22 April 2012 | Articles, Behind the Scenes, Moments, On Location, Views
We had been planning for a month to shoot Rory in Northern Ireland for Oakley’s Spring 2012 collection with Factory Design Labs. This was just supposed to be a typical shoot with our biggest issue being the weather. Then 3 days before we were to jump on a plane he won the U.S. Open with a record 16-under-par. The quiet remote golf course in Northern Ireland became the place to be to welcome Rory back to Ireland. We were shooting a 6 image ad campaign at 6 different locations on the course. The 8 hours on set became 6 because Rory had a victory celebration in Dublin later that evening and of course the weather was just as planned, 3 seasons every 30mins. Oh yeah, and
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04 June 2011 | Behind the Scenes, Moments, Motion, On Location, Views
38 (22″x7″) Final images: 2.5 years in production , 128 versions, over 1,550 layers, 962.37 gigs, 5 Army bases, 19 flights, 31 days on location, 29 nights in bad hotels, 165 locations scouted, 43 final locations, 845 casting images, 81 hero talent photographed, over 450 extras, 98 paratroopers, 3 dogs, no kids, 280 background pieces, 53 humvees, 42 trucks, 7 helicopters, 5 tanks, 325 guns, 16 big guns, 8 bigger guns, 6 missiles, 1 robot, 1 bomb suit, 3 mobile satellites, a court room, hospital, 4 offices, 5 warehouses…
View the composite clip Pieces and parts -creating an image for the ROTC campaign
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06 February 2011 | Behind the Scenes, Moments, Motion, On Location
We went out to shoot World Champion surf kayaker Sean Morley for a personal portfolio piece last week. I had read that his biggest adventure to date was: “Sea kayaking in a Force 10 gale on the north coast of Scotland with my buddy Ian Wilson. The wind had created a vortex around 150ft Stac Clo Mor. It was insane and we were very lucky to make it through the gap between the rock pinnacle and the 900ft cliffs without capsizing. Had either of us come out of our Read more
08 September 2010 | Behind the Scenes, Moments, On Location, Views
A couple months back I got to work with an amazing group of people for a Pfizer viagra campaign. I know, I had the same thought when the art buyer called to ask if I was interested and could I sign a confidentiality agreement so she could send the layouts, how does my work have anything to do with Viagra? When I received the layouts I was blown away, this was the perfect campaign. We shot seven print ads and all of the imagery for the web. Creating the images was a little involved because the text is so important and we needed to be able to work the elements of the image around the text for numerous print layouts web.
To see a video of how the first image was put together click on Knowing
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12 January 2010 | Behind the Scenes, Moments, Motion
It started like every other call from the editors of a magazine, we have a cover shoot coming up, need you to shoot it in the next day or two, oh and we do not have any money. I will be honest I just want to take great pictures so the “no money” part has never really bothered me that much. What did bother me though was that I was shooting two great climbers and I wanted to create images that would showcase their talent.
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29 December 2009 | Behind the Scenes, Motion, On Location, Views
This past spring we shot Erik Skaden, an Ultra-marathoner with Team Montrail, for Mountain Hardware. We needed to shoot him running in snow, rain, mud, and lots of water. Just the conditions he runs in and what the clothes were made for but like most shoots, Read more
15 November 2009 | Behind the Scenes, On Location
A while back we created a campaign for Corbett Healthcare which featured a rock climber. This was an advertising shoot for an international drug company so we needed to find a location that was not to distinct, easily accessible to our entourage of agency, crew, and clients, and we had a number of shots to do in a day so the camera routes had to be easy to climb since I was going to have to ascend and descend a couple times for each scenario to get the AD and clients feedback. Read more
14 October 2009 | On Location
We are half way through shooting a 24 day, 32 image, campaign for Army ROTC. It has been an amazing ride so far and can’t wait to start creating the final imagery. There are so many crazy pieces to this 7×22 puzzle that by the end of the 16hr days my mind is numb. I do not have any final images that I can post but here are some very random out-takes that we have collected from the shoot so far. Read more
29 August 2009 | Behind the Scenes
As a photographer who gravitates towards athletes I often get asked why do I choose to composite and create images rather than capturing the moment, particularly with sports imagery. Rob Haggart interviewed me recently for an article in outside about retouched imagery in editorial publications. For me it is not about trying to create something that did not happen or fool my audience but rather creating the image that I see using the tools I have. When film was in existence I gravitated towards large format cameras, my favorite was the graflex super D’s. They allowed me to track focus and shoot the action, at the same time being able to have this huge 4×5 negative that I could crop into to give me the long horizontal images I see. Read more
