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Seattle-based Commercial Photographer specializing in luminous imagery of products, food, people, dance, & fashion. All images & content © Bret Doss
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Posts from the ‘food’ category

  The exercise brief was to photograph a Sandwich somethingsomethingSixByTwelveorsomething somethingorotherTextUpperLeftorother….  I kinda lost track after “Sandwich” to be honest — I had already decided there would be BACON in this shoot! Photographing food comes with certain benefits and special “considerations” (aka difficulties). Among the benefits may be post…

Sandwiches!

November 28, 2016

When planning concepts for the Soft project, I considered marshmallows.  I made some test images and, while I found they were not as well suited to the concept as were the cotton balls, marshmallows are fun to shoot.  I chose a high-key, white-on-white theme for the…

Marshmallow

April 14, 2016

A growing trend in the world of coffee, particularly espresso, is “single dosing.”  Rather than fill a grinder’s hopper with beans that can begin going stale with exposure to air, the idea is to keep the beans sealed and as fresh as possible, only grinding…

Bean Cellars

April 1, 2016

The P52 Assignment Brief: Chocolate. A square image that screams chocolate, with a bit of an editorial look if possible. That is the extent of the brief, the rest is up to me.  Lots of possibilities, of course, which is wonderful and challenging.  I needed…

Assignment: Chocolate

August 19, 2015

A particularly fun and creative exercise that I learned from Don Giannatti is a photography ‘improv’ session: pick a subject/object/idea/theme and a time limit (say, an hour). Make as many good photographs in that time as possible. No limits on technique or methods: change lenses,…

Improvisation

March 26, 2013

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