Gorilla Pictures

Recently I’ve been looking at digital magazines for tablets and have been quite disappointed. They are mostly just the print version scaled down. So I wanted to have a go at creating a really simple New Zealand photography magazine specifically for digital delivery. The idea was to make it as a free PDF – PDF’s are versatile and most devices can handle them. No need for tricky apps. Check out the link to the magazine below…

www.thenewzealandcollection.com

Shot & Edited by LOGAN McMILLAN

Camera & Edit LOGAN McMILLAN

Directed & Shot by LOGAN McMILLAN | Produced by KATIE O’BRIEN | Grip/Gaffer ANDREW DEAN | Art Department GUY | Makeup & Hair BRAE TOIA | Talent LAINE TOIA & PAUL CORBETT

So over the past two nights we shot a teaser trailer for the Make My Movie competition. Check it out below and please go to our page here: http://www.makemymovie.co.nz/finalist/finalist-the-helmet/and click the Facebook ‘like’ button so we can get $100,000 and make this film! :)

So The Helmet idea that fellow writer Nick White and I had for the Make My Movie competition made the Top 12.  Now we need as many votes on Facebook as possible so we can get $100,000 and make the movie.  Want to help?  Go here http://www.makemymovie.co.nz/finalist/finalist-the-helmet/ and click on the Facebook ‘like’ icon.  Every vote helps!

I started a photo challenge on Flickr.com – every day for 1 year I need to take a photo and add it to my page.  I’m 10 days in and it really is proving to be difficult to get something different every day.  From looking at other people that have taken the challenge I can see that they all have dramatically increased their photography skills.  So hopefully this time next year I will be taking some bad ass photos :)

On the 21st October 2012 I will take my last photo and the epic photography adventure will be over.  You can follow the progress on my Flickr 365 page here or view the slideshow below.

Below is what I have taken so far:  (click the full screen icon in the bottom right corner for best viewing)

Did a quick shoot today in the style of Australian portrait photographer of the year Sue Bryce who I have been working with lately. She uses only natural light and her results are phenomenal. The photos below are lit using 2 pieces of polystyrene. Nice and easy setup and much more reliable than my flashes.

Model SADE JONES Makeup LUCY HARVEY  http://lucyharvey.co.nz

As you can see a lot of buildings have been cleared in Christchurch…

Above are my entries into MAKE MY MOVIE  competition.  As stated on their site:

“Make My Movie is an innovative multi-platform project that utilizes graphic design, social networking, a webseries and the public to decide which idea should receive $100,000 to be used to create a low budget feature film.”

Click on the above movie posters to read more about them and vote for them.