Hannah Sanders!

January 15, 2015 in Album Design, Band and Musicians, Design, Friends, Music, News, Photography, Portraits, Press, Promotional

In celebration of Hannah's new album hitting streets in a few weeks:

I've worked with Folk musician/ singer/songwriter Hannah Sanders a few times now. I enjoy being in Hannah's company; we have the same type of humor and I love laughing with her and listening to her British accent. She moved back to the U.K. a few years ago, but in August 2014 she came back to the States for come concert dates and she wanted to get together and create some new images for her forthcoming album and promotional images.

Vintage Camera Box Promo Images

September 27, 2014 in Album Design, Design, Film, Polaroids, Promotional

I love old, vintage, product boxes.

Old advertising, old boxes, old packaging - I love it. I love the simplistic design. So elegant.

Someone sent me this old Polaroid box in the mail because I wanted to scan it in and print it out to hang on my wall. Then I started toying with the idea of taking the design elements and making them into business promo's for my photography. It seemed like a fun idea to try, so I spent an afternoon scanning old camera-related boxes and turning them as closely as I could into promo pieces that I could use to mail to companies and places I'd like to work with. A kind of elbow-in-the-ribs private in-joke to those who see it. Maybe some will get it and laugh. Maybe some won't understand.

Fujifilm box

Kodak film box

Impossible Project box. Yeah, this one isn't vintage, but I love the nod to the Polaroid colors it uses. and I love that SCP font; all nice and thin and long.

I don't know if I'll actually print these and send them out, but I thought they came out pretty cool. Definitely fun. And that is the most important thing. Fun. Humor. Good times.

Hannah Sanders & Liz Simmons UK Tour - November 2014

August 22, 2014 in Band and Musicians, Design, Friends, Live in Concert, Photography

Hannah Sanders/Liz Simmons UK Tour Poster

I love clients that love to use the images we make together.

I stumbled across this online. It's my pals Hannah and Liz, and they are getting ready for some dates in the U.K. in November.

If you are in the United Kingdom, give them your love. They love making music. Making music is awesome.

New Website Layout! Sid Ceaser Photography 2.0

June 13, 2014 in Album Design, Design, News, Press

We are rolling out a new website layout for 2014. Sid Ceaser Photography 2.0!! Woooo!

The website is softly launching, so please bear with us while we take care of any loose code or scrambled links (click through, "read more" content is still being formatted to the old blog layout - hang tight we're on it).

Feel free to click around. If you do notice any weird links or happenings, please let me know in the comments below so we can get on it.

Major props to my good friend David Seah, who continues to help me above and beyond with this stuff. He is a gem.

Teresa Santoski • Design Samples

February 21, 2014 in Album Design, Design, Head Shots, Instagram Photography, Photography, Press, Promotional

One of the services that I provide but haven't listed on my website is Design services. When I deal with music clients part of my post-processing includes making a few small, mock-up album covers that I include so the client can see, visually, some of the things they can do with the photographs we make; be it album-covers or concert flyers or whatever.

Teresa Santoski, who I recently worked with for her head shot, website content and book cover, hired me to design some business cards and post-card sized business callers. Here are the two final designs that we went with. One is a standard business card and the other is a 4.5" x 4.5" square card.

I've been making album and mix-tape covers my whole life. Why I haven't announced that I offer that as a service is still a mystery, and one I hope to integrate more formally on the website soon.

I can be an all-in-one stop for photographs and album design.