The Daily Edit – Wednesday
The Daily Edit – Tuesday
11.1.11
Marie Claire
Creative Director: Suzanne Skyes
Design Director: Kristin Fitzpatrick
Photo Director: Caroline Smith
Photo Editor: Lucy Fox
Photographer: Richard Pierce
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10.31.11
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Redbook
Creative Director: Holland Utley
Art Director: Katarine Van Itallie
Photo Director: Bruce Perez
Photo Editor: Rebecca Kimmons
Photographer: Colette de Barros
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The Daily Edit – Friday 10.28.11
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Vegas Rated
Design Director: Dean Sebring
Contributing Art Directors: Raine Bascos, Valerie Sebring
Photographer: Anthony Mair
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The Daily Edit – Thursday
10.27.11
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GQ
Design Director: Fred Woodward
Director of Photography: Dora Somosi
Art Director: Thomas Alberty
Senior Photo Editor: Krista Prestek
Photographer: Mark Seliger
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The Daily Edit – Wednesday 10.26.11
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ESPN
Creative Director, Print and Digital Media: John Korpics
Senior Director, Design: Jason Lancaster
Art Directors: Mike Leister, Marne Mayer, John Yun
Senior Deputy Photo Editor: Nancy Weisman
Deputy Photo Editor: Jim Surber
(1-3) Photographer: Francesco Carrozzini
(3 spread) Photographer: Jeff Reidel
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The Daily Edit – Tuesday
10.25.10
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Ebony
Creative Director: Darhil Crooks
Associate Art Director: Lynette L. Galloway
Senior Photo Editor: Dudley M. Brooks
Photographer: Sheryl Nields
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The Daily Edit – Friday
10.21.11
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Russh Magazine.com
Fashion Editor: Gillian Wilkins
Photographer: Nick Dorey
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The Daily Edit – Thursday
10.20.11
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Fortune
Design Director: Emily Kehe
Deputy Art Director: Michael Solita
Illustrator: Brian Stauffer
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The Daily Edit – Wednesday
10.19.11
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Snowboarder
Art Director: Chris Noble
Photo Editor: Ryan “Huggy” Hughes
Photographer: Lorenz Holder
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10.18.11
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Esquire
Design Director: David Curcurito
Art Director: Stravinski Pierre
Photo Director: Michael Norseng
Photo Editor: Alison Unterreiner
Photographer: Brock Davis
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Heidi: How long did the photoshop work take for that image?
Brock: Not long, I only use photoshop to clean up an image and color correct. I prefer to work organically when it comes to creating visual props and pieces. No photoshop was done on the stallion. My friend Amy made the prop, we decided it would be best to use a model horse from a toy store and cut it in half. The wig was wrapped and styled around the torso of the horse.
What was the inspiration for that, a hood ornament? How much word play goes on in your mind when thinking up solutions? Do you have you a process you go through?
Hair grooming was a big focus of the article, I knew that I wanted to show a man with a bold hairstyle.
The first thing that came to mind was a pompadour which is meant to be bold and dramatic, but I wanted to take it a step further so I added the animal shape. I was thinking about animals in dramatic poses and I remembered the Lone Ranger’s horse Silver. The shape of a stallion rearing up seemed to fit the shape of a pompadour, so I decided to go with it.
Did you work with a hairstylist?
No, my friend Amy and I did the styling ourselves. Esquire had requested that the model be a red head, so I asked my friend Gabe to model. Amy found a wig that matched his coloring and we assembled the prop.
For your Rapala video: how did you get the fish to drive?
The fish was a prop made by a place in Toronto. It was made to look and move realistically. The gills and mouth were wired electronically to open and move as they would in the water. I wanted the framing to show the fish behind the wheel, but I didn’t want to show how the fish was holding onto the wheel, or sitting in the seat of the car. I didn’t think those details were necessary and could possibly be distracting. The main thing was to show the fish just being a fish, with a moving wheel in front of him. This image edited around the car actually driving down the road would work well make it seem like the fish is tearing down the road. The car was placed on a trailer, and pulled down the road. The trailer is a rig designed to hold a vehicle so that it can be filmed on the outside and around the vehicle easily, while still maintaining the motion of driving down the road. At the end of the spot, we threw a fake rubber fish out of the car to make it look like the fish dives out of the door. The final shot is a real fish swimming off in the lake.
What can you tell me about the development of the Harley Davidson work?
