Sunday, May 16, 2010

Help Wanted

Job Description
Must be willing to hold a relfector to exact specifications of photographer/creative director-no back talk! I can only afford payment in food at this point in time.
Tomato Eyes
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This blog is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. It has become increasingly difficult to find workers who are willing to hold a reflector for long shoots while I photograph food  at different angles, ad nauseum . Insubordination is rampant on the set of the shoot and and employees have been observed  playing with food after it has been painstakingly placed and styled in a very precise manner. Here is an example of a ruined shoot. It was supposed to be part of a set of pictures on ratatouille. As you can see my assistant decided that making tomato eyes was predominantly more interesting than precision angling a tomato or the compositional relevance of wood grain. This is more along the lines of what the photographer was hoping for

Tomato


Finally, for those of you who may be interested I have started a  project called one thousand faces. Click here for details.

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17 comments:

  1. wonderful post and gorgeous photo! can we borrow your assistant?

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  2. Hah! You're hilarious. If you pay for my airfare, lodging, food, etc. I would love to be your assistant haha.

    I can't see the first photo of the tomato eyes. :(

    I'm going to other project now.

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  3. it's hard to find good help these days. :)

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  4. @Memória - Sorry forgot to change flickr account settings to public. You should see it now

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  5. very cute - looks like you guys are having fun! Looking foreward to heirloom tomatoes arriving at the greenmarkets in ny.

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  6. I love those tomato eyes! AND those tomatoes. They look too wonderful to be real this early in May (at least in Belgium)

    Wiz, thanks for following my travels. It's good to be home and to be able to check in with you. I'm off to check on your new project.

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  7. love those tomatoes :-) and the insubordinate helper isn't too bad either :-)

    that must be why I don't have a set up - I have no assistant, good or bad. I have a niece and nephew, however, who have grown up with the D80 staring them in their face, so they know how to take off the lens cap, turn the lens to focus...and "take pityure Aunty!" And they're only 4 and 2...time to get them into training for reflector holding :-D

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  8. I'm loving me Mr. Tomato Eyes, He has a beautiful smile :}

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  9. This is definitely a post out of having so much food blogging fun... and your assistant is so cute, and oh yes, the tomatoes too :-)

    Sawadee from Bangkok,
    Kris

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  10. Your assistant looks like he's ready to step up to full on model. Great photos and writing.

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  11. Tomato eyes looks like he's doing a good job...but I don't know about the back talk. Can't hear!

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  12. OMG .... and there I was .... signin on meh email ... tuh apply fuh de job!

    LOL .... very cute! :-)

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  13. Scene-Hired! Doh stick now when you find out how very boring it is:-) Seriously tho, calling you and your fabulous earrings out for my faces project. PUHLEASEEEEEE

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  14. The model and the tomatoes are gorgeous! At least you have assistants, even if they do their own thing. You should see me trying to balance the camera in one hand the the reflector in the other. Oh, and don't talk about when I want to take a shot of something pouring!

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  15. You may have employee problems but at least you have tomatoes and adorable children in your life! GREG

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  16. Your employees just play with the food? Mine EAT it.

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