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Shafer Vineyards Chooses Portland Locations

Russ Widstrand Photographer identified, sourced and secured 3 locations for a Shafer Vineyard’s still and video  shoot. Widstrand then photographed the final production over three days, personally negotiating with each location and homeowner. The locations in Lake Oswego, Eastmoreland and Downtown Portland were selected for their unique and differentiated narratives: a residential cocktail party, an outdoor []


Russ Widstrand Images on TV

Widstrand’s client, Doug Shafer, president of Shafer Vineyards, talks about winning Wine Spectator’s 2012 Wine of the Year on national TV. Announced in Fall 2013, Widstrand’s still images of Shafer’s vineyards were shown mid-way in the segments. Doug has this to say about working with Widstrand… “Russ has become a trusted partner for Shafer projects that require []


Lam Research Shoot

Time Lapse Photography Depicts Room Divider The above time lapse video was part of a recent interior shoot for Portland based, MacKenzie. The client wanted to show how they designed this custom employee cafe to be multi-purpose, the challenge was… how to depict the function of a retractable wall. Time lapse immediately came to my mind []


Build and Update a Website with Lightroom

This screencast demo shows TTG software that empowers Lightroom to construct and manage a website. Lightroom creates a home page/galleries/images/thumbnails/metadata published to the web almost instantly. About pages, contact pages and menus are handled through WordPress. The build out was pretty complex and not for the faint of heart, but the payoff is pretty amazing. []