Management for The Ten Tenors asked me back to shoot their promo shot this year to support their world tour. We shot this group shot in elements separately then comped them together in post to end up with huge image.
Styling is by The Cloakroom
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.
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
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
Had jazz trio DeepDreamer in the studio this week. We made some stuff:
You might remember my shoot in 2009 with The Cool Calm Collective.
This year the band (Minus 2 members but plus one) got back in contact with me to do their 2010 advertising images on the back of playing at Splendour.
We caught up at Neverland before soundcheck and shot off some frames.
Hi Everyone, since Vimeo doesn’t work on all devices, here is the same video from the previous post on YouTube
Enjoy!
Kenny Smith Photography (Behind the Scenes) from Josh Maguire on Vimeo.
My assistant Josh Maguire shot this cool behind the scenes vid on his 5DMkII as we took the stills for the We Dance we Break We Step shoot with 105.7 Radio Metro’s Respect Music.
Check it out the images and the full In:Series here
You never know who’s watching. Got an email out of the blue from New York agency Electric Feel Management. They had just signed a young Australian artist named Jordan Jansen and wanted me to shoot his promo pics for his US promo. After reading the email I realised Jordan lives around where I do, and is in the same class as my daughter in school! Small world!
Initially thinking that I was refered by Jordan or his family here, I later found out that they had never heard of me and the referral came from the US! So I’m thinking I gotta thank my web and marketing guru Mike. Thanks Mike!
The shoot went fantastic, and its great working with someone who is a natural performer. Gotta thank Electric Feel Management and of course Jordan and his family for working with me on such short notice.
P.S Jordan, thanks for tweeting me a shoutout to your 11000 plus followers on twitter!
Final images to be released soon!
Stay tuned for more from Jordan, word is he’s gonna be huge!
For the Techies here is the equipment list of what I used:
Canon 1DsMkIII
Canon Lenses, 17 – 40mm, 50mm, 20mm
Gridded Alien Bee AB800 hooked up to a Vagabond II battery pack
Triggered by Cybersyncs
AMANZI Swimwear Behind The Scenes 2010 from AMANZI Swimwear on Vimeo.
Here’s a video that my assistant Kyle shot and edited during the shooting day for the Amanzi Swimwear 2010 campaign.
Kyle shot all the footage and took all the stills as I was working on the actual campaign pics. He then wrapped it all together in this neat little edit.
The original soundtrack was licenced from party masters The Surecut Kids. Check out their site or connect with them on Facebook.