocating to Portland. From what she tells me, it was a pretty striking change between what the house was and what it is today. It was a real joy to photograph and we got some great shots.

An article about Jessica and the home was published today on Design*Sponge, a website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney.

Here’s one of my favorites from the shoot.

UPDATE: Design*Sponge’s Grace Bonney spotlighted one of my photos of the EMP Museum at the end of last week. Thanks Grace!

April was a great month for me in Portland Monthly. I shot three full page spreads, two for the April issue and one for the Northwest Golf annual special edition that came with the issue. Here are the tearsheets.

Portland Monthly April 2008 | Cornershop: Noun | AD: Pete Ivey

Noun is a cute antique boutique store in the Belmont Neighborhood of Portland, OR. The owner, Stephanie Sheldon (pictured), was super nice and really fun to photograph. I onlysed two lights for this shot. One light in the main room bouncing off the ceiling to on camera right. Another light in the anteroom bounced off the ceiling area on camera left. Kind of a classic foreground/background cross lighting technique to build contrast, but softened because the light is indirect.

Portland Monthly April 2008 | Hitlist: Pistils | AD: Michael Novak

Like the Cornershop, Hitlist focuses on local business in Portland. To illustrate the unique garden stores you find around town, Mike and I shot Pistils on NE Mississippi. These busy shots can be a little daunting, but the trick is to find your angle then simplify the styling. You want it to look neat and organized, but not sterile. Plus adding a human element always helps make an interior come to life. I used two lights again, but this time all the lights were bounced off camera left. The store had no windows on that side, so I wanted to reduce the fall off from the daylight coming in from the right. I didn’t want it to look fake either, just a nice mix.

Northwest Golf 2008 | The Gear Guide | AD: Jason Blackheart

For this studio shot, I was given a challenge. Jason asked me to shoot these four golf clubs and make it look like a Jill Greenberg shot. Since Jill shoots mostly people and monkeys, I was really excited by the idea of replicated her lighting style with a shiny metal product. I was really happy with the results and so was the magazine. I’ll be posting a tutorial on how it did soon.

It’s not often you get to shoot a feature for the premier of a new magazine. But, that’s just what I did this month. Portland Spaces launched on January 10th, 2008. The Portland home + lifestyle focused magazine features some great articles on homes, design, green living, and products. For my piece “Desirables”, we shot one stylized opener and 3 pages worth of product knock-outs. The spread came out awesome and I wanted to share the first page with you. Thanks to Jen Davison and Rachel DeSchepper for their art direction, product wrangling, and superior wallpapering skills. Also, big thanks to Jason Blackheart for coming to me early on about this project. Happy to be a part of the team.

Featured in photo are pendants from Design Within Reach made in New Zealand from sustainable materials.

Fall was very busy around here and it all culminated with a big month of published work in December. I was in four separate magazines and also shot all the photography for a website for a new commercial client (I did the web design and code, too. Yeah, I geek out like that sometimes). Here’s are some samples and tearsheets that I could get.

Portland Bride & Groom Feature: Glass Acts
I shot an entire feature on wedding glassware in my studio for Portland Bride & Groom. The Art Director was Samantha Gardner. It was quite a challenge to light all the various colors and shapes, but the end result was awesome. Check out the Winter 07/Spring 08 issue on newsstands now for the full article on page 89.

Portland Monthly: December Departments
This was a cool issue for me. I got to shoot all three of my specialties (people, architecture, and product) for the regular departments. I shot 2 pedicab drivers in the studio for “Mudroom”, an interior of Lolo Restaurant for “Food + Drink” section opener, and Wonder Drink Sparkling Kombucha Tea for the “Pour” column.

Northwest Meetings + Events: Sue Davis Profile
Unless you work for a hotel or a resort, you might not get this magazine. Even still, this is one my favorite portraits I’ve taken this year and I will probably add it to my LIFE portfolio. I shot it in studio using available light on simple gray background. You just can’t beat being on the northeast corner of a building. Plus, we’re on the second floor, so the light is consistent pretty much all day.

Seattle: Best of 2007 - Velvet the Dog
Matt Bryant, his dog velvet, and couple of their friends were hiking Mt. Hood last winter and fell in to a ravine and got stuck during a snowstorm. They were all rescued safely and the rescuers attributed their overnight survival to the warmth that Velvet gave everyone. She was a great dog to photograph and Matt was the nicest guy you ever met. Learn more about their story here: click here

fem-ology.com
This was a huge project for me. Not only did I shoot the model, the products, and all the detail photographs, but I also did all the web design. I’ve been doing web design since 1998, so it’s something I still do from time to time. Fem-ology is new natural organic feminine care care product line made right here in Oregon. The owner Carrie Von Keil is just starting out and I wish here the best on her new venture!

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We’ll that’s about it. Like I said, it was a busy fall and I’m looking forward to a busy first quarter 2008. Should have some more gig updates soon.

-lincoln

Rentrak Corporation - 2007 Portraits

I owe a big thank you to Portland Monthly for this one. I shot Paul Rosenbaum, CEO for Rentrak, for the July issue of Portland Monthly (here’s an outtake from it). It really impressed the folks over at Rentrak and they hired me to photograph all their executives. Their biggest concern was to not do the typical headshot. They wanted the shots to be friendly, not stuffy or typical executive portraiture. I was happy to oblige. All in all, we shot 14 executives in one day. We did two set ups and shot everyone in similar way so it would look good together in their annual report and website. I used one lens all day long, the Canon 50mm 1.2. What a beauty!

American Way - The American Airlines In Flight Magazine - September 15, 2007 Issue

For this assignment, American Way sent me all over town to shoot architecturally significant spots for a feature story. The shots here are The Portland Building (designed by Michael Graves) and the inside of the Multnomah County Library (designed by A.E. Doyle). Not pictured here, but in the magazine, are Lawrence Halprin’s Lovejoy Fountain Plaza, The Gordon House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (in Silverton, OR), and Pietro Belluschi’s Commonwealth Building. The cool thing about the assignment was learning some history about each building. Here’s a link to the whole story.

The Scientist Magazine - Dee Denver - October 2007 Issue

This was fun assignment. Dee Denver is a scientist at OSU. His research of nematode mutation rates are considered fundamental achievements in the field. The hard part of the assignment was figuring out where to shoot Dee. Nematodes are microscopic worms and most of his work is done in a lab, under a microscope, or with an genome sequencer. I really didn’t want to do the typical guy in the lab shot, so when I found out the Dee and his team are collecting nematodes from rotting apples in orchards, I thought, “perfect!”

The shot ran full bleed on page 85 of this month’s issue. Here’s a link to The Scientist Magazine website.

Portland Monthly - Vail Horton - October 2007 Issue

Shot for Portland Monthly’s Rainmaker feature, Vail Horton is the founder and CEO of Keen Mobility. Keen makes high-tech crutches, canes, and other mobile assistance products for disabled people. Not only do the crutches look cool, but they’re lightweight and super-durable. Read more about in this month’s Portland Monthly.

- lincoln