Here’s a video I directed for Dulux Paints last year, showing a fit out of a painting & decorating store, Castle Paints in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, with new Dulux branding.
“Time lapse” video is produced by using hundreds of still photographs to show something that happens over a long period of time, condensed into a short video clip. This particular clip was shot over two days showing the work in progress and finished branding as it now appears in store.
This is my last blog post for 2011 and what a great year it’s been, lots of new clients with exciting and challenging projects. I shot this year’s PC World and Currys Christmas catalogue covers and inside covers a few months back, which appeared in stores around Ireland before Christmas.
The concept by art director Rob McDonnell of Trilby Design, involved photographing tightly wrapped products from each of the stores, under the title “Surprise”. The inside covers show the items revealed in the same position. As well as appearing on the brochures (1.5 million of which were printed), the images also appeared online and on television.
Here are the finished images as they appeared on the brochure.
She is Ireland’s “model du jour” so who better to help promote “Get Back: The Story of The Beatles” for their recent shows in Dublin, than traffic stopping model Georgia Salpa. I was commissioned by Ian Smith, the producer of the Get Back show, to shoot a version of the iconic “Abbey Road” album cover for some press photos, replacing George Harrison with Georgia Salpa.
As most of the zebra crossings in Dublin have now disappeared, we had to make our own one for the shoot using white vinyl strips. Then we needed a street that looked similar to the original with not much traffic passing through it, difficult to find in Dublin these days! Thankfully Shrewsbury Road in Ballsbridge provided the almost perfect backdrop. With a little autumn sunshine and a big thanks to PD for providing the white VW Beetle, we got pretty close to the original iconic shot.
Check out my shot compared to the original, and a little video clip someone shot on the day.
“Get Back: The Story of The Beatles” returns to the Tivoli, Dublin for more shows from January 19 until February 14, 2012. http://www.tivoli.ie
I’m currently exhibiting two prints as part of the Select Photo Fair at the Print Space Gallery, in Hoxton, London. The images showcase some of my “hair” photography, which I specialise in. These images were shot over two separate sessions with award winning stylist Mary Kennedy, for the MOHH group of hair salons in Ireland.
Prints can be purchased through the Print Space Gallery website, http://www.printspace.co.uk
Here are the two prints on show, plus a little video from the opening night a few weeks back.
Modern Green are a young and dynamic experiential marketing and production company led by Steve Murray and based on Camden Street in Dublin. A long standing client, I was delighted to photograph their new offices recently for their new website, www.moderngreen.com.
This is a beautiful office space designed to enrich the creativity of those who work there. I know I’d certainly like to work here! Enjoy a selection of images.
Here’s a fashion editorial I shot a few months back, which appears in the current November issue of Social & Personal magazine.
I had been obsessing about doing a shoot with the Ferrari 308 after my buddy John Talbot took me for a spin in his newly acquired prize possession last year, this car was made to be in a fashion shoot! We shot on location in Connemara in Galway, moving the creative team at short notice from Dublin. Despite the Ferrari breaking down on us, the mixed Irish summer weather and getting bitten by midgets, a beautiful selection of images was produced. Please see credits below.
Photography: Brendan Duffy www.brendanduffy.ie
Styling: Roxanne Parker www.roxanneparker.com
Make Up: Ken Boylan www.kenboylan.com
Hair: Tara O’Grady @ MOHH Galway www.mohh.ie
Model: Jess @ 1st Option www.1stoption.ie
Special thanks to John Talbot for the use of his 1974 Ferrari 308 and Roisin McLoughlin for accommodation.
Here’s a recent advertisement I photographed for Allied Irish Bank back in the summer, commissioned by Rothco Advertising in Dublin. The ad appeared in bank branches and on line, and is for a new family banking product the bank is promoting.
Here’s a video I shot a while back with Dublin based model Anouska Proetta Brandon. Rather than shooting a portfolio of still images for Anouska, the idea was to storyboard a short clip put to some music. To create atmosphere with moving image and sound, while at the same time showcasing Anouska as a model.
The use of moving image is certainly not a new idea but something that will likely become much more common for selling and marketing models in the future. As photographers have traditionally shot model’s portfolios as stills, the introduction of the Canon 5D Mark 2 (and other DSLRs with HD video capabilities) has revolutionised the way photographers now think and what they produce. Conversations with fellow photographers around Dublin usually leads to one or other saying “I’m trying my hand with a bit of video lately on the DSLR”. With the technology so accessible, it seems easier to do so.
With the increased use of smart phones, it’s just so easy to watch video now, with a half decent 3G connection. It sort of cracks me up that I can watch a video I made on my digital camera, on my iPhone. Ten years ago, that would have been regarded as nearly the stuff of science fiction. But it makes sense to me to see a model’s portfolio “moving” rather than “still”, we get more of a sense of the person, how they move and their expressions.
So will all photographers become directors of some description in the future? And will all model portfolios be moving rather than still in the future? I guess I’ll have to call myself a “visual artist” from now on. Interesting times…..
Here’s a viral video I was commissioned to produce for Dulux Paints, for their “Let’s Colour” project currently happening around Ireland. Just a week before President Barack Obama arrived at his ancestral home in Moneygall, Co. Offaly, Dulux volunteers helped paint St. Joseph’s National School as well as providing local residents with paint to brighten up the town.
Interviewees in the piece include Canon Stephen Neil, who was the first to trace President Obama’s ancestral roots, Henry Healy, eight cousin of President Obama and now fondly known as “Henry the Eight”, Julia Hayes, owner of Hayes’s bar in the town and Eugene Ryan, principal of St. Joseph’s National School.
Brendan Duffy is a photographer
based in Dublin, Ireland. Brendan specializes in photographing people mainly
for advertising ,design and editorial. He is agraduate of the Dublin
Institute of Technology, receiving a Diploma in Photography in 1995.
Brendan
has travelled extensively with his work, including commissions and personal
projects in Paris, Ibiza, Moscow, Tuscany and Cuba. In 2007 and 2008 he
lived in Stuttgart, Germany working for the DEBEOS Studios in Sindelfingen.
Brendan was recently awarded “Best Men’s Image”
by the IHF National Photographic Competition 2009, and runner up for “Best
Colour Image”.
