Stories

I happened upon this little write-up online today from our time shooting Colin Kaepernick at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica. It features the back of my head quite nicely.

It was my idea to get up to try and shoot a sunrise shot of a decrepit barn an hour from home. The worst part of getting up at 3am is falling asleep and getting enough sleep to be able to function throughout the course of a long day. Well… somehow that happened so in a month or so we might be seeing a new John Takacs directed Milk for Health On The Niagara Frontier commercial around the Western New York area.

First shot of the day – 6am (ouch)

Heading out to get the last shot of the day with JR Kraus. Yeah, it was hot as blazes that day.

Just got back from a little trip to the Los Angeles area where we shoot footage for a new New Era Cap spot (and ate a lot of Thai and Indian food, tee hee hee.) We had 2 Red Epic cameras rolling and I finally got to try out the Fujinon 19-90mm zoom lens and catch up with a few friends in Venice. Good times!

We used Ralph Wilson Stadium this year to shoot some NFL talent for New Era Cap and banged out some footage being used in upcoming spots. Weather was mostly cooperative and it all went off without a hitch. Mr. Eric Frick even joined us again on camera. Three 5DMKIII and a Red Epic – good times!

(all photos: JR Kraus)

The Cumbo, Inc. team spent a week in Florida and a week in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona recently to capture many gigs of high quality Red Epic footage, and with a top secret, highly specialized camera rig for this piece.

Massive thanks to Tom Wills, JR Kraus, Joe Bunce, Stephen Barone, and Nikki Styliades. Dig it!

Had a little photo adventure recently on a spring-like-ish day in Buffalo shooting some quick spec still images with excellent model/actor Mu-Shaka Benson for a commercial client.

Seven pieces I shot for New Era Cap and one I shot for Northwest Savings Bank were recognized with 4 silver and 1 gold Addy last night. Whoot!