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Virgin - Wakeboard
Virgin - Wakeboard
We spent a day out at Blue Rock, near Somerset West outside Cape Town, an old quarry that has been filled in with water and has a massive cable system to pull the riders (of all degrees) round.
We sent up the two flash heads on the deck that riders use to launch from. [...]
Virgin - Tennis
Virgin - Tennis
These shots were taken after we had filmed the sequences needed for the Virgin clips. I was throwing balls (and ducking them) at the player as Malcolm filmed her hitting them. No place for the faint hearted.
Once the filming was over, there was this glorious golden afternoon light flooding the courts. We were [...]
Virgin - Golf
Virgin - Golf
The focus of the golf shots was to highlight the two areas Virgin Gyms could help golfers with. Especially older golfers. The shoulders and lower back / hip area. Both areas are easily strained, especially with bad habits learnt the wrong way.
We shot fairly early in the morning to catch the warm sunlight [...]
Virgin - MTB
Virgin - MTB
As part of the Virgin shoot, we had to show the strains a typical MTB (Mountain bike) rider goes through. Not the professional rider but the weekend specialist.
Again the action was being filmed so I was shooting (firing the flashes) as the rider was filmed. The location was Tokai forest, Cape Town, which [...]
Virgin - Gym
Virgin - Gym
These and the following 3 posts were all images I recently shot for Virgin. These are to be used in conjunction with a multi-media presentation and print work to advitise their new training programs.
These gym shots were shot on location at their new Steenberg gym, just below Silvermine in Cape Town. As the [...]
Cape Argus 2009
Cape Argus 2009
Being such an epic event that covers the whole Cape peninsula, finding the right location is pretty daunting. I was going to go through to the stretch of road between Llandudno and Camps Bay. Good twists and turns, sweeping ocean etc.
However, on the Friday before the race I met up with ActionPhoto and [...]
PRO-X Games, Skateboard
PRO-X Games, Skateboarding
Throughout the day I was shooting at the small halfpipe they had set up. Later the guys set up a ramp off the side that they were doing tricks off. I stuck my camera through the back of the halfpipe to get right up next to the lip, a fisheye lens would have [...]
PRO-X Games, BMX
PRO-X Games, BMX
The way the course was set up allowed certain spectators and the photographers to sit right up next to to the third jump. The guys were hitting the jumps, getting massive air and making it easy for us to shoot them. I liked to get under them so as to get their expressions [...]
PRO-X Games, Wakeboarding
PRO-X Games, Wakeboarding
In the afternoon they held the wakeboarding heats on the small canal next to the event. It was pretty tricky for the riders as the jetski pulling them had to drop them everytime they had to turn around and line up for their run. The ramp was just pass the bridge and so [...]
PRO-X Games, Cape Town
PRO-X Games, Cape Town
The annual PRO-X Games were held recently at the Waterfront, Cape Town. Besides the baking heat, the riders on Saterday were giving it all. I managed to get in pretty close to the riders which was great for the action shots. There was a major amount of dirt being kicked up [...]