I’ve been trying to set up a photo shoot with Ryann Ford Photography for months! Finally we were able to land a fabulous project with Four Hands Home, Austin based furniture & interior designer. We took their fabulous furniture and placed them in well known, iconic places of Austin. The ads scream “local”, which is a flavor that Austinites love! First, we made the trek up to Mt Bonnell with a living room set in front of a fantastic view of the Pennybacker Bridge (Capital of Texas Highway 360) crossing Lake Austin in the distance. Thankfully we didn’t choose to shoot at the summit, just one of the lower landings with the best view. Next, we shot a dining room set at the recognizable “Greetings from Austin” mural by artist Todd Sanders of the Roadhouse Relics gallery. I had to shut down a couple lanes of traffic here as the mural is on a busy intersection of the Bouldin Creek neighborhood in south Austin. Lastly, we placed a lovely bedroom set along the Hike & Bike trail at Auditorium Shores along Town Lake, with a gorgeous view of downtown just across the water. The only challenge here was making sure that a hundred dogs enjoying their off-leash privileges didn’t make a mess of the bedding. Hah! All the captures looked “perfectly Austin”, as the clients and art director Kelly Colchin wanted.
The images are appearing in several issues of Austin Monthly and Austin Home magazines.
Here are the behind the scenes:
Support by crew: Sean Johnson (Digi Tech/ Photo Asst), and Nick Cabrera (Photo Asst).