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Watermark Magazine

2010-01-20T12:11:00.003+04:00

Got a copy through of The Princess Yachts magazine Watermark today, featuring 3 pics I shot for their story about the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix back in November. Bagged the story opener DPS which is a nice shot of a Princess V65 with the Atlantis Hotel in the background.

Two shots on the following spread too. The quality of the magazine is really good, nice weighty satin stock used which really pops the images off the page. First publish of the new year.

Still on a nautical note, I've just finished two shoots for Yachts Emirates magazine here in Dubai so should have some more images to post of those soon.

©2010 Jerry Balloch

Jellies

2010-01-03T12:15:00.002+04:00

Happy New Year!

Last year was a good one so this year has a lot to live up to. Got lots of plans on what to do creatively this year but am going to take it slow. Nothing worse than starting of all guns blazing only to falter after a few weeks.

Took this pic of Jellyfish yesterday, my second pic of the year. First one was of my fridge! Random, but I'll explain that later. Truth be told this is actually three shots merged together so really it's my second, third and fourth pics of the year. Going to get it printed real big. The colours are just amazing, so warm.

©2010 Jerry Balloch

Don't tell the missus

2009-12-16T09:41:00.004+04:00

I shot the models for thisFoster's site about a month ago in Dubai. It was a really fun shoot. Over the day way had 7 models come and basically have a laugh in front of the camera. The client wanted images for the initial launch of the site as well as for future updates so we worked hard and screamed through gigs and gigs of frames. The site has just gone live and is a bit cheeky but a good laugh, just what you'd expect from an Aussie beer brand.

I'll post some of the images on their own later as they're a bit small here.

You can check the site at www.donttellthemissus.com they've also got a twitter feed, follow @fosters_dttm

I've done a few shoots this week of yachts so I'll post some images when I can.

© 2009 Jerry Balloch

Princess Yachts

2009-11-12T08:39:00.003+04:00

I was out shooting another turtle release yesterday afternoon. I'll post pics from that later. Here though, are a few shots that I grabbed of the Princess V58 that was used as a support vessel to carry film crew and photographers out to document the release. It's rare in Dubai to get clouds in the sky along with such a clear haze free day so I thought I'd take full advantage and take these pics on our way back to the marina.

I'm sorting through the actual release shots and will post some later on today.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Laptop Shoot

2009-11-08T16:59:00.003+04:00

I've just finished a shoot of a new laptop that's launching over here. The pics are going into a book and also appearing as large format prints at the launch. The brief was to shoot it fairly abstractly in the style of a car brochure. They worked out well and I have around 20 distinct images of which these are a few.

I hired a Nikon D3x to shoot this and was blown away by the quality of the images out of it. Some of the details it picked up were amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing the big prints which will really show them off.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Portraits

2009-10-28T07:21:00.002+04:00

I shot these portraits for a singer friend of mine to use as PR images. We went for a simple 2 light set up, beauty dish infront and gridded head from behind. The last pic was with one light in a 3x4 profoto softbox.

I'm really pleased with them. The only downside for me was realising that my studio really isn't big enough, just another thing to add to the list.

I'm off out to sea again today to shoot some luxury yachts for Princess, looking forward to it. I'll post pics when I can, hope the weather cooperates.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Clothing test

2009-10-07T10:47:00.004+04:00

I've got a clothing shoot coming up shortly so I decided to experiment with some lighting techniques. It's not for The North Face unfortunately but this jacket served as a great stand-in. The lighting style will work great for the actual shoot, I just wanted to make sure I had it nailed before the shoot itself. I used a couple of Profoto heads with grids on each. These grids are great and really are becoming my 'go to' light modifier, love em. I used a 10º and a 20º on this shot.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Adidas SUPERSTAR 80s 3WAY

2009-10-01T17:24:00.000+04:00

Another shot from today of another crooked tongues 3way. This time the iconic 80s Superstar. This one comes with 5 different tongue/lace options so I'll shoot the rest soon.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

ADIDAS FORUM MID 3WAY

2009-10-01T10:52:00.002+04:00

I've had these a while now but only just got round to shooting them. They're from Crooked Tongues, part of the consortium 3Way release. Check out their site here if you fancy picking up a pair.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Oman black and whites

2009-09-23T09:30:00.002+04:00

Just been on a 4 day trip down to Oman. We camped up on the Sayq Plateau which was amazing, 2300m up meant the temp was a cool 20º C, a welcome break from the heat of Dubai. After the first night's camping we drove up and over the mountains near Jebel Shams. The scenery was spectacular and I couldn't resist a few B&W landscape shots before heading down the dirt track all the way to the bottom - possibly the gnarliest drive I've ever done.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Photo Project

2009-08-11T18:05:00.003+04:00

My brother, my cousin and a mate of theirs are currently shooting a photo project at the Edinburgh Festival. They've got themselves a portable white backdrop and are grabbing passers by on the busy High Street and doing a street portrait of them. The plan is to hold and exhibition at the end of the festival, a sort of faces of the festival thing. Last night they took it a step further and set up a night shoot at Potterrow with a couple of snooted strobes. I grabbed a quick shot while they were setting up.

