This past week Altpick highlighted 4 members, which included Illustrators Kevin Learn, Teresanne Creative, Jon Krause, and photographer Kent Miller. Here are some samples of their work, to see more images please check their portfolios on Altpick.
Illustrator Kevin Learn – specializes in celebrity, editorial, and conceptual illustrations.
IllustratorTeresanne Creativeis a graphic artist, illustrator, journalist, and designer. She specializes in vector art and adds her own illustrative skill to informational graphics and maps.
IllustratorJon Krause creates images with strong compelling concepts, compositions, and a tasteful color palette.
Photographer Kent Miller‘s lifetime passion grew from the inspiration of people around him. Kent collaborates with commercial and editorial clients on portraits, landscapes, architecture, and product shots.
To see more of the members’ work, please visit Altpick.com.
George Kamper’s assignment for Broward County’s “Visit Lauderdale” campaign was to focus on promoting an authentic welcoming vibe and a diverse community approach. The six-day motion and stills shoot incorporated a wide variety of locations and challenges. Working closely with the director and art director helped to insure a smooth and fruitful shoot.
“That George Kamper does some mighty fine work. To be honest, there are so many great shots we are just getting started with choosing more as the campaign rolls out. It’s a nice situation to be in to have more (and more) options to consider.” CD Thom Hart
To see more photos from the shoot, please click here.
To see more of George’s photography please visit his website and his page on Altpick.
As we wrap up 2022, Altpick takes a closer look at our members’ ‘favorite’ images from this past year. It seems that times of difficulty inspire wonderful imagery paving a way for new beginnings. While perusing the artists’ work, be sure to take a closer look at each image…some may make you wonder, some may make you smile all will give you a deeper understanding of the human condition. Enjoy! For more of the artists’ work, please visit Altpick.com.
As we wrap up 2022, Altpick takes a closer look at our members’ ‘favorite’ images from this past year. It seems that times of difficulty inspire wonderful imagery paving a way for new beginnings. While perusing the artists’ work, be sure to take a closer look at each image…some may make you wonder, some may make you smile all will give you a deeper understanding of the human condition. Enjoy! For more of the artists’ work, please visit Altpick.com.
Each day Altpick highlights one of its members, and on Friday there’s a ‘Round-Up’ feature. This week’s Altpick featured 4 amazing artists ranging in style from classic to unique: Owen Brozman not only has illustrated comics, and published books but also illustrates commercial work; John Sledd has solid experience working with editorial, design studios and video game developers; Italian artist Umberto Grati‘s different styles can find solutions for any type of assignment and meet any deadline and Artist Rep Morgan Gaynin has a group of illustrators who have been specifically selected to fulfill an array of assignments. Please be sure to visit Altpick.com to see more of their work.
Owen Brozman illustrates comics, advertisements, murals, album covers, magazines, books, and more. His recent work includes F—K, Now There Are Two of You, and the New York Times best seller You Have to F—king Eat, the sequels to the best-selling classic Go the F—k to Sleep. He also illustrated Kindness & Salt, a cookbook by the team behind Brooklyn’s Buttermilk Channel and French Louie, and the graphic novel Nature of the Beast.
John Sledd has been working in the graphics “industry” for close to 30 years and has spent the first five of those years in print shops, advertising agencies, and corporate graphics departments. The rest has been spent running Sledd Studios, where John’s clients have ranged from design studios to video game developers and everyone in between.
As a versatile painter and illustrator, Umberto Grati has collaborated with art directors on editorial projects for weekly, monthly, and daily magazines. His different styles can find solutions for every type of assignment. Umberto works quickly and always meet his deadlines.
Morgan Gaynin Inc. is a premier illustration agency representing many award-winning international artists with styles that can match any art director’s needs in advertising, editorial, corporate, and design.
Be sure to visit Altpick.com for more amazing work!
Alicia Buelow’s illustrations combine found objects with text, drawings, photographs, and other surprises to create provocative, richly-textured images. Alicia is happy to work for a wide range of clients, from small to large, developing illustrations for magazines, web, marketing collateral, newspapers, book covers, cd packaging, posters, software packaging, fashion merchandise, advertising, and more.
Jameson Wilkins is a graphic artist and web developer with more than half a decades worth of game, educational web interactions, and educational webpages experience. Jameson graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design with a bachelor’s in Illustration in 2010. Since then he has worked as an independent game developer, e-learning web developer, web and social media marketer, graphic artist, and even animator.
Authenticity is important to Karen Ollis. Whether photographing the outdoors, people, or products, her approach is to tell the story with depth. Karen’s attention to detail and design quality highlights her creative ability. “The painter in me enjoys conceptual layered works which tell a story in a single frame”.
Lisa Powers was born in France, of French/Italian/American lineage, and raised in New York and Los Angeles. After working as a creative director in a small advertising agency in New York she decided to quit her job and immerse herself in learning photography. With a borrowed NIKON 35mm camera and some guidance from reading the TIME/LIFE books on photography, she started shooting.
