Photographer: Saam Gabbay
Client: Green Mountain Coffee GMCR : KENYA
Photographer: Emily Nathan
Client: Google Chromebooks
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Photographer: Jill Greenberg
Client: Pilot Pens
Challenge: Limited pro & celebrity talent availability in the midst of contract negotiations during free agency. Trademarked iconic buildings.
Solution: Hired a body double for lighting & staging. Shot background plates of court location and crowd on a separate day.
Photographer: Daniel Jackson
Client: Nike
Agency: ManaMedia
Challenge: An extensive fashion catalog shot list, with an editorial budget, with a huge range of location needs.
Solution: Creative location scouting & a rolling production office (motorhome), coupled with a great local support crew.
Photographer: Soren Solkaer Starbird
Client: Jack & Jones
Challenge: Ambitious creative campaign with multiple layers while using real talent.
Solution: Careful consideration and coverage of retouching assets. Excellent talent direction. Working closely with our retoucher.
Photographer: Andrew Martin
Client: US Gypsum
Agency: GyroHSR
Challenge: A large cast of reality tv contestants with very different personalities. A celebrity-studded judge panel with very particular tastes in styling. A very limited budget. A gigantic shot list with both stills, video and behind-the-scenes filming.
Solution: Two teams of set designers, prop stylists, fashion stylists & hair/make up artists working double time. Multiple t-shirt changes for the photographer.
Photographer: Freddy Fabris
Client: Project Runway Latin America
Agency: Turner
Challenge: A live bull... with a redhead. A real Sumo wrestler. Convincing mature ladies to wear a bikini.
Solution: Traveled to LA area to photograph bull on location. Rest of campaign was shot in studio with extensive set builds. Flew in a professional Sumo wrestler with almost zero English skills. Provided a warm and private atmosphere for our ladies in bikinis.
Photographer: Todd Baxter
Client: Combos
Agency: DDB Chicago
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Photographer: Jill Greenberg
Client: Pilot Pens
Challenge: Finding sunny California-style locations while shooting in Chicago. Maintaining the energy of many small children.
Solution: Extensive location research & scouting, coupled with skilled retouching. Casting with the photographer present to get a read on children's energy. Bringing in a TRAMPOLINE to keep the energy up and the tone of the shoot playful!
Photographer: Sean Williams
Client: California Raisins
Agency: Fleishman Hillard
Challenge: 1.) A campaign with varied location needs & a limited budget. 2.) Volatile Colorado weather while working with young kids.
Solution: 1.) Extensive location research & scouting. 2.) Gallons of hot chocolate, self-warming hand warmers & lotss of layers of warm clothing!
Photographer: Brian Bailey
Client: Lunchables
Agency: McGarry Bowen
Challenge: Iconic Bay Area environments & architecture needed for a catalog with a strong fashion-driven brand and enormous shot list. Maintaining the feel of past campaigns.
Solution: Talent was flown in from Europe to provide continuity for the brands' past campaigns and concepts. Extensive scouting beginning weeks before production. Creative staging and locations utilizing the conservative budget.
Photographer: Soren Solkaer Starbird
Client: Jack & Jones
Challenge: An attention-shy subject.
Solution: Discreet staging and limiting shoot time.
Photographer: Saverio Truglia
Client: Washington Post
Challenge: Mere moments in front of the camera with Chicago Bulls' MVP Derek Rose.
Solution: Hired a body double for lighting & staging. Shot background plates of court location and crowd on a separate day.
Photographer: Mark Zibert
Client: Adidas
Agency: Sid Lee
Challenge: Possibly the BIGGEST production challenge, literally! Sourcing an Asian Elephant for a shoot in the Midwest.
Solution: Sourced an animal ranch in Oklahoma that was traveling with a mother and new calf, which they transported in a special semi-truck directly to the photo studio.
Photographer: Steve Grubman
Client: Aloxi
Agency: inserv
Challenge: Real talent, real wilderness & environments. Challenging budget.
Solution: Creative casting, a very flexible crew with a great attitude and lots of bug spray!
Photographer: Jason Lindsey
Client: Carhartt
Challenge: Organizing a cohesive campaign with shoots spread out across the calendar (depending on cast availability) and city (depending on shoot location).
Solution: Flexible crew who often donated their time or resources with a great team spirit and attitude.
Photographer: Saverio Truglia
Client: Steppenwolf Theater
Challenge: Celebrity talent with limited availability. Multiple teams of clients & agencies with their own media needs.
Solution: Extensive preparation and pre-lighting on location days before the shoot. Carefully positioned green room. Multiple sets running and great local support crew for each team.
Photographer: Adam Hinton
Client: Nike
Agency: ManaMedia
Challenge: Access to an airplane hangar and working industrial factory.
Solution: Extensive location research & scouting. Careful location management & negotiations. And stylish protective eyewear & boots for the whole crew!
