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New Portfolio Roll Out

Shelby White — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:04:06 +0000

After nearly a full year of not having a portfolio online, I’ve finally gathered my new work and put it in an all new website. It’s been quite a journey to get it online but its here.

Let me highlight a few of the new areas, but it easily speaks for itself:

Work: The new portfolio has four sections; print, branding, interactive and personal. The print section will be the container for packaging and any printed material. Next up is the branding section–my favorite. You will find both identity specific projects and full brand development projects here. The interactive section is pretty straight forward; web projects will be in this category (hopefully live websites soon). Lastly the personal section. All of my personal posters, t-shirts and odds & ends will be here.

Contact: Send messages! I’m currently available for freelance and would love to hear from you.

Labs: This will have…well…experiments. Some great specimens (ideas) are brewing.

Every section of the website is expandable and I will continually add to them. Each time a new piece is added, I will be showcasing it on the front page. For any of you feed readers, you may just have to join us all at ground level to view the images.

Feedback is welcomed! The more the merrier.

Corbis Brand Evolution

Shelby White — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:40:24 +0000

We’ve seen more rebranding in the last few months than we can shake a stick at. Without a doubt, this rebranding epidemic was caused by the economic situation and the positive notion of change. This is great for some who try it, but not so great for others; Tropicana, Mountain Dew, Sprite, and Blimpie are some of which just aren’t that great.

Corbis is a creative stock photo agency with their headquarters based out of Seattle. Their first logo was…well…interesting to say the least; have a look at it here. In 2004, Segura Inc redesigned the logo what we are familiar with today. The new design was a success and later in 2007 when Corbis acquired Veer, the in-house team at Corbis began redesigning the logo with a softer touch. The letterforms are rid of the hard angles in place for more rounded and welcoming curves.

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Arcade Magazine

Shelby White — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:59:41 +0000

Arcade is an architecture, design, and photo magazine with some really great pictures. I picked up a few of the magazines because the December issue has a half page Glazers ad that uses one of my images. It was shot along Clearwater River by Orofino, Idaho.

Some other things that I’ve been playing around with.

Adobe CS4 Suite Now Shipping

Shelby White — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:27:21 +0000

Photoshop CS4’s new Adjustments panel (Screenshot courtesy Adobe)

Today Adobe has announced the availability of Photoshop CS 4 and the entire Creative Suite 4. It features a tabbed interface, enhanced color correction and non-destructive editing tools. After using Photoshop CS4, I noticed quite a bit of areas where they speed things up. The interface is also much smoother and fluid than CS3.

Here are a list of things to look for in Photoshop CS4:
-Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation
-Adjustments panel
-Auto-blending of images
-Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow
-Masks panel
-Better raw image processing (for us Photogs)
-Extended depth of field
-Content-Aware Scaling (this is very cool)
-Ability to work with 3D objects with one Click

Check out all of these features and more.

Also available today are the following: Photoshop® CS4, Photoshop CS4 Extended, InDesign® CS4, Illustrator® CS4, Flash CS4 Professional, Dreamweaver®CS4, Fireworks® CS4, Contribute® CS4, After Effects® CS4, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4, Encore® CS4, Soundbooth® CS4 and Adobe OnLocation™ CS4. Pricing for the new programs is available at Adobe’s online store.

Chase Jarvis + Book Signing

Shelby White — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:13:08 +0000

To those who didn’t make this event, shame on you, it was awesome. Besides Chase’s two Hangar photo events he hasn’t made a public speaking event like this since 2001. This was my first of his events that I’ve been to since living in Seattle. The book signing took place at REI in one of the conference centers on the top floor.

The purpose of the event was to sort of launch Chase’s new Stevens Pass photo book. You can visit the microsite for the book, here. Unsurprisingly the book sold very well and there were about 200+ people in attendance. If you have a few bucks, snag a book before they go out of stock.

With there being quite a few people and each having their book autographed, I was only able to sneak in two questions for Chase. The first concerning the amount of web traffic that his site gets and the second one was asking him who is doing the design end of things for the business. After the questions, I snagged a few pictures of the crowd and Chase’s assistant/right hand man Scott, raffling off items. Along with the raffle, there was a silent auction of Stevens Pass season passes to benefit the Northwest Avalanche Center. I’ve posted some pictures from the event and also one of the videos that was played during the presentation.

Nearly every chair was filled–picture was taken right before everything was wrapped up.

There were 3954 still frames were used in this video, pretty cool right? Here are some words from industry known professionals:

“Chase’s images have always had that certain intangible quality that set them apart. It takes a photographer who really knows skiing and snowboarding to document it well, and Stevens Pass captures this beautifully… What I also love about this book is that the photos go beyond cliff hucks and deep powder. By including some beautiful scenics, some quiet moments, and images of little tykes learning to ski, Chase has made this book something that everyone can enjoy.”
- Chris Jerard Associate Publisher | Freeskier and Snowboard Magazines

“Images and moments from one of Washington’s classic ski areas, Chase’s photos provide an intimate look at contemporary NW ski and snowboard culture.”
- Jeff Galbriath, Publisher, The Ski Journal & frequency: The Snowboarder’s Journal

“If a picture really is worth a thousand words than Chase Jarvis’ images from Stevens Pass go a long way toward putting us writers out of business.”
- Crai S Bower, 2008 Northern Lights Award Winning Writer

Imperial Motion Blog

Shelby White — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:29:30 +0000

Imperial Motion (IM), as of a few weeks ago, launched a new blog catering to artists and photographers that they felt deserved some recognition. About two months before the launch I was contacted and asked to take part in this blog. I haven’t had much to post as of lately, but I did give them access to pull images from my blog so that they could post. IM decided to go with the GirlTalk photos from The Capitol Hill Block Party. Some of those photos were also used in an upcoming interview with Greg Gillis for Slug Magazine.

View the Imperial Motion blog here & view my post here.

Capitol Hill Block Party