All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘Video’
From the Other Side – Smithy Our Sound Guy has Nowhere to Hide!
Nick Smith is our go to sound guy for every project that needs incredible effects, stunning soundtracks and that little bit extra. Full of enthusiasm despite more years of experience than he’d care to admit, we really wouldn’t choose anyone else. This week, we’ve invited Nick to let us in on his side of the […]
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Cablecam, chain saws & Charles II
Spending a Full Day in the Royal Oak! Recently I was called from a Jacobean oasis in the centre of Spaghetti Junction, where cavaliers proudly sported shining helmets and men in tights shot prematurely into the air. With the sounds of cars in the fast lanes behind him, Tony Chance presented me with a challenge […]
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Gadget Geeks Collide for Coffee and Conversation – with Jon Bentley
I always look forward to the Focus on Imaging event, even if my accountant goes weak at the knees. He knows I’ll return with a new wish list of must have advanced, but pricey, photographic equipment. This year, however, I already had my eye on the prize, as I made a beeline to the IQ2, […]
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Capturing a demented Kawasaki Mean Streak with Profoto Flash
This week I thought I’d return to the spray paint work of Piers Dowell by shooting one of his finest creations – a Kawasaki 1500 Mean Streak. And I wanted to do this using one of my favourite flash lighting tools – the Profoto strip light. Dennis Hopper on a chopper As with Piers’s spray […]
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The Renault Sandero Stepway – to Russia with gloves
Readers of these pages know by now that my philosophy is to shoot anything that moves – and most things that don’t. Have camera will travel is the motto of all good photographers. Surely! Nevertheless, the harsh Russian winter with its -30 degrees C temperature is probably one of those locations I tend to avoid […]
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How to park a Nissan Qashqai amid the glass towers of Canary Wharf
Parking in London – what a nightmare! With the stress of it I often muse how I’d like to demolish the cityscape around me and park my car where I like and however I like. If only… So that’s how I felt recently when driving at a snail’s pace around Canary Wharf, where I planned […]
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My big Interview in Professional Photographer Magazine: True Lies, Part 2
Before CGI A photographer at heart, Nigel’s career started in London where he looked for the biggest photographers he could find doing location photography and tried to get work experience with them. “There were loads of people I tried to get work with at the time such as Alan Brooking, who did the iconic 1970s […]
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How a joy riding skeleton in a Lamborghini Reventon helped us win the Deus Ex: Human Revolution job
Not so long ago we found ourselves in the twilight world of biotech firms, super-enhanced humans and black opps teams hell bent on murder. Our task was to ensure ex SWAT hard man Adam Jensen – hired to protect scientists to carry out their dubious trade in human experimentation – was given a makeover worthy […]
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The Nissan Townpod and why the Dernbach studio is ideal for injured photographers
John Lennon once wrote: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. These prophetic lines came to haunt me a couple of years ago, just as I was planning a shoot for the Nissan Townpod prototype in Germany. And I blame it all on my wife’s turnips. It was a few […]
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Hyundai Grandeur in Venice, Texas
In many ways the Hyundai Grandeur shoot was different from my other work because Hyundai wanted me to attach my name to the pictures and the video of their latest car. Usually I remain invisible from the product; a hired gun who shoots and moves on to the next job. Essentially they asked me to […]
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