Sean Fennessy | Photographer
Big trucks and explosions
Recently I spent a few days shooting for Hazell Bros, a big construction company here in Tassie.
The main challenge was illustrating the various aspects of their business, which resulted in one very cold pre-dawn shoot and a lot of driving around their quarry, workshops and construction sites.
Shooting this blast was a bit of fun. I had three cameras set up at various vantage points around the quarry. We were supposed to get a 10 second countdown, but for some reason that didn’t happen, luckilly I had my shutter finger ready to fire and snapped off a nice sequence.
shooting beer
I wouldn’t normally post product shots here but this one was a bit of fun. The combination of two of my great loves - beer and photography.
Will from Van Dieman Brewing asked me to shoot his new range and I was more than happy to oblige - the stuff tastes amazing and the ace labels were designed by the always-awesome Southsouthwest.
Pura campaign shoot
Late last year I was contacted by Sydney super-agency BMF to do a shoot for Pura milk.
It was a slightly controversial topic at the time but it was hard to say no to the opportunity to work for such a great agency (I love their La^mb stuff).
Here’s how it appeared in print:
I did another shoot for BMF a couple of weeks ago, so I’ll post that when I can.
the human light stand
I thought I’d get a bit CrAzY at a recent hotel shoot and try a new lighting technique.
Step 1: Expose the room at just below ambient and take a photo.
Step 2: Get your “assistant” to stand in the middle of the room and aim a flash (with snoot) at various points of interest. Take a range of photos.
Step 3: Insert the highlights into the ambient image.
The final image.
The opposite of the final image.
Is it cheating?
Recent stuff
Some of my shots from last years Taste Festival are being used in the branding for this years event:
In the booklet, on the website and on a big shipping container / billboard.
The graphic design for the Taste is the work of the cool dudes at Futago.
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The lineup for next month’s MONA FOMA has just been announced (Grandmaster Flash, The Dirty Three, John Cale (!) and heaps more) and a few of my images from the inaugural event earlier this year are being used.
The bottom pic is from a slick new booklet promoting the very exciting MONA complex which is currently being built in Hobart.
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Also noticed this billboard in the city this morning with my shots from another campaign I just shot with Clemenger for The Mercury.
We shot three different scenarios and I guess the others will be going up soon.