Happy Easer 2015/ Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Studio Marcus Hay Inc, from a recent crafting project. 

It's Easter weekend and Studio Marcus Hay has just travelled back from 2.5 weeks in Massachusetts to spend Easter in New York and we are loving the Spring weather having just come from a land of snow. 

We hope all of you across the globe are enjoying the holiday, Happy Easter 2015!

Williams Sonoma/ Easter 2015

Photography: Anna Williams, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anna Williams, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anson Smart, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anna Williams, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Left: Anna Williams, Right: Romulo Yanes,
Styling: Left: Hilary Robertson, Right: Christina Lane, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Left: Anson Smart, Right: Anna Williams, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anna Williams, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anna Williams, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anson Smart, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Photography: Anson Smart, Styling: Hilary Robertson, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Mood Boards by Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Mood Boards by Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Mood Boards by Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Mood Boards by Studio Marcus Hay Inc

Mood Boards by Studio Marcus Hay Inc

For the Easter Program for Williams Sonoma, Studio Marcus Hay worked with 3 amazing teams. Shooting with both wonderful Photographers Anson Smart, Romulo Yanes and Anna Williams, Studio Marcus Hay Art Directed the entire Easter program from scratch. We produced a series of mood boards that captured the spirit of the season and the direction needed to execute the images. Working with the multi talented regular contributor Food Stylist Alison Attenborough and for the first time with the amazing Author and Prop Stylist Hilary Roberston and equally talented Christina Lane We set about a number of weeks in San Francisco shooting on a number of locations and studio.

Easter is a season that celebrates a pastel palette, for this Easter for Williams Sonoma we wanted a fresh almost watercolor approach, using a rainbow of pastel we created custom backgrounds that we used to produce the tighter shots and even created a custom made kitchen in the studio to shoot a pancake and waffle party scenario.

Here in this post we have included our mood boards that was presented to the team at Williams Sonoma before shooting and approved of the overall vision, these were also used as a guide to brief in and inspire the team. 

We hope you enjoy the results and the Easter mood we captured.

Easter, 2014

Photography: Studio Marcus Hay, shot onset for Williams Sonoma

From us all at Studio Marcus Hay, We all wish you all the best this week for Passover and Easter, 2014. At S.M.H we love this time of the year, with fond memories of childhood Easters back in Australia, where most Australians get 4 or 5 days off work to celebrate, if only that was the case internationally! ; ) 

This image is an out take of a set up I created for Williams Sonoma with Photographer Anna Williams and Food Stylist Alison Attenborough, for Williams Sonoma. 

Happy Passover and Easter folks! 

Good Housekeeping Magazine/ Easter

Photography: Raymond Hom, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Raymond Hom, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Raymond Hom, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Raymond Hom, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

It's Easter time again, For Good Housekeeping Magazine this month, Studio Marcus Hay got to get all pretty. With soft pastel colors in soft blues and greens mainly, We even got crafty with hand made Easter eggs by Brooke Reid, thanks Brooke! Unfortunately most got cut out, but believe you me, they were sensational. The feeling for this shoot was eclectic with a mix of the old with the new. 

Studio Marcus Hay got to work with Photographer Raymond Hom for the first time, I am sure you will agree his shots are beautiful. 

I love Easter and miss the egg hunts of yesteryear, Happy Easter to all the year! 

Williams Sonoma/ Easter, Part 2

Photography: Eric Piasecki

Photography: Anna Williams

Photography: Anna Williams

In the second series of Easter for Williams Sonoma, In the latest Catalog, we see further shots produced for WS on my trip to San Francisco in November last year. Shot one week with Anna Williams and another week with Eric Piasecki. It was again such a pleasure to work with them both. 

With Anna, I shot the Easter Candy and Cookies, We decided to take a very graphic approach, Let's just say I had the tweezers out to get all that small candy lined up in rows, Using stitch lines sewn by my assistant Heather, We treated the cookies and pops almost like musical notes.

With Eric, I shot this table scape of the Speckled Eggs range from an ariel view. Using hand dipped eggs and Peonies to help dress the table.

Easter is just around the corner, Hope you enjoy yours! 

Williams Sonoma/ Easter

Photography: Anna Williams 

Photography: Anna Williams 

Photography: Anna Williams 

Shot by the wonderful Anna Williams, Food by the ever talented Alison Attenborough, We had a wonderful team working on part of the Easter section in the current Williams Sonoma Catalog. Shooting in San Francisco, we had a very creative week. 

I actually hand painted the background myself that was use throughout this section. Working with such a vivid blue was a lot of fun, We largely took a very graphic approach, I wove in fabric napkins hand sewn by my crafty Assistant Heather Sanksy