Another good challenge – we’ve certainly shot our fair share of interiors and exteriors for commercial clients, but starting to shoot for a design house that puts them together is not only fun, but quite satisfying. For this property, all shots are natural or ambient light, and 100% handheld. I just am not a tripod person. I’ll use one in the studio for commercial, repeatable work, but on location I just move around too much and it gets in the way. It is too hard to crawl on the floor, lie on your back, stand on furniture, and squeeze into corners when you are tied to a tripod. Leveraging ambient light with high but safe ISO makes this possible; well… that and holding your breath and shooting like an ROTC Rifle Team competitor of course. (yes, this was in a former life though) Whatever the case, the client was happy, and sent Meghan this great quote:

Meg -

We were so pleased with the River Valley Photos, we have several other
buildings we would like to have Brockit photograph.  Can we set up a
time for Adam to stop by and review two of the buildings?

Thanks

What a fun, fun project. Over the course of a few days, the whole Brockit crew gathered models, arranged scenes, and conned unsuspecting tourists for a series of shots to feature activities in downtown Houghton. We pulled out all the stops; handheld reflectors, rear sync flash in the woods, multiple photographers, etc. At the end, we have about 700 images for our good friends Dave & Karyn who are working on the project for the City of Houghton. No doubt that you’ll see these shots on large posters (see the sneak peek below), in visitors guides, websites, etc. Thanks for the fun project guys, and thanks especially all the accomodating restaurants, shops, bike clubs, dogs, hikers, interns, housemates, etc. To all the models that signed the releases -  we’ll get the full gallery posted with all the shots for you to enjoy as well. In the meantime, look for yourselves in downtown Houghton windows…

note from one of our location models below:

Hi Meg,

I got your E-Mail . Thanks for the photos. My kids will love seeing them. I enjoyed looking at all the photos on your website.  Very nice work.

Thanks again!
Det. Daniel Koch

How does the song go: ‘its a small world after all…’ ? It totally is. Ramona Capilitan, PR at De Waerdse Tempel in the Netherlans is using a shot of Alan Parsons for his promotional material this week. The small world part: I just left Amsterdam about a month ago, shot Alan and his crew a couple years ago, and my daughter and Alan Parsons’ lead vocalist PJ Olsson’s daughter are playmates. Funny…

Ramona, dank u wel for the business and the VIP invite. Alan, Godfrey, Manny, Steve, John, and PJ, have a great show! Hope to see you guys soon.

Congratulations to Audrey for landing a super-sweet commission job for an art distributor doing a project for a China located Hilton. 14 7-foot hand-made beaded creations are going up in an executive meeting room which none of us will probably ever see unfortunately. We shot one of the creations in the studio and outdoors. The shot below is my favorite though; the artist and her work. Nice job Audrey – what a fun project.

Ah, yes; we did decide to go. Earthworks Music – Family Camp. This rocked. Although I admit we were a little frightened when we pulled in, we quickly got comfortable and opened up immediately. A long weekend full of incredible food, friends, music, art, and extremely comfortable community living. Kora got a chance to do some violin work with the musically gifted Daisy May, and we all learned from each other. The pop-up camper of course was its usual awesomeness of habitat-on-wheels, providing shelter with a DOOR; what luxury. Hope to see you all at Blissfest and Harvest Gathering.

This set of photos for Finlandia University were shot with explicit direction for a set of ads. This is further example of how we are just never in the studio… its all about location and being flexible with a tight timeline. Of course its also about hiring interns who can double as models too; thanks Emily. I hear the library shot below made some regional papers as well. And, doesn’t the freebie 1994 Mercury Sable (aka EA22Y) just really make the statement in the high price gas shot? ah yes… it does. Thanks for the work Karen, hope these work for you; we had fun with the whole project.