Test, Link, and Hot Rod.

Just a quick blast to entertain you for a brief moment.  This fitness shot demonstrates the lighting effect of the 'jumbrella', a 8' tall umbrella with silver reflecting material in it.  Styling by Machelle Bindrup and post production by Katie Burton at Dunker Imaging.

If you haven't read this, here's a link to a story about "The Shutdown and Dismantling of Geneva Steel" posted in the Deseret News in March 2008:  http://www.deseretnews.com/user/comments/695260864/Photographer-chronicles-Geneva-Steels-demise.html

Dunker Imaging photographed 1967 Buick Riviera for Cam at HS Customs in Smithfield.  We got a 'runner up'!  Check it:  http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/1001phr_178_real_world_rides/photo_05.html

Here's another image from the Pittsburgh Project.  I will make a silver print of this image and donate it to the Silver Eye Center for Photography's fund raiser.  Buy it! 

 

These guys are cool:  http://www.wearetopsecret.com

More to follow soon, we've got a bunch in the hopper!

Pittsburgh and Interiors

I've got some images from my trip to Pittsburgh in this installment.  Informed by many influences including Gene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, Charles Sheeler, Joel Meyerowitz, John Pfal,  Dusseldorf School, the New Topographics and many others, the images attempt to define my relationship with industrial culture.  My approach to these industrial landscapes and structures is affectionate, soft, and in obeyance to the formal qualities of these objects of utility.  Pittsburgh has been photographed many times by many of the greatest photographers.  What could I do with this subject that hasn't already been done?  I set out to create images which are tempered with history as evidenced by previous photographic projects as well as create a visual document of the state of Pittsburgh's industrial culture as it stands in the winter of 2009.  The Pittsburgh I discovered is quiet in comparison to the dynamic and charged "Smokey City" of  the first part of the 1900s.  Many mills have been replaced with open space or commerce centers.  But there is still activity.  Clairton Works and Edgar Thompson plants are producing, but still my approach is forced by access, I'd jump at any opportunity to image the blast furnaces and casters at Edgar Thompson!
I'll be working on new American bike and car shots during the next few weeks, I've got a print showing at "The Living Room" in Salt Lake City, another in a salon showing in SLC.  I'll be preparing prints for a Memorial Day show at The 511 Gallery in Lake Placid.  I've also been art directing and directing web videos for fitness equipmet, which I love doing.  My new book, "Industrial Culture" is moving along, seems like there's always something to add to it, but stay tuned, it will get finished, it will!  It WILL!!

   

Here's some interior shots I made for Michele Dunker Interiors.

 

And some shots for Isimplifit's fitness pose directory...

Thanks for visiting!  I'll up some more images soon, we've been busy...  Dunker Imaging is a full service imaging vendor, delivering images on time, on budget with no hassles.  

Mainly People

This blog installment deals primarily with the imaging of people.  I love imaging a person.  My objective is to not only provide a visual account of what the individual looks like, but to reveal a bit about who this person is.  A direction for the mind to pursue will evoke the panomime of the face and ignite the eyes.  This in conjunction with some posing tips will more often than not result in a dynamic image which causes a psychological response from the viewer.  Emotional states like confidence, enthusiasm, caring, and in the event of the SnoBot, an 'ice cold heart' begin in the mind of the subject, are translated into an expression, which I record and deliver as per usage dictates.  Finally, these expressions and gestures are viewed, and subsequent to a brief moment of involvement on behalf of the viewer, an emotional response ensues.  That's the objective anyway....

 

The SnoBot.  Model:  Alexis Ernst.  Hair:  Brooke,  from Phiva Salon.  Makeup:  Machelle Bindrup.  Apparel:  Maria Linsday.  Assistant:  Katie Burton.  Photographer:  Chris Dunker.  Set Design:  Michele Dunker Interiors.

This print of some bins in South Korea, Pohang Industrial Park, is on display at the Salt Lake Art Center's "Not Just Another Pretty Face" exhibit this month.

Here's the Michele Dunker Interiors design team!  Go Designers!

 

These portraits of city council members were commissioned by the City of Logan.  From top left:  Dean Quayle, Holly Daines, Laraine Swenson, Jay Monson, and Herm Olsen.

