Saturday, May. 19, 2012

PROJECT Monster Hunter (Alex Pardee)

Monster Hunter Series
August 01, 2011 - 3 Comments

Purebred got together with Alex Pardee to create a photo series that fulfilled his desires to be the Jumanji [...]

PROJECT Luvin' Rockets (Josh Ellingson)

Finding another Josh Ellingson
September 11, 2011 - (0) comments

We’ve gotten into a habit of shooting artist portraits either the same day or immediately following an artistic project. [...]

Lighting down a tunnel

Faux Finishing

Water stains & aging on wallpaper
August 27, 2011 - (0) comments

SKILL LEVEL – moderate TOXIC – yes, wear a respirator and gloves to keep the paint off of your fingers INGEDIENTS – Acrylic paint sold in art stores (like Liquitex), Movie [...]

Lighting tricks

A painterly horizon
October 03, 2011 - 1 Comment

We had a unique challenge in lighting a medieval portrait of painter Mike Davis and fine art series for us. We always enjoy incorporating as much of the artist’s style in [...]

Turning on the lights

Turning on the lights

September 06, 2011

Photoshop'ery

Monster Hunter / Photoshop’ery – keeping it real’ish
August 01, 2011 - 1 Comment

In all of our shoots we try to build as much REAL stuff as we can. We believe light looks better falling across actual objects and the stories we try to [...]

Prop making

Blood ‘n’ guts for a consumed animal carcass
August 27, 2011 - (0) comments

SKILL LEVEL – moderate TOXIC – not if you keep it out of your mouth INGREDIENTS – animal bones, wire & hot glue, Acrylic paint sold in art stores (like Liquitex), [...]

Set building

Monster Hunter / Making a Swamp Set
July 29, 2011 - 1 Comment

For the Monster Hunter series we shot with Alex Pardee, we went in an opposite direction than we normally do when building our scenes. We kept things white. We decided we [...]