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New work – Glass blowing studio

Rodrick — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:32:35 +0000

Some stills from the studio of Mariella mcKinley as she produced some of her wonderful work.

Amanda King – Glass artist

Rodrick — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:41:43 +0000

One of the great things about my job is that from week to week, I get to work with some astoundingly talented people. One such person, Amanda King, recently asked me to help document some of her work for an award submission.

I didn’t really know what to expect when I arrived, so you can imagine my delight when I saw this piece, perfectly situated on a wall in her studio:

How easy can my life get! Point camera, set up lights, press buttons, look official, click. Job done.

Of course in reality nothing is ever that simple, but the joy of working with artists like Amanda is that the result becomes a real collaborative effort, and I get a huge thrill from seeing that together, with what I can bring to the task at hand we are able to do justice to that original spectacular vision.

New work – Liquid petals

Rodrick — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:44:20 +0000

So here’s the fruits of last week’s labours: a pair of images featuring a line of crystal glassware.

The basic premise was to to create a feeling of a breezy summer day by the sea for the champagne flute, and a warm evening on a city terrace for the red wine glass. I was thinking of adding a liquid splash, but give it a bit of a twist by creating that motion and splash using flower petals.

I knew it was possible with some careful planning and some clever post work, so I set about shooting the static glass, and then gradually adding petals in motion which were frozen in flight with a Broncolor pack set to a short flash duration.

Careful blending of a few base exposures in post gave me a starting point for the liquid, and then around 30 petals were masked in for each image to create the shape of the pour.

I think the result links in well with the original concept of a summer’s day and evening by the sea, and the petals nicely suggest the motion of liquid being poured into the glass.

New work – Smashing!

Rodrick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:47:01 +0000

Another in my series of “Three vaguely round things shot from above” (working title, ahem).

This shoot was criminally good fun, and although it was quite a challenge to break things in a visually interesting way, it was nice to be a bit haphazard with the styling to give it an ‘accidental’ feeling.

I wanted the look of the images to be almost forensic, lit like a crime scene. Could work as a coffee promo – I’m apt to do this sort of thing of a morning without a decent amount of caffeine!

And yes, I did eat a bit of the jam with a spoon, carefully avoiding glass shards. No point letting it all go to waste, I say!