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- Brochures & Booklets
- Magazine Advertisements
- Point of Purchase Displays
- Catalogs & Manuals
- Sell Sheets & Folders
- Rack Cards & Hang Tags
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- Product Packaging
- Email Blasts
- Architectural Signage
- Logos & Stationery
- Newsletters
- Announcements
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- Calendars
- Postcards & Mailers
- Greeting Cards
- Posters & Banners
- Menus & Placemats
... whatever you need.
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- Product Photography
- Bottle Shots
- Lifestyle Photography
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- Event Photography
- Food Photography
- Interiors
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- Executive Portraiture
- Studio or Location
... whatever you need.
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These samples depict the work I've done in the wine industry, but you can see that my skills will also increase sales of the products or services your company offers.
I conceive layouts for newsletters such as these for the wine clubs of the Terlato Wine Group, and provide compelling typography and images for each newsletter issue.
I created a sales brochure for Chimney Rock Winery's Elevage Blanc. Their tasting room manager liked my cover photo so much that he asked me to have 16"x 20" canvas prints made of it so they could sell them in his tasting room. |
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I enjoy inventing graphics
which will draw people to
special events. Even before the viewer reads the text, they're sold on the event by the grapic imagery.
A recipe is far more enticing with an actual photo of the food. Food photography requires special techniques and just the right equipment. People often look at one of my food photos and say, "That really makes me hungry!" For me that's the ultimate compliment. If they had simply admired the techniques I used, I wouldn't have accomplished my goal.
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 was in the vineyards at dawn capturing candid photos of the 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 photographed some small cakes to illustrate the birthday greetings emailed to winery 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 about half way down the list on 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.
I create publicity portraits of corporate executives and other key personnel.
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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I'm happy using available light (as that candid photo of Marisa), or using studio lights as I did in the photos taken in the dark barrel room.
The Terlato Wine Group had three of my harvest photos made into 5'x8' banners to decorate a harvest celebration dinner. I was really pleased with how well they
turned out.
See
other photos and the rest of the story here>>.
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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.
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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 (15mm), 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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