I love bikes, especially well designed and functional urban bikes and accessories. Naturally, I was excited when Dwell approached me to photograph some beautiful bike gear. The idea was to photograph 3 bikes hanging on colored backgrounds. Normall...
Read MoreThe Brokenmusicbox Full Album
The cover for the single, "We Will" was a teaser for the full album???which I'm excited to say is out in it's full glory. The music, design and photography have all come together in harmony to form an exciting album. How was it all done?? We met wit...
Read MoreMacworld January Cover
The iPhone 4s has been unleashed all over Macworld Magazine, inside and out. The cover may look nice and clean but the set to light it was a mess. If you're traveling for the holidays, load your iPad up with the Zinio version or look for the analo...
Read MoreRed, Red, Red
San Francisco Magazine approached us with a fun idea for "The Trend" section of the December 2011 issue. They wanted to incorporate the color red in an over-the-top fashion. They provided a selection of red products to pick from to form the groups...
Read Morecity lights
It's always fun when we collaborate with clients and come up with bright ideas. This time we captured the luminance of lamps against a city background for the Dec/Jan 2011 issue of Dwell Magazine. It took a few extension cords to get all the lamps...
Read MoreDwell: Desks
For the September issue of Dwell magazine we photographed desks. We worked with a set builder to make custom pedestals, which looked great but moving things around was no easy task! When asked if we could move a pedestal "a little to the left" we ...
Read MoreDIY Macworld
Rob and Kate from Macworld were on set for the "Do It Yourself" feature of the magazine. Kate doubled as the hand model in two of the photos. In the spirit of "Do It Yourself" I ended up making a rig to support the iPad Kate was holding to help ke...
Read MoreDwell House Party
Who doesn't love a House Party? It's always great working with Dwell, this time it was especially cool because we got to work with their kids. We spent the morning organizing various playhouses and lighting. I decided to use a more spotted lighting arrangement to add some depth to the photo. In doing this I had to predict the areas where I thought the kids might play. Once the kids arrived we let them play as I snapped the photos. After that we had them each play in predetermined areas so that all the kids were evenly dispersed among the playhouses. Of course once we got a successful photo, all the adults jumped in to join the fun! You can find the issue on newsstands now.
Snakes with SF Magazine
When SF magazine approach us to photograph snakes and shoes I was very excited. Michael my assistant wasn't, he has an extreme fear of snakes. Luckily the snake handler (what a cool job title) from the Academy of Science took care of all the snake...
Read MoreMacworld Beyond Cable
For this feature, Macworld wanted to showcase each product from the review in their own setting. In order to keep the set budget down, we got furnishings from West Elm and Ikea in exchange for giving them credit in the magazine. For the opening ph...
Read MoreMacworld iPad 2
The new cover of Macworld magazine is outfeaturing a photo that I took. Luckily it was Macworld's iPad, I wouldn't want to tape my iPad up like this. I've included some behind the scenes photos of the cover and one of the photos from the iPad 2 ar...
Read MoreiPad at work - Macworld
The new Macworld magazine is full of photos I've taken to help illustrate using an iPad at work instead of your laptop. It is refreshing that the art director, Rob, is always interested in trying new things with the images. The hanging notepads im...
Read MoreFilm Crew
Had a great photoshoot with Dwell and the Eames documentary crew. It will be for a future episode of American Masters on PBS about Ray and Charles Eames. Here are some photos from the photoshoot.
Read MoreDwell - Make It Yours
Here are some behind-the-scenes photos for the current cover of Dwell's "Make It Yours" magazine. It was like a puzzle figuring out how to fit all the pieces together. Good thing we had donuts to keep us focused.
Read MoreVeins
I'm sharing even more behind-the-scenes images from the September issue of Macworld since people seem to really like seeing what goes into the shots. These images were taken during the shoot for the overhead image of two people playing Scrabble at...
Read MoreMacworld "Living with your iPad"
Not only was it exciting to shoot the iPhone 4 with the iPhone for the cover of September's Macworld, but there were cool photo assignments for inside the issue as well. One of the shots is the opening spread for the article "Living with your iPad...
Read MoreMacworld iPhone 4 cover
Ive always thought it would be cool to photograph the cover of Macworld magazine using an iPhone as my camera. When the new iPhone 4 was released with the 5MP camera, the editors at Macworld were excited to see if it could be done. What better way...
Read MoreJuly Macworld behind the scenes
Here are some behind the scenes photos from the July issue of Macworld Magazine. Because of time restraints we used Rob Schultz, the art director at Macworld, as our model. He was photographed in the studio then composited with a photo I took on a...
Read Morebehind the scenes of "The Darkness"
Here are some behind the scenes photos form the making of my video, "The Darkness." One of my goals with this project was to see if I could make the video without using any of my hot lights or renting any additional equipment. Could a still photog...
Read MoreWeekly photos April #1
Here are some more photos from my "Weekly photos" series.You can read more about the series here. http://www.peterbelanger.com/posts/45-weekly-photos
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