Nautical Landings with Digital Media Services

This one is a High def video production with my boys from Digital Media Services for vacation rental condos Nautical Landings  in Dunedin Florida.  Click on the video below.

It was a beautiful spring day in Florida that began before sunrise and ended after sunset.  Brian Satchfeild directed from behind the camera as Lance Robson and myself served in multiple rolls to make this production happen.  We used friends and family of the condo owners as talent and if you look fast you may even see Lance and myself appear in the video.  We used a Panasonic high def camera and a smith victor light set up.  For smooth polished movement we used a steadycam merlin, and a mathews doorway dolly.

now on to the pictures…

setting up a dolly shot

shooting one of the living rooms

shooting with a slow pan

our shot list the digi slate and a little behind the scenes video cam

a bedroom shot

shooting another living room 

using the Merlin steadycam

the view

more steady cam

shootin shootin 

the dock

steady cam of the talent 

steady cam out on the dock

and back

the intro shot

 

setting up a shot

 

your not shootin till your layin down

the seawolf

on board

extra talent

getting ready for the time laps and the sunset

the end of a long but good day.

watch the video and enjoy.  Thanks to Brian and the boys at DMS. 

Morikami Gardens Fashion Shoot

     This goes back a few months.  I had the pleasure again to shoot with friend and photographer Robert Adamo for Palm Beach Media and their Palm Beach and Naples Illustrated Magazines.  We shot at the Morikami museum and Japanese garden in Delray Beach Fl.  It was very overcast in the mourning giving way to partly cloudy skies in the afternoon.  We were outside the whole day and basically worked our way around the garden.  The gardens are beautiful and provided many beautiful settings in which to feature the model and clothes.  The garden was open at the time and we gained a crowed from time to time.   

      We kept the set up light to allow for freedom of movement.  We used one profoto B pack (which runs on a rechargeable battery)with a beautydish.  We had done a tech scout the night before and realized there would be no power available and unlike most situations we could not exactly run a gas powered generator in a zen garden while it was open.  So in order to shoot tethered to the laptop we had to find the closest apple store an hour away to secure more power.  Rob has since invested in one of those extended battery packs.  The day went smooth and there is even some video of some of these shoots at the Palm Beach Illustrated’s we site.

on to the pictures….

a view of the pond

last minute styling

mr. Adamo Shootin

The crew in the bamboo forest

 

 

on the Rocks

  Styling

shots on the rocks

 

high heels and high places

shootin

Standing

 

makeup

more make up bit humid and of coarse hot                 

shootin shootin

art director, Rob, behind the scenes video and the black berry brigade

the long shot

the dry river bed

 

the classic shoji screen shot 

the pond

reflection

the bridge

Camera view

I just can’t resist a little post production magic 

the crew and some onlookers

the last looks

the final shot

great day and a beautiful place to shoot thanks to Rob and PBM for the opportunity to work in such a magical place.