Holiday Party Guide – “Shoot & Tell”
December 18th, 2009Tis the season for holiday cards to be bought, signed, shipped and forgotten. To fight this un-merry trend, I teamed with Adam Mead and his crew at The Creative System to produce a holiday card to be enjoyed by all.
Here is how I had to shoot it:
The wood panel wall was super reflective so I had a hard time keeping streaks of light from appearing. I placed 2 side Canon Speedlites pointing directly to the middle so they wouldn’t hit the wall, only the models. I wanted all the images to have a gold tone to them so I had a 3rd Canon Speedlite aimed away from the scene and bouncing off a the gold side of my 74″ Impact reflector. To light the wall, I used 2 simple shop lights that helped to add to the gold tones.
To pay tribute to Robert Earl Keene’s “Merry Christmas from the Family”, Adam and I wanted to get some gritty focused lighting shots using my handheld spotlight. It didn’t make it into the final card but will always be a great blackmail photo against Jesse Isenberg.
Weiners and Meatballs
The eggnog spew scene was shot while I was comfortably under a plastic sheet and the stripping office-goer was photographed on a green screen at the end of the shoot.
Office dude starts to strip and triggers eggnog spew
No words for this next shot. And yes, that is Holly because not all office parties are able to afford the real thing.
So ghetto, no mistletoe, just holly
Much thanks for these guys and gals!
Our awesome crew/models!
Posted in Photography, Promotion, advice on December 18th, 2009
This is awesome! Looks like a whole lot of fun
One of the funniest pieces I have seen in your work. Great photos, hilarious video, awesome project.
That’s so fun Casey. Great stuff.
Love the vintage clothes!! nice work.
Holy crap… that has to be the best shoot ever. I think I’m going to make the mistletoe shot my new desktop pic. Quality, classic pic right there, my friends.
this stuff is classic, man. always enjoy these shoot and tells. looks great, excellent work.
Simply awesome. Love this!!!
i love this work casey. just looking through this work, you can see a lot of passion and its evident you had a great time doing these. i love the vintage feel of the work too, from the wood panels, tacky wardrobes, everything just falls into place. you didn’t go to complex on the lighting setup either did you? looks like just speedlights, hot lights, nothing too crazy. its nice to learn you can come up with some great work, and do it with very little equipment. thanks dude.
Very, very good ideas and sublime execution. One question Casey, how much alcohol was involved as:
a) Bribery
b) ‘Dutch Courage’
c) Payment?