More Food

I've been shooting lots of food the last few weeks. Here's a prawn from Lento in Rochester, NY, and a really tasty Pork Belly dish from the Rabbit Room in Honeoye Falls, NY.

Cibon

Got to shoot at Cafe Cibon on Park Ave in Rochester today for Rochester Magazine. The chef, Ashley was super cool, and even let me include her in one of the photos.

Canandaigua, NY

Spent most of the day in Canandaigua, NY today shooting for Canandaigua Magazine. Met up with a beekeeper (A lawyer by day). Very interesting guy, I had no idea how complex bee colonies are.

Mayor Robert J. Duffy

Had the opportunity to photograph Rochester, NY Mayor, Robert Duffy at City Hall today. Very nice guy,    he's much taller than I expected, so spent most of the shoot standing on a chair!

School Project

In honor of the Oscars, I dug up a school project I shot on 16mm B&W film in college. The rule for the short film was that you could only use 1 spoken word, and that word had to begin with the letter 'b'. Yeah, pretty much everything is bad in this, except for oscar level acting of my wife :)

Baby Project from Matt Wittmeyer on Vimeo.

Brandi Dawn

My friend Brandi Dawn came in today to shoot a cover for insider magazine. It was for the St. Patrick's Day issue. I played around using my new ring flash as fill light.

Patrick Kaleta

In honor of the Buffalo Sabres doing so well this year, I came across a photo I shot of Patrick Kaleta when he first started with the Rochester Amerks about 3 years ago, at the time the farm team of the Buffalo Sabres. We chatted about how excited he was when he would get called up to Buffalo for games. It was cool to see an athlete making the transition to pro. He was in a big fight the night before (on the ice!), and had a big black eye to show for it.

Portrait project

I just started working on a portrait project for Rochester Magazine. Here's a test shot of my bud Jen, and a illegible drawing of the setup.

New Studio

As a first post, I wanted to share some photos of my new studio share. Myself, along with a few other local photographers, and an interior designer will be transforming this space in the next month. I'll update as construction starts.

Thanks to Rich Paprocki for shooting those photos.

and here is the layout.