Photography Archives - MGV Photography

Dec 22

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Flying Fruit Art – Part 2

Part two is done, six more fruits have been added, here they are all hanging out together. Flying Banana, Flying Casaba Melon, Flying Guava, Flying Kiwifruit, Flying Pear, and my favorite, Flying Pomegranate are all available in many forms on Society6, along with the original six. In case you missed why these exist, read this previous blog post. Making art from food with photography and Photoshop is incredibly tedious, so that’s all for now. But there’s no way I can do this without giving Flying Horned Melon or Flying Starfruit a try sometime down the line.

Dec 14

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Flying Fruit Art – Part 1 – Oddity Explained

The Flying Fruit Art project started after I decided to paint someone else’s breakfast nook an absurd shade of orange, a color falling somewhere between sherbet and traffic cone. Although the house belonged to someone else, I was renting it, and had to live with this nook with “commitment orange” paint, along with “on second thought yellow” in the rest of the kitchen. Needless to say, matching wall art became difficult. Hours of online searching brought me to this amazing poster by Dutch photographers Lernert and Sander, which became a partial cover for one retina-scalding wall. Realizing that meticulously crafted fruit art actually went with ridiculously colored walls quite well, inspiration for new personal work abounded. Flying Pineapple, Flying Cantaloupe, and Flying Papaya were planned, sliced, photographed, pathed out, reassembled, processed, and printed. Flying Casaba Melon was planned, sliced, and photographed. But, after it started insulting a production assistant’s mama, it was promptly left for dead in the compost bin and never assembled in Photoshop. Many visitors were dazzled by our kitchen, often commenting “#DamnThatsAnOrangeNook,” and, “that fruit art’s not bad either.” An expansion of the series was planned but sadly a busy commercial photography business, the purchase of a fixer house, […]

Website Redesign, Still Portfolio Refresh, New Video Reel!

We’re happy to announce the redesign of mgvphoto.com with the first, and long overdue refresh in four years. The entire site was remade to better illustrate the broad range of the commercial photography and video production services we provide. Lots of new work to share, including serval images from engineering and construction assignments and a new gallery dedicated to aerial work. The lifestyle / portrait and the architecturally focused built environment galleries also have lots of new images. There’s a preview of an upcoming mixed media collaboration in the personal work gallery. On the video side, there’s a new demo reel, and featured projects from Vimeo ported over for faster viewing. More to come soon, we’re working on getting some recent infrared work, and a gallery of Portland’s new Tilikum Bridge online.