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July 3, 2008
Tool Time!
Monica, Cassie and I headed down to the Lower East Side on Thursday to do a photo shoot with one of our favorite photographers, Alexandra Grablewski and her awesome assistant Todd. It was for Monica’s registry story on all the best bar tools. Here is a sneak peak of what you will see in the Nov/Dec 08 issue with cool photo captions courtesy of Cassie!
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Check out all of these products! We dumped everything we had on this table so we could see what we had to work with. It was pretty crazy trying to figure out where everything went when we had to pack it back up—talk about bar tools galore!
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Aimée attempted to make lemon peel curls for the edge of a martini glass in the opening shot. Despite her years of bartending experience in college, she was not too successful. Luckily, our photographer Alex figured out how to do it and curled the peel just right!
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Our awesome photographer Alex checked how the pictures were coming out throughout the day on her computers. It was super cool to see whether products photographed well or if they needed to be moved around in the frame.
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What a day…Get me a drink! Monica jokingly handed me the sour apple martini after we photographed it. She took a picture of me pretending to start Happy Hour early! Too bad we had only just finished the first shot of the day…
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Packing and unpacking, packing and unpacking. Lots of the bar tools were really fragile so we had to be extra careful when packing them into the boxes. We had packing peanuts everywhere! I think I’m still finding them in my purse two weeks later.
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I loved the way Alex used natural light in her photographs. We set up the products next to a window in her studio. The sun created a really beautiful tone in each shot, but also a pretty picture here—with Alex’s camera silhouetted against the light.
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This picture in particular was quite difficult. We were trying to feature two sets of bar tools, but also trying not to have the frame be too crowded. We kept taking things out, putting them back in, rearranging. You’ll see in the magazine that we didn’t end up keeping nearly as many of these items in the shot.
…And we’re done! Overall the shoot went really well and we were surprised with how easily we got everything done (unpacked, set up, photographed, repacked, etc.). It was finally the end of the day, and time to start thinking about our next photo shoot, which was going to be in…3 days! Uh-oh…
Posted by Aimée at 3:25 p.m.
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