Busy times

I just came back home two hours ago and got a nice phone call sending me on another assignment. Gonna repack and jump on a 5:45 am plane. Looks like the 'ol blog is gonna have to wait..

Some real quick (and by "real quick" I mean "kind of shitty") point and shoot snaps from this morning up in the great white north...

Some ice houses on a frozen lake


It was -7 degrees fahrenheit when I woke up this morning. Coldest temps I've ever experienced..the real feel was -18 and the locals were saying it was kinda nice out.


Back on Tuesday

35mm Spain

Old photo of a prostitute in Spain

Gone till Friday

35mm NYC

Some old chromes from '98...crazy looking clouds from a West Village rooftop

Cat vandalism

A funny looking cat on Manhattan ave. last week


Subway poster vandalism

35mm blackrock

I found this shot the other day on an old contact sheet from my first visit to Salthill, Ireland.

35mm tokyo

I scanned a few 35mm chromes and negs the other day... Here's a snap of the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo


Same crossing from my hotel room


detail

Break time

I'm in the middle of a little hiatus at the moment...120 posts in the last 3 months kinda wore me out. I also started shooting a new project in late January that I don't plan on showing for at least a year so I'm trying to figure out what else I can put up on the blog while those pictures pile up...




Anyways...today was the first good shoot day (in six attempts) of my new stuff and some other things are on the horizon so I'll take another week and try and come back in late Feb.
Plus there's always him

Behind the scenes for Nike

I got the fun job of shooting behind the scenes photos on a Nike commercial in October. Here's some of my favorites.


Jason was shooting the ads and Stacy Wall was shooting the TV spot


This light was awesome


C-stands everywhere


2nd unit doing a shot on the street


Nike's basketball tech coaching the extras


LeBron waiting


Focusing for the phantom camera




Sal shooting an alley oop sequence


Client area


Instant replay


Messing around


Big ass blimp light


4 4k HMI's in a giant helium balloon. I asked one of the surly union guys what this was and he told me it was an air conditioner


A coned off ceiling light


A few long lens warm up shots






These storyboards would pop up out of nowhere.


Filming a closeup


Meeting


Most of the photography crew


Body double's shadow during lighting test


One of the first indoor sets with all the lights on


Lights off


One of the grips setting up a green screen


Outdoor green screen


It was all shot on 35mm which was fun to watch


Some prop trophies


A prop (real) rattle snake


A bulldozer smashing a prop basketball hoop


Prop mic




Jason eating pretzels in front of green screen


Shooting photos


The guy they hired to play a boxing opponent


Ref

Sal Totino play fighting before a scene


I saw LeBron sneak around back and manage to intercept and shoot this weird photo


Testing out distances with Sal




2nd unit at the Port of Miami


Here's this light again.


I couldn't get enough of it.






Sal and the gaffer checking lights




A giant white screen at night


The last shot


Definitely one of the more fun jobs I've ever been on..