Contests are a great thing to enter, but a hard thing to get into. I've entered the Commarts Photography annual contest for the last couple years now, and this is the first time I was lucky enough to win. This plays on the "making better images" part of the game, so I would encourage you to enter contests. Not only to push yourself creatively, but publications like this are seen by all the creatives. It's some of the best exposure.
You can pick up the annual right now, which I also recommend you do. There is so much inspiring work in it. If you have a commarts online account you can see it here, but otherwise, here's a screenshot. The image is from a campaign I did for Nike in Mexico City last year. You can see more on the campaign here:
http://www.nickonkenconnection.com/shoptalk/2008/08/the-legend-of-santi.html
Hoppipolla means puddle jumping, and after going to Iceland, I can see where Sigur Ros got the word from. Plenty of puddles there to jump in. With the help of my new Icelantic friend, we were able to pull this lifestyle shoot off in and near Reykjavik.
Lighting: As you can see, this is all naturally lit. When you're traveling over seas and bootstrapping a production, you don't always have the luxury of many assistants, lights and reflectors. Know your light. Especially when shooting on the fly.
Here is the full story:
http://www.nickonken.com/Stories/IcelandHoppipolla/
A video and a few Behind the Scenes shots by Jeff Holt(The Viking Warrior):
Iceland Hoppipolla BTS from conk. on Vimeo.
There's something to be said about film and the way it feels. Shot a few rolls with my Diana(square aspect ratio vignetted shots) and Pentax 67(rectangle aspect ratio images). The Pentax 67 has an amazing depth of field, and you can really see/feel the organic grain of the film. I still have yet to see digital capture/create process this feeling.
This job was a prime example of getting hired to do what you do. I was super stoked to work with Art Directors Luis Aguilera (check out his sites: http://www.dadadroids.com/ & http://defithenorm.com/ ) and Jamie Tao from Miami on a one day shoot in LA. Obviously you can see that this job was right up my alley. Again, with my LA crew we had a ton of fun on set.
Here are some behind the scenes shots and a vid as well as some outtakes from the shoot.
A little BTS vid by my lovely producer Jewely Bennett at Porkchop Productions:
State Farm BTS from conk. on Vimeo.
And here's the photo that came from that:
Some Outtakes:
and some Behind the Scenes pics:
Made a little PDF of my celeb book for some pitches. Thought I'd share. Download the full PDF here(Right click to save).
A couple of my shots in the may issue of Cosmo.
Always fun to see you work in print. Here are my images in Cosmopolitan Magazine this month.
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