fashion and barbados

I was recently in Barbados and here are a couple more stills from a shoot I did whilst I was out there :-)

Let me know what you think :-)

more photos

I've been taking tonnes of pics recently as well as video work.

Heres a few pics of a great model from colours agency called Ciara, she was awesome!

Hair and make up was done by Judit who rocks it as always!!

And Iona Crawford provided the clothes :-)

dance images

These were some images I took of Alison Sinclair, she runs cherry dance studios, MBP has worked alot with Alison and CDS in the past, thats one of the great things of working in the creative industries is that you meet amazing people doing awesome things.

Rox Diamonds

Heres a video I shot for Rox diamonds http://www.rox.co.uk/ check it out :-)

The behind the scenes of the photo shoot will be coming soon with the RAF!

the cook islanders what they really think!

This was a video Emma and I put together as a thank you to the cook islanders on their tour around the UK hope you like :-)

Dance london with the cook islands

Here's a video I shot with emma brumpton for the cook islands tourist board on their trip around london :

YouTube video dance london
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bltrr6vfj5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player



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Vengo Del Sol music video

I was in LA late last year shooting a music video For Dolce Films, the directors Daniel and Bayou are amazing and this is what they came up with:

New Kit for 7d

It's Been a while since I posted about any of the equipment I'm using just now so I thought I would upload some pics and talk about my new gear.

Let's start with the lens, its the sigma 10-20mm 3.5 and it is super wide!! I mean crazy wide its amazing, it is also pretty compact and not crazy heavy, i've been playing around with it and the image quality is incredibly good. The build quality is great and the auto focus is quite and quick. The only downside is that their is allot of distortion, this is expected from something so wide but it does mean that you are limited to what kind of shoots you can use this on.

Overall though I really love it.

Next my red rock micro custom built rigg, I say custom built as I put all the bits together myself haha. I wanted a rigg that was light, portable, really well made, had room to expand and was cheap (ish). I couldn't find anything like that so I decided to buy all the component parts and put it together. The Red Rock system is amazing, the quality is incredible and what I love about it is that I can improve on it and change it as funds come in.

Extended battery pack, I found this on ebay for £10 and I couldn't not buy it! Its been really useful, the build quality is awful! But it doubles my battery life and if im in a place where I can't recharge my canon batteries I can use AA's which is great although I don't know how long they would last.

And lastly an LED onboard camera light. I don't know much about it as it was a christmas present but I have to say it is incredible, you can power it from a whole host of different batteries and just with AA's the power off the light is amazing! and I think they are really cheap, they are really light and super portable.

More new kit to come but just now that's all i've got :-)

The writer - Gill (my wife)

My wife is an amazing writer, at the moment she is writing a novel and it's on an great website called wattpad heres a link to her novel: Wattpad,

She is also putting a facebook page together and asked me to take some images of her for it so here is one of them:

You can see the rest on her page heres the link:

facebook page

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas :-)

Music video in Los Angeles

I was shooting a music video for the amazing Daniel and Bayou Lir from Dolce films, I had a great time out there and here are some of the pics.

Boy by Catherine Kubillus

Here is a recent music video shot and edited for Catherine Kubillus, it was a really funs shoot, shes a great singer and I got to do some really fun stuff, the opening shot is a large format camera and I shot through it to get some really amazing colours and a pretty different look for some of the video.

Fraser balgowan beauty in the raw

Here is a video i shot for fraser balgowan.



We shot it in the highlands and it was the worst weather i've ever shot in but the Canon 7d held up really well. The guys at fraser balgowan were amazing, the idea was by Adrian Jeffery, the model was Hannah Breen who was great putting up with the freezing conditions! The make up was by Judit Soltesz who not only did incredible make up but also helped style the clothes making 4 deer hides into an amazing outfit! and music by the incredibly talented Colin McNeil.

fraser balgowen

You can tell when im busy as the blogging drops!
Since finishing the BBC project i've been working on loads of stuff and one project im very excited about is a fashion video for fraser balgowen. The video itself will be available next week. But in the mean time here are some behind the scenes stills taken by Judit Soltesz, she is an incredibly talented make up artist, the model was Hannah Breen, the idea came from Adrian Jeffery and the music (which you can hear next week) was created by Colin McNeil.

cazfest 2011 with the young fathers

I was helping black sugar records over the weekend and took the Young fathers down to Cazfest to play.

Ill post some pics of the young fathers soon but in the meantime heres SClub and band fanfair who are managed by Simon Cowell.

at 4am as the sun came up over Glencoe

 

I was filming for Mightysmall, it was alot of fun and got some stunning footage, its amazing how great the Highlands looks before 9am! 

Working with elph on BBC graphics

At the moment im working on a massive project for the BBC, Elph (check his website here http://akaelph.com/ ) is producing amazing graphics and im animating them. It is a full 6 part tv series and we have over 10 min of motion graphics to create and its some pretty crazy cool stuff!

But whilst we render I take photos and here's some of the pics.