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Shooting a boudoir photography promo video

April 14, 2017 Neil vN Leave a Comment

Shooting a boudoir photography promo video

The video above of Jewell, and the video of Bella - shown in the companion article, planning to shoot a promo video - were both shot within a week of one another. These promotional videos are for a friend, Cate Scaglione, a New Jersey based boudoir photographer. There are part of a theme that Cate wanted to develop in her marketing. The motif for this specific video was that of a working mom allowing herself to indulge in a bit of "me time". With this article I want to do a run-through of the gear we used.  More essential than the gear  Read more inside...

Lighting for a small commercial video shoot

May 25, 2016 Neil vN 4 Comments

Lighting for a small commercial video shoot

Those of you who have followed the Tangents blog for a while, will have noticed that over time I've expanded the range of photography that I do - in addition to weddings and portraits, I have taken on commercial photography and corporate photography as well. This has included small commercial video shoots as well. One of these was a promotional video clip for a company - Buddy Bagz - to introduce their innovative variation on sleeping bags for kids. The photo and video shoot was produced by Cheryl Galante, and the video edited by Wendy  Read more inside...

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