I did a similar series of the Retail Staff at Chimney Rock Winery previously.
One of the challenges in doing these individual portraits is that the entire staff has to be photographed in the 90 minutes before the tasting room opens to the public.
I took these photos of our 2009 grape harvest for use in publicity. These hard workers pick at a hectic pace from about 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 am.
I create everything except the wine labels for the four wineries: Brochures, catalogs, mailers, fliers, point of purchase displays, magazine advertisements, signage, etc. I also take nearly all of the photos I use in these graphics.
Each of the wineries has one or more wine clubs and I design and create newsletters for these clubs. Naturally, I do the photography, too.
I photographed some small cakes to illustrate the birthday greetings we email to our customers each year with a birthday discount code.
At the request of members of the Photozo digital photography forum, I've written a short tutorial explaining how the candle animation was created. The tutorial can be found near the bottom of my Tutorials Page. |
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The tasting room staff at Chimney Rock Winery asked me to create a "beauty shot" photo of their three red wines which they could sell as 18" x 24" posters.
In order to have the posters be as sharp as possible, I took the picture in three parts: bottom, middle and top. I combined these three images in Photoshop. I used friends' lawbooks for the background, but replaced the lettering with titles and "authors" appropriate to the winery.
I liked the final image, so I've had a 24"x30" print made to hang in my office. In addition to the posters, the image has been printed on greeting cards and is also available as a glass serving platter.
One
part of my
job is to
think up and
create graphics
which depict
our wine club
events.
These
announcements
are sent to
wine club
members with
their wine
shipments
and in our
e-newsletters.
I created publicity portraits of our winemakers.
This is Doug Fletcher, Terlato Wine Group's Vice President of Winemaking. |
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Rutherford Hill Winemaker, Marisa Taylor-Huffaker
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Alderbrook Winemaker,
Bryan Parker |
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Chimney Rock Winemaker,
Elizabeth Vianna
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Sanford Winery's Winemaker, Steve Fennell, was unable to attend the portrait session.
I generally prefer to photograph using available light (as that candid photo of Marisa), but the barrel rooms are very dim, so I set up studio flash lighting for the portraits I created there.
We had three of my harvest photos made into 5'x8' banners to decorate our Harvest Celebration dinner. I was really pleased at how well they
turned out.
See
other photos and the rest of the story here>>.
| We send a recipe in each of our wine club shipments which will 'pair' well with one of the wines in the shipment. These recipes are created by our Executive Chef in Chicago. We've begun illustrating each recipe with a photo of the prepared dish. A terrific local chef prepares the meal and I photograph it. |
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Rutherford Hill Winery offers catered dinners in our wine aging caves. I took photos of one of our dinners for use in print material and on
the web.
The
caves are quite dim, as many elegant restaurants, so the shutter speed in these photos is nearly a full second.
Even though I used a wide angle lens (16mm), I had to combine four photos to create the photo above, to let the viewer see down the length of two of the tunnels.
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