Photographer: Andrew Martin
Client: Harris Bank
Agency: DDB
Challenge: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Solution: Donec mollis volutpat massa, sit amet consectetur nunc ultricies at. Cras diam enim, porta in elementum ut, placerat nec nibh.
Photographer: Dan Goldberg
Client: Chronicle Books
Agency: Agency Name
Challenge: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Solution: Donec mollis volutpat massa, sit amet consectetur nunc ultricies at. Cras diam enim, porta in elementum ut, placerat nec nibh.
Photographer: Andrew Martin
Client: Humalog / Eli Lilly
Agency: GSW
Challenge: Showcasing the revamped Walgreens look, with only a few new locations nationwide. Superhero-style talent roles.
Solution: Gained overnight access to a suburban prototype store. Creative casting & talent research to include very athletic individuals, among them real rock climbers.
Photographer: Andrew Martin
Client: Walgreens
Agency: Gyro HSR
Challenge: High-energy concept, low budget with a tight final artwork timeline.
Solution: Focused on one location, with a variety of looks to avoid moving the shoot for each shot. Flexible talent. Close collaboration with retoucher.
Photographer: Andrew Martin
Client: Kimberly Clark
Agency: Gyro HSR
Challenge: Representing differently disabled individuals with dignity & boldness.
Solution: Involving the PWD talent in the production & styling process, so that they felt empowered and excited about their imagery & shoot experience
Photographer: Abbey Drucker
Client: Gamut
Challenge: Communicating the setting & scenario in such a close crop.
Solution: Enlisted a talented set designer & constructor in order to tell the story succinctly.
Photographer: Saverio Truglia
Client: Altoids
Agency: Energy BBDO
Challenge: Getting a cow in a grocery store!
Solution: Divided the shoot into one over-night shoot in a grocery store for the environments, and one day at a farm for the live animals. Great fun!
Photographer: Saverio Truglia
Client: Cryovac
Agency: Fitz + Co
Challenge: 13 shots to accomplish. With non-English speaking talent.
Solution: Built multiple sets in one studio and ran multiples sets. Kept to a very tight schedule and had a few Spanish-speakers on hand.
Photographer: Saverio Truglia
Client: H&R Block
Agency: Lapiz
Challenge: Finding a professional kitchen large enough that would allow for a photo shoot.
Solution: Created a professional baking kitchen in studio by enlisting the help of a great styling team to make it feel authentic while still giving our shot the dimensions needed for all that copy!
Photographer: Jeff Bowen Ross
Client: Panera
Agency: Mullen
Challenge: Represent all branches of the US Armed Forces with authenticity.
Solution: Extensive research and an extremely resourceful stylist!
Photographer: John Fleck
Client: MillerCoors
Agency: Integer
Challenge: Limited talent budget but a real campaign need for subjects to convey empathy.
Solution: Unrecognizable talent for final use, however cast for talent with acting experience.
Photographer: Jim Luning
Client: Prostrakan
Agency: Goble & Associates
Challenge: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Solution: Donec mollis volutpat massa, sit amet consectetur nunc ultricies at. Cras diam enim, porta in elementum ut, placerat nec nibh.
Photographer: Andrew Martin
Client: McDonald's
Agency: Agency Name
Challenge: 1.) A campaign with varied location needs & a limited budget. 2.) Volatile Colorado weather while working with young kids.
Solution: 1.) Extensive location research & scouting. 2.) Gallons of hot chocolate, self-warming hand warmers & lotss of layers of warm clothing!
Photographer: Saverio Truglia
Client: Pop Tarts
Challenge: Interrupting the teenage kids at the local skate park
Solution: Infiltrating with real talent who were already part of the scene
Photographer: Lisa Predko
Client: Polaroid
Agency: Rivet
Challenge: Pro Bono shoot with a non-existent budget.
Solution: Rallied a crew to donate time and efforts for a worthy cause!
Photographer: Mark Wiens
Client: AIDS Run/Walk
Agency:
Challenge: FInd a child-friendly, warm & inviting space with great natural light in the middle of a dreary Midwest winter, with very specific propping needs.
Solution: Created a living room in a studio with ample natural daylight, allowing for precise control of propping & set design.
Photographer: Tosca Radigonda
Client: VTech
Agency: Agency Name
Challenge: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Solution: Donec mollis volutpat massa, sit amet consectetur nunc ultricies at. Cras diam enim, porta in elementum ut, placerat nec nibh.
Photographer: Terry Vine
Client: Renaissance Hotels
Agency: Agency Name
Challenge: Wrangling kids!
Solution: Carefully planning the shots around nap times, meals and sugar highs (and lows)!
Photographer: Jeff Bowen Ross
Client: Walgreens
Agency: Downtown Partners
Challenge: how to produce a campaign during a pandemic on a micro-budget
Photographer: Drew Reynolds
Client: Rabbit
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