Kebab Shop

O.K. so sometimes you find yourself in a kebab shop all alone at 2.30 in the morning............



Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "mixed lighting".................

"The Fold"

Shot the pilot for the feature "The Fold" with John Jencks directing through The Electric Shadow Co. in Cornwall last week. Used the all new Sony F3 on this one for the first time and was very impressed. The guys at Shoot Blue were very kind to give up their new baby for a week and let me shoot some pretty exhaustive tests at their new place in Finchley. We ended up recording to a Nano Flash at 180 m/bits and using my Zeiss ZF Primes on the camera with one of the first ever MTF Sony to Nikon mount adaptors (it was ROCK solid).

The weather and locations were amazing (thank you God & Carn) and the Cornish crew very welcoming. All in all an extremely pleasant week. The rushes looked great on the MacBook, can't wait to see the real deal........

X-Mas in India

'Nuf said..........

New Arri Alexa on Greenscreen

This week I shot the titles for the new Adrian Childs show with Tim Varlow from Liquid TV.

We shot on the new Arri Alexa straight to the SxS cards and it was great! Soo easy to deal with just drag and drop........

Cameras a dream to work with BUT this is the first time I've used it on a greenscreen job. Looks perfect for the job soo far......

Here's a couple of screen grabs to be going on with. Not the best quality BUT you get the idea.

"Not Now Pet"

"Not Now Pet" is a short film Directed by John Jencks, written by Alexa Seligman and produced by Jay Taylor out of "The Electric Shadow Co." The three of them set up the company last year to develop and shoot feature films and this is the third short I have shot for them. We shot on the Arri's new Alexa and oh boy that was impressive! The Alexa really is 800 ASA and more! This thing is soo sensitive I was walking around turning on and off practicle table lamps on the other side of the room for fill! Haven't seen the film projected yet but it looked great on the BIG Panasonic monitor.
Shot to SxS cards while the editor was next door doing a rough/ assemble edit. Now I know producers are gonna love that post workflow.............
We also shot a couple of night car interiors on my Canon 1D kit. Will be intersting to see how the two cut in together.

Had a lot of fun with Alexa's script and working with John, Jay and Lawrence again.

Post Office Ads

Spent most of July shooting a series of Post Office ads with Paul Gay (Hungry Man). Really pleasant job travelling around much of England doco stylie with a small tight crew. Big ups to Alex Reid and Ben Chads serving up some beautiful shots. They're out and on TV now

Post Office "Over 50's" from Luke palmer on Vimeo.

"Internaxx" Reto Salimbeni

Just back from summer holidays and straight off to Mallorca for a shoot with Pathfinder (Palma Pictures) and Swiss director Reto Salimbeni. I gotta say Mallorca really was extremely pleasant this time of year. Most of the nasty tourists gone home and beautiful location!! I'm sure I could get used to spending more time over here...........