Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Food Photography-Why I have the best job ever.

I've been dying to photograph some commercial work. I used to live in the commercial studio when I was a photo student and I miss it. I got to try out my new Macro lens!

This winter, the Hotel Viking invited to me to photograph their new menu. They had me over last year around this time, too, so I might start calling this my annual Viking Food Shoot! The best part is hanging out with all the fun people at the hotel, and then eating all the dishes!!

Now, usually for big national packaging jobs, most shoots have fake food made of plastic or a mixture of real food with things that aren't edible. But when you work with small businesses like me, we use real product. It can be a bit more of a challenge, but the reward is that you get to eat it when you're done!!

Here's Chef Kevin, the executive chef at the hotel:

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In photo school, people used to call me the "Pour Queen" because I used to always shoot wine pours or martini pours. Chef Kevin knew he wanted more then just lobster bisque in a bowl and I was so excited to do a pour picture again!! Can I tell you that this is the BEST lobster bisque hands down that I have ever eaten. There is a whole piece of claw meat in the middle and creme of fraiche in the bowl. Seriously, best bisque ever.

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This is Deconstructed Beef Wellington:
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Seared tuna:
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Scallops!
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Monday, February 18, 2008

petitequahog.com

I'd like to introduce you to Petite Quahog! A line of hip Newport t-shirts! My friend, Sierra started the company recently and asked me to photograph her line for their website. You can visit by clicking HERE.



I love this portrait of Sierra:

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Here's some product photos:

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

NEW WEBSITE-LAUNCHED!


My January project was a new website. (Well 1 of 3 new websites actually)

Last night, I launched the new wedding Flash site for people with hi-speed internet. Very soon, the wedding HTML site will launch for people who have slower DSL or Dial Up connections.

The site is still a bit of a work in progress-- Here's the link: New duganphotography.com

Also, since I've moved my website from the old server to the new one, none of the slideshows will be working until I move those over. When you scroll through this blog, you will see some "PAGE NOT FOUND" error messages. I'm hoping to have those corrected shortly.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Beth & David's Engagement Book!

Here's the preview for Beth & David's E-session book. I loved, loved, loved this session from July...so much fun! It was wonderful to revisit these photos and put together a beautiful book; it's such a joy to work on Beth & David's photos! I'm making a copy for the studio as well, so anyone interested in one of these for themselves can see the book in person.

When the book comes in, I'll snap some product photos to show you all the construction of the book!! =)

Saturday, February 2, 2008

It's coming...

....My new website!!! I'm hoping to be launched by early next week. I'll blog about the launch when the site is live!!