Jana wanted a simple family portrait.  What a great looking family!  Jana has done hair and concepts on many of the fembots.

Zac and Naomi, my kids!

Happy Holidays! 

Deer Pandora

Don't you love pandora?  I have a dock in the house connected to the home sound system (soundtube) and run it as an app through the I phone..  Really diverse, fun streaming music.  I like these stations:  Miss Kittin, Lo Fidelity All Stars, Peaches, Morcheeba...  I spent 3 days mountain biking in St. George area last weekend, rode the JEM Trail, Gooseberry Mesa, and Guacamole Trail.  Met some amazing people, ate great food, and had a blast!!
We also got some work done at the studio.  A lot of copy art, some commercial imaging, Art Directed and DP'd some video for sam's club.com and costco.com. 
We also manufactured packed and shipped 10 industrial culture prints to be shown at The Silver Eye Center for Photography December 9 through January 4.  I'll be visiting  Pittsburgh from Dec 7- 12 to attend the opening reception, urban hike and document industrial culture.  Hit me up if you're in the sector!  (435) 757-7207

scott lenhardt's 'Deer'

Mike Parillo's "Hydrocycle"

Free Motion Fitness's F400.  Super Duty Fitness Equipment!

Yes, I will do family portraits.  Elements like architecture, pose and expression indicates a sense of place and maybe tells a little bit about who we are and when the image was made... 

Fitness and Art

Sustained exertion, especially in a situation which demands focus, will result in a flushing of the mind which allows new ideas to become manifest.  I get good ideas when I push my physical limits.  Todays good idea involved a dark-skinned power-bot with a white costume, in a white environment, with a white weapon and muzzle bursts.
Now, on with the doings.  We've had some fitness shoots, costco.com, ross packaging, walmart packaging, and The Sports Authority, as well as a head shot of Kristie Brooks, an Home Shopping Network fitness spokesperson.  We also photographed some paintings and made some prints of a landscape I shot last spring.  Also in the news:  snow.

The East side of Bear Lake, looking North West.  The "Carribean of the Rockies".

Packaging image of a fitness ball for Ross.  Local talent and USU student, Ryan Avila, is awesome to work with.

Kristie Brooks.  She is a super certified fitness trainer, develops fitness programs for Icon, the world's largest manufacturer of fitness equipment, AND she sells fitness equipment on the Home Shopping Network.  Go!

This treadmill was a prototype, didn't run, and Michelle Hendy faked the stride!  This image was created for The Sports Authority.

Linda Sargent's watercolor of two white horses is a real nice piece, we photographed this for her with our 4x5 Betterlight scan back.

Thanks for tuning in!  Please call (435) 752-5211 or email dunker@dunkerimaging.com to discuss any imaging needs you might have! 

Finalist.

I'm a finalist at MYARTSPACE. I like that the other finalists are painters, sculptors, and photographers.

In other news, I licensed a Geneva Steel image to be used on a cd cover, and I sold a large, 40"x50" print of the same image to a collector in Malibu.

We delivered a set of images to IMDS.  This company partners with medical device inventors to develop, manufacture, and sell these devices.

spine fusion

 

microscope man

machines

Here's some images we delivered to The Sports Authority this week.  These images will be used on the preprint inserts you find in your newspaper.

We shot these sculptures for artist Jerry Fuhriman.  They are made with repurposed stainless steel and are built to last!

Please visit dunkerimaging.com for more images and information...  I invite you to email or call (435) 752-5211 with any questions or comments!

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We generated tradeshow signage imagery for Freemotion, a high end commercial fitness equipment company.  Shot on Monday, final files delivered Tuesday.  Kudos to Katie, our in house post production specialist on her quick turnaround and attention to quality and detail.

 

 As a special reward for your visit to this blog, I present you with "The Authoritarian."  Shot in front of a large LED panel for the pure and simple reason of fun.  Model:  Erin Reese, Hair:  Jana Thompson, Makeup:  Machelle Bindrup, Assistant:  Katie Burton.  Thanks to all who participated.  This print will be displayed at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in the "New and Improved II" exhibit, a group invitational show.