I shot an event one of the event spaces at the Rainbow Room on the 64th floor at Rockefeller Center last Friday night. The whole place has the feeling of past opulence that has gone to seed. Everything seems like it was totally posh in, say, the fifties, but hasn’t been upgraded since. The wallpaper [...]
I have been having a lot of fun at my lighting class – there is so much to learn. Last week we broke out into groups earlier than before and I was kind of disorganized with my group as far as breaking up the time appropriately. I guess I was having a hard time getting [...]
“A dispute over a missing camera at a wedding reception escalated into a 100-person brawl that left two people with stab wounds Saturday night, police said.” Sheesh.
Last year I was shooting almost exclusively on white seamless for my firm – the type of advertising we were shooting for was all actual employees for a people first campaign. This year the style has changed dramatically, and while I’m glad to be doing a wider variety of work, I still kind of miss [...]
As many of you may know, I have been mainly self-taught with regards to photography. Having been taught the fundamentals in college back in the day has certainly helped my ability to learn at a quicker rate, but nearly everything that I’ve applied in a practical sense as a professional in the industry I’ve learned [...]
I had a few minutes this weekend to finished puttering around with the new stylesheet I’ve been working on for Exhibit 5a. I wanted more sidebar space to play around with (I now have a whole lot more) and I wanted to expand my main content space to make a few of my more common [...]
Jonathan Gayman is a St. Louis photographer who specializes in corporate, commercial and food photography. Exhibit5a was Jonathan's first blogging adventure but is largely dormant at this stage. For more recent postings check out Jonathan's new St. Louis food blog called Shoot To Cook