Joshua Tree Time Lapse Teaser

OK so life keeps getting in the way of editing, so my Joshua Tree blog post is going to be delayed. Here's a little RAW teaser:

White Tank - Joshua Tree from John Early on Vimeo.

To see it bigger and better got straight to Vimeo

Joshua Tree Trip

Man am I tired! Just spent three days out in Joshua Tree shooting stock and testing time lapse. I can hardly wait to start processing and editing! Right after I pay some bills and finish a couple estimates. Stay tuned for the story and pictures in the next couple days...

Acura MDX Shoot Results

I've updated my website with my latest work for Acura. The shoot was a great team effort plus alot of fun and everyone including me is very pleased with the results.


Final hero image from Mammoth shoot. See it at Acura.com.


The final hero shot of the "family on the road" shot.

Timelapse Fun

I thought I had posted this already, but I guess not. Have been experimenting lately with time lapse imagery. Here's a test I did of some wilting lettuce on spec for a local art buyer. This is a 9-day time lapse of a wilting head of Napa cabbage. Pretty cool. It's a big download so please be patient.

On Location in Mammoth Part 3

We woke the morning of our prep day looking at 16" of fresh powder that fell the night before. The grip truck hadn't even made it to Mammoth. We told them to stay in Bishop overnight and they'd come up the next morning. Here we are arriving on location in Mammoth.

Warming by the fire was a treat to escape the 20 degree weather outside.

Prepping the driveway. The client wanted no snow on the driveway so guys had to chip away the snow and ice and melt it with huge propane blowtorches.

Serious icicles.

Joel, the lighting master, setting a strobe over the entryway.

Gilhooley, setting an on-camera fill flash, next to the H2.

Overview.

Gilhooley issuing commands.

Huge icicles

Time to wrap

Next stop after the shoot was a tasting session at the local Mammoth Brewing Company. Yummm. HIghway 395 double IPA was my fave!

On Location in Mammoth Part 2

OK - So we recently hit the road to Mammoth. A fun six-hour one-way road trip with my producer, my assistant Tim and my agency client. I know what you're thinking...six hours in the car with your client! But this client is super-cool and fun to be with so the ride just blew by.


After a pit stop at In N Out in Lancaster we hit the open road leaving the babylon shitsdem of LA behind. Such a great feeling - even when in a car!




After about four hours we stopped in Bishop for jerky at the world famous smoked meats establishment.



$50 bucks in jerky later we were ready to trade the Buttermilks for Mammoth Mountain.

As we turned right on Minaret Road in Mammoth and rounded the corner past the Village here is what we saw.

Incredible! But hey I was worried since we needed no snow on our driveway for a snow shot of a car in front of a cabin. (yes that's right - legal team of manufacturer stated no snow in the driveway for safety reasons) And it was 23 degrees and dumping! I knew it would be OK though since we had a team of snow melter on standby for the morning to melt the snow and dry it off the driveway if need be.


Downtown Mammoth at 3:00pm.

Driving through near-blizzard conditions


we pulled in to the carport at the Mammoth Mountain Inn.


Damn it was cold. 19 degrees and blowing snow in my face at 25 mph! We hurriedly unloaded and retreated into the lodge.

....to be continued ...

On Location In Mammoth Part 1

OK- spent last week on location in Mammoth. It was a car shoot where the client wanted snow but not too much snow. We were shooting a vehicle in front of a cabin. The scenario: two couples arrive in their upscale SUV to their upscale cabin. The odd thing, or so I thought, is that the manufacturer's legal team said "no" to any snow in the driveway. I know. Weird. But hey, they're the client and they're paying so they get what they want.

I'll start off with just a teaser shot of Mammoth Mountain until I can get more time to enter more into the blog.



This shot was taken early morning after a snowstorm dumped 16" the night before!

More to come in the next couple days.

On Location in Newport Beach

The weather was beautiful last week and cooperated for our shoot nicely. We were in Newport Beach on Newport Coast Drive shooting some blurred background plates for a job we have in production now.


The art director and John discuss framing the shot.

John making sure everything is set to go.



We shot with an Hasselblad H2 with a 35mm lens and the Phae One P45+ digital back supplied by Westside Digital.

Blocking traffic for some static shots.

Photos courtesy John Gilhooley

Latest Promo

This is my latest e-promo sent out via Adbase last week. The image is a shot done for Acura on location in Orange County California at the new Performing Arts Center. The shoot was both stressful and a total blast for me all at the same time. I just love this big production stuff on location or studio. It's what excited me to get into the business and it's what I dream about shooting all the time. There are some behind the scenes images from this shoot on my website here.

Promoting

Starting to work on a new e-promo today. Should be out in a few days. In the meantime, I've posted a few new panoramas to my website. One is from a cool, dimly-lit restaurant in Hollywood called Comme Ca. Please take a moment to check it out.