Sharing The Roijoy

Celebrating shot number 2000 almost at the end of a week of product and showroom photography! It's been a very busy week. I was busy shooting all the images that are to be used on my clients website. They are a Marble, Stone and Tile company with 4 locations in the Bay area. So far I've shot over 2000 items and you can see me celebrating in the shot above during my 2000th exposure of the job! All those individual items had to be taken down of the wall by me, photographed and then put back in place. Then each display area of each showroom had to be shot. Luckily for me, all the locations played music that I love throughout the showrooms so I just got into the zone and wiggled a little to the music from time to time. By the way, marble is heavy!! I managed to also learn a lot about marble and stone products and the owner even commented that he should hire me to join his sales team. But for now I just need to check all the images and get them all delivered. Shooting th...

First and last picture sales for the month of September For some reason I had been thinking that September would be a little quiet for me giving me time to concentrate on getting more new content uploaded to the stock image libraries I contribute to. But, and I'm not complaining, the work kept on coming. I did extend my work days anyway because I felt it was still important to increase the images I have with the stock libraries. Sales are consistent and so it makes sense that the way to keep sales increasing is to increase the quantity of images I have on the various sites. I currently contribute to 12 stock image libraries! Microstock, Royalty Free and Rights Managed are all catered for and I have seen sales every weekday of the month and increasingly at weekends too. Included in the work I'm shooting for clients is a regular creation of portraits. I keep on looking at ways that I can make the portraits more than just a picture and am currently having success explorin...

Version one of this site is now up and running at http://www.shinytrinket.com All the photography on the site is done by me and shot in my studio. I've just finished another shoot for this company and the images should be integrated into the site shortly.

A few weeks ago I shot all the product for a new jewellery site - jewelry if you're in America. In total I shot 60 pieces and some additional shots with pieces being worn by a mannequin.    This week I will be doing a second shoot for this new San Francisco based company.                                                     

This is "T" who was the model for a very recent sport and fitness shoot on location in San Francisco. We started with a studio session  before going out on location to do the running, stretching and general fitness shots. "T" is a lot of fun to work with and has a really infectious laugh which she never lost - even after having to repeatedly jump into the air, run up steps and pose in all kinds of strenuous positions. She's impressively fit and as a model, a real joy to work with. Also many thanks to the 2 lighting assistants and the grip who assisted on what was a very smooth shoot!

I had lots of fun shooting this dress with a really fun model. We shot in a kitchen using an umbrella and 2 speedlites. The model is Carla. She's based in Wisconsin but I've worked with her before here in San Francisco. We really worked the dress which is really a one-piece shortie outfit. But very cute! The shoot was about an hour and everyone was happy with the final images.

A page from the Bleuflamme site I've just shot 3 websites for 3 different Clients in the city. The Bleuflamme site is up and running now and, except for the "Bleuflamme Live" page, all the photography (including all the fabric swatches), and videos on the site were shot, retouched, and edited by me. The 2nd site I shot is a jewelry company and hopefully they will be live in the next few days. Once they are live then I can show the work I've done. And the 3rd site is for an Artist based here in San Francisco. Again, once the site is live I will be able to feature the work here. I continue to submit and sell stock images through various photo image sites. In August I also began submitting to Alamy . I will be doing another big push of stock photography over this coming month to ensure I have fresh images to keep the sales turning over. Here are my first and last stock image sales for the month of August.             First...