2010 June | Darren Hull

06-30-10

Treelines -BE-Logged

A Blog Post by KIMinem

The Treelines shoot was AMAZING! Absolutely amazing! It was a long day, but the energy in the atmosphere that was pumped by good music, good people and a hot, sunny day kept us going. We started off by setting up a slip ‘n slide in the front yard of the Treelines house. I’m not talking about the cool slip ‘n slide where children are laughing and there are bright, fun colors; I’m talking about two ghetto tarps, some dish soap, a hose and four beer-loving guys (mind you, there were kids that rode their bicycles by us and laughed…). We had strobes set up around the slip ‘n slide and Darren and I parked at the bottom with our cameras ready. With a little running start, the guys were flying down the tarps, bellies down and heads first.

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The next stop was in the backyard. We set up a white backdrop on the patio and basically let the guys do their thing (they wooooorked it). There was a small accident when one of the band member’s thought it would be a good idea to twirl their guitar around their neck by the strap (video link here), but other than that, everything went pretty smoothly!

Treelines music can be found here:
http://treelinesmusic.com

Huge thanks to Dustin Senos and Tim Feeny for helping us out that day.

140Portrait Project (update) – Gary Vaynerchuk

It has been a couple of weeks since I came back from Calgary after shooting Gary V. The progress continues on the shoot edit as well as the gallery interface. Very stoked that @_ds is helping out with that. We wanted to make sure we had an appropriate way to house 140 images and make viewing enjoyable and above all … it had to be “simple”.

What is 140portraits? Simply – its a behind the scenes look of a person told in a 140 images. This project was inspired by Gary, and could not be more thrilled he agreed to take the journey. This is something I have been working on for about 9 months. There was no way this project was going to launch without him. I would have shelved it until the moons aligned. More information about the scope of this project will be on the site when it launches.

Until then here is a shot driving back from the airport after his talk, interviews and book signing…. right back to doing what he does! Work ethic is what I observed that day. I also have to say I came back with a larger flame to take care of some of my own business. Mad mad respect. If for some reason your not familiar with Gary visit his site: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/ .. and Gary, another Big Thanks man!

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On Location – Photo Studio Set-up

Last weekend Kim and I were on location shooting some still images that will appear within 4 episodes of a series. The episodes will not air until October or November of this year. I can san say it is a top 5 network show. Thats really about it for now. The still photography was to shoot in parallel with the final filming. We had a great location in Woodland Hills (Kelowna) , that allowed the film crew and us to work independently. We will not be able to show any of the images until next year, but here is a look at our set-up. This is probably around 7:30am, and might cover (almost) a couple of hours of set up.

Here was a little snip from our spec sheet.
Please shoot w/ camera far away from participant – 120mm lens further back (to avoid body distortion) .
please note focal length used in shoot. the director on set will need to be able to view stills on external monitor for approval as they are shot

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