ko-Mar films a Shark!

Golf great Greg Norman "The Shark" was on hand to film a series of website & image compartments for Cybex International. Filmed at Great White Enterprises in West Palm Beach, FL.

The challenge was working in a fairly small area. We achieved a unique look with very simple building materials. Lighting the materials on certain angles created the look that the client wanted. With the help of Bob Saley our set and prop man, we achieved an industrial, sleek look with a contrasty lighting style. We also had to accommodate photographer Michael O'Bryon http://obryon.com as we simultaneously shot for still and HD video. On the right we see Gaffer Dan Taylor setting up a Source 4 Leko light.

We used various frame rates to give us some cool slow-motion shots of Greg on the Cybex equipment. Camera used was our Sony F-800 XDCAM. Overall another great shoot! Crew: Jim Gallagher, Audra Roby, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Dan Taylor, Jose Flores, Bob Saley.

City Mattress and the Gator?

Up at the crack of dawn for the beginning of a great shoot. This is behind the scenes of a City Mattress shoot in Naples, Florida. We shot this at the Everglades Club, nice helpful staff to get our day started.

Jim Directing...

Actually..there was no real Gator, maybe Dan Taylor who is a gator but here is the Gator I'm talking about..

This is the Gator I'm talking about. This is a Jimmy jib on a modified cart that can get you where you need to go on the course. The Jib crew was JP and Albert. The jib system is from Michael C. Taylor Productions. (www.mtjibs.com)

Here are a few more..another successful shoot. Spot will air soon, check out City Mattress at www.citymattress.com

The Crew: Todd Kolich, Jim Gallagher, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Dan Taylor, Big Wigs, Jay Schiller, Marc Schiller and Eric Anderson.

The Wonder of the Pancake Light!

Here is a set-up for a Golf Digest Digital shoot. The client wanted the "Charlie Rose Show" look and that's what we did. We started with the old ballroom set-up. You can never have enough room but we always make it work. We set up a 20' speedrail with our Pancake 1K light and 2 Arri 300's for backlights.

Here it is...the Chimera Pancake or China Globe light. This gives you an overall soft, omni directional key light source. The spill is controlled by a skirt that attaches to the sides and can be adjusted like so. This was an Arri 1K open-face, flooded out all the way.

Here we armed out a Arri 300WT for a backlight. We did this on the opposite side, hung a back light for our moderator with a maffer clamp on the ceiling trim.

So here is the cast for our round table discussion with the 4 top golf instructors on the planet. We have Butch Harmon (www.butchharmon.com) Jim Mclean (www.jimmclean.com) David Leadbetter (www.leadbetter.com) and Hank Haney (www.hankhaney.com) again our Moderator is Senior Editor at Golf Digest, Peter Morrice.

After fussing with mic's and make-up and a little direction from Mr. Gallagher, we were ready for an engaging discussion on Golf's biggest players. We had a switched 3 camera shoot, hung up some black duvateen to hide the walls and away we went. Crew: Jim Gallagher, Chris DeMaio, Todd Kolich, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Gunner Garrity and Terri Irwin. Big wigs were Jerry Tarde, John Marvel and Marty Hackel. Look for it soon on Golf Digest Digital on www.golfdigest.com.

"Flexor" Studio Shoot..

For this client, they wanted a clean, white cyc look. This presents a variety of unique challenges. We rented two 5K space lights and some 2K chimera's for existing Arri 2K Studio lights. There's Dan Taylor (Gaffer) on the lift and Anthony Angrisani (Best Boy/Audio) positioning the lights. Paul Piasecki (DP) Trying to get the exposure and light level even to some time but we managed to get it right.



Next was the shooting process. We used our New Sony PDW-F-800 XDCAM camera on the dolly and our workhorse Sony HDW F-900 on the 21' Jimmy Jib.

Jim Gallagher at the helm
with the watchful eye on
the shots.

Here are some other shots of the crew in action, overall, it was another successful shoot!