Syncrude Fort McMurray AB

Things have been going really well, to the point where I have to focus my direction a little more. A good friend of mine and somewhat of an unofficial mentor is reshaping his career to shoot only the jobs he wants. I think this is great because you only focus on the development of a specific area of a craft, and ten truly excel.

One of the areas I believe I excel in is industrial work. I'm not sure why, but I have no issues with working in places like Fort McMurray (for a few days). I am posting some work here that I shot for the Alberta Government at Syncrude just 10hrs after James Cameron left the site.

It's truly amazing how the aftermath of a visit from a Hollywood director can cause such a ruckus at an Oil sands plant that turns out 10milliuon dollars a day.

Because of the negative publicity the Cameron brought with him Syncrudes PR people were hyper sensitive. "You can't shoot this way.. oh no....you can't shoot in that direction either"..

Anyways the shoot worked out and here are some of the finals.



Enjoy!



C

shooting in studio

 Since the holidays just ended I thought I would post some new product photos, and of course a tear sheet of the West Edmonton Malls Holiday gift guide.


When a photographer shoots product on white, you really have to hope you work with a good designer to blend your work together well in the final project. I have shot in the past product on white only to have the images surrendered to subpar designers, resulting in a less than eye popping final product.

In the case of 2010 West Edmonton Mall gift guide the first good sign was I was given the opportunity to shoot some heavy brands like Burberry, Fossil, Coach, Armani and Boss. Then my images were turned over to their great designers who worked their magic and made solid collages of all the product. The final book ended up being a 20page guide.

I also decided to post some photographs of a new perfume from Issey Miyake. It's a reflective black bottle on a black background, so it presented a lot of challenges in studio.

I ended up lighting it with 5 light sources. Soft boxes, a snoot, and one of Trevor Schneider's fiber optic kits that attach to my elinchrom heads. Trevs work can be seen here. http://www.actionfigurecollectables.com/

This image is pretty clean out of camera, just slight post to clean up dust specs and a slight thinning of the reflection lines.

Enjoy!



C