Worked with Art Directors Jim Strachan and Steve Schollum on a new campaign for the Brisbane Bandits baseball team.
Each year the Aussie players overseas come back over the break and a national competition is played in the capital cities over the summer.
Jim and Steve worked off the Bandit’s theme and came up with outlaw messages to tie back to the sport of baseball and we shot wanted poster-inspired mugshots of players.
Look out for these around the city this week
Congratulations to Tate Smith for winning GOLD in the K4 1000 event! Here’s my portrait of him from last year.
A couple weeks ago I was able to complete a project that was in the pipeline for some time. I had this story in my head with 2 elderly guys set in the brutal sport of MMA or Mixed Martial Arts.
I was discussing it one evening with good friend and art director Mike Fritz and after about a year finally everything came together and we were able to shoot it.
I have to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who was involved, First of all to Mike my co-conspirator and art director, my team of Josh Maguire and his assistants, special effects makeup by Sharon Robbins from ARC, styling by Michelle Michaelson and of course the amazing cast of Hugh, Stewart, Daisy, Tom, and Liam. Last but not least to the amazing venue which is a working MMA gym Phoenix Elite MMA and Conditioning, thank you!
Without any more ado, here it is………Old Man MMA
Happy to find that my portrait of James Courtney got the finalist nod in the 2011 Automotive Photography Awards. This is in addition to the finalist spot it got in the 2011 Brisbane Advertising & Design awards. It’s officially a multi acclaimed shot!
The judges comments are in the first few pages, while the shot itself is featured in the annual pages as well.
Cheers
Got to return to my roots, where my photography started, in my latest campaign for Universal Store. Waiting for light instead of lighting , selecting instead of retouching images. Shooting subjects instead of working with talent. Not styled, but style, not well lit but well visited. Swapped studio fees for plane tickets and fuel. Billboards are out now around town. Enjoy
Late 2011 I worked with Breanna Chalk and Jon Morris from Gold Coast City Corporate Communications to produce some images for the Gold Coast City Annual Report. As a long time resident I was honored to be involved in a project for a city that I love living in and calling home.
The City had put together a group people who had made a difference in the last year within our society, and we shot them with a modern clean style on white. Each person had made outstanding contributions in areas such as City Mayor, junior mayor, cultural ambassadors, disability and community activism, and volunteer services.
It was awesome shooting all of these great people and connecting with each one during the shoot. Below are some of may favs, plus a couple of tears from print.
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.
