Archive for the 'Shoot Stories' Category
Shoot/Save/Snow
Got back recently from several days spent in Aspen with Hugh Stewart working on another catalog shoot, this time for a British clothing company. This job provided some good challenges and considerations to take into account for dealing with shooting in cold temperatures and the occasional bad weather.
Being out in the middle of snowy nowhere [...]
Suspended above water with a client in a MoHo, now what?
We get things thrown at us that most people would think were akin to asking for a million dollars, tax free, but it’s all in a days work for us at Image Mechanics. A perfect example was when Michael Grecco asked us to be suspended over the water at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, shooting [...]
Canon 1Ds Mark III in Palm Springs
Recently I had the pleasure of working with the very talented Sydney-based photographer Hugh Stewart on a Palm Springs-based shoot for Marshall’s spring looks. With a final tally of 14,146 21-megapixel frames over four days, an immediate delivery schedule, and other above-and-beyond requests, this shoot proved to be a good test for our 35mm capture [...]
Just the Facts Ma’am.
The numbers are in and the new 8-core is downright amazing! This last week was a doosey, our new machine was put to the test and it came screaming through with flying colors.
Here are the machines specs…
and coupled with our unique workflow here’s what it can do.
Shoot #1 - 9 Hours, [...]
Rap-Up Cover Shoot Behind The Scenes
In the process of updated the tear sheets on our website I came across something interesting. A behind the scenes video podcast of our shoot with music video director Ray Kay shooting the cover of Rap-Up Magazine with Mya. You can kinda see us in the background every so often, but you can tell [...]
Gregory’s Travels
Well, suffice to say, things have been busy here at Image Mechanics. In fact, things have been so busy that I haven’t had time to write a single blog entry in the new year. Let alone the fact that I have been on so many shoots in the last three months that they have [...]
DirecTV MyWorld Behind The Scenes Videos
Talk about strange surprises. When I got the call that I was going to be the tech on another DirecTV shoot I was braced for another older gentlemen celebrity, not the three girls from the popular new media based reality television show MyWorld. MyWorld is a DirecTV produced series following these three girls [...]
Scorsese part 2 - interview with Michael Grecco
This is part 2 of the Martin Scorsese shoot story. The following is a Q and A with photographer Michael Grecco about this shoot:
Q: When you were hired for the Scorsese job was there an initial idea or did you base the concept on the location?
A: The concept is from my vision of how [...]
New Record for Most Images in One Day
Breaking his previous record of 2400 Leaf Aptus 22 images, Dave Nagel sets our new record of images captured in one day at 3,666. The 2.5 day shoot resulted in 7,150 images captured, a monumental sum that would have been cost prohibitive to do traditionally. If you estimate the final selects scanning costs together [...]
Martin Scorsese for DirecTV
Michael Grecco was hired to shoot Martin Scorsese at the Directors Guild offices in Manhattan for On DirecTV Magazine. I arrived the night before on the 10PM flight from Los Angeles only to find that my Tenba travel case containing the PowerMac G5 didn’t. It seems crazy to me that with all the [...]