Aventon Sinch bike photographed by Phoenix Commercial Photographer Blair Bunting
Blair Bunting‘s e-bike project started when he found himself going to every local bike shop seeking information about the capabilities and shortcomings of the e-bike. Eventually, he stumbled on Aventon, a California-based company that has a smaller selection but with great aesthetics, which is why Bunting settled on Aventon’s Sinch. The Sinch folds in half and fits into a car trunk easily. Convenient for a photographer to scout for locations for future shoots.
Aventon Sinch bike photographed by Phoenix Commercial Photographer Blair Bunting
Looking to get some photos, Bunting invited his friend Mike out to Flagstaff to ride. Mike’s bike of choice was the Aventure. The bike doesn’t collapse and is huge. To get the shots, Bunting and Mike set up the lights and with some added effects photographed each of the bikes.
Aventon Aventure bike photographed by Phoenix Commercial Photographer Blair Bunting
The advantage of e-bikes for a photographer is help in following Robert Capa’s first rule of photojournalism is to get close and the second rule is to get closer. “What bikes have enabled us to do is to step back from using the zoom ring on the lens and move into our images–sometimes finding details that we never knew existed before.”, comments Bunting.
Aventon Aventure bike photographed by Phoenix Commercial Photographer Blair Bunting
Photographer Simon Puschmann’s new personal series, “CALIFORN-IR”, will have you feeling like you’re in a parallel reality — close to our own world, yet vastly different. The reason? His use of a modified Sony A7R3, shooting in infrared (at 550nm) on a recent road-and-train trip by the West Coast. Simon says: “The pictures were taken on a road trip from LA to San Diego and back by train. Then from LA to Yosemite Park. From there to SF and Santa Rosa (north of SF), then slowly down Highway 1 back to LA.”
The gorgeous views of familiar scenery paired with completely different light- and color scheme than what we’re used to seeing make for some very unique imagery, and we almost can’t take our eyes off of them! Lucky for us, Simon is planning to collect these photos into a new book, an online gallery, minted NFTs, and an upcoming article in German photo magazine ProfiFoto. But more on that later!
Simon Puschmann is an award-winning commercial photographer and director who defies all categories. For 30 years, he has been creating his own brand of dramatic, unexpected imagery for prestigious clientele like:
Adidas | Audi | Bentley | BMW | BMW Williams F1 | BMW Sauber F1 Racing | BMW Oracle Racing | Citroen | Corvette | Deutsche Bahn | Doc Martens | FC St Pauli Hamburg | Ford | Gatorade | General Motors | Deutsche Telekom | Hamburg Film Council | HSV | Hyundai Motors Europe | Kia Motors Europe and USA | Lamborghini | Lego | Leica | Lexus | Loewe | Lufthansa | McLaren | Mercedes Benz | Mercedes Maybach | MINI | Mobil One | Opel | Porsche | Porsche Design | SPD | Toyota | VW | Volvo and others
“I can no longer ignore the ecocide that is taking place all around me. Therefore I pledge to donate 1% of my fee for each project to protect the environment. This money will be used for reforestation projects worldwide through my friends at: plant-my-tree.de“
To see more of Simon’s photography, please visit his website and page on Altpick.com.
“I truly enjoyed photographing Hope Arellano for the cover and editorial images in EQ Living. What surprised me was how down-to-earth and easy-going Hope was. Being a polo player and competing at the highest levels in men’s and women’s competitive polo at 19, Hope is a natural in front of a zoom lens”, comments photographer George Kamper.
George’s tight schedule and middle-of-the-day shoot on a hot polo field were challenging for capturing the best light and telling Hope’s amazing story. But Hope made it easy and was happy to try any of George’s ideas. She took direction well and when Hope changed from her polo attire to a casual wardrobe, she was simply elegant in front of the camera.
Make-up artist, Leslie Munsell from Beauty for Real, did an amazing job with Hope’s make-up in the sweltering heat, also leaning a hand from time to time holding a reflector or camera bag. “I can’t thank Les enough for her constant support throughout our years of working together”, George comments.
Philip Marlowe may be writer Raymond Chandler’s most prominent private eye, but another important, yet often overlooked hero (or heroine in this case), is his outstanding female character, Anne Riordan. The two of them showed up together in the novel “Farewell, My Lovely” from 1940.
When Altpick member Benedetta Vialli was asked to illustrate the pair she naturally rose to the occasion. She describes that she combined two different drawing styles (including the “cleaner” style from her more recent works), saying she’s satisfied with the end result, despite “some nervous breakdowns and many (ugly) drawings”. We can’t imagine Benedetta creating anything but masterpieces, so we’ll have to take her word for it.
To see more of Benedetta Vialli’s work, please visit her page on Altpick.com.
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