George Post Photography

I have some very creative clients! This morning I photographed these six ceramic sculptures for East Bay artist Flavia "Fifa" Krasilchik. In person, they each have very strong personalities, quite charming and decidedly avian, despite the occasional mammaries.

I've been photographing guitars for various luthiers for over 30 years, but this project is larger in scale: several antique Italian upright double basses for submission to a publisher in England. You can see their previous book of English basses here, and notes about the upcoming book: https://www.thomasmartin.co.uk/double-bass-publications

I had an interesting studio session on Monday: three local professional string bass players brought their antique Italian instruments to be photographed for an upcoming book. We did a dozen views of each instrument; they'll be clipped out from the background and floated on the white paper pages of the book.

Last week I photographed a new collection of beautiful & whimsical paper vessels by local artisan Heidi Tarver. She wanted a departure from the typical light-to-dark-gray gradient background, so we photographed her pieces on off-white studio paper. Then I Photoshopped the backgrounds to the currently-trendy total white. The hard part there was maintaining a realistic-looking edge in the shadows beneath the saucers, which was a multi-step process requiring some layering and masking.

A couple of weeks ago I photographed this set of three guitars for master East Bay luthier Somogyi Ervin Guitar Maker -- a Model D, an OM/OOO, and a Classic. We could possibly have shot them as a trio, but I don't think I could have optimized the lighting for all three, plus there were logistical challenges, so we opted for a Photoshop composite. The shadows were the hardest part. I offered Ervin the option of an arficial Photoshop halo-gradient background or a natural studio-paper background; he prefers the paper option as seen behind the back view composite.