Josh dropped by the studio yesterday and asked me to photograph some of the most challenging objects I’ve ever photographed in my long career as a product photographer in Los Angeles–clear light bulbs on a white background. Previously, my most difficult subject has been a clear wine glass–but these bulbs ended up being even more difficult to photograph. But, after spending quite a bit of time getting them into position and adjusting my light sources, I was able to clearly delineate every edges of these highly reflective products. Also, as you can see here, I also photographed a ballast–but that was easy by comparison.

Fleabass returned to my Los Angeles studio several weeks ago for some more photographs of their latest bass guitars, straps, and a super-secret project I can’t talk about right now. Here are a few images from the shoot.

Tonight Friedericy Dolls came by the studio for yet another photography session. As a product photographer, I’m always thrilled to see repeat clients. Here are just a few dolls from tonight’s session.

Jane dropped by my downtown Los Angeles studio for a few product photos of her cat figurines. She’s ramping up her company, Catatude, and wanted to get some nice product photography finished so she could get them out to her vendors.

Today the folks from Friedericy Dolls dropped by the studio for a product photography session before one of their big shows. It was great to have them as always, but it was a particularly nice treat for me as I was able to run my new Nikon D3x 24 megapixel camera through it’s paces. As you can see here, I’m awfully pleased with the performance of my new tool. Also, as you can see from these photographs, the dolls were photographed on a white background. However, the background in these examples has not clipped clipped. In many examples of product photography that you see in magazines, photographers may completely remove any hit of background from the images; we refer to that as clipping. For this client however, they want a visible background and thus that’s why I don’t clip these photos.

Girl with Unicorn

Girl with Music Box

Girls Playing Castle

Alice in Wonderland

Pierot from commedia dell’arte

Columbine from commedia dell’arte

Little Red Riding Hood

Shakespeare

Alice in Wonderland