Emeco has sent us three chairs to photograph.
Photography ©2012 Doug Laxdal
Three boxes arrived with chairs in foam wrappers.
This is a photograph of the Emeco catalogue cover that I had shot previously. I hope to match this style. I shot this chair lying down on a piece of white plastic under an overcast sky on the sidewalk outside my studio on Richmond Street. We printed the catalogue cover in process litho with a red touchplate and then struck the image with a multi level die to give it some relief.
Below are the first round of photographs of the highly polished Emeco Starck chair, the Putman chair and the rocker. I shot them on a bright, sunny, cloudless day on a piece of white plastic in a parking lot to avoid any reflections from trees or overhead wires. The shadows are real. I added a bit of lens flare in post but I might alter that. The images will require a lot of work to be used at a large size due to the massive lens flare from the bright white background and the scratches which are emphasized by the lighting.
I did this shot of the chair in the trees because it was relatively simple to do with I had on hand. I shot this in my front under a tree and then dropped it into this background which I had shot last fall.
