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Pin-Up-A-Looza, coming to a city near you
September 1, 2011Portland Commercial Photography
December 28, 2010My updates have been very few and far between this year – sorry folks! I’ve been a busy boy in December… You may remember that last year I was flown to Denver to shoot the awesome Sandy Puc’ for her Animoto ad, and also for her 2010 tour posters…the pirate shot below. I also shot her 2011 tour poster for the upcoming show with Jerry Ghionis.
A couple of weeks ago I was invited back to Sandy’s studio in Denver for a two day marathon shoot where we started the process of creating a few new tour posters. This was great fun and her staff broadcast the whole thing live on the net! We shot Jared Abrams for his 2011 tour, Jack Davis for his 2012 tour. These posters will be released soon!! Finally, we shot ME!! For MY 2011 tour which is scheduled for September and October. I’m going to be presenting ‘Pin-Up-Alooza’… a fun extravaganza of live pin-up shoots, post production and marketing..coming to a city near you! Tickets go on sale soon, and the website for that will be live early January. The poster is finished, but you can’t see it yet. Here’s a sneak peak at me in make-up though!
Me, dressed, make up and ready to rock….
Sandy Puc’s 2010 Animoto ad, shot and retouched by Mike Long
Sandy Puc’ 2010 Tour poster, shot and retouched by Mike Long
Sandy Puc’ and Jerry Ghionis 2011 Tour poster, shot and retouched by Mike Long
Sandy Puc’ and Jerry Ghionis 2011 tour images
January 11, 2010Ok – so the cat is now out of the bag and Sandy has announced that she will be touring with the amazing Jerry Ghionis in 2011…and I was lucky enough to produce the tour artwork for them recently! While the tour isn’t for another year, they wanted to announce it early so we shot these images a couple of weeks after we wrapped the 2010 tour images. Enjoy!
2009 year in review
January 11, 20102009 – review…
So – here we are in a new decade! I planned to write a nice end-of-year wrap up to post just before New Year’s Eve, but I’ve been so busy that it got put off till now! I’m writing from my hotel room in Nashville, where I’m showing Pindora’s Box at the PPA Imaging USA trade show.
2009 was a great year for Katchlight and Portland Pin-Ups, and 2010 is going to be even better!
Here’s a brief rundown of my the last 12 months of my life – both professionally and personally.
The biggest thing to impact me in the last year was the arrival of my son, George! Alison and I are over the moon with the little chap, and his brother Henry is a very proud sibling! It’s challenging for sure having a 3 year old and 3 month old, but I’m sure once they are older it’ll all be worth it. I have to send a massive cyber kiss and hug to my wife, Alison, here – as she is a stay at home Mummy, and works harder than anyone I know. I couldn’t ask for a better Mother for my kids, and thank my lucky stars every day that I found her!
I shot more weddings last year than any year for many – and ended up with 20 on the calendar…and each and every one of them was not only great fun, but also allowed me to meet fantastic, romantic and wonderful people. I honestly haven’t had a year like that in my wedding photography career – I love shooting weddings anyway, but each one just got better and better – so to each of my couples from last year – thankyou for being awesome! I’ve helped create some memories for them, and made some great lifelong friends too.
Portland Pin-Ups has been my baby for a few years now. It started out as a creative outlet for me to relax after long wedding days, or retouching the latest Adidas campaign, but during the last 12 months it’s taken a life of it’s own and is now starting to gain National attention. It’s taken me on journeys around the country to meet amazing people, it’s helped create a stunning product for photographers to help them with their pin-up work, it’s spawned a new career for me speaking and presenting workshops, and it’s going to send me off on new journeys this coming year too. After I return from Nashville I’m off to present a few workshops in Canada, then it’s off to Chicago to speak at the NoBS Inferno and back to Canada in May to speak at the PPOC Nationals. This is a huge honor for me, and I’m equal parts excited and petrified in equal measure!
The pin-up side of my business has also led to some great commercial work, most recently producing an Animoto ad and tour images for Sandy Puc’. This really came home to me here in Nashville when I walked in and saw my images of her on many of the stands in the trade show. When her tour starts later in the month, the pirate images will grace the tour bus too!
2010 plans are now behind schedule due to my traveling, but I already have some wonderful couples lined up for weddings, and plenty of travel and touring on the horizon too! Pindora’s Box is only just beginning, and Mama Shan and I are planning our next products in the line.
In the next few days I’ll be posting my favorite images from last year!
Here’s the 2010 – should be a cracking year!
Cheers
Mike.
Sandy Puc’ Animoto ad – final image
January 4, 2010Regular readers will know that I recently flew to Denver to shoot Sandy Puc’. I’ve already shown you the tour images we created, but I also shot her for an ad campaign for Animoto…and here is the final image! It’s been ready for a while, but we’ve been waiting for Animoto to release the first ad, which they have now done. This image will spearhead their January campaign, and also star at tradeshows coming up. All the kids were shot on their own, and I then spent 15 hours solid retouching it all together to make the deadline!
I used my Pindora’s Box retouching bundle during the retouching.
On the road again…
December 14, 2009So, after proclaiming that my traveling for 2009 was now finished…here I am sitting at Portland airport having breakfast (the Denver scramble of course!) waiting for my flight!
I’m off to Denver again for another shoot with Sam Puc’. This one is for her 2011 tour promo. Yes, it’s a bit early to be promoting a tour a year away, but Sam is taking a guest speaker on the road in ’11, and they are keen to get the buzz started early! No more details yet – all will be revealed in good time! (and no, the guest speaker isn’t me!!)
Sandy Puc 2010 Tour Promotion shoot – the final images
December 8, 2009Here are the final 11 images that Sandy Puc and her team will be using to promote her 2010 tour! This was a great project to work on as it not only involved shooting and post-production, but also working with a large team of amazing professionals. I can’t wait to see these images on the final products. For those of you in Portland, she hits town on February 22nd..book your tickets now!
The post-production on these images used a mix of Pindora’s Box (From Mama Shan and myself!) and Design House From the great Andy Armstrong.
Sandy Puc shoot – sneak peak!
November 28, 2009Ok folks – you’ve been very patient! We can’t show you the finished Animoto ad spot yet – that’ll have to wait till the magazines roll off the presses and hit the stands, but here is one from the other project we are working on…And boy was this fun to shoot!!
Not going to tell you where this one is headed…you’ll have to wait n see!
Photographing Sandy Puc – ad campaign for animoto
November 24, 2009Hey folks – I’m writing from Denver, Colorado where I’m going to be shooting the awesome Sandy Puc for an ad campaign for animoto! The shoot is going to be pinup-ish, but with some twists to suit Sandy’s style!
Sandy and her crew are awesome fun, and I’m having a great time…this really is the best job in the World! We’ll be shooting the animoto shot today in her studio, and then we’re going to do some more portraits of her and her crew in a different style….no secrets revealed yet, but it’s going to be fuun!
While Sandy may not be known to the general public, any photographer worth their salt knows who she is – she tours the World teaching her great brand of marketing and shooting, and she is also the brains behind Nilmdts. To be asked to shoot her is an honor, terrifying, and amazing all at the same time!
For those photographers who read my blog – keep watching your copy of Rangefinder…when you get January’s issue..the animoto ad in there is my image!!
More soon….