They're talking to a couple of venues about the exhibition, I hope they pull it off. You can grab a peek at some of their images over on their flickr pages.

Rorie's flickr

Kevin's flickr

John's flickr

©2009 Jerry Balloch

UK trip

2009-07-30T19:51:00.002+04:00

I'm back in the UK at the moment until the end of August. Got a few things to do while I'm here, the least of which is to renovate a house. No small task but it's going well. I've got a few shoots lined up too. The first one I've already started which is for a new dip brand called dipnation. Very tasty dips, I shot the serving suggestions for website and promo materials. My brother assisted me on it which was great. Here are a couple of the shots.

Spinach & Feta dip

Roasted Butternut and Sweet Chilli dip

I've got some pack shots and ingredient shots to do next week, looking forward to eating more of the dips!

Later on I'm hoping to hook up with a free-runner and a freestyle biker for a shoot which should be wicked. There's the possibility of some fashion work too so it's going to be a busy month one way or another. I'll post more pics when I take em.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Dirt Action Magazine Article

2009-07-13T11:08:00.002+04:00

Ben from Dirt Action sent me through a PDF of the article I shot so here it is below.

Article ©2009 Dirt Action
Images ©2009 Jerry Balloch

Dirt Action Magazine

2009-07-09T10:53:00.002+04:00

I've got an article in this month's Dirt Action Magazine in Australia. I haven't actually seen a copy of it yet so don't know what it's like, just know it's there. Anyone in Oz please send my a pic.

Adidas Originals Jivebomber

2009-06-30T15:08:00.002+04:00

Shot a new pair of sneakers earlier this week, Adidas Originals Jivebombers. These are the dark ones, they also come in a cream colour. Total bowling alley look to them which I like. Look like something The Dude would rock.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

More Desert KTM shots

2009-06-28T11:20:00.002+04:00

I couldn't resist putting up a couple more shots from this morning.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

KTM in the Desert

2009-06-28T10:07:00.002+04:00

I was out early this morning in the desert to do some shots with a friend of mine of his new KTM. What a bike, super sweet. Managed to get a few nice pics before the sun got too unbearable, the benefits of getting up before sunrise.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

More Turtles

2009-06-24T14:33:00.003+04:00

I was out on a turtle release shoot again this morning. The sea was pretty rough so being in it trying to get great pics was a real challenge. I did manage to get some great shots underwater though of the turtles making their bid for freedom...

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge 08 book

2009-06-21T11:15:00.003+04:00

Here are a few snaps of the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge 2008 book that features some of my photography.

The cover image on the book was not shot by me but all other images here were. It's an epic book, A3 landscape 80pp hardback. There are 6 fold out pages too, which means for a coffee table book, you better have a massive coffee table! I worked hard designing it and it was great to see it go from my computer screen to a massive Heildelberg press at Modern Printing Co. in Dubai. They did a great job with the printing, the finished book looks great.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Crank and Piston

2009-06-21T07:52:00.003+04:00

The Crank and Piston site has a feature on some of the pics from the MotoX mag shoot. Head over there to check it out.

www.crankandpiston.com

© 2009 Jerry Balloch

Oakley Frogskins

2009-06-15T10:34:00.002+04:00

Still life of Oakley Frogskins. Personal shot, I'd just bought them and thought they merited a shot. Sometimes it's good to have a bit of downtime to do some personal work.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Sneakers

2009-06-10T17:57:00.001+04:00

Just added a new project to my site, showcasing my obsession with sneakers and photographing them.

Check it out here.

MotoX Mag - July issue

2009-06-08T09:57:00.003+04:00

The shoot I did for the UK's top motocross magazine MotoX Mag is published and on the shelves now. Got the Editorial pic along with a seven page article. Check it out below.

Start of article:

Looking forward to doing more with these guys in the future.

©2009 Jerry Balloch

Name change

2009-06-07T14:39:00.002+04:00

If you're here and wondering what happened to front room pictures fear not, it has just changed its name to jerryballoch.com. I've redesigned my site and brought everything under one banner now of jerryballoch.com. It was getting too confusing before.

If some images here are missing it is either because they didn't make to journey over or because you're in the Middle East and flickr is blocked. From now on I'm going to try to host the images myself so I've more control, but a lot of the old posts are still hosted by flickr. Get yourself a VPN if you're really keen to see them.

I'm going to use this blog to keep up to date with what I'm shooting. The better of the images will find themselves onto my folio section on the website. You can also follow me on twitter here in the sidebar or by following @jerryballoch. I'll use twitter to post anything from my iPhone snaps, to links I'm digging or simply what I ate for lunch, be warned!

Turtles

2009-05-14T14:01:00.004+04:00

I was lucky enough to shoot for Hatteras Collection when they did a turtle release off the coast of Dubai. The Burj Al Arab Aquarium team take in and rehabilitate injured or stranded turtles and release them back into the wild when fully recovered.

On this occasion they released 17 turtles about 30 miles off the coast. It was a great experience, the first time I've done any work in over/under the water. My Ewa-Marine housing worked great and I got some nice shots. All taken with a D3 and a 17-35mm lens. Here are a few.