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Stills / Video Shoot I assisted on earlier this year (Lighting / Digital Operating / Set) in London, YellowLittleJacket Studios.

Few weeks back I got a chance to go on a big DigiOp job to Brussels with Photographer Ben McDade. It was one of many locations around the world that he was flown around (Australia, Singapore, Peru amongst others) for an International Telecomms company.

Staying in a nice 5* hotel is one of the perks!

Belgians are not known for their grammar…

Nor for their humor… Really!? (“wanna play dude”, “wanna taste blondie”, “wanna shake bitch”)

Lots more pics coming up from various shoots, big Fashion Campaigns, GAP job in London and Rome, Editorials and so on!

Photographer: Simon Webb
Client: Alcatel / Tea&CakePR
Digital Operator: Nick Pearce
Lighting Technician: #1 Laimonas Stasiulis
Lighting Technician: #2 Dan Ross

Not long ago I had the pleasure of assisting Simon Webb on a big Alcatel / Stooshe Advertising shoot, and the images have just been published! The pictures will appear in Virgin Media stores across the country to promote the new range of Alcatel mobile phones. Few more images still yet to be released so very excited to see them!

Fantastic shoot and a great team, everything running silky smooth with Profoto Gear and a PhaseOne IQ 180 digital back.

Photographer: Oli Kellett
Agency: Trayler & Trayler
Retouching: Happy Finish
Lighting Assistant / DigiOp – Laimonas

Several weeks ago I was on shoot with Oli Kellett for his new concept “Animals”, and here are the fabulous results! Absolutely love them

Photographer: Simon Webb
Digital Operator: Shivvy
Lighting Technician: Laimonas Stasiulis

It has taken a while to come out, but its finally up on the shelves, and you can see the photographs being used as covers for JLS Perfume – Kiss.

The last few months has been rather hectic, so a little very behind on my usual posts! Here is a shoot from several months ago that was shot by Oli Kellett for SodaStream. Gotta love the mullet!

… Finally receiving some new business cards, lovely 600gsm paper, thanks MOO!

Not much news to post other than that. I am still working as a Digital Operator for Graham Atkins Hughes in studio up in Old Street, on the big Interiors commission (just wrapped up week 3), and doing other freelance jobs over the weekend. The team is absolutely lovely, and really not looking forward to the end!

On the geeky side, I have the privilege of using a PhaseOne P45 back with Hasselblad body every day, on a fully spec’ed Macbook Pro and Eizo screen running CaptureOne Pro 6, as well as 9x ProFoto heads, 3x 2400 and 2x 1200 Pro-8 Packs, bunch of flag stands, accessories and anything I can imagine or would ever need. You really get what you pay for, not a single light failure so far, computer running nicely and backed up to RAID drives after every shot, pics transferred over to Holly the Art Director and imported into InDesign layout.

Beautiful workflow. That is all until next week!

Photographer: Ben McDade
Digital Operator / Lighting Assistant: Laimonas Stasiulis

This was the first shoot I worked on with Ben. We met at Location 18, Perseverance Works, a studio he manages which is located in rather fashionable Shoreditch. In fact he built it from an abandoned site, and transformed it into an incredible studio space, with every table / wardrobe on wheels so everything can be moved with ease. Oh did I mention he was co-creator of Big Sky back in the days? You can tell he had some experience…

The shoot was all using continuous light, 1x 5k HMI and 2x 2.2k’s. The big one is little heavy, you should see the size of it… The right technique of getting it on a double wind up came in useful, which I learned after I lifted it on by myself! (Thanks Ben).

After all was set, I was doing Digital Operating on CaptureOne Pro 6, with a mixture of tethered shooting and importing cards from shots taken outside, on a rooftop white cove. Another one of Ben’s genius creations!