The Harley ‘Build Yours’ campaign was for the HD Parts and Accessories division. P&A is all about giving riders the chance to customize their bikes. The idea came about when I was thinking how interesting it would be to drop a motorcycle from a great height and when it hits the ground it explodes into hundreds of parts and the parts form the shape of the person who customized the bike. That was the feel were going for. We worked with a company in London called First Base imaging. They flew out to Minneapolis for the shoot. We dismantled 3 bikes all the way down to the last bolt. Each piece was photographed. It was a meticulous and tedious production. I wanted all of the pieces to be in proportion to each other when arranged on the floor. Each ad went through about 30 versions before getting to the final image. We photographed models and in photoshop placed all the appropriate pieces to create the image. It was a long project but in the end I think it turned out successful.
Craig Cutler’s CC52 Project: 1 shoot a week for a year
Heidi: With the CC52 Project did you start out with a grocery list of photography fundamentals that you wanted to explore in unique and challenging ways? For instance: The foil triptychs seem to be a pure light and shape study.
Craig: I’ve always worked on my own, the difference now is the seven day deadline to complete a project and move to a new idea within the next seven days. Whether I like it or not, it’s mood driven.
What has been the most surprising to you about this project and what have you learned about yourself as a photographer?
I tried not to fall into a routine and allow myself to have an open mind and find inspiration from different things. The most surprising aspect has been that I thought it was going to be easier. We are in week 30 and it’s a bit harder, but the images are getting better. Plus I enjoy the freedom. When shooting editorial, the amount of freedom or lack of, can be suffocating. By time the image flows through all the channels, it can get watered down. With this project I don’t answer to anyone, I’m doing it for myself, like or it not.
I enjoyed the distillation of the everyday experiences of a melting popsicle and a burning marshmallow. How challenging was that to achieve, and make it so simple and artful?
This is where the industry is going and we need things with movement. People have a hard time taking something abstract and making something of it. How do you take a marshmallow and make it interesting? Make things move and they become something more interesting. It also helps to have Victoria Granoff as your food stylist.
Have you always sketched out you ideas first?
When I sketch I mentally go through the photo shoot in my head. It’s here I decide to move forward or shut it down.
For CC12:Duct Tape: How long did each image take, and did you apply one piece at a time and then take a shot? How many rolls did you use, and whose car is that?
20 cases of duct tape. I had interns and lots of people to help. I spent 6 hours doing a very elaborate lighting for the car. In the very end, it was too fussy, the idea didn’t need lighting. I pulled it all off and ended up shooting it with one direct light. Two days of applying tape, 15 minutes to light it. The car took one full day. And it’s my car. No one would rent me a car like that allow it to be covered in duct tape.
In CC1:Ice Cubes Are those real ice cubes? How can you achieve that with no melt if they are?
Absolutely all of them are real ice cubes. Shooting quickly with 4×5, I simply made a pencil mark on the set and then built the columns. I had my assistant bring out 3 industrial sized racks of cubes, we used 30-40 cubes per take and had about 30 seconds for each take. Can’t even tell you how many times it collapsed. Unless its motion everything is shot on film, and at the end of this project I am having a opening with the prints.
Do you think there will be some sense of gravity for your last segment?
I don’t know that’s a great question, it’s so far down the road!
Do you know what that last piece will be yet, or are you inspired weekly and spontaneously?
Spontaneity is the number one important thing to me.
Tell me about this latest piece: The Vase.
Steve Meierdin, was my first assistant/ manager full time, now he freelances for me on special projects. It’s one of my favorites right now. I like it because its so simple. The base of the idea is just a white vase and white box, everything else happens around it. High tech meets low tech here, The editing had the biggest impact on that project. We adjusted the speed of the “cycles” for the editing and the audio was a stock waterfall that we manipulated. I wanted it to be unrecognizable, but paced with the video so it’s in your head but you are not quite able to place it.
The Daily Edit – Monday
10.17.11
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Surfing Magazine
Photo Editor: Peter Taras
Art Director: Chato Aganza, Scott Chenoweth
Photographer: Jimmi Cane
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The Daily Edit – Friday
10.14.11
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Bon Appétit
Creative Director: Alex Grossman
Photo Director: Alex Pollack
Art Director: Elizabeth Spiridakis
Photographer: William Abranowicz
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10.13.11
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Outdoor Life
Design Director: Sean Johnston
Photography Editor:Justin Appenzeller
Photographer: Mitch Kezar
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10.12.11
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More
Creative Director: Debra Bishop
Photo Director: Natasha Lunn
Art Director: Susanne Bamberger, Jenn McManus
Photographer: Phil Toledano
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Real Simple
Creative Director: Janet Froelich
Designer: Joele Cuyler
Photographer:Jose Picayo
Organizer: Chip Cordelli
Stylist: Kiera Coffee
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10.10.11
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