Scope - Rockfresh

Here's the video portion to my Scope: Rock Fresh campaign. Enjoy. 

Shot with a Canon 550D.

Scope

So I am currently working on a Scope mouthwash commercial for my Advertising Photography class at RCC. I've dubbed the campaign "Rock Fresh" and I will be releasing the video soon. I wanted to have a magazine ad to tie into the commercial so I got one of my instructors, John Rash, to do some swishing for me. I shot both John and the Scope bottle in the studio. I made some designs to make it seem like a real ad. Here was my final image. 

Canon 550D

Canon 70-200mm f/2.8

Beacons

Earlier this week I shot my good friend, Andrew, and his band Beacons. I also made new friends in the other members of the band. Beacons is a Spirt-Filled Hardcore band from Burlington, North Carolina. This is just one of the shots and there will be more to come later. 

I created a new logo for the band for this promo which is featured on the drum head in the photo. A larger version can be seen below the image.

You can stalk Beacons here: http://www.facebook.com/BEACONSNC

Dunk.

So if you remember the basketball test shots I did a couple weeks ago, now you get to see what I was working on. 

This is meant to be a lifestyle-esque sports ad. My friend Phillip dunked the ball about 50 times in the dark for me to get this shot so let's commend him! Phillip was repping some Nike Dunks gear so I decided to drop some Nike logos in to give it more of an ad feel. 

Endurance Magazine

My photo of Joe Sauerbrey I took last semester ended up in an article in Endurance Magazine about Joe's last race! 

The original post with the photo can be seen here.

http://acloerphoto.blogspot.com/2011/10/sports-composite.html

Here's the tearsheet:

The tear is from the online copy so the resolution isn't great. 

Joint Project Preview.

I currently am working on a joint project with RCC graphic design student Anna Porthoff. The assignment is to make an advertising campaign will real world applications (posters, commercials, products, catalogs, ads). Though the project won't be unveiled for another few weeks I chose to post a tight crop of one of the photos from the shoot for the campaign. 

 Our company Urban365 is a clothing store for women with a vintage/urban twist. I really stepped out of my comfort zone for this shoot by shooting women's fashion (which I have never really done before) and going with completely natural light. The light was great and I didn't miss my strobes a bit. Miss Cali Lowdermilk was a great model, and I am really excited about how this campaign will turn out. 

Here's the sneak peak. 

A Day in the Work Life and UNCG Interview

Julie Henderson works at Design Archives in Greensboro, NC

Walker Anderson and I shot this with a Canon 5D Mk II and a Canon t2i. Audio recorded with a Rode Mic on a hotshoe.  We had a Canon 50mm f/1.4 on both cameras.

This was my edit of the interview. Put together in Final Cut Pro. 

This is an interview with a couple students at UNCG about the school's budget cuts.

Thanks to Aaron and Charlie for their time. 

UNCG Students On Budget Cuts from Andrew Cloer on Vimeo.

Hoops.

So I decided to play around with some sports shooting on a whim with my good friend Phillip this weekend. I used a single Alien Bee powered by a vagabond and decided to just wing it. These are far from perfect but I figured I would post them for fun. 

Canon 550D

Canon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6

Jason Tuggle Band

Somehow I managed to not post this last semester. I did a multimedia piece on the Jason Tuggle Band back in the summer (link). Last semester for my Photographic Illustration class I did a photo shoot with the band. Here was my favorite image from the shoot.

Canon 550D

Canon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6

Elements Studio

I've spent the last 9 weeks or so on an internship at Elements Studio in High Point, NC. It's been a very an valuable experience and I learned a lot. There's a great group of people working at Elements and I got the privilege to get them all together to shoot their company Christmas and New Years cards. I coordinated shoot, turned our preexisting cloud set (painted by Ryan, Bo, and myself) into a mountainscape, and brought everyone together for this really fun shoot.  Here are the final shots!

This is an extra shot from when we were goofing off.

Canon 5D MK II
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8

Hardcore Parkour!

If you don't know what parkour is I suggest you watch this first.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/96406/the-office-gossip

Now that you've been briefed check out a really talented friend of mine, Luke Reynolds. 

Sports Composite

Joe Sauerbrey was kind enough to put on some of his biking gear to model for this composite portrait.

Joe was shot in the RCC studio, and the background was a 7 image HDR shot in Archdale.

Revive.

This is a story of a time that I gave up on God, but found out that he never gave up on me. 

Client 5 Preview

Tomorrow is the presentation of the client 5 assignment. We were challenged to make anything we wanted (as long as it had a photographic element) to show something that makes us who we are. I chose to make a video with original music. Here is a sneak peak of my video. 

Expect to see the video sometime tomorrow!

Lifestyles and Technology

Our fourth client assignment was to shoot some lifestyle photos of people using portable electronics such as smart phones, laptops, or tablets. Here are a few of the shots I used.

Canon t2i/550d
Canon 50mm f/1.4

Self Promo #4

For one of my self promos I choose to create an ad for Axe body spray. Thanks to my models Hannah, Skyler, Emma, and Corey for helping me out! Here's the final image.

 

Canon t2i/550D

Canon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 

Self Promo #3

This self promo was going for an editorial portrait for maybe a interview of a musician/actor/etc. I was going for more of a grainy/grungy look. This was the final image.

Model: Meghan Nicole

Canon t2i/550D

Canon 50mm f/1.4

Client #3 Self Portrait

Our third client assignment was a self portrait. One headshot, one 3/4 or full body.

 

Set ups:

Canon t2i/550D

Canon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6

 

Pringles Assignment

In my Photographic Illustration class, James gave us an assignment to team up with three other students and come up with four different concepts for a pringles ad and then give our sketch to another photographer to shoot. We had about 3 1/2 hours to come up with our ideas and shoot all of them.

This idea was shot in about 10 minutes. It was sketched by my classmate, Molly Mullin. There are obviously things I would have corrected if we had more time, but overall I was pretty happy with the image.

Canon t2i/550D

Canon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 

Client #2

For the second client assignment we were given a quote from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

"Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order."

What we were to illustrate was left pretty wide open. I decided to dig into the meaning of the quote so I did some research about the play. My image illustrates what it was like for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern knowing that they would be executed in the play, but had no means to stop the event from happening. 

Here is my final image:

Canon T2i/550D

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6

All nooses tied by Kat White
No Tyler Ezell's were harmed in the creation of this image.