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
