JW.S ⌁ Tags

8.29.2023

Photo

People

Lightroom

Color Grading

Poster

Design destined for a paper medium, a medium with far fewer limitations than Im used to.

Graphic Design

Typography

Design

Art direction

Product

Presentation

Those times when presentation matters.

1.7.2023

Photoshop

Compositing

Lightroom

Color Grading

Photo

Resource

When digital images explore the physical world.

Product

Photo

Water Photography

Sea

Surf

Procedural

Using mathematical and programatic methods for creation. A newer focus, but one of very high interest.

Exploration

Design

Motion

Process

Trying to lift the curtain on how some of the madness coming together.

WIP

Anything relating to my own product offerings.

Design

Photo

Poster

Resource

Product Design

A subsection of interactive work.

7.22.2023

Interactive

Design

Product Marketing

Working through ways to tell products stories with an end-goal to both educate and entice.

A collection of creative tools to help facilitate other's creativity and/or productivity.

Design

Design Direction

Content Strategy

Concepting

9.10.2023

Mock-ups

Playlist

wallpaper

Font

Preset

River

Lakes with places to be.

12.29.2022

Terra

Lake

Photo

Outdoors

Buncha big, dumb rocks.

1.4.2023

Terra

Mountains

Desert

Forest

California

San Fran

A city I can't say I have much love for beyond the odd weekend exploration.

3.8.2023

Urban

California

Sand Dunes

It's hard to put a finger on my obsession with sand dunes. I obsess over their fluid nature and ability to provide new shots + compositions in the ver same location.

12.20.2022

Desert

California

Photo

Nature

Terra

Scraps

Things too dull to cut the mustard.

Design

Process

Unarchived

Outdoors

Nature

Hawaii

Waves

Travel

Series

Thematic content, unifying my photo and design work. A new category with high-interest to further develop.

Im fairly uncertain where my penchant for skulls and the borderline-macabre comes from.. but it's definitely there.

12.27.2022

Photo

Design

Story

Photo shoot

Art direction

Graphic Design

Video

Motion

Photo

12.20.2022

Macabre

Design

Graphic Design

Poster

Software

The melding of creative and tech.

Product

Photo

JW.S

South Bay

My hometown's always going make its way in here. (South bay of LA, not the bay 🤮)

1.3.2023

Surf

Sea

Los Angeles

California

Danc

Sports

Subject matter in and around sports. Sadly an area that I haven't worked in as much as I'd like.

Action Sports

Lifestyle

Surf

Story

More thematic and long-form narratives that can take many different forms.

Editorial

Design

Brand Content

Sun(rise)set

Basically the one universal guilty pleasure for everyone, right?

12.19.2022

Photo

Lightroom

Dark

Color Grading

Colorful

Surf

Probably my first real passion, and a continued therapeutic outlet... so I spend a lot of time around surfing and the subcultures around it.

12.20.2022

Sea

California

Hawaii

Tavarua

Danc

Swag

Is branding complete without a little swag?

A local legend of sorts, and possibly one of the most talented surfers in the world. No hyperbole there.

3.8.2023

Surf

South Bay

Tavarua

One of my favorite places in the world– a small heart shaped island in the south Pacific

1.17.2023

Sea

Outdoors

Water

Surf

Waves

Tcrit

Tyler. AKA T Crit. AKA rickety cricket (just made that one up). A day 1 homie who I've definitely shot the most with, and always willing to do laps and send it for that 1/1000th of a second.

Surf

South Bay

Los Angeles

Zuma

Tech

You know, tech.. technology stuff.

Product Marketing

The 'not ocean' parts of the earth.

Not all those who wander are lost? Im probably lost though.

1.20.2023

Photo

Rocks

Mountains

River

Lake

3.8.2023

Exploration

Outdoors

Photo

Tropical

Warmer, beachy vibes.. stuff mostly from the South Pacific.

Tavarua

Hawaii

Sea

Beach

Bright

Typography

Work that incorporates or relies on typography to some degree.

12.19.2022

Graphic Design

Editorial

Art direction

Branding

Design

Unarchived

Lifting old work up from the ashes. Excerpts, WIPs, or terrible work that was pivotal for one reason or another.

Design

Process

Art direction

WIP

Exploration

Update

Studio updates I guess, I'm really not sure. I don't like this tag.

11.8.2023

JW.S

Announcements

Urban

When I opt to get out of my element in the quiet suburbs, and wandered around various cities. A fish out of water, but no shortage of visual interest there.

One of those intangible things that covey some feels.

1.22.2023

Photo

Vibe

Self explanatory.. a broad content that involves video in some capacity. Motion design, cinematic work, etc.

Color Grading

Davinci Resolve

Brand Content

Asset Generation

WIP

Stuff in progress thats not nothing, but certainly not a finished product.

1.31.2023

Delta

Design

Process

Insights

Warm

Content that feels warm, primarily due to a balance in color temperature.

Surf

Photo

Color Grading

Vibe

Water

Be like water, my friend.

1.27.2023

Sea

Lake

River

Waves

Surf

Water Photography

A personal favorite. Shooting in the ocean offers an ever changing environment that provides endless possibilities.

8.24.2023

Photo

Sea

Surf

Waves

Water

Waterfall

When a river meets a cliff, beautiful things happen.

Photo

River

Terra

Water

Lake

Waves

A minor obsession. I've spent quite a long time shooting waves in various conditions... and I'm probably not done.

12.19.2022

Sea

Water

Outdoors

Tavarua

Hawaii

Web Dev

An effort to remove dependencies thats flourished into quite a lot more (via Webflow).

3.7.2023

Exploration

Interactive

Service

Zuma

A mythical surf spot where all the best waves in CA are from. First discovered by T Crit. You should for sure go surf it. Always.

Surf

California

Los Angeles

Tcrit

streamdeck

A tool I've found useful for mapping macros to increase efficiency across the board.

Product

Utility

Resource

texture

Terra as a texture. Sea as a texture. Texture as a texture.

12.27.2022

Photo

Procedural

Design

Asset Generation

wallpaper

Images meant to decorate your devices– both phones and CPUs.