360 Full Virtual Tour: Castle Gibson: Film locations house

Media: Photography / 36o Full Virtual Tour

I can’t put a full virtual tour into wordpress so instead just click on the below image and you will be magically taken to the Castle Gibson Virtual tour.


Behind the scenes
What they do very well: Loads of fashion photo shoots with the likes of Kate Moss, music videos, BBC productions like Dragon’s Den and much more are filmed at Castle Gibson locations.
For up to date projects you can view their blog here. If you do want to plan a photo or video shoot at one of their locations let me know and I can help.

I met the owners of Castle Gibson when Rob a film locations manager friend of mine suggested it as an alternative wedding venue and so in 2009 this is where I got married.
Since the wedding I have kept a strong relationship with the Castle Gibson owners and went onto create a full 360 virtual door of their locations house.

The floor plans were an interesting challenge, you can open the floor plans and click to any floor and room and be taken directly there or click on the arrows from room to room.


360VR is a service I have been offering clients since 2008. I also like to use this technique in situations and events with lots of people which makes stitching and photographing a lot more challenging.

I can provide you with a more info. on this service if you are interested just drop me an email and you can see more examples on the KMPhotos website here:

Gear & Tech
Canon 5d mark II
Sigma 8mm fisheye lens
360 panoramic heads: 303SPH and Nodal Ninja
Stitching software
Lots of coding for the virtual flash tour

Posted in 360 Degree Virtual Reality

Campaign: advertising news magazine

Media: Photography



Behind the scenes
Mindshare advertising agency commissioned me for this group staff portrait
of senior CEOs for an upcoming announcement in Campaign, the advertising news magazine.
At the time this announcement was very hush hush so I had very limited options on choosing a location and was given the use of one small room to do the shoot in.

I spent about 30mins moving furniture and removing the carpet to expose the
wooden floor and setting up my equipment.
I only had about 20mins to do a couple of different group setups and then
individual 3/4 length portraits of the world CEOs.
After the photo shoot I dealt with the Haymarket team of Campaign sending the requested images to the required specifications.


The bottom line is with many photo shoots like this is to make the best with
what you have to work with. Ideally I would have identified an interesting
location within the clients premises and had more time to explore different
options and setups. However, this is where a photojournalist background is hugely valuable.

Gear & Tech:
Canon 5d mark II
Canon 85mm and 50mm F1.2 lenses and 24-70mm Canon zoom
Quantum Q flash with soft box
Quantum Turbo 2×2
Pocket wizard radio transmitters
Daylight bulbs with soft box lighting

Posted in Magazine, PR

New computer: Codename ‘The Beast’

Image is from Dell Images


Whenever I edit my photography images I use a pretty decent quad core PC and a 2010 imac.
However, with the introduction of my HD video services I’ve been looking for something with more ‘intensity’.
This PC now maxes out at 7.9 on all windows 7 benchmarks except hard drive speeds; I will probably add an SSD for the operating system to speed this up. Next is a full 3DMark benchmark test.
Spec info for those of who are as interested in hardware as me are as follows.


Dell XPS 730X
INTEL CORE I7 EXTREME PROCESSOR 975
PSU: 1.1KW
MEMORY: 12GB TRI CHANNEL
HARD DRIVES: 2TB (2X1TB) SERIAL ATA RAID 0 + 2TB HARD DRIVE
OPTICAL DRIVES: 6X BLU-RAY RW + DVD RW
GRAPHICS: 1.8 GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX295 X 2 [THAT'S 4 GRAPHICS CARDS!!]
AUDIO: SOUNDBLASTER XFI TITANIUM PCIE
19-IN-1 BLUETOOTH MEDIA CARD READER

Posted in Gear & Tech

Profile: UK Government Magazine: SEEDA

Media: Photography

 


Behind the scenes
I never showcased this project on my photo website so I thought I would give it a spotlight on the blog.
Initially I was contacted by London design agency smallbackroom and through them I photographed for the South East business Innovation & Growth team [funded by SEEDA].
The magazines were produced seasonally over a period of 15 months. Since the new government changes this means that SEEDA will officially end in 2012.

The photo shoots consisted of between 2-3 days for each edition. I would go to pre-arranged meetings with an interviewer and SEEDA representative and firstly take pictures during the interview and then have about 20 minutes to set-up and take environmental portraits along with some images of the business. This usually involved product images and other images of their premises.


Most of the environmental portraits were taken with the intention of being on the front cover of the magazine. The same method of leaving neutral / empty space and framing accordingly was required for the copy [text] when used on the inside pages.
Here you can download an example pdf of the magazine think_innovation.

Every location would be different and finding an interesting approach to take the portraits in was helped greatly with my photojournalism background and having the skills to adapt quickly in any given environment.

Gear & tech
Canon 5d mark II
Canon 16-35 / 24-70 and 70-200 zoom lenses and Canon primes
Quantum Qflash’s with soft boxes
Pocket wizard radio transmitters
Reflectors

Posted in Magazine, PR, Profile
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