- Wacom's "Create More" Campaign ft. Von Wong I have always hated sharing PSD files. Not because I’m scared someone will steal my secrets, but because I’ve always believed that it made people focus on reproducing an image, rather than creating something new. Wacom though, had a completely different vision: They believed that giving out tutorials and resources freely to other creatives would encourage and foster growth among […]
- 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 […]
- UltraViolet Insanities Two Years In The Making Ever since I saw Michael Rosner‘s work on fstoppers on July 14th, 2012, I made it a goal of mine to one day work together with him and produce some images together. Video by Kelly Zak How it came together: I began by stalking him on his facebook page, finding out that he was in the […]
- 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 […]
- Featured by Adobe – preproduction Earlier this month, I was featured by Adobe as one of their Creative Voices. They had reached out to me after a chance meeting in a bar at WPPI last year, asking if I would be interested in being featured. As a long standing supporter of the Adobe creative suite, I of course jumped at […]
- What it's like to be on Digital Rev's Cheap Camera Challenge (with fire) Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to be a part of DigitalRev‘s “Pro Tog, Cheap Camera” challenge on the beaches of Hong Kong with… you guessed it: Fire! Lok from DigitalRev put together an epic video of the challenge, involving a home made flamethrower (coffee creamer, fire starter, funnel and Kai‘s lungs), a model […]
- Dare to reach for the heavens and bring the angels down to you How many times have you wanted to reach out to someone to say something… but didn’t have the courage to? What stopped you: The fear of being ignored? Of being turned down? Or perhaps it was of being mocked or laughed at. And while neither of those options sound pleasant, sometimes, it’s worth the price, because […]
- Nope, it's not photoshop. Can you guess how it's done? Back in September of this year, I teamed up with costume designer Yvan Castonguay and set stylist Charlotte Grant to put together a series of image that would feature a young ballerina in a larger than life world, made up of the world around us. The result? Check it out below! Curious to know how […]
- Bringing a dream to life – Video by Julius Adarna and myself. Hear Nicole talk about the day in her own words – one of my favorite videos to date 🙂 In September, my agent Suzy Johnston received an unexpected email from a lovely lady by the name of Nicole. She had a request: To have a creative photoshoot done of […]
- 4 days, fire, 3 million pounds of sport cars and a mansion in Manchester Back at the end of March last year, I met a man by the name of Barry Van Elder at my Train to Create workshop. It turns out he was a huge fan of the fire work that DAS and myself had done over a year ago and that it had literally ignited a spark […]
- 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 […]
- The Kitten vs Fire challenge Earlier this month, I did a photoshoot for a friend of mine by the name of Alliebee Henna. The concept behind it was to simply shoot a dramatic portrait of myself breathing fire in the middle of a sand pit. Nothing more. Feedback when I tossed the image up on Facebook was absolutely phenomenal – […]
