New Portraits by Vellum Industrial Photography
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Vellum has been producing a number of portraits lately, and we wanted to share a few of our latest and greatest. We are also looking forward to updating the blog next week from a large shoot involving three different comapnies in Western North Carolina. One of the many reasons we are excited about this project is that the client, in addition to still photography, also needed several video projects produced. As soon as production on the shoot finishes up we’ll make sure to give you a peek here on the Vellum industrial photography blog.
Presenting Photographer – Appalachian Cultural Project
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Vellum’s Co-Founder Jim Winn recently returned from a presentation in Whitesburg, Ky., with the Appalachian Cultural Project, a long term documentary project run through Western Kentucky University. As a graduate from WKU’s photojournalism program, Jim was a participating photographer with the project in 2004, and documented the lives of coal truck drivers from the Virgie, Ky., area.
The Appalachian Cultural Project is designed to promote the education of Western Kentucky University photojournalism students while respectfully documenting the people and the culture of the Appalachian region. It is the goal of the project creator and the participants to truthfully represent the people of the area and, through audio and multimedia production, to counter negative stereotypes that are unfairly attached to the region. The challenge of overcoming these stereotypes is large, but by making honest images and by treating people with respect, the project aims to reveal the realities of life in the region and celebrate Appalachian culture.
During the presentation Jim showed a mixture of photojournalism produced for editorial clients, and spoke about Vellum’s role in the industrial community. As a former newspaper photojournalist, Jim also spoke with the students about the importance of building an understanding of business and marketing, both of which will become increasingly important as newspapers go through a series of transitions in upcoming years.
Dykon Explosive Demolition
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Vellum’s Director of Operations, Jonathan D. Woods,has spent a lot of time using Canon’s new 5D Mark2 still/video camera, and recently was on hand for another shoot of a buildling implosion of the Mercy Medical Center’s School of Nursing for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, an eastern Iowa newspaper. The company in charge of the demolition project was Dykon Explosive Demolition, based out of Tulsa, Ok.
Dykon’s range of services includes controlled building implosions, chimneys, bridges, piers, industrial structures, reinforced concrete, vessel cleaning, rock blasting, and any phase of explosive technology. Dykon is lead by the company’s founder and president, James H. Redyke. Jim Redyke’s 30-plus years of experience have taken him and Dykon around the world. With successful projects spread throughout the United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Korea, South Africa, and Aruba, Dykon has earned the reputation as world class experts in our field.
Dykon is the same company featured on the Discovery Channel’s new show, The Detonators.
Tower Climbers
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Vellum’s Director of Operations, Jonathan D. Woods, recently produced a rough cut of a new industrial video for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, an eastern Iowa newspaper. This tower crew was part of the same company that Vellum shot a year ago. It was during that industrial photography shoot that Vellum produced one if its better known images, which is the image below.
Portrait Shoot – PHI Air Medical Team
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Vellum Industrial Photography just finished up production on a portrait shoot with the PHI Air Medical Team based in Lexington, Ky. The professionals at PHI Air Medical make up an elite and critical piece of the community emergency response team. The highly-trained employees are among the finest, most compassionate professionals in the industry, and were the first company to receive the prestigious Vision Zero Aviation Safety Award.
The three images featured below are only a few of a much larger group of images produced for the flight team in Lexington. It was a large shoot, involving two assistants and up to ten flashes some some of the images.
Coal Tipple
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This video, a quick look at a coal tipple operation in Eastern Kentucky, is a quick piece we threw together several months ago with some extra footage and some still images we had left over following a shoot this past fall. We pieced the video together during a brainstorming session with the Vellum Industrial team during the planning stages of an upcoming video shoot scheduled for late March.
Eastern Kentucky – Behind the scenes
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The Vellum team had a great time in January producing a portrait series of the hard working men at Frasure Creek in Eastern Kentucky, and we put together this quick and dirty clip to give everyone a sneak peak at the kind of work required on a day- to-day basis at an active mine site. Vellum will be back to produce a series of all video pieces with the new Canon 5D Mark ll in a couple of months.
Snowmobiles
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Vellum’s Director of Operations, Jonathan D. Woods, recently produced a video highlighting Iowa’s passionate snowmobiling community for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, an eastern Iowa newspaper. We’re excited about this video for a number of reasons, one of which is that it was shot entirely on Canon’s new 5D Mark ll camera body. This camera is the future of both video and still photography, enabling photographers/videographers to shoot remarkable HD video footage and produce an exceptionally high quality still image all with the same camera body.
Terex SHM Highwall Miner
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Mine Shoot
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More from this shoot will be online soon, including video, but for now we wanted to post a frame from an blasting operation in Kentucky that was being prepared for use of the Terex SHM Miner, the most advanced, reliable, and efficient highwall mining system in the world. The SHM Miner is the first practical highwall mining system capable of coal mining parallel entries to predetermined depths while linking surface and underground operations to maximize coal recovery and profits.
