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
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
Teamed up with friends of mine Eden & Chloe the other day. Eden’s a rad guy and likes to make his own things you can surf on. I like people who make things; creatives, craftsmen, the like. You can check out his surfing boards on the Dead Kooks site.
I’ve currently got this campaign running for global travel company Flight Centre’s corporate brand FCm Travel Solutions.
The 2 shot’s you see are part of a 40 shot brief that is being rolled out slowly around the world. The nature of the game means that while I will get the artwork as it is released, I probably won’t get to see a lot of it actually in print first hand as a lot of it will be in North America and Asia.
The creative agency I worked with has told me that the media real estate purchased will be print, magazine, newspapers, signage via billboards etc. So if someone is out and happens to take a happy snap of one with an iPhone, digital camera, anything, I’d be really stoked and promise to give you a shout out via all my social networks!
The actual campaign was a lot of fun, and was shot in Brisbane. Our production team booked out the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and The Queensland State Library for a total of 2 full days and constructed corporate sets such as offices and lobbies. There are some behind the scenes shots on Facebook here.
Shot these recently for a commercial project, what do you think?
Had jazz trio DeepDreamer in the studio this week. We made some stuff:
