Image Problem

I appear to have a bit of an image problem, well not me personally but my blog here.

I've recently switched to cargo collective for the layout and hosting of my website and along the way my blog images have been vaporised. Not Cargo's fault I may add, purely down to me. So until I can fix it you're going to have to put up with every one on my pictures looking like a small blue question mark. I'm sure I'll remedy it soon.

Zipp Wheels - art of cycling

Part of an ongoing personal project I'm doing documenting the art of cycling. The craftmanship, design, and finishing on some bike parts often gets overlooked. I've taken it upon myself to photograph some of these pieces and hopefully do justice to the amount of work that went into creating them.

Zipp Wheels are handmade in Speedway Indiana.

©2010 Jerry Balloch

NYC trip

I was in New York at the start of last month for a few days of glorious spring weather. I've got a few shots to work on from the trip but in the meantime here are a some I made earlier.


6th Avenue


6th Avenue


A/C


Wooster Street

It's an amazing place, so much to see and do and a real stark contrast from the deserts of Dubai. Hopefully I'll get back there soon for some more shooting and a trip to the hallowed B&H camera shop which was closed the entire time I was there for passover - timing!

©2010 Jerry Balloch

Matte Box Experiment

I recently bought a Matte Box for my camera to hold ND filters. I'm really happy with it and was playing around with a wideangle lens on it and came up with this.



I dug the framing it did to the image so I tweaked it a bit in photoshop to give it the lo-fi look. Not the be all and end all of an image but the look is stored in the back of my head somewhere for when I can use it properly.

©2010 Jerry Balloch

Watermark Magazine

Got a copy through of The Princess Yachts magazine Watermark today, featuring 3 pics I shot for their story about the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix back in November. Bagged the story opener DPS which is a nice shot of a Princess V65 with the Atlantis Hotel in the background.



Two shots on the following spread too. The quality of the magazine is really good, nice weighty satin stock used which really pops the images off the page. First publish of the new year.

Still on a nautical note, I've just finished two shoots for Yachts Emirates magazine here in Dubai so should have some more images to post of those soon.

©2010 Jerry Balloch

Jellies

Happy New Year!

Last year was a good one so this year has a lot to live up to. Got lots of plans on what to do creatively this year but am going to take it slow. Nothing worse than starting of all guns blazing only to falter after a few weeks.

Took this pic of Jellyfish yesterday, my second pic of the year. First one was of my fridge! Random, but I'll explain that later. Truth be told this is actually three shots merged together so really it's my second, third and fourth pics of the year. Going to get it printed real big. The colours are just amazing, so warm.

©2010 Jerry Balloch

Don't tell the missus

I shot the models for thisFoster's site about a month ago in Dubai. It was a really fun shoot. Over the day way had 7 models come and basically have a laugh in front of the camera. The client wanted images for the initial launch of the site as well as for future updates so we worked hard and screamed through gigs and gigs of frames. The site has just gone live and is a bit cheeky but a good laugh, just what you'd expect from an Aussie beer brand.













I'll post some of the images on their own later as they're a bit small here.

You can check the site at www.donttellthemissus.com they've also got a twitter feed, follow @fosters_dttm

I've done a few shoots this week of yachts so I'll post some images when I can.

© 2009 Jerry Balloch