Commercial Photography Project

I've been shooting some samples for a web design company that is working on a new retail site. The site needs photos of fruit!

This first image is the kind of thing most web designers want - a clean, crisp (juicy?!) image on a blank white background so that they can fit it to the overall layout.



But as the shoot went on the creative juices (sorry!) started to flow. Although generally these types of shots aren't commercially saleable I will be adding them to my portfolio because I enjoy them. Maybe they will inspire you...

Big apple!

de-saturated apple

Antiquities Auction - Sale Catalogue Completed

Timeline Auctions Catalogue March 2012

Specialist Antiquities Auction House - Timeline have just published their sale catalogue for their March 2012 sale.

I've worked with them to photography their wide variety of fascinating lots following their 'house style' guide. Larger items, such as the Indian and Islamic vessels shown (below) have been photographed on a graduated canvas with a fairly standard lighting setup to display the items in three dimensions. However, smaller items such as the jewellery and rings are shot under a unique lighting rig, so that that the delicate detail and colours are accurately reproduced.

photos by Lance Jacob

The nature of the lots (over 1000 including the specialist coin catalogue), with their fascinating history has made this a really exciting photographic commission. Some of my favorite lots include a fossil dinosaur egg (click here), the swords and armour (click here)  and the lapis jackal amulet (click here)

For more information on Timeline Auction's sale, held in London on 14-17 March 2012 visit their web site
http://www.timelineauctions.com/auction/14/

Computer repair of the week

When a client brought me a laptop last week that would no longer connect to the internet, I suspected another case of 'dead router syndrome'. Having had a case of this myself recently it would have fitted nicely - Windows could no longer see the network over wireless and the Ethernet connection had dropped from solid, to patchy, to nothing over a few days.

On bringing the laptop back to base, it was clear that the router was blameless as my two 'known good' connections had none of it. It also failed to install any new hardware I put its way, including a 3G dongle. Reinstalling /patching the network adaptor drivers made the situation worse with drivers failing to install.

Puzzled and with the client keen to get their machine back, I went for the 'cop out option' of re-installing Windows. I hate doing this as it always feels that eats up the client's time in getting their system back the way they like it. However, in this case as the machine was used solely as an Internet terminal and almost box-fresh in its set-up it was not too much of a problem.

Result - a happy client with a machine that went straight back on the 'net as soon as Windows installed and I'd even managed to remove some freeware that had been causing issues!

Give me a call if you have a Windows PC giving you problems