Back In The Day Commercial Silicon Wafer Photoshoot

I was going through old backup drives and found this image of Silicon Computer Wafers I shot for a brochure cover for one of my Hi-Tech Commercial Clients . This was shot before Digital Cameras were around with a Sinar 4×5 View Camera with a Caltar 210mm lens with Kodak Ektachrome 64 Transparency film. Than we processed the film in-house & scanned the film @2400 dpi to deliver a 4×5 Transparency & a Digital file for the client. This was setup & shot on a Glossy 4×6 ft sheet of P95 Black Plexiglass. We taped a nail to the back of each Silicon Wafer and drilled a small hole in the Plexi to put the nail through to angle the Wafers where we wanted them for the setup & reflections. The colorful wafers then nicely reflected on the glossy black plexiglass sheet giving a mirrored Reflection of the wafers. The next step was to position a Speedotron Flash Head with a “snoot” attachment to light each wafer separately. On the ones I wanted a color added to the wafers I taped a colored “gel” (Plastic colored acetate to add color on that wafer). I have to say Digital Photography would have made this a Whole Lot Easier! But there again it made you solve problems & come up with ideas to get the Final Image that was needed for the Client!

4th of July Patriotic Picnic Photo Shoot – In Studio

I came across these images from a photo shoot we did years ago for a 4th of July picnic themed blog for my commercial studio. We asked our favorite food stylist if she wanted to help and we would both have the images to use. So it was a fun day! Since we wanted a “picnic” looking theme, I photographed my pond at home, blurred the image and printed a large background for our “outdoor picnic” shoot in the studio. In my studio we printed or painted most of our backgrounds we used for our assignments giving a more personalized look for our commercial clients. Below are the setups for the shoot – the featured image is the main image, then we shot detailed closer images. It was a fun day plus we got to work with Marie, our food stylist!

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behind the scenes –

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