MILLER LITE SHOOT XL

We produced a two day shoot for Miller Lite and Integer a couple of weeks ago and it could not have gone smoother, thanks to an awesome cast and crew of approximately thirty people. Day one was the largest in scale of the two shots. We had three vehicles, five principal talent, seven or so extras, a whole bunch of props and some food on the grills. My crew hung and rigged fourteen strobe heads, several silks and over 700 square feet of background. The only place in town that could possibly accommodate our needs was Stage 1 over at LSI. Our set was pretty large but it only took up about half of the available 16000 square feet, left us plenty of room for a little football. Now I like it when the room is cold enough to hang meat but fifty five degrees was a little too cold for our clients that flew in from Texas. We did our best to make everyone comfortable but little space heaters did not do much in that size of space, sorry guys. I think we made up for it on day two though. It was an absolute pleasure to work with such a fantastic team of professionals. So, many thanks to everyone involved in this production.

THE NEW PHONE BOOKS ARE HERE!

I finally am someone thanks to the fantastic efforts of Jay Roth and James Pelz. This duo took on the task of coming up with a new business card for David Pahl Photography. It was almost a year ago that we started talking about it and I finally got these printed just before Christmas. We printed four different backs that each have their own little story. This was all Jay's doing. I told him I wanted a card with copy on it and I like humor. So he came up with a take off on Mad-Libs and gave them a little David Pahl style. James pushed the idea even further coming up with a beautiful design that was very graphic and clean as well as a kick ass new logo. No longer do I have to hang my head low when I meet someone and they say do you have a business card. I can proudly hand them this Cadillac of a card. In all fairness the slow progress of the card was completely due to my indecision and when I consider that I did not have a card for nearly six years ten months was pretty quick. I owe Jay and James a great deal. So thanks guys! Big thanks to Rob a Foils and Dies for the fantastic print job!

Miller Lite Houston Rodeo

About two weeks after the Coors and Co shoot last August we produced our first shoot for Miller Lite. We had the pleasure of working with a great creative team from The Integer Group comprised of ACD Wade Campbell and AD Brad Ives. If we are lucky this will just be the first of many more to come.

COORS & CO

Had the pleasure of working with a great client and agency back in August when we shot some of the lifestyle work for the 2009/10 Coors and Co catalog. We had one day to produce a dozen shots and a crew of about fifteen people made it all possible. Many thanks to Michael Emmerson and Rob Godby of Integer.These are a few of my favorites.

ALMOST FOUR MONTHS, THAT'S TOO LONG!

After an almost four month hiatus from the blog we are back. It has been an amazingly busy past few months and I hope to be posting some of that client work on the blog soon. Right now I wanted to share some selects from a shoot we did back in May. Our talent, Ashley, was provided by Donna Baldwin Talent and Hair, Makeup and Wardrobe were courtesy of Jennifer Samuel. These shots were something fun we thru together at the last minute. We were working on another installment of the lego project and decided to shoot something a little more fashionable since we had such a talented crew in place.

CHASE JARVIS & ADCD JUNE 12th, #3

Friday June 12th Chase will be in town to share a bit of his creative insight and humor with us. I hope that everyone can make it. You can find out the details here

CHASE JARVIS & ADCD JUNE 12th

The second in a series of three videos Chase was nice enough to make for us. These clips have been getting a ton of hits. I think this event is going to be great!

CHASE JARVIS & ADCD

The Art Directors Club of Denver is bringing Chase Jarvis to Denver for a little chat on June 12th. He will also be sticking around for the weekend to act as one of the judges for the annual show. So get your work together and submit before the deadline.

GRAND THEFT LEGO (PART 1)

We have been working on this project for quite a while. The nice thing about a personal project is no deadlines and we get to mess with it as long as we want. Special thanks to James Pelz, Jay Roth and Tom Pounders for their generous help. We came up with the idea months ago and now that we have started producing them the concepts just keep coming. I cannot forget to thank Andrew Webb for lending his retouching skills to this project. Andrew has a great post on how the image came together on his site. More to come.

BEFORE & AFTER

I had someone ask to see a pre and post version of a portrait we shot last summer. So I thought it might be a good post for the blog too. The first version is straight from the camera. The lighting had to be dramatic but still smooth with out too harsh of shadows. This was achieved with a four light set up. The second version is after Andrew Webb retouched the image with what he refers to as a hyper reality sharpening style as well as some sculptural enhancements. This one took half a day to shoot and another half day to do the post work on.