assignment | Seattle Commercial Photographer

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

This fall marks the 33rd anniversary of Seattle Goodwill’s Annual Glitter Sale and my 3rd anniversary of photographing for the campaign. I look forward to it each year for a variety of reasons: shooting new items is always fun, each one is photographic puzzle to be solved…

Seattle Goodwill Glitter Sale, Part 1: Jewelry and Accessories

October 19, 2016

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Perfume bottles are often the branding signature of a product line. Branded scents and cosmetics may be the most accessible products to a larger target customer base. One quick pass thru any cosmetic aisle in any retailer, and you will see how critical photography is…

Perfume & Cosmetics

April 28, 2016

The constraint was at once simple and complex: anything I wanted to do, as long as it contained a single red balloon. Freedom to be creative, with a single requirement. Sometimes that much leeway can make things more difficult, as narrowing down to something specific means…

One Red Balloon

April 24, 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

The assignment here was a concept image: portray ‘soft’ in a square format image layout with text overlay, for a point-of-sale display for a new cosmetic product with softness as a key feature. Sounds simple. In actual fact: Not. So. Much. Shooting to layout here…

Soft

April 11, 2016

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The ‘pour shot’ is practically a rite of passage for every commercial photographer. I decided it was time. There are any number of ways to approach a pour shot, and most often they involve a colorful liquid. I wanted to test lighting and composition as…

Pour

April 4, 2016

The concept for this assignment was to mock up a cd cover for a classical quartet: the music is OP 11 by composer Samuel Barber. My first step was to listen to the piece to discover the mood and imagery it induced in me. I…

Violin

March 28, 2016

The P52 Assignment Brief: Still Life with Flower. A color, vertical (portrait) oriented still life image with ordinary objects, diffuse main light source, that must contain at least one flower, but the flower(s) must not be the subject of the image. The objects must be simple…

Assignment: Still Life with Flower

August 20, 2015

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

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

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