Since I posted “Recalling Pierre Cardin”, there have been several requests to post some of my earlier work from my archives. I have always had the greatest respect for French Designer Guy Laroche’s work and found a couple of advertorials I did for him that appeared in VOGUE Paris and L’ Officiel magazines from the [...]
Archives
Recalling Pierre Cardin
I was just going through some of my archives and I fell on these images that I shot for “Votre Beauté” Magazine around 20 years ago. It is part of a series that I shot exclusively highlighting the designer Pierre Cardin. Marie-Elizabeth David-Boyer was the Fashion Stylist at the time. It was a rather successful [...]
Advertising
Retouching… Much Ado About Nothing
Is the April issue of French Marie Claire “throwing stones into the water? ” Their whole issue is without any retouching! Finally the readers will be exposed to the RAW truth without the artificial frills! Well, almost… We have to pass through the multiplicity of advertising pages that are as expected, heavily retouched before accessing [...]
Brands
Lost and Found… Chopard Ad Campaign
Several years ago when living in the French countryside near Paris, I kept all of my film archives in the barn next to the house. Unfortunately most of those archives were lost. Recently, I was pleased to find that Annie M. on the Fashion Spot forum found the published series from one of my Advertorials [...]
Lighting
Add Dimension to Your Flat Photos. One Post Production Technique…
The work flow I employ that is intended for press or print. When shooting in RAW which is always the case, I open an image via Bridge in to PS3 which automatically opens in Adobe Camera Raw. As stated (Now this is an alternative method to the one given at “Pentax Life”) I will sharpen [...]
