knoll holiday portraits

Knoll hosted a semi-private holiday portrait session. It is like a candy store for designers, you bring your loved ones and get photographed in iconic knoll pieces. Anita my portraitist wife who is addicted to capturing the best of her subjects had a blast directing and capturing the various groupings, there were a few pets that behaved better than some kids - just sayin' ;)

Some behind the scenes here - I rigged up an Octabank for wrap around lighting and hooked up an iPad mini with HDMI connection to a TV for a manual photo booth feedback for the sitters, a giant selfie screen of sort. It worked but became a distraction for kids as they kept looking at the TV. Now perhaps someday we can have floating screens that hover above our heads at the camera position, now that would be cool!

behind the scenes - canada goose photoshoot

Photographed the new Canada Goose office designed by figure3. It was a fun session with the enthusiastic and friendly young hip employees who clearly enjoy their new home. There was a light fixture just slightly skewed and our solution was a canvas bag with a scarf carefully positioning on the counter-weight side, add a little bit of photoshop, all good! As usual we had some fun while working hard which included playing with the baby polar bear cub in the boardroom environmental graphic and trying on the accessories while setting them up as props.