Back in April I shot a print ad campaign for Nike Brazil, but we shot it on the Nike headquarters in Portland Oregon. The ad finally was printed and released, so I can show you guys. It's a Nike Just Do It ad, with the the Brazilian Soccer star Lucas Leiva, who plays for Liverpool. Rodrigo from Saatchi Brazil was the Art Director, and makeup artist. (Mud and water)
The shoot was mad crazy. I had about an hour and a half to prelight with my assistant Matt Brush, and about 5 minutes with Lucas in between Omri shooting the tv commercial. All said and done, it was a lot of pressure, but I nailed and everyone was happy.
I thought I'd break down the lighting and show you what we did. Nick Onken use artificial lighting you say? Yes, he can.
Here's a diagram of the lighting:
A photo of the setup:
Some other Behind the Scenes photos:
Emerging Soccer Star. DONE.
Posted by: FRED EGAN | August 08, 2008 at 06:10 PM
very cool nick... thanks for sharing
Posted by: jeret | August 08, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Sweet. Yeah, what a hectic day, and we thought we didn't have enough lights! The shot looks great! By the way the back light was kicked up wayy high on a boom with the magnum reflector in case anyone was curious.
hard light rules.
nice work Nick!
matt
Posted by: matt brush | August 08, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Great shot.
As you mentioned, Lucas plays for LFC (my local team) - how was he to photograph?
Posted by: mahonyWeb | August 09, 2008 at 06:14 AM
@mahoneyweb Thanks. Yeah, he was pretty easy to photograph. Pretty laid back and willing to get into it. Don't think he's experienced the full extent of photoshoots and media quite yet, so he was super nice.
We had 5 minutes to get that shot.
Posted by: nickonken | August 09, 2008 at 11:04 AM
sweet. great shot.
loving the diagram.
thank you.
Posted by: gabe | August 09, 2008 at 01:46 PM
Wow! That's cool, I want to see more pics!
Posted by: Leah | August 09, 2008 at 03:00 PM
I always wondered about behind the scenes on your photo shoots. Could you show us the behind the scenes for the Legend of Santi shoot? Thank you for sharing. You're work rocks!
Posted by: Kat B. | August 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Lets be honest Nick. you only needed 3 minutes and wasted the other 2 ;). nice work!
Posted by: JPS | August 12, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Typical Nick, Nails it the first time every time. Nick you are PIMP and you don't even know it. Keep it up.
Your Biggest Fan.
(Second to dearest Mom of course...)
Jer.
Posted by: Mr.J. Edwards | August 12, 2008 at 06:01 PM
fantastic blog post-thanks for sharing Nick.
Cheers
Stikman
Posted by: stikman | August 12, 2008 at 08:21 PM
I dont see the 5' profoto octodome in the setup diagram, was it not used?
Posted by: stikman | August 12, 2008 at 08:23 PM
Love the lighting Nick. BRAVO!!
Posted by: Jenny | August 12, 2008 at 10:30 PM
really awesome pic! really loved the snap
Posted by: Nicholas Francis | August 13, 2008 at 08:02 AM
As always, incredible shot! Lighting other than the sun intimidates me....so neat to see how it can be such a great tool.
awesome image!
Posted by: Suzanne | August 16, 2008 at 10:05 AM
@stikman The 5' Octodome never ended up getting used. It was spreading the light too much.
@Kat B: All the Santi stuff was natural light. Me and camera. Metered back from the subject. Simple stuff.
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