- Portrait of a Cormorant Fisherman 30m Underwater A couple months ago, Ballantine‘s approached me with the most amazing assignment ever: “We love what you do and want to support you as part of our Stay True campaign. Is there anything you’d like to do that you’ve never done before?” To receive such complete freedom from a client is almost unheard of – […]
- What It's Like To Shoot In A Real Life Disney Library Walking into Stift Admont was like entering Disney’s Beauty & the Beast library. Never before had a creative photoshoot been done in the Admont Abbey, the oldest monastic library in the world… yet here I was, standing at the entrance of what can only be described as the most magical mix of architecture and art […]
- A Stand Against Mediocrity To create great work, one must never settle for mediocrity. I like to plan my photoshoots around opportunity. Though I don’t have the luxury of having a studio or an in-house production crew at my disposal… I have managed to build, with time, a relatively large social following and numerous travel opportunities through my contracts […]
- From Fear To Success Oh. My God. Those clothes are absolutely phenomenal. How did you find that amazing costume?! In this case, it all began with me posting out a call on Facebook: “Anyone cool I should work with in San Francisco while I’m here?” I got a bunch of responses but the one that stood out was a […]
- Fantasy Lighting 101 With SmugMug It’s rare that someone comes up to you and says to you: “I’ll commission a shoot from you, just do something cool”. It’s even rarer that someone actually follows through with a promise like that, but that’s exactly what happened when the amazing folks over at SmugMug decided to let me have full creative control […]
- Underwater Shipwreck In Bali – Part 2 – Concept, Lighting And Postproduction Secrets. Video by Siva Shanker It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney Every image that I create consists of a series of challenges to overcome. Shooting in an underwater shipwreck was no different, it just happened to have a couple more that had to be worked through. Nikon D90 | 12-24mm f4 […]
- 2 Models, 7 Divers In An Underwater Shipwreck – Part 1 Teamwork – A word that truly begins to mean something when you’re shooting 25 meters underwater and your model tied to a 50 year old shipwreck in the middle of Bali where the slightest miscalculation could spell disaster. My job as the photographer is to make sure that regardless of the conditions and challenges, I […]
- A Game of Thrones fanfiction – A tale of Benjen Stark Earlier this year, I put together a 6 minute fanfiction that takes place in the Game of Thrones universe with an amazing group of people featuring 14 zombies, a zombie horse, decapitation and pyrotechnics. Check it out, and if you like it, SHARE IT! We made this film short and sweet with the resources we […]
- Les Chasseurs de Reves / The Dream Chasers Summary of a photoshoot with mechanical birds walking the world of men
- Epic Medieval photoshoot + Horses ! Behind the scenes, lighting diagrams of an epic Medieval photoshoot
