Balloons and Shadows by Michael Creagh

Here are some more shots from the Susana Monaco Catalog for Spring 2010. The theme was shadows and we utilized an old friend; balloons. The entire collection should be on Susana Monaco's website in the next few days (http://susanamonaco.com).

I love the old woman shadow in the background!

Here are the 2 I already posted last week.

The model is Martha Hunt from Next New York. Makeup was Martha Friedlander (http://marthafriedlander.com) and hair Wesley from the Wall Group. The photo was taken in my studio in Manhattan with my Hasselblad H3D 39 Megapixel camera with an 80mm lens. The settings were ISO 50 at F9 1/250sec. Lighting was Profoto.

Thanks!
Michael Creagh

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Photography.Book.Now Awards New York 2009 - Michael Creagh

Last night was the awards ceremony for Photography.Book.Now 2009. Best described as a gala, it was held at the swanky Tribeca Rooftop in Manhattan. Blurb put on a first rate ceremony filled with some of the best self published books and all the hors d'oeuvres and drinks one could wish for. I was impressed and could not have been more excited to be one of the honorees (see my post on the 1st Runner-Up Award from a week or so ago; http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/1st-runner-up-in-photography-book-now-competition-awarded-to-michael-creagh/).

Below is a little mix from the event. The rooms and roof deck were lined with flat screens showing the judging process and quirky imagery of people holding open different books. Also, there were books everywhere. Lining the walls, on the tables, on special shelves, and even in little reading areas with nice armchairs so people could peruse the winners in style.

I have to take my hat off to Blurb CEO Eileen Gittins and her team Brenna Lewis, Lori Reddy, Mike Barash, Robin Goldberg, Bruce Waterman, and Audrey at Henry Grey PR. Blurb (http://Blurb.com) is the leader in self publishing. There were a lot of big name sponsors (B&H Photo, Canon, PDN, American Photo, Virgin America etc), but I want to give a special thanks to lead sponsor Hewlett Packard. HP Vice President Yishai Amir gave an excellent speech about the circle of innovation that makes things like self publishing possible. He also backed it up with a $25,000 check to the Grand Prize Winner Rafal Milach. Rafal's book was a beautiful exploration of landscapes and portraits on the Black Sea Coastline.

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Here is a link to my book which was honored at the event with the first Runner-Up prize in the Commercial Category.

http://www.blurb.com/books/455779

Thanks!
Michael Creagh

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Susana Monaco Bubbles Catalog by Michael Creagh

I am trying to have my Blogspot Blog catch up with my wordpress blog. So bear with me for these summary updates of a few past posts merged together. You can always go directly to http://michaelcreagh.wordpress.com while I attempt to catch this one up. I will be using both in the future.


The Bubbles shoot is one of my personal favorites and is the lead image on my website, http://michaelcreagh.com

International Photography Awards – Michael Creagh awarded Honorable Mention

Here is the image selected for Honorable Mention. It is an image I photographed for the Susana Monaco catalog. I was pretty excited even though there are a lot of people chosen for this honor. Some of my fellow honorable mentions were some pretty big name photographers like Howard Schatz and Markus Klinko. It is really very funny as apparently the winners were originally announced a month ago and I had no idea I was awarded anything. There are a lot of categories and over 22,000 entries from 124 countries. It was just hard to find your name on the list!

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Here are some behind the scene shots. There are always lots of comments about the gorgeous model Charlotte from DNA and how porcelain her skin looks. You can see without retouching how stunning she is. If you would like to see the entire series, it is posted at http://www.michaelcreagh.com under the title of bubbles.

Thanks!
Michael Creagh

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