We’ve been working with Sweet Candy Company over the last few months, and boy, has it been sweet. Working with the entire family over there at Sweets has been nothing short of great. They have been easy to work with, easy to please, and most of all easy to like.

Photography is finished, and the book is currently in the process of being designed. I wanted to post a few images I’ve thrown together to give a taste of the fun times we’ve had so far. There aren’t many things that are more fun than shooting in a candy factory. The smell of warm, fresh chocolate, the sight of large pans of brightly colored candy, and the taste of fresh goodies right off the line is definitely a pleasure to the senses. I felt like a kid in — well, you get the drift.

Enough with the rambling…these are some custom images I’ve worked up for this blog post. I hope they illustrate the qualities I’ve discovered while working with Rick and Rachel and the rest of the group over there at Sweets.

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Ron Adair is a Corporate Advertising and Marketing Photographer based in Utah

We worked with Sarah last weekend, a terrific model. Below we have one of the first images we created from the shoot. Our aim was to create an image that would capture a feeling of solitude, or aloneness. I’m happy with the final result. How about you? More images of our lovely Sarah will be forthcoming…

P.S. I love film grain. Can you tell?

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Commercial Advertising Photographer.

Here lies Brent the Great. Brent is a photographer in Eagle Mountain, and was kind enough to stand in as a model after our real model flaked on us. Sheesh, I’ll tell you…there’s one way to NOT get called back, and that’s to waste 2 weeks of planning by not showing up when it’s time to actually be the warm body in the seat.

Anyway, we made do, and did the best we could with Brent. I was actually quite surprised at how photogenic this guy is. I think Southwest Airlines should buy this photo and publish it as an ad in Forbes Magazine with the headline “Destination Flights to Make You Happy”. But maybe that’s just me.

One more thing: don’t be surprised if another shot follows shortly that looks surprisingly similar to this one.

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Commercial Advertising Photographer.

I know I said the previous post was the last, so this is actually “part b”. 😉

When I’m going through the editing process, I will create different “looks” to finish image I’m working on. Occasionally, I’ll come up with a few different looks for the same image, and as a result, I’ll then have two or more of the same images to weed back down to one. Over the years, I’ve gotten much better at being decisive and making my choice, whether it’s right or wrong. Still, there are times that it’s just too dang tough. In this case, I like both treatments of the images below. Since I still can’t decide after a few days of stewing on it, I thought I’d pass it along to anyone else who wants to put in their 2¢.

Feel free to leave a comment below about which is your favorite. Make a good case, and I may just let you choose for me…

Thanks!

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Shot A:

Shot B:

What do you think, Shot A or Shot B?

(These were shot in Salt Lake City, UT. The images were created for Inspire Magazine‘s Media Kit.)

Ron Adair is a Utah based Advertising Photographer.

The final set of images from our Inspire Magazine shoot. These were shot in Salt Lake City, UT. The images were created for Inspire’s Media Kit.

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Advertising Photographer.

Another set of images from our Inspire Magazine shoot. These were shot in Salt Lake City, UT. The images were created for Inspire’s Media Kit.

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Advertising Photographer.

Yet additional images from our Inspire Magazine shoot. These were shot in Salt Lake City, UT. The images were created for Inspire’s Media Kit. A few more posts to come with images from this set.

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Advertising Photographer.

More images from our Inspire Magazine shoot. These were shot in Salt Lake City, UT. The images were created for Inspire’s Media Kit.

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Advertising Photographer.

Here are a few images from a recent shoot we did for Inspire Magazine. These images were created in Idaho Falls, ID. More to come soon!

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Ron Adair is a Utah based Advertising Photographer.