BC Design & Photography

I finally got around to setting up a Facebook page for my freelance work. I know, I know, super exciting right? So anyways, if you’re on Facebook you should stop by and check out.
Facebook | Bryan Crabtree Design

I’ve been shooting product photos for a few years now, and over the years I’ve gone from shooting on a table in a corner under incandescent lights with a 6MP Cannon Digital Rebel at Goorin Brothers to my current setup at OSI. It has been a long journey and most of my current knowledge was fine tuned during my employment at Dita Eyewear. Fortunately, at Dita I had the opportunity to learn quite a bit from professional photographer and Dita Eyewear co-founder John Juniper. Working with John was an invaluable experience and although we had all the right equipment at Dita, space was extremely limited which prevented us from taking full advantage of the equipment. But, we made the best of what we had to work with and some amazing photos came out of that office.

When I started at OSI they were outsourcing all of their product photography, which was less than ideal since it was costing the company quite a bit of money, not to mention the turn around time. One of my first projects was to build out a professional studio setup from scratch so that we could do much of our own product photography in house.

Using my prior knowledge here’s what I came up with:

Click here for more details on this setup…

Designed this logo for a small optometry shop in Springfield, PA a couple months ago. It kinda got lost in the hustle and bustle of everything. Just thought I should share.

I just recently found out the promo image I shot for The Expendables was used as the cover photo for the May 2010 issue of Campus Circle Magazine. That would make this my first published cover photo, which is rad, I wish I had known about this sooner… The original image and additional photos from the shoot can be seen here. As you can see, the magazine took some liberties with the sepia tone… oh well, it’s still rad.

Back in August Lauren and I took a road trip out to New Mexico to check out my parents property as a possible wedding location. I finally had a chance to check out the photos from the trip, here’s my favorite so far… More to come.