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Rebecca Van Dyck

Jeff Singer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:05:29 +0000

Along with all the talk of Facebook’s pending IPO last week I had two of my own Facebook connections pop up. First, I was called to photograph Facebook’s CSO (Chief Security Officer) Joe Sullivan for an editorial cover shoot. And then, I read that Rebecca Van Dyck was just hired by Facebook to head up their marketing department. I photographed Rebecca a few month’s ago for AdWeek while she was still Levi’s Director of Marketing.

Now, if only I could get some of that pre-IPO Facebook stock.

Smile

Jeff Singer — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:01:28 +0000

Today over on A Photo Editor there’s a link to a Rodney Smith blog post about smiling in photos. Rodney doesn’t think smiling photos have substance. I don’t know that I agree with that, but I know I tend to like non-smiling photos. I have a total of seven on my entire website and only one in my portfolio (although it depends on what qualifies as a smile… there are some very slight smiles that I didn’t count). I tend to take things a bit further though… It seems I don’t even like people looking at the camera.

I posted about this a year ago, but looking over recent shoots I think I’m getting worse. I routinely choose the photos where the subject isn’t looking at the camera (I will say, the client rarely chooses those). I keep wondering what this says about myself.

Chloë

Jeff Singer — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:57:41 +0000

So this is what I’ve been working on the last nine months and I’m glad she’s finally here.

I’ll do my best not to make all my posts about Chloë… even though she is pretty damn cute.

Now, I need to go get some sleep. Ok, here are a couple more:

Nick Zinner @ Public Works

Jeff Singer — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:59:48 +0000

Another shot of Nick Zinner of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs taken for Blackbook Magazine at Public Works in San Francisco.

Hunx & His Punks

Jeff Singer — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:00:32 +0000

I photographed Hunx & His Punks for Blackbook Magazine at the San Francisco Library. I had never heard of them but I’ve been seeing them mentioned in a magazines quite a bit lately. They were an interesting and fun crew to work with.

Andrew Bangs

Jeff Singer — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:47:26 +0000

I met Andrew Bangs working on a shoot for Blackbook Magazine covering Noise Pop. Andrew is a writer here in San Francisco and if you need to know where you should go in San Francisco Andrew is the man; He researches restaurants and bars for Blackbook’s City Guide. Sounds like a good gig to me.

Andrew gave me a shout-out in a Scout Mob interview today:

SCOUT: Noise Pop was about a week’s worth of events, but you must have had one super memorable moment. What was it?
ANDREW: It actually wasn’t at a show or anything like that. One morning we were scheduled to meet the singer Ted Leo at the Peace Pagoda in Japantown for an interview & photo shoot. He was running late, so the photographer Jeff Singer and I just hung out and had a long conversation. Jeff’s a real cool guy, SF based, super talented.

Well thanks Andrew, you’re a cool guy as well and it was fun hanging out in the freezing cold waiting for the hung over rock star who would never show (although my girlfriend thinks she’s the reason it’s was the most memorable moment… understandable). And thanks for being my stand in at the shoots.

Tamaryn

Jeff Singer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:45:20 +0000

I photographed Tamaryn for Blackbook Magazine for an article on Noise Pop. We did the shoot at a local vintage clothing store in San Francisco.

You may notice the larger image. I’m going to start posting larger images here. If I’m feeling sufficiently motivated I’ll update some back posts as well.

Yeah Yeah Yeah, Nick Zinner

Jeff Singer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:34:37 +0000

Last weekend I got to photograph Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a few other bands for Blackbook Magazine. The issue is coming out at the end of March and I while I can’t show those pictures just yet, this was an outtake I did for myself after the shoot. More on these shoots after the issue comes out.

As usual, I’m indecisive of the look. This time I’m not sure if I like the color or b&w version better:

Don’t Look!

Jeff Singer — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:40:04 +0000

I’m thinking about reorganzing the galleries on my website and while I was going through the images I realized, I really like it when people aren’t looking at the camera. I know I usually ask people to look away, I just didn’t realize I did it so often:

Raygun Gothic Rocket

Jeff Singer — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:38:16 +0000

I went back out the day before Thanksgiving to take another shot of “the rocket.” It’s basically the same shot just with a “real camera.” I actually liked the look Instagram gave the image so I gave this version a similar treatment. This was shot digitally but I shot some 6×7 film as well but I haven’t had the film developed yet. So in the end I’ll have three different versions of the same shot.

The Raygun Gothic Rocket is actually a art installation originally found at Burning Man and will be in San Francisco through October 2011.