Early in 2013 Agilent asked me to photograph various aspects of their new Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Centre so that environmental wall graphics could be made from these images.
Below you see some of images that were produced for this purpose and the resulting wall graphics that very creatively produced by Frank Design and again photographed by myself.
David McArthur 12/2013
The very lovely Jenny Loft is having another exhibition of her glass and manipulated photographic images at Stephen McLaughlan gallery opening on October 20th 2012 from 2PM to 5PM.
The gallery can be found at Level 8, Room 16 of the Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St Melbourne. I hope to see you there.
Here is a sneak preview of some of the work photographed by me.
David McArthur September 2012
Stephen Benwell, a long time client of ours at Parallax Photography is having an exhibition of his recent Ceramics and Paintings in Adelaide at the Greenaway gallery from September the 19th till October the 21st. We wish Stephen a very successful exhibition!
We have just photographed the work for this exhibition and you can get a sneak peek of his very beautiful Ceramics and Paintings here.
David McArthur
Parallax Photography August 2012
I was asked to do the photography for Nexus Design’s work with Euroluce in Melbourne.
The full post from Nexus can be found here …
I was really pleased to hear that 3 of my clients Kristin McFarlane, Nick Wirdnam and Holly Grace were accepted into the very prestigious Ranamok Glass Prize in Sydney this year. For more information check out http://www.ranamok.com/
The winner will be announced in Canberra on the 16th of August, and I might just go along for the opening night!
Here are the beautiful entries from Kristin, Nick and Holly.
David McArthur
Nick Wirdnam …for health youth and hope
Nick Wirdnam …for health youth and hope
Nick Wirdnam …for health youth and hope
Holly Grace Threadbo
Kristin McFarlane Typographic Specimens: Lost Words
Kristin McFarlane Typographic Specimens: Lost Words
I first started out in Photography learning and working in the Scientific Photography field. I spent a lot of time photographing bullets piercing balloons and oranges and the like during my course. I did the Applied Science degree in Photography at R.M.I.T many years ago and then went on to work at the Materials Research Laboratories in Maribyrnong.
As much as I really enjoyed the technical side of Photography the scope to grow and learn in this area was very limited in Australia. I found myself more and more attracted to the more Commercial area of photography that I now work in.
I recently bought a brand new set of Pocket Wizards (Mini tt1 and Flex tt1) and set about learning how they operated. The units are capable of what they call “Hypersync” which is flash synchronisation at a high shutter speeds. This is very useful in bright outdoor environments where you are trying to “overpower” the sun.
Anyway during my playing around I took them into the studio and turned the flash power down really low. This allows for an extremely quick flash duration from the flash units and it is possible to “freeze” motion. I ended up photographing lemons and splashing blue food dye around. It was great fun and reminded me of where I first started out in Photography!
Cheers,
David McArthur
I am sure a lot of Photographers develop a nervous twitch when asked to photograph chrome or reflective objects. Rightly so, they can be really difficult and leave the photographer tearing there hair out.
I must confess to spending many hours earlier in my career chasing down reflections in chrome objects and working out the best methods of photographing chrome. Building elaborate light tents and then using tiny pieces of black and grey card. Many would say Photoshop has changed all of that. Sure Photoshop has helped but I think its always better to get it right (or close to right) in the camera rather than spending hours in the retouching process attempting to create what should have been done right int he first place.
Here are a couple of photographs that I have taken for Phoenix tap-ware, one a lifestyle shot and the other more of a straight product photography.
Nick is a long time client of mine and I always enjoy photographing his fantastic and inspiring glass work. Nick is currently having an exhibition in Sydney at Sabbia Gallery until the 9th of June. If your in Sydney check it out.
By the power of the grey skull its been a long and bumpy road to get this new website up, but the new Parallax website is finally here!
It has been a difficult task assembling all the images and getting the design and functionality to the highest of standards that you see here. I want to thank Mito Cubic (email mitodc@gmail.com) for his fantastic design sense and Sharwan Kami (sharwan@gmail.com) for putting it all together and making it work! Both showed extraordinary levels of patience in dealing with a sometimes indecisive photographer.
I am very comfortable advising clients on the best images or approach to use for their project, but I must concede deciding on my best images to use for my own website, and the format that this should be presented in has been a challenge of a magnitude that surprises even me!
The blog section seen here is going to be kind of a work diary where I put up some of the images that i am doing and perhaps entertain you with some dialogue about the work and details of the jobs.
I look forward to both writing the articles and receiving your comments.
David McArthur May 2012
I am having fun now with a new iphone program called instagram.
These photos are just some funny little moment captured and edited on my iPhone 4s and now an iPhone 6
Check out what I have been up to. My username is davidm7 or at http://web.stagram.com/n/davidm7/
Cheers,
David McArthur
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