Sneaker Summit

Better late than never. I shot these in February at the Sneaker Summit in Dubai. Was a great event, almost too busy to allow for photographs, but I managed to get a few shots.

I was testing out a Leica M6 which I'd hired. Great camera. Shot these on Ilford 3200.







© 2011 Jerry Balloch

Shooting my way out

I've been suffering from a lack of inspiration recently, creative block, whatever you call it. Maybe because things here in Dubai are starting to wind down for the hot summer ahead, I dunno.

Anyway I decided that enough was enough and I needed to shoot my way out of it, so hatched a plan - get a bunch of folk over to the studio, provide some malted hops and fermented grape juice, props and something relatively soft to land on. The results were great. We all had a good laugh, made fools of ourselves and I got to break this creative funk I'm in.

I shot on my Nikon D3 and the Mamiya RZ 67, mounted them both on a tripod with a T bar, sort of a Drew Gardner vibe. Kept the lighting setup simple - two Profoto 3x4 softboxes left and right, one 5ft Octa high above. Used Profoto Compacts in the 3x4s and a 7b head in the Octa.



I made a slideshow of all the D3 pics.

Jumps and Japes from Jerry Balloch on Vimeo.

Here are a few fave shots, there's more back on the site.











I shot these with the Mamiya RZ 67 on Ilford 100 Delta. Processed them myself using Ilfosol 3 developer pushed 1 stop. It's pretty tricky freezing action with a manual focus lump like the RZ but I'm happy with the results, it's a great camera ti use.
















©2011 Jerry Balloch

New year, new bike, first photograph.

It's taken a while to get going, 2011. Very slow start to the year. Lots of work overspilled from 2010 and has been keeping me from starting 2011. All out of the way now it's time to start again.

I got a new bike, a Charge Plug Freestyle. That's it up top in pretty much my first photo of the year. Got big plans for pimping it. I'll post the results here, all shot beautifully natch. Started the transformation already by swapping the front brake lever for a Gold Finger, reminds me of my first BMX. Also, replaced the grips with Genetic Vein hot pink ones. They truly are retina burning, it was pretty much illegal for me to shoot it in colour, health and safety n all that. Plans next include a new wheelset, thinking Velocity Deep V's or maybe even an Aerospoke on the front. Whatever happens, I'll shoot it and post it up here.

©2011 Jerry Balloch