MOVE FOR LIFE: Campaign Images

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Kenny

Got word this week that some images I shot for the 2010 print campaign for fitness company Move for Life had been released.

Most of the shots were done in late 2009 and the final campaign was put together by Rachel Simper, the cool cat behind agency Black Design.

The shots feature 2000 world ironman champion Phil Clayton. who in addition to the group and corporate training sessions he runs, is the coach for career athletes Hayley Bateup and Ky Hurst.

I recall what we were talking about when we were shooting the portrait shot. Phil was going after the shoot to take his kids to see Toy Story 3, and we’re both big fans of the first 2 movies. We were quoting our favourite lines from the previous episodes. Not sure if that had any effect on the final shot or not, but I think we all have a bit of Buzz Lightyear in us.

Go over to Move’s Facebook page to see more as they roll the images out, for now here is an outtake of one of the portraits and one of the campaign tears.

To infinity and beyond………….

MAKE THINGS, IT’S THE ONLY WAY

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Kenny

Here we are, just past the year’s halfway mark

I’m making some last minute preperations for my next shoot, scheduling, hair & make up, logistics. It got me thinking about how things have grown since I decided to give this whole photography thing a nudge for real and try to make a living from creating pictures.

All along the way, things have grown by one thing, it’s in the making. You start by grabbing a friend or relative, shoot them, then share. Next someone else has seen it, likes what you do, and you’re shooting more, and sharing more. Then more and more and on it goes. Things get bigger, more fun, more complicated, more of a gamble, more of an expense, but the reward gets better too. Next thing you know, you’re addicted, to the making.

Some friends & I made some stuff a few days ago. A bunch of like minded people all addicted to the making.

Big props to: Assistants: josh mcguire, gina martin | Make Up: jodie gutierrez | Cast: andrea tenielle, jessica michaels, ali wilmshurst, twins ashleigh & sarah lyons, tiffany sinclair, jade funk | Location steve bunce | Corporate Support respect music.com.au

View the whole In:Series here

New Studio – First pics and Test

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Kenny

Here’s a couple pics shot today of the new studio space, what is missing is a desk for post processing and office area, a small rug to go under the couches, and a bulb for the groovy reading lamp. What’s not pictured is the 6 person hair and makeup room, reception area and restroom.

3 walls are painted gray, to stop light bouncing around the room. I left the floor bare which has a cool industrial texture to it with paint spilled all over by the original builders, kinda adds character.

And here’s your truly in a quick test of the setup.

Commercial Headshots

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Kenny

Was recently asked to come up with some corporate headshot samples of my work. Luckily I was able to put together some stuff using shots from other projects. Although not initially shot for the purpose that I needed them for now, after a bit of cropping and different presentation, they came out pretty cool. And yes, I got the gig.

KSP Promo Brochures

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Kenny

Thought I’d share a couple pics of my portfolio brochures I just had printed up. When working with my business development coach Becs Arnott we came up with the concept for something to leave with people on my contact list that I meet with, beyond the normal calling card. After a bit of conceptualising this is what we came up with.

I split my portfolio between my hard edge look (Core) and my lifestyle look (Life & Styles). The branding is exactly the same as my business cards and the focus is really on the images, 12 nice big A4 sized pages with edge to edge photos. It’s helpful to show what my stuff looks like in print, and I gotta say, it looks really cool. For something different we made the covers plastic and used funky little metal rings to bind it down the side.

Welcome to the New Bigger and Better Blog

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Kenny

Welcome!

As I said in my previous post, I’ve been working with my peeps over at Cyberdo on redoing my blog to make it a part of my site. Blogspot was great for what it was, but I was essentially generating traffic to someone else’s site and it was time to harness that.

This new blog integrates completely into my site and is still really easy to use.

I’ve tried to contact most people who subscribe to my old blog, but in case I missed someone, I’m gonna leave the Blogspot site up for a while with a link here. Please go ahead and change your bookmarks, you will need to resubscribe via RSS feed if you did before.

For those of you who want to know the nerdy details about the shot on white above, here are some tips:

Light the background first and get your exposure right (In this case I used 2 AB strobes on 1/4 power)
Flag the background strobes so you don’t get spill from those lights onto your subject
Once you’re happy with the background, light your subject (In this case I used a single AB strobe on 1/8th power through a beauty dish)
I got a lot of tips from Zack Arias’ blog on seamless white backgrounds, Google him, it’s worth a read