Behind the scenes video on a fitness product shoot

The time was 08:00, and the place was a central London Fitness First gym.

We had just 4 hours to get through about 12 different scenes, this was going to be a stressful shoot.

The subject for the shoot was "Gripad", a new type of weightlifting glove.

This was one of my biggest shoots to date.

Joining me on set were...

• Zuzana Bielikova, Andrea Budova, Gustavo Milton and Roy Eden - our models for the morning


• Laura Forrest, the Make Up Artist.


• Jorge, my assistant.


• Chris & David, the designers who are working on the product PR / packaging etc

So to the video.  Filmed by my able assistant Jorge, and edited by designer David.  I'm not convinced about the music myself, but rumour is the client likes it so it must have something going for it.

Enjoy.

Behind the scenes video of a location photoshoot

A few days ago I was doing a shoot at Portland Bill (one of my favourite locations) with model Sally Miller.  I had help from with lighting, video, and general piss taking from Karl (hairy biker), Paul, Carla (hairy bikers friend).

Photos from the shoot will be coming soon, but for now, please enjoy this video.

It was a fun shoot.  Thank you to everyone.

Special thanks go to Cosmic Picnic for letting me use one of their rather cool tunes.

A short film from this years Southern Lights Festival

My third year as official photographer at Southern Lights, so this film is just for fun.   I took a few short clips and I've made a little film with them.

I hate video editing, and I'm a bit rubbish out of it.  I'm sure someone out there could take my source video and actually make something really quite watch-able out of it.  This however, is the best I can do.

The sound came via recording the drumming workshop.  Gotta love the sound of the drumming workshop!

Technical Info - Filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II, Sound recorded on a Zoom H4N Recorder with a funky fire red Redhead Windscreen.

Behind the scenes of a business portrait photoshoot

I should probably add to the title "Behind the scenes of a bloody freezing cold business portrait photoshoot".

To see some photos from the shoot - click here.

Video Blog of a fitness photoshoot

I didn't put much thought, effort, or time into this very quick video from my photoshoot at the weekend with IFBB Figure athlete Larissa Reis.

It's kinda boring, but figured I'd share it anyway.

 

Video Blog - Fitness Photoshoot

Words really aren't needed, but as a brief introduction - this is a video blog filmed during my first outdoors fitness photoshoot of 2010.  Location was the stunning Portland Bill in Dorset.  The model was the wonderful Cat.   To see some of the photos from the shoot...  click....       here!

Something new – An Image Sequence

I was inspired after watching Doctor Who Confidential the other day.  They were explaining how an image sequence was filmed using a still camera, but edited together to form part of the 'movie'.

Basically it involves taking a photo, moving slightly, taking another and so on.  It's kind of like animation but with real life subjects.

So while I was shooting with the lovely Cat the other day at Portland Bill I decided to give it a try.  It's a technique I'll be returning to as I think it has some interesting potential.

Below are the three attempts we made.  Not perfect, but for a first try I'm rather pleased. Next time I'll be trying it without the sheer drop behind me. Taking photos while trying to look into the view finder with one eye and trying not to fall over a cliff with the other is not exactly what you'd call easy.

Video Blog at a family photoshoot

So here we have it, just a short 24 hours after the first we have the second instalment of my video blog.  This one is a little different as I've included my subjects - Mr and Mrs Smith and their 4 and 9 year old daughters.

Enjoy.

PS.  Look up to see the photos from the shoot.

Celebrations for the Azura naming in Southampton

So, my first ever properly put together movie.

It's the first time I've gone out with my Canon 5D Mark II with the sole purpose of putting together a short film from the footage.  My subject was the celebrations in the Mayflower Park, Southampton for the naming of the P&O boat Azura.  As I couldn't get near the boat I was concentrating on the goings on at the park and the firework finale.

I shot everything except the fireworks hand held and I know I'd have been better off using a tripod.  I'm quite pleased with the results, and very pleased with the amazing quality from the 5D.  The quality of this little camera is so good even the professionals are starting to use it.  The season finale to House has apparently been filmed exclusively with the 5D.  Interesting times indeed.

If there are any proper film makers reading this, I'd quite like to pick your brains.  I feel my editing is kinda "meh"...  "so so..." at best.  I'd like to improve it, but I really don't know how.

Update:  Yes I'm aware the music is kinda awful.  It's all I have.  If anyone would like to donate me 3 minutes of music that would work for this film it would be muchly appreciated.

My first video blog

So here we are, my first ever video blog.

I videoed it yesterday while photographing and filming the celebrations going on in Southampton's Mayflower Park for the naming of the new P&O boat the Azura.

If I've learned one thing from doing this blog, and that is that I come across as a seriously grumpy bugger.  Truth is I was actually really rather happy yesterday evening.  I was doing what I love.  Trouble is it doesn't show on my face.  Note to self - must try and appear more cheerful.

The real film from the evening will be post next - look up....

Jan Jack – A Day At The Zoo

For the last year or so I've had a camera (Canon 5d Mark II) that I've known is capable of near broadcast / movie quality video.  It's taken me what seems like forever to actually use it for something productive.

This video is the first of several I'm planning to do to demonstrate the quality of the work I'm able to produce.  I'm not totally happy with the quality of the sound.  There's too much background noise.  I'll be working hard to get the sound quality up to the same level as the picture quality.

The video features Jan Jack reading her own poem "A Day At The Zoo".

Desert Driving

On the first of my two visits to Las Vegas in 2009 I found myself on a photoshoot at the dry lake bed just off the I-15 to the south west of the city.

With me were Rob Riches, body builder Lisa Carrodus, and Caroline Pearce (Ice from Sky TV Gladiators).

Rob was filming my shoot with Lisa for LA Muscle TV.

While Lisa & Caroline were doing their make-up and getting into their first outfits I decided to amuse myself by driving the car around in circles on the dry lake bed like a crazy fool while Rob captured my stupidity on video. As it says in the clip, Rob did indeed destroy one of his video cameras by attaching it to the side of the car. D'oh!

Below is a short clip set to the wonderful ZZ Tops version of Viva Las Vegas.