Philippe Roy Blog

Kokuyo-Bene (Office Furniture Photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:18:21 -0700

Kokuyo (Japanese) and Bene (German) are two internationally renowned office furniture makers who joined forces together. Rimagine was called upon to do some photos of their new collection in their Shanghai showroom, since most of the furniture was oriented to the local market.

I was really interested in playing with different angles and light warmths as we went from sunlight, to halogen to studio lights. All and all I’m quite please with the results… so is the client, of course!

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: Kokuyo-Bene
Model: Irishka G
Make-up Artist: Oscar Fu

Style: product photography, office furniture photography
Location: Shanghai, China

Mountain Bike (Lighting Tests)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:04:56 -0700

There are endless possibilities with lighting. I guess that’s one of the many things and reasons that keep me so interested in photography. I’m one of the lucky ones that loves his work. Very lucky.

To see and show the different possibilities I did different lighting schemes on my new mountain bike.

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: JujuDirectory.com
Style: creative photography
Location: Shanghai, China

Time Shop 24 (high-end watch photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:59:10 -0700

We were already doing pack-shot photography for Time Shop 24 at Rimagine, but we also wanted to show them what we could do some nice high-end photos of their watches with some beautifully crafted lighting.

Each one of these photos took an entire day in studio to create. And they are both compositions of multiple photos that have been put together into one.

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: Time Shop 24
Style: high-end product photography, creative lighting
Location: Shanghai, China

Lauten Audio (Product Photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:52:36 -0700

The people at Lauten Audio found me though my website and I brought them over to Rimagine. Being based in the US, it was not possible for the client to be in studio to oversee the photo-shoot, and he wanted to try something different. After a few email exchanges and conversations, we had a better idea of what he was after, but not exactly… so we gave him multiple options, trying different things with the lighting. In the end he was very happy with the results.

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: Lauten Audio
Style: creative product photography, packshot photography
Location: Shanghai, China

Perfume Bottles (creative product photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:46:15 -0700

Sometimes things slow down in the studio. Rarely, mind you. But, when they do I like to do tests with products that I rarely have the chance to work with. Or, try my hand at some new lighting ideas… without having to answer to the client looking over my shoulder.

I do this mainly out of curiosity, because I like playing around with different ideas. It’s sometimes a total disaster, but other times it’s a happy surprise worth putting in your portfolio.

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: internal
Style: creative product photography
Location: Shanghai, China

Juju Directory (Creative Photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:41:27 -0700

Rimagine – The Photography Company wanted to create a creative talents database for Shanghai. Juju Directory. A great idea since it’s not always an easy task to find the right talents here, especially among expats as people keep coming and going. Models typically stay 2 ~ 3 months before heading back to their home countries.

So we wanted to create images internally that said that the directory is unique in it’s own, and pops out to the eye. ‘Ju’ in Chinese also means ‘orange’, as the fruit, so that’s where the inspiration comes from.

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: JujuDirectory.com
Style: creative photography
Location: Shanghai, China

Amphenol (micro electronic product photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:33:07 -0700

We don’t get this often, but as technology is getting smaller, slimmer and more minuscule by the minute, so are it’s internal components… makes total sense, of course! Well, taking nice photos of small, micro, products is a whole other challenge that Rimagine (and I) were faced with when Amphenol came to see us.

Amphenol makes mobile phone components like antennas, SIM card holders and the flipping hinge mechanism for flip phones. These are photos from the test we did for them.

Photographer: Philippe Roy (for Rimagine.com)
Client: Amphenol
Style: micro product photography
Location: Shanghai, China

Lada Pearls (packshot photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:57:57 -0700

There’s nothing simple when it comes to jewelry. Because of all the intricate details and the reflective surfaces that ornaments usually have, not to mention the designer’s attention to detail, it’s always a challenge. A welcome challenge.

Lada Pearls is an American jewelry company that wanted some nice pack-shots on gray background, playing with reflective surfaces. This was the result.

Photographer: Philippe Roy – for Rimagine.com
Client: Coperion
Agency: Montfort – Shanghai
Style: Corporate Industrial Photography
Location: Nanjing, China

Coperion - Nanjing, China (industrial photography)

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:23:17 -0700

When you scroll down to the last picture you’ll probably think to yourself: “bah it’s not that big! common!” Unfortunately, the knock-out photo on white background doesn’t do justice to this massive machine. The thing is about 20 meters long.

Usually I need two meters to back-up for every meter that the machine measures… Of course, we found alternative solutions. But fitting it in my frame was not the only problem, lighting the whole product so it was nicely lit all along was also quite the challenge.

Thank god for Photoshop and computers is all I have to say. With Photoshop we were able to take and light different areas of the machine in different exposures and connect all of them together in one photo. Ah, the beautiful wonders of technology!! Thank you.

Photographer: Philippe Roy – for Rimagine.com
Client: Coperion
Agency: Montfort – Shanghai
Style: Corporate Industrial Photography
Location: Nanjing, China

Sonion - Suzhou, China (industrial photography

email@nospam.com (Philippe Roy) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:51:04 -0700

Sonion is a Danish company that produces audio devices, including extremely small microphones for mobile phones. The Suzhou branch, here in China, wanted to have some corporate photos done for their annual report for the head office in Denmark. Due to the limited time-line and their desire for more photos, we went photojournalism style, saving the time it takes to set-up lights we were able to do more photos for them. Here are the results:

Photographer: Philippe Roy – for Rimagine.com
Client: Sonion
Style: Corporate Industrial Photography
Location: Suzhou, China