Watch Collections

Watch Collections

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

These are not all my watches. It was a product photo session in collabration with Henry Collantes.
It was quite interesting how we figure out this setup. Henry originally wanted to take a shot similar to one he saw on Watchuseek. Essentially it looks very similar to the Seiko Orange Monster in this set. After numerous trial and error, we just couldn’t light the background and keep the bezel of the watch white. After some thoughts, I dig into my arsenal of photo tips and decided to try some light painting technique. Hold and behold, that created the effect that we were looking for with the limited equipments that we had.
Many thanks to Henry for spending hours with me on figuring this out. Not to mention Henry makes a great flash holder.
This first shot is a collection. Subsequent are the individual images.

The only post processing done was cropping. All shot were done in a Soft Light Box with a sheet of black acrylic.

Shot with Canon 5D MKII, Canon 24-70mm 2.8L, Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro, Canon 480 Speedlight, Surefire Digital 2 Ultra (Thanks Chad for making buy this!! Finally found some good use for it)

Watch Collections

Fortis

Seiko Orange Monster

Oris

Rolex

Oris

Oris

Panerai

Panerai

Panerai

Cartier

Oris

Steinhart

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Crystal and Devon Engagement Portrait

Crystal and Devon

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

This was a Portrait session done on March 14, 2010. It was actually a photo seminar put up by Jigar (A local wedding/engagement photographer) He setup a 4 part session starting with planning, actual shooting, editing, and post processing. He was able to find this couple (Crystal and Devon) whom recently got engaged. There were 7 photographers chasing them around North Beach, SF for a good 3 hours. Very nice couple and quite photogenic.
The day was beautiful. I couldn’t asked for a better photo shooting weather. It was a big change from all the raining weather we been getting here. As such, I found out that I ended up under exposing a lot of my shots since there was so much light around. The session started around 2:00pm and ended around 5:00pm. The set show here are my favorite 5 pictures. The couple were wearing a black and white theme thus I had to leverage their clothing and converted couple shots as black and white.
Overall, it was a great experience. Learned quite a bit about how to approach and converse with the subjects. I must say, doing couple portraits really made me think more about composition and modeling the couple.
All the shots were done with Canon 5D MKII and Canon 85mm 1.2L

The Intimate Close Up

Love in the Air

Portrait for the Family

Hold me In

Come with Me

Cars!!

Luigi

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

I got inspired to take this set of photos after staring at my son’s new toy he got from attending a recent birthday party. I decided to gather up all his Disney’s Cars toys and do a quick set.

All shot with Canon 5D MKII, Canon 24-70mm 2.8L

Lighting McQueen Red

Lighting McQueen Orange

The King

Chick Hicks

Luigi

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Impeach NOW

Impeach NOW

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

This was from the Photo shoot back on 03.14.2010

found this interesting in one of the alley way on spray on the ground…

Shot with Canon 5D MKII and Canon 85mm 1.2L

Fondant Rose and Lilly Wedding Cake

Fondant Rose and Lilly Wedding Cake

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

Maggie’s First Fondant Wedding Cake featuring Roses and Lillies.

Shot with Canon 5D MKII, 24-70mm 2.8L

Easter Cookie

Easter Cookie

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

Maggie’s Easter Sugar Cookie Basket

Shot with 5D MKII, 24-70 2.8L

Spam

Spam

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

More product shots with Canon 5D MKII, 24-70mm 2.8L

酒

酒

Originally uploaded by d.clin.design

More product shots with Canon 5D MKII, 24-70mm 2.8L

Domo-kun Flip

Domo-kun Flip

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More product shots with Canon 5D MKII, 24-70mm 2.8L

Fallen Angel @ Saints Peter and Paul Church in SF

I was doing a Portrait Photo class hosted by Jigar in North Beach, SF. While walking around shooting the couple, I came upon this individual on the step of the Saints Peter and Paul Church right across from Washington Park. I like to say these two pictures are my favorite out of the 3 hours of shooting. Some of the pictures of the couples turned out great, but I don’t think it stirs the emotions I get from this picture. The worst part about it is I actually didn’t have any cash on me since I wasn’t expecting to spend any money on this shoot. Would easily love to give him some change.
Anyways, both picture shot with Canon 5D MKII and Canon 85mm 1.2L

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel