In March, Portland-based River City Bicycles held their annual bike sale. I was also looking for something interesting to do some product photography testing with. I figured it would be the best excuse ever to buy a new bike! So, after much agonizing over several different models I finally settled on the swift, carbon fiber [...]
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Wrestling For a Good Cause
April 5, 2012 – 1:56 pm
Multnomah County receives 15,000 reports of child abuse annually. Children’s Relief Nursery provides parents and children a connection to a healthier lifestyle. Every year they do a great fundraiser called the “Iron Chef” competition. As Polara’s main food photographer, my crew and I tried to help by photographing many of the talented chefs who donated [...]
Product Photography – The Wacom Cintaq 24HD graphics tablet
February 29, 2012 – 12:31 pm
I recently had the chance to work on some product photography with Amin and Kelly from Ziba Design. The new Cintaq 24HD graphics tablet was a challenge to work with, but with collaboration of Amin and myself we were able to create some visually stunning images. This Tablet is cool because the drawing pad is [...]
Video – The Business Challenge
February 24, 2012 – 11:53 am
Recently my friend Shawn Busse of Kinesis Inc. came to me with a video project for the front page of his new website. The goal was to clearly and succinctly explain the three main challenges of marketing for small businesses. We decided that we wouldn’t script it, and instead we would film it in a [...]
The Bounty of Oregon – Eggs
February 15, 2012 – 3:26 pm
One of the fun things about being a food photographer is that I get to experiment a lot. The Bounty of Oregon project is one of my favorite experiments. It’s a series of photographs and videos that I’ve made in collaboration Jeremy Dunham our in-house videographer/guru, conceived to feature local ingredients in their natural state [...]
Playing with Laser Triggered Splash and Pour Photography
February 1, 2012 – 2:58 pm
Here at Polara we’ve said before that learning from your fellow photographers is simply the best way to learn photography, but there is one exception to that rule and that is “to learn to do it yourself”. When you can combine the two you are guaranteed a winning outcome. We had felt for sometime that [...]
In Remembrance of Steve Jobs
October 6, 2011 – 4:53 pm
When my daughter, who now is 23, was in middle school, it was time for the annual science fair. We were old hands by this time at science fairs having been through it a couple of times with her older brother. We had all the science project suggestion books (this was pre-Internet, if such a [...]
Portraits of Influence
October 4, 2011 – 1:48 pm
One of the wonders of photography is how time imbues images with power. These images are a series of Nobel Prize Laureates, former heads of state and famous political figures. Each of them traveled to Portland over the last couple of years as part of the World Affairs Council International Speaker Series. It is a step [...]
Live From Nowhere Near You Volume II
August 8, 2011 – 1:54 pm
A while back I shot some PR photos for my friend Kevin Moyer. Some years ago Kevin was waiting outside a show for friends, when a street musician caught his ear. Kevin remembers that “He was better than the band we had just seen and all of these ‘music fans’ were leaving the show with [...]
Cherry Blossom Wind Storm
May 3, 2011 – 12:50 pm
Every year around this time the cherry trees drop their petals in our parking lot. Yesterday the wind picked up and the ensuing cherry blossom wind storm was too pretty not to film.