Here's what I've been doing lately
at the Terlato Wine Group:

The Lab* in Santa Rosa asked me to take this photo of my small office.
When our company saw how effective these wall enlargements were,
we started displaying them in the public areas of the wineries.

Two 19" flat screen CRTs driven by an Intel Pentium D dual core (2.80GHz/2.79GHz) processor,
2GB of RAM, and two 1.5 terrabyte hard drive units dedicated to my photography and graphics files

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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 (above).

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To convey the concept of barrel tasting (tasting wines drawn from the barrel into your glass) to advertise a barrel tasting event of our wine clubs, I created the photo at the left, below:

I combined the two photos at the right to get the image I wanted.
This Photoshop masking method is explained in one of my tutorials

I had a 19"x28" framed enlargement of this barrel tasting image made to hang next to the three-bottle photo (above). A copy of this enlargement now hangs in the Tangley Oaks Mansion, headquarters of Terlato Wines International in Lake Bluff, IL.

Variations on this image have been very handy in illustrating these events
at a couple of our wineries, both in print and on the web.

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I combined twelve vertical photos to create this 16"x60" vineyard panorama. It depicts the first crop of the Terlato Family Vineyards estate vineyard just above Rutherford Hill winery. A copy of this panorama* hangs in Tangley Oaks as well.

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Last October I went to Sanford Winery and Vineyards specifically to photograph one of our vineyards for Wine Enthusiast magazine. During the four hours I was there, I took quite a few other photos.

Six of those other photos have been enlarged and are now decorating the walls of Sanford's beautiful new tasting room. That 60x22" panorama is over their fireplace.

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I was asked to photograph our harvest last fall with the idea of having decorative banners made to decorate our Harvest Celebration dinner. Three of my images were made into five foot by eight foot banners. I was really pleased at how well these huge banners turned out.

See other photos and the rest of the story here>>.

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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 my widest lens (17mm), 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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>> More of what I've been doing at work >>

* I have my wall size enlargements made by The Lab in Santa Rosa, CA.

and (where applicable)
Rutherford Hill Winery, Chimney Rock Winery, Alderbrook Winery, Sanford Winery and/or the Terlato Wine Group