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Category: work
Virgin Media Red House
Only Virgin Media goes this far to make sure your experience lives up to your expectations – so your home gets the very most from all of our services. Fastest speeds. Greatest range. Connectivity you can count on everywhere in your home and on every device.
Red House Ninjas
Only Virgin Media customers get access to the Red House Ninjas, a team of tech experts who can visit your home and make sure that you’re getting every last drop of awesome from your Virgin Media services. This is unique and personalised – the Red House Ninjas take a close look at your house, your devices and your usage, and fine-tune your set-up to make your experience as super as it can possibly be.
This was one of those briefs that was fun to work on from start to finish. Ninjas, Superheros, lightning… what’s not to like?
Shot by Donal Moloney, retouching and effects by Michael Medvedi, Design and art direction by myself.
The Virgin Media Night Run
There’s a unique atmosphere about the city at night – a heightened, more focused and intimate experience.
For their second year of sponsoring the Virgin Media Night Run, we wanted to evoke this feeling, coupled with the adrenaline rush of participating and competing in one of the most exciting sporting events of the year.
The cornerstone of the campaign was a 40 second video that ran on Youtube, RTE Player, Virgin Media’s website and social channels. This was supported by outdoor, radio, print and digital ads.
As well as Art Directing the campaign (with the exception of the outdoor, art directed by Niamh Fahey) I also took 360 and still photos for social and digital use.
#BurnBrighter
Dublin goes green
Paddy’s Day eve. I stopped off at the Convention centre to capture a bit of green white and orange. I thought my bike was looking pretty fetching too, so I took a few snaps of that while I was there.
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
On the second night of a night shoot last week, I took this at about 12.30am in Grand Canal Square, in front of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.
It’s a bit noisy, because the GoPro currently won’t expose longer than 1/4sec when shooting RAW. Kinda frustrating since it can stay open for 60 seconds when shooting to JPG, but hopefully they’ll sort that out with a firmware update soon.
The Dead Zoo
Looking for something to do in Dublin on Saturday, I popped in to the Natural History Museum for a while. It’s a strange little place, but interesting and worth a visit. There are only two levels currently open to the public – such a shame that the upper levels are out of bounds. Lack of funding has kept them closed since a staircase collapse in 2007, leaving a lot of amazing exhibits, such as a Dodo, off limits to the public. Apparently, there are also lots of exhibits that have never been displayed, including a Sabre-Toothed cat that has sat in a crate since it was bought in 1910. For more (depressing) detail, here’s an Irish Times article.
It’s pretty dark in there, but there’s just about enough light to get some shots. These were taken at 1600ISO at about f3.5/15thSec.
Introducing Julie
Instructional video for Virgin Mobile (Ireland). We created a new character – Julie – who will explain why Virgin is different from other mobile networks and how to get the best from the service.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
What an incredible place. Frozen in time. There’s not that much to it – one big, magnificent space, but it’s well worth a visit and well worth allowing enough time to pore over the exquisite detail. I didn’t take the free guided tour this time, but I think I’ll go back soon and do that. It was a tough decision, whether to post the colour or black and white shots – seems a shame to eschew the rich warm tones, but I chose the more unusual, noir images this time.
Christchurch Cathedral
Located in the heart of the medieval city of Dublin, Christ Church cathedral is one of the city’s finest buildings. Founded by the Hiberno-Norse, rebuilt by the Anglo-Normans and extensively restored in the 1870’s, the present building is an intriguing blend of original 12th and 13th century material alongside exactingly recreated Victorian Gothic features.
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle off Dame Street, Dublin, Ireland, was until 1922 the seat of the UK government’s administration in Ireland, and is now a major Irish government complex. Most of it dates from the 18th century, though a castle has stood on the site since the days of King John, the first Lord of Ireland. The Castle served as the seat of English, then later British government of Ireland under the Lordship of Ireland (1171–1541), the Kingdom of Ireland (1541–1800), and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1800–1922).
After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, the complex was ceremonially handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government led by Michael Collins.
St. Teresa’s Church of the Discalced Carmelites
Tucked away behind Grafton Street in the centre of Dublin, this is just one of several beautiful alcoves within the church.
Garden of Remembrance
The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1. December 3rd 2016.
Grand Canal Square, in the round.
I shot a couple of photospheres at Grand Canal Square this week. Take a look around here – click on one of the images below to activate the 360 viewer.
Hello to VR support on WordPress.com
I’m delighted to see that support for 360 and VR images has now been added to wordpress.com. I can now integrate my 360 images with the rest of my work.
Here’s a couple of images I made last Saturday (10th Dec 2016) on Sir John Rogersons Quay in Dublin, Ireland. Click on one of the two 360 images below to activate the facility to look around and/or extend it to fullscreen. On a mobile device, you should be able to look around using your phone’s accelerometer, or switch to VR view if you have a VR headset like Cardboard.
and here are a few conventional images and a short timelapse I shot on the same day.
Minus one, plus one
There are some things we do well in Meath, and fog is one of them. I was out for a few hours earlier, and it was bloody cold. Got home, lit the fire and made a big dinner of steak and roasties and I was about to sit down and get cozy when I looked out the window. Thick fog, with a golden glow from the streetlights. So I had to grab the camera and head out. I ended up spending about an hour and a half taking these shots. That’s a long time to be basically standing still in minus one degrees, but I think it was worth it and the fire’s all the nicer now that I’m back inside.
