Chef Michael Toscano of Perla
Chef Andy Ricker of Pok Pok Phat Thai
Noah Bermanoff and Rae Cohen of Mile End Restaurant
Chef Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food
Toby Maloney, Joaquin Simo, Troy Sidle and Jason Cott of Pouring Ribbons Bar.
Dale May shoots for Time Out NY’s Food & Drink awards. Chefs and bartenders in their restaurants / bars.
April 29th, 201310 minutes with Daniel Day Lewis. Photographer Dale May.
March 2nd, 2013DANIEL DAY LEWIS – Best Actor Oscar Win!
10 Minutes With Daniel Day Lewis – Best Actor Oscar Winner:
Congratulations to Daniel Day Lewis for his best actor Oscar win last night – not that he needed the win for us all to know he’s the best actor of our time. Yep, I said it, he’s awesome.
It’s not often you get to stand face to face with one of your idols, so when I was asked to shoot Daniel Day Lewis, needless to say, I was pretty psyched. Although some of that excitement dissipates when your told you have ten minutes to shoot him, in a small hotel room, and his publicist tell you that you aren’t allowed to direct him. “Don’t ask him to move his arm or turn his head… he wants it to be an organic experience”. Although this makes things a bit more challenging, I totally understand his preference. He’s really not there to “act” like Daniel Day Lewis nor am I there to “direct” him to be himself.
So, I have ten minutes with my idol… how am I going to make the most of the situation? I really wanted to do 3 setups, with subtle changes in lighting and background, so I create a lighting setup that would allow me to do this by moving my position, without having to ask Daniel to change position, until the last setup. My lighting setup and description are below…
Shot #1
I set up two backgrounds, a blue one behind Daniel and a black backdrop to the left of him.
Image #1 I used a Mola dish as my main light, an Octabank as a fill and a strip bank behind him, to create an edge light. This was my “Cover” shot.
Image #2. I unplugged the edge light behind him, and moved my position to his left side – the black background was now “behind him” with Daniel in profile. He’s a nice guy with a great smile, so I was happy to capture this after a bit of small talk about Lincoln.
Image #3. I didn’t want to waste any time changing camera settings, so I used a second camera for this last shot. I used the natural window light and no strobe light for fill but instead, had my strobe’s modeling lights levels set to the perfect fill exposure. By the time Daniel walked 3 steps to the window sill, I picked up my second camera and was ready to shoot.
Here’s image #1 of Daniel Day Lewis on the cover of Italian Vanity Fair.
via Workbook blog: Zave Smith…
May 31st, 2012via Workbook blog: Zave Smith Suddenly We Have a Moment http://t.co/viCzAfke
Another flawless shoot with li…
April 11th, 2012Another flawless shoot with lifestyle photographer Michael Weschler for SCC Chicago client National Pork Board http://t.co/NmfMgMnQ
WSW artist Ophelia Chong is interviewed by the Candid Frame 4/1/12.
April 9th, 2012Ophelia Chong is an accomplished illustrator. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design, she has worked exclusively for Raygun Magazine and David Carson. As a creative director of The Workbook, she garnered five design awards for print by hiring talent and challenging them with a limited budget, but offering them an open field to create. She is represented by W+S+W/NYC for her illustration which has been in over six gallery shows and been published worldwide.
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WORKBOOK Blog – Workbook 34 Cover Photographer Gandee Vasan Interview
April 2nd, 2012
The Workbook 34 Photography edition is now arriving on tens of thousands of desks. The man who shot the cover shown above, Gandee Vasan, is a multi-award winning photographer and artist who spent ten years creating conceptual images for advertising firms in London and Amsterdam and worked at Getty Images creating some of their most evocative images. Prior to those jobs, he was an award-winning portrait painter. Gandee is also responsible for some of the most cutting-edge work in the early days of digital image manipulation, including restoration of the ceiling of the Queen’s House in Greenwich, England entirely by digital means.
Read entire interview: http://www.workbook.com/blog/7150
WSWcreative welcomes photographer Zave Smith
March 21st, 2012Lifestyle and portrait photographer Zave Smith joins the WSWcreative team.
Exuberant and poignant, philosophical and passionate, Zave Smith’s photographs capture the tangible pleasures and tactile experiences of life in close-up. Raised and trained in the Midwest, now working out of Philadelphia and New York, Zave has a special feeling for personality that suffuses his work.
WSW photographer Gandee Vasan’s image on the Spring 2012 Workbook cover.
March 20th, 2012Spring is here and so is the new Workbook with Gandee Vasan’s frogs on stems. Congratulations Gandee!!
WSWcreative welcomes Anne Albrecht Artist Agent as their Chicago affiliation AND Siri Berting Kids and Lifestyle photographer!
February 6th, 2012With agents in New York and Chicago, we can not only continue to focus on our respective regions, but now can also offer a wider range of talent to national and international markets.
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Siri Berting Kids Lifestyle photographer
WSW photographer David Bishop “Eggs en Cocotte” gets feedback from Irena Chalmers
January 17th, 2012“Your eggs en cocotte are so gorgeous I’m going to make them immediately. Fabulous photograph. Thank you for sharing it.”
Irena Chalmers
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Irena Chalmers, Writer • Speaker • Mentor
Irena Chalmers is an author and food commentator/essayist, teacher and culinary student mentor. She is recognized as the pioneer of the single subject cookbook. Her life story unfolds to reveal an unlikely journey that led to becoming a James Beard Foundation Award For Excellence: “Who’s Who” of Food and Beverage in America recipient (1988). read more about Irena: Irena Chalmers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia