Executive Portraits
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While Vellum Industrial Photography produces a lot of employee and environmental portraits for its clients, we also produce a substantial amount of executive portraits as well. This week Vellum was comissioned to shoot a series of executive portraits for one of our Chicago based clients, a selection of which is below.
New Work – PWS and Wilson Art
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Vellum recently finished up a project comissioned by Portable Welding Service, who was working to rebuild a massive laminate press at the Wilson Art plant in Fletcher, Nc. The shoot required industrial photography, video and time lapses, some of which will be featured here on the blog once production is finished. Portable Welding Service is one of the only companies in the world with experience rebuilding these presses, and PWS and the engineering team have worked internationally on similar jobs for years. Some of the portraits produced of the press itself (image 1) and of the PWS and engineering team are below.
Vellum Founder Jim Winn speaks at forum
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Vellum Industrial Media’s Jim Winn was invited to speak Tuesday at “Conquering the Conventional: Because journalism isn’t dying and neither are we,” a forum organized by the Student Publications department at the University of Kentucky. As a former newspaper photojournalist with a degree in photojournalism from Western Kentucky University, Winn served as one of four panelists who discussed alternative jobs for graduates in the midst of news of layoffs at newspapers around the country.
The other panelists included Stephen George, editor of LEO Weekly, Saraya Brewer, managing editor of Chevy Chaser and Southsider Magazines, and Rob Theakston, editor of Moodmat.com. May May Barton, Kernel Kernel design adviser and previous design director for