Category Archives: Commercial

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MacGyver’ing (Nov 2008 edition)

November 11, 2008 – 4:23 pm

I love what I do for a living. Have I mentioned that lately?

Today’s photo shoot is for a San Francisco client who designs a line of breastfeeding products. I love these pillows. They’re so colorful and well-designed. But not exactly cooperative when it comes to sitting still on my cyc. So after rigging up a MacGyver-esque contraption to float them above the surface of the cyc (gaffer’s tape and clothes hangars are today’s ingredients), I cranked out this series of product shots.

All in a day’s work!


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On the road again

October 22, 2008 – 6:28 am

This week your peripatetic (definition: walking about; itinerant; nomadic) blogging shutterbug is back in the place of his birth: Chicago, Illinois. I am here to photograph the goings-on at a huge water convention called WEFTEC. Water is, of course, a hugely important part of our world, and has, in recent years, become a real political hot potato. So it’s interesting learning more about the technological processes required to process the waste water that we produce in increasingly frightening quantities.

Here are a few photographic highlights…

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Advertising Week!

October 3, 2008 – 6:31 am

It was an amazing week of education, entertainment and camaraderie. Here’s a slideshow recap of my week!

Advertising Week

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Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated

October 1, 2008 – 11:19 am

I have just finished the busiest month (September) of my career, and I’m still working seven days a week! I can’t believe my good fortune that I get to wake up nearly every day, grab a camera or a computer and do this work. It’s truly a blessing.

Anyway, as for an update, the biggest event recently was Advertising Week in New York City (my favorite place away-from-home in the world). It was five days and almost eighty different events. I had two awesome assistants (thank you Lea and Sam!) and the regular crew of superheroes who put this thing on. I am still not quite dug out from under the over five thousand photographs I brought back with me, but here are a couple of me for your enjoyment. The first one is the Serta Sleep Sheep, one of the advertising “icons” who wandered about entertaining people. The second one is Ziggy Marley, who needs no introduction.

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Celebrities! Celebrities! Sep 2008 edition

September 9, 2008 – 7:52 am

So I am working this week as the official photographer for TechCrunch50, a very cool gathering of high-tech entrepreneurs and the real glitterati of the online world. But what made for some excellent photographic opportunities was when the real Hollywood types made some appearances.

Ashton Kutcher launched a new venture called “The Blah Girls”, and as if that didn’t create enough of a stir, he brought along his gorgeous (and I mean gorgeous) wife, Demi Moore. And later in the evening, Myspace.com hosted a big soiree in San Francisco and they hired Samantha Ronson to be their DJ. If you don’t know who she is, search on Google for “Sam Ronson” and “Lindsay Lohan”.


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Facebook f8: a brush with celebrity

July 24, 2008 – 11:00 am

I was the official Facebook photographer for yesterday’s f8 developer conference in San Francisco. As part of the event, Mark Zuckerberg, the whiz-kid founder, delivered an interesting keynote address. Naturally, I got some wonderful photographs of him, and today he chose one of them to be his new Facebook “profile picture”. If you know what that means, then you know how prestigious that is. If you don’t, you’ll have to trust me. ;-)

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Nine hours of babies

July 19, 2008 – 5:18 am

In case you want to know what nine hours of photographing babies in my studio looks like, take a gander at this little slideshow…

Steve Maller Photography

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Halloween in July

July 18, 2008 – 9:32 pm

Needless to say, my clients need to stay one step ahead of the various holiday and other seasonal fashion trends. So as odd as it is to be buying Halloween candy and measuring sizes of costumes in the middle of Summer, it actually makes sense. So I assembled over a dozen talented youngsters (including my niece Anna and nephew Ben) and did my level best to capture the spirit of all hallows’ eve. Here are a few highlights from the shoot.

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13,000 networking folks in Orlando, Florida

June 23, 2008 – 3:18 pm

I am the official photographer for the enormous Cisco LIVE! conference in Orlando, Florida. These gigs are an interesting departure from my other types of work. Among other things, I get to listen to incredibly smart, well-informed technology people talking about the very latest issues and news in the world where I used to travel. So I stay at least well-informed enough to stay one step ahead of my own kids!

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Where I am this week

June 4, 2008 – 12:56 pm

I am working with my awesome team of Susie and Kim this week to grind out over a hundred product photographs for my client’s website. These are far more complicated than they appear to be, and if you saw the Rube Goldberg contraption that I rigged to shoot them, you’d either be very impressed or you’d be rolling on the floor, laughing. Or both.

Here are a couple more examples…

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