Kora, Meg, Carrice, Emily and I spent a quick hour shooting Carrice’s senior work for Finlandia University. The single picture does not do justice to the web of suspended glass objects, mirrors, and windows. It was pretty tough not to back into a feature, but the collecton of shots turned out decent. Brockit does a lot of work for starving artists, like Carrice, and it is great. Always nice to see fresh, edgy art from Finlandia’s students. Nice work here, Carrice, and we thank you for the Bells.

Ah, another great shoot of Dr. Carlson and her family for Portage Health. Nice job as always, Rima; you win the award for the most photogenic doctor. I think this is the first on-site shoot that Brockit’s intern Emily gave a hand on as well. So nice to have company and support – makes the job go quickly and effectively!

A/V partner Todd led me around the winding hallways and labs that makes up the maze of Calumet Electronics. As part of an image refresh and new content, we spent a couple days working almost each and every aspect of the complex including clean rooms, baths, labs, indoors and out. Lots of colors, lines, and scenes to play with, and we ended up with a good amount of glossy content. Thanks to everyone up there for helping out!

Driving back to Houghton from Kalamazoo (that’s 550 miles with a four-year-old) and gently buzzed on coffee, Robyn and I thought a fun project would be to shoot people’s most essential, tangible, physical item and focus on it, literally and figuratively; leaving themselves as a secondary prop – which is how I feel without a couple of my own coveted, material possessions… So; see the draft poster below, created by Ashley, one of Brockit’s interns. If you are 18, emotionally dependent on a some object, and want a little compensation for modeling in the studio, send an email to mail@brockit.com with contact information and a description – not of you though – we are looking for all types.

Karyn from Segno / Marketing Dept. and I spent a couple hours shooting in the 30,000 sq. ft. kiddie casino that is the MineShaft & RockHouse bowling alley / restaurant /etc. High ISO, and remote strobes made quick work of the dark interior, and the shot below features the ‘glow bar’ which was shot handheld with the typical, fake-martini that I use for shoots like this. Crazy place… You might remember that we shot their menu before they launched back in the winter. This time I did not have the flu though… Nice place, guys.

As part of a video commercial for a good client, we grabbed a couple models and shot based on some sample shots and a rough storyboard. Basically test shots, but after a flurry of controversial emails, looks like these might be the final ones for the project. A lot of pressure to re-create shots based on stock samples, but we pulled it off decently with no less than 6 people in the studio. Nice job models; one of them a first-time figure model.