Fashion retailer Universal Store asked me to shoot their Christmas campaign. I rounded up the crew, booked Moo Studio & we all had a lot of fun.
Check out the Behind the Scenes video here.
Special thanks to awesome band the Oceanics for licensing the music track.
At the time of this post these ads are rolled out in all Universal Store shopfronts nationally along with billboards up in major shopping precincts.
I recently worked with boutique agency P’s in a Pod to produce a campaign for GCIT (TAFE).
The concept was to have 12 real people holding props that represented TAFE courses, all in the shape of a heart to portray what the subject wanted.
The props and a 9 foot blackboard were made by designer and tradesperson Samantha Hough.
Over 2 days we shot 12 talent and a number of various angles so we could construct heart shaped props in post. We used Christmas tree lights to shoot “glow” for some of the shots where the props would be glowing.
I have to thank the marketing team at GCIT, the team at P’s in a Pod and of course my team on the shoot.
GCIT also commissioned this BTS video of the shoot, check it out here
Agency: P’s in a Pod, Art Director: Bel Bare, Producer: Darina Laing, Props: Samantha Hough, Retouching Danny Joslyn.
Acclaimed DJs the Surecut Kids came into the studio to get some portraits done. These guys are genuinely nice guys. Certifiably crazy, but great guys.
I got the call again to work with art director Rachel Simper in producing 3 portraits of Olympic Kayaker Tate Smith. Tate strokes the Australian Men’s K4 Team, who finished second in the world this year. He’s one of our medal hopes for the 2012 London Olympics.
I was recently asked by advertising agency Tusk to produce some images for the Suns AFL team.
The brief called for stylized shots to be shot during the day, but appear as if they were during an actual night game, while focusing on the Suns Merchandise for retail.
To get the look we were after, I had my right hand man Josh hold an strobe with an umbrella on a pole above our key talent, in what we cheekily refer to as “the Leibovitz” since Annie seems to do it a fair bit. We then underexposed the scene, making sure that the only light coming through was from the light we were firing. The talent that was not the absolute focus of each hero shot vanished into the falloff.
To complete the mood, we had 2 more lights behind the talent, one in a large softbox to the left of shot, and one high up behind everyone facing towards the camera. These gave the lighting I envisioned would be there at a real game.
We then shot players David Swallow, Campbell Brown, and Maverick Weller on field and in the locker room. For these we used a range of single light beauty dish to 3 light setups.
The product component was shot by our friends at Many Things.
Special thanks to all the cast, players, Tayah Bot from the Suns & Andrew Suggit & Darren Gill from Tusk
Earlier this week I wrapped a shoot that went over 2 days, in which I shot tethered or straight into the computer for the entire time. The shoot went real well and everyone was happy as it was a big logistical effort to get all the elements right.
The moment I walked in the door, I started typing an email when….BANG, the computer went dead and would not boot back up. Over a couple hours I found out that my hard disk had failed and I had lost everything on there.
Now, luckily I had stuck to a backup system and didn’t wind up losing anything. The shoot had been backed up as I went to another drive, so when I fired the shutter it went to 2 places, the laptop & an external drive. Plus between my server and Time Machine, I didn’t lose anything except my laptop for a couple days. I was able to keep working on my desktop and thanks to the service at Apple they had a new drive installed in about 12 hours.
It took me a long time sifting through a lot of articles and talking to different people to figure out a good way to store my digital assets, and there is a lot of info out there from photographers with all different budgets, so I thought I’d share how I do mine in the hope that it helps someone out there. I made a nice little diagram to explain.
Here’s a BTS vid of me inside a V8 Supercar with none other than 2010 series Champion James Courtney.
My defence is that I didn’t know that the in built cameras were on, otherwise I would have pulled “cooler” faces. But then again, I’m not sure if I could.
Watch through to about the 1 minute mark where I really start to lose it
Enjoy
As you may remember from this post, I recently shot the tour posters & artwork for the Ten Tenors World Tour. The 2 editorial type shots were then retouched by the amazing Angelena Rebori from SixSix7.
The final artwork has been finished and a cool little Behind the Scenes video put together by my main man Josh Maguire. The track is The Ten Tenors version of Bohemian Rhapsody, used with permission.
Below is some of the artwork
Shot this along the Brisbane River, 3 light setup: 2 edge lights + 1 beauty dish w/ grid. Headlamp rays & lightbeams/dust added in post
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to share work I’ve recently done for non-disclosure reasons, so I’m excited to show some behind the scenes pics of a shoot from 2 days ago….hot off the press.
I spent the day with The Ten Tenors shooting the tour posters for their upcoming World tour.
A real great bunch of talented guys who are doing an amazing job of representing Australian music on a global scale.
Here’s a link to The Ten Tenors on Oprah earlier this year
You can see all the behind the scenes pics taken by assistant Janaka here
