Princess Yachts

I was out shooting another turtle release yesterday afternoon. I'll post pics from that later. Here though, are a few shots that I grabbed of the Princess V58 that was used as a support vessel to carry film crew and photographers out to document the release. It's rare in Dubai to get clouds in the sky along with such a clear haze free day so I thought I'd take full advantage and take these pics on our way back to the marina.







I'm sorting through the actual release shots and will post some later on today.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Laptop Shoot

I've just finished a shoot of a new laptop that's launching over here. The pics are going into a book and also appearing as large format prints at the launch. The brief was to shoot it fairly abstractly in the style of a car brochure. They worked out well and I have around 20 distinct images of which these are a few.








I hired a Nikon D3x to shoot this and was blown away by the quality of the images out of it. Some of the details it picked up were amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing the big prints which will really show them off.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Portraits

I shot these portraits for a singer friend of mine to use as PR images. We went for a simple 2 light set up, beauty dish infront and gridded head from behind. The last pic was with one light in a 3x4 profoto softbox.







I'm really pleased with them. The only downside for me was realising that my studio really isn't big enough, just another thing to add to the list.

I'm off out to sea again today to shoot some luxury yachts for Princess, looking forward to it. I'll post pics when I can, hope the weather cooperates.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Clothing test

I've got a clothing shoot coming up shortly so I decided to experiment with some lighting techniques. It's not for The North Face unfortunately but this jacket served as a great stand-in. The lighting style will work great for the actual shoot, I just wanted to make sure I had it nailed before the shoot itself. I used a couple of Profoto heads with grids on each. These grids are great and really are becoming my 'go to' light modifier, love em. I used a 10º and a 20º on this shot.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Adidas SUPERSTAR 80s 3WAY

Another shot from today of another crooked tongues 3way. This time the iconic 80s Superstar. This one comes with 5 different tongue/lace options so I'll shoot the rest soon.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

ADIDAS FORUM MID 3WAY

I've had these a while now but only just got round to shooting them. They're from Crooked Tongues, part of the consortium 3Way release. Check out their site here if you fancy picking up a pair.





©2009 Jerry Balloch

Oman black and whites

Just been on a 4 day trip down to Oman. We camped up on the Sayq Plateau which was amazing, 2300m up meant the temp was a cool 20º C, a welcome break from the heat of Dubai. After the first night's camping we drove up and over the mountains near Jebel Shams. The scenery was spectacular and I couldn't resist a few B&W landscape shots before heading down the dirt track all the way to the bottom - possibly the gnarliest drive I've ever done.










©2009 Jerry Balloch