Hayley Kiyoko Music Video

Last week I shot a new music for Hayley Kiyoko, directed by Hayley. Here are some shots I took on my Pentax67 camera in between setups.

American Express Commerical

Shot a 2 day commercial last with with awesome director Austin Peters with Radical Media for American Express, featuring the artists Disclosure!!! This job was my Alexa Mini's Maiden voyage and I'm in love with this camera!!!

Medium format in Egypt

Here are some shots I took with my medium format film camera in Egypt. Love the quality the 120mm film gives!

Shooting in Egypt.

This week I'm shooting in Egypt for the first time. Have to say I love this place. I had to make sure I checked out the Pryamids of Giza. Well worth the trip!!!

Alexa Mini has arrived!!!

Today I received my Alexa Mini camera from Abel Cine.  I'm so excited of what this little camera can do. I'm so happy to finally get rid of my Red Epic! This camera shoots 200 fps, shoots internal Raw, shoots 4K, and has a 4:3 sensor perfect for shooting anamorphic. And it weighs 5lbs!

Landshark Commercial

Just recently shot a commercial for Landshark Beer. We had a shark fin in CG swim through the floor of a bar and swim through the sand at a beach.  It was a fun and challenging shoot. Here is a shot of the fin in the background. Directed by: Benjamin Howdeshell and produced by Shawn Wallace.

Commercial in Kuwait and Egypt

Just spent the last 8 days in Kuwait working on a pretty great commercial for Kuwait. Playing with a lot of glass shapes in front of the lens. We spent a few days shooting on a small island right off of Kuwait city that I never knew existed. It was attacked by Iraq in 1991 and now it's pretty much a ghost town island.  Working with director Omar Kalifa who is a great UK director based in Qatar. This week I'm heading to Cairo to finish off the commercial. Looking forward to the finished product.  Here are some shots on the island.

Google Commercial

Just did a quick trip to New York for a Google commercial for Missing Pieces production company. This was the quickest job I've ever done. I took a red eye to NYC, then I went straight to set to work 10 hours and then took a red eye flight back to LA. I can check that off the ye old bucket list. Here's a shot right out front of the studio I worked in.

Pentax67 shots

Had a few minutes to shoot a roll of film on the Nike spot I just wrapped. Here are a few Pentax67 medium format shots!

Nike commercial

The last 2 weeks I've been shooting a Nike commercial with directors Martin Desmond Roe and Nick Frew at Dirty robber productions. We've been shooting in LA and New York. We've been using two Epic Dragons, one on a ronin and the other hand held. The client wants  a 9x16 release so I figured out how to rig my camera vertically hand held and with the the ronin as well. With the help of WoodenCamera and Viewfactor I was able to achieve 9x16 format. We had a lot of fun toys on this shoot! Here are some BTS shots. I'm really looking forward to this one!!!

Stearns & Foster Commercial

My Stearns & Foster commercial just released. I shot this on Alexa XT with Panavision C anamorphics. This shoot was a lot of fun!

Turner Classic Movie Channel

Last week I got to shoot a pretty cool commercial for the TCM channel. We shot at some nice locations. We shot at the 4aces motel in Palmdale at sunrise for one of the sequences. Here's some shots of our talent after we wrapped. Shot on my Pentax67 Medium format film camera.

Haley Kioyoko Video

Here's the link to the music video I shot for Haley Kiyoko, Co- directed by Haley and directed by Austin Winchell.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0MT8SwNa_U

Landshark Commercial

This week I got to shoot a Landshark beer commercial. It was such a blast and it's so much fun lighting misty dripping beer bottles on the beach! Looking forward to this one. It has some really nice VFX as well! Here's one of our locations we shot!

Tahiti

Spend the last week in Tahiti with the Misses. It was such a blast and the surfing was incredible! It is such a beautiful place!

Portraits

Here are a few more portraits I took between setups on the Hayley Kiyoko music video. Here's a shot of actress Stefanie Scott. She is the star of the Insidious 3 movie that just came out. Here is also Kelsey Chow.  These were shot on my Pentaxt 67 medium format film camera.

Haley Kiyoko music video

Just came off a 2 day music video for Haley Kiyoko. The video had some great acting in it. Here's a couple of portraits  of one out our actors. Shot on my Pentax67 medium format camera. Photo of Hayden Thompson.

Commercial in Kuwait

Just spent another week in Kuwait shooting a commercial. We shot it on Alexa XT with the Zeiss Master Anamorphics. The whole shoot was done on Steadicam. It was definitely nice to not have any hand held work, especially in 115 degree weather!!!