Posted by Mark Hudon on October 25, 2006 at 1:13 PM
I've been wanting to take this photo for a couple of years now. I've checked all the spots I could find in Hood River but I figured the only place to get the comp I wanted was from the roof of the Hospital. This is the cool part of Hood River, I simply called over to the hospital, introduced myself as Mark Hudon from Hood River Coffee Co. and asked if I could get on the roof to take a photo. The head of maintenance told me to come over any time.
I needed to make a Mt Adams Blend label for the Coffee Co. and today the scene looked nice. I went over there after dropping Ellen off at school (right down the street), got up on the roof and took a few shots, came back to the Coffee Co., downloaded the photo, made the label, printed it on our label printer and it's going out the door today on coffee orders.
Posted by Mark Hudon on October 25, 2006 at 1:14 PM
And now, the label.
Posted by Tim Goodspeed on October 25, 2006 at 1:17 PM
Mark, this will be great on a label. Looks like you simplified the detail. Or, maybe that's the jpeg compression. Either way, I think it works well for what you intended.
Posted by Steve Storm on October 25, 2006 at 2:55 PM
I like it (image & label)!
Posted by Harald Rust on October 25, 2006 at 3:50 PM
Very cool. The label looks great. I like the way you designed the label integrating the scene and the text and graphics.
Harald
Posted by Erik Lundh on October 25, 2006 at 4:37 PM
Nice work on the graphics and the photography. You saved yourself some money doing it your self. Just a suggestion for the label. Why don't you have the steam coming out the top of the mountain instead of the cup?
Posted by Curtis Knight on October 25, 2006 at 5:27 PM
That's got to be about as rewarding as it gets Mark! Very nice!!!
I wish you could have saved the foreground, its a really well done FG IMHO.
Posted by Mark Hudon on October 26, 2006 at 9:58 AM
The beauty of this is also that if Peggy decides that she doesn't like part of it, I can get right on it and it's a done deal. No sending it out to a designer, getting the proofs back, sending them back, (and spending money every step of the way) ,etc...
We have a really cool label printer so we can print only as many as we need right when we need them. It also gives us the ability to make personal labels. We could do i.e., "The Mike Dawson Birthday Blend" with a lovely photo of him on it.
Posted by Curtis Knight on October 26, 2006 at 10:17 AM
We could do i.e., "The Mike Dawson Birthday Blend" with a lovely photo of him on it.
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17 repliesI needed to make a Mt Adams Blend label for the Coffee Co. and today the scene looked nice. I went over there after dropping Ellen off at school (right down the street), got up on the roof and took a few shots, came back to the Coffee Co., downloaded the photo, made the label, printed it on our label printer and it's going out the door today on coffee orders.
Harald
No big meetings to make the plan - just go and shoot it !!
I like it.
We have a really cool label printer so we can print only as many as we need right when we need them. It also gives us the ability to make personal labels. We could do i.e., "The Mike Dawson Birthday Blend" with a lovely photo of him on it.
That's Grooooooooooooooooooooovy!!!!