5/15/2023 0 Comments Urban scrawl notebook![]() It seemed as if there are more generic chain restaurants per capita in Dubai than any place I’ve ever been to. This wasn’t always a good thing, however. While I don’t love everything that goes on in that part of the world, I can say that I was honestly surprised by how accessible, inviting, diverse, safe, Westernized and easy to navigate the country was. ![]() Prop styling and assisting by Allison Ziemba.ĭubai had been a dream destination of mine since before traveling became a major part of my life. Special thanks to Johnny and the rest of the team at Shedd for the repeated visits. Huge thanks to everyone at the magazine: Martha, Michael, Katherine, Tal. You can catch this spread in all its full-page glory in the November 2019 issue of Chicago Magazine. It’s not even much of a stretch-the Shedd representative told us most of the animals’ food is sourced from places that might even be of higher quality than the food served to humans. Each animal image was paired with a stylized overhead shot of their meal as if served in a fancy restaurant. I could go on and on about how much fun it was to get to briefly hang with these critters, but I’ll spare you.Īs you can see, the fun twist to this assignment was to show each animal while eating (the cute sea otters look surprisingly terrifying while downing their lunch while the friendly belugas somehow manage to look even more friendly). Huge thanks to everyone at Miller & DDB along with my small crew Brad, Josh, Dave and Cooper.Īs far as assignments go, it’s hard to beat this one! We got an exciting behind-the-scenes look at the Shedd Aquarium while photographing seven (the tortoise didn’t make it to print) of their cutest animals. It wasn’t the easiest approach but I think helps better sell the realism in what is otherwise a rather manufactured image. We ended up shooting at f18, iso2000, at varied shutter speeds and using a couple strobes at high power to light the interior of the dark bar and foreground false wall. Of course we could’ve just shot plates of both sides of the frame in sharp focus, but I strive to keep things authentic whenever possible and didn’t want to create two different focal planes in the one shot. To get technical for a moment, the big challenge on this one was keeping the foreground wall element reserved for copy in focus while also not letting the background Miller Lite neon become too soft so that it wouldn’t be legible. ![]() We shot this on a weeknight in one of my favorite Chicago neighborhood spots, The Charleston. I’ve never been one to scrawl my own poems or drunken rants onto the walls of the many bars I’ve visited in my years, so it was fun when the agency decided they liked my handwriting the best and I also got to play the role of drunken art director, in addition to (sober) photographer. Late last year, I shot a fun lil project with DDB for Miller Lite that ran full-page in the November issue of Rolling Stone.
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