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	<title>Derek Cooper Photography &#187; Still Life</title>
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		<title>Coffee beans and spices</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/02/05/coffee-beans-and-spices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some creative we were doing recently for a client &#8211; the colours and the shapes work so well together.

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		<title>LCBO advertisements with cabin theme</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/02/01/lcbo-advertisements-with-cabin-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the shots we did for the LCBO late last year are currently running in stores throughout Ontario. It was a ski cabin inspired shoot, pairing selected VQA wines with delicious soups. Just in time to curl up in front of the fire to watch the Olympics.

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		<title>Ads for Nokia</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/01/29/ads-for-nokia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertising campaign we shot for Nokia&#8217;s launch of their 3806 series of mobile phones.
Client: Nokia
Advertising Agency: OneMethod Digital + Design
Creative Director: Steve Miller
Flip-book of the ads for the campaign &#8211; flip the pages to see all the ads, and click to enlarge full-screen, just like a magazine:

One of the still shots:

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		<title>Wine bottles on set – experimenting III</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/01/21/wine-bottles-on-set-%e2%80%93-experimenting-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/01/21/wine-bottles-on-set-%e2%80%93-experimenting-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I continue to work on lighting techniques with bottles &#8211; always new things to try.

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		<title>Wine bottles on set &#8211; experimenting II</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/01/18/wine-bottles-on-set-experimenting-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/01/18/wine-bottles-on-set-experimenting-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We also worked on our white wine lighting setups &#8211; always more complex cause the liquid allows you to see through to the background, which is never flattering. White wine always needs a bit of pop to make it look good too!
For our testing, we used a Riesling, which always tends to look like Sprite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine bottles on set &#8211; experimenting</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2010/01/14/wine-bottles-on-set-experimenting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My assistant Breanne and I were experimenting with different setups for shooting wine bottles on a set earlier this week. We wanted to get great looking shots without having to do a lot of compositing and retouching work in Photoshop.
This is one of the shots from our work &#8211; we only needed two photos for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Champagne flutes with apples</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/11/21/champagne-flutes-with-apples/</link>
		<comments>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/11/21/champagne-flutes-with-apples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flute]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the American holiday weekend fast approaching, it&#8217;s time to celebrate with a glass (or three) of champagne!

This is one of the few types of shots I do using entirely strobe lighting. To get the right lighting on the glasses and of a short enough duration to freeze the bubbles, the shot demands strobes. Whereas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold bottle of beer &#8211; Innis &amp; Gunn</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/11/10/cold-bottle-of-beer-innis-gunn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/11/10/cold-bottle-of-beer-innis-gunn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beads]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cold]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be on a real beer kick lately. My last post, which was a long time ago now (apologies), I showed my progress shooting a can of beer. I finally found some time to shoot a bottle.
Although similar to a can of beer, bottles have their own challenges &#8211; primarily, you can see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold metal beer can &#8211; Rickard&#8217;s Red Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/10/20/cold-metal-beer-can-rickards-red-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/10/20/cold-metal-beer-can-rickards-red-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing what you can learn in a day. The first shot of the beer can I posted yesterday was a little flat &#8211; the lighting was dull. It didn&#8217;t give the can any life.
So I worked on the lighting, re-thought my approach, and went with a setup that created dramatic light on the can. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold metal beer can &#8211; Rickard&#8217;s Red</title>
		<link>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/10/17/cold-metal-beer-can-rickards-red/</link>
		<comments>http://www.derekcooper.com/blog/2009/10/17/cold-metal-beer-can-rickards-red/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started to work on a metal can of cold beer earlier today to see what I could do. It&#8217;s not a subject I had photographed in the past, but was asked recently to show some of my beer shots.
Here is the result of a few hours of playing earlier today &#8211; everything but the [...]]]></description>
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