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Photographs for an Interior Design Job in Farmington

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A local interior designer named Jenna (JM Design Sparrow) is a great Interior Designer and artist, and she asked me to photograph one of her recent projects in Farmington, particularly the client’s bathroom.

There was a lot of attention to detail and I wanted to make sure that I captured, not only the look of the room, but the feel of it as well. I really liked this necklace holder on the vanity, for instance, and shot this with some purposeful optical blur for a nice abstract look.

This tub is one of the center points of the room, and I wanted to make sure that I showcased it with both panoramas as well as close images.

This panorama below was particularly fun as well as difficult to shoot. It’s hard to shoot a long image like this in tight quarters like a home, while keeping vertical lines and perspectives correct. I love how it turned out.

The entire bathroom was made up of custom and unique pieces of furniture, that all went together very well.

Even the details like the faucet and the lights were special finds and meant a lot to them.

There were some other areas too that were particularly fun areas to design, and she wanted images of these areas as well. These were mainly areas of gathering and relaxation.

Then while finishing up, I photographed the family’s tulips on their kitchen table. I just liked the colors and how they were lit naturally.

If you need some interior design work, Jenna’s the person to talk to. She loves integrating people’s personality and tastes into their own home, and solving the problems of texture, colors and space.

And if you need some great interior images, perhaps for a home your selling or to show off a design job, then give me a call. Hopefully you can see from my work that I am an absolute technician, focusing on the details of lines, balance, exposure, and specific lighting to create a professional and polished image, while at the same time giving you something that is new, creative, and interesting to look at too.

And now is a great time to set up your Spring appointment for your family portrait. Give me a call at 801-728-3317 to schedule a time. And feel free to browse my main website at BryCox.com.

Portrait for American Idol’s Carmen Rasmusen’s New Project

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Carmen Rasmusen has recorded a new project for Desert Book, a talk on CD!  For the project, she came in for a fun photo shoot to get a great image for the cover of the CD.   This was the favorite and ended up being the cover.

It was a fun shoot and we created some amazing images  — some smiling, some serious, some color, and some black and white.  Here is another one of my favorites.

But in the end, the top image won out and the CD is now finished and on shelves.  Here’s an image I took with my iPhone while strolling through the store.

You can get the CD here from the official Deseret Book shopping site, deseretbook.com.  Also, check out Carmen’s commentaries as a blogger for the Desert News.  Good luck on your new CD, Carmen!

Musician Portraits for Scott Foster’s New CD

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Scott Foster is coming out with a new CD, and we created some awesome images for his project.  We started in the studio and then moved to one of my favorite outdoor locations.

This first image is very captivating.  The expression is great and the selective focus is real, created in camera and not in post-production.  There’s something so great about true, organic, soft-focus and selective focus.  This image is reminiscent to me of a Rolling Stone interview portrait.

Everything we created in the portrait studio was done with the mindset of being different and unique.  A CD has to stand out and almost ask to be picked up, and the images have to do that.  I used a very edgy fashion lighting style on these to create a different look, mixed with a unique stance and fun background.

We then switched it up to Scott playing his electric guitar, again with selective focus before moving outside.

We then went on location to one of my favorite places because it’s so far from anywhere.  As far as you look on the horizon, you won’t see civilization.  We are really in the middle of nowhere, and the colors and textures are so great!  I really like the lines in this particular image, and how they all work with the guitar’s neck.

And here’s the same image in a multi-toned black and white version, because it just looks so cool!  The textures really pop this way.

I love working outside and using the clouds and terrain in Utah.  They add so much drama to an outdoor image if you know how to light it.  Shooting in the desert with exposed sun is very difficult to do well — which is why I love it so much.  Few people can create images like this in direct sunlight.  There is a trend amongst new photographers to call themselves “Natural Light” photographers, because they don’t know lighting and can’t work inside and can’t work outside unless it is in shade or the sky is overcast.  There is no control and their images all look flat and dull.

Contrast that look with these images.  They have depth, they have real highlights and shadows, the colors are real and dynamic, and the sky and scene has drama, and all the lines and colors all work together.  There is no “plastic” looking photoshop effects.  Everything is real and because of that, you feel like you can step into these images.

We ended the shoot with Scott walking away, feeling that this could perhaps be the back of the CD or a foldout page inside.  It gives room for text and design work.

 

And here is the same image, but in my special multi-toned black and white.  Both are so cool!  Which one do you like?

Well, I can’t wait to see the final CD design and hear all the new recordings that Scott has been working on.  He is a great musician and a real artist and it was fun to be able to create this images for him.

If you’d like to check out his music and get his new CD, his website is TheRealScottFoster.com.

Well thanks for looking and if you need some new portraits for your project, business, or family, give me a call.  801-728-3317.  And browse my main website, BryCox.com and my blog at BryCox.com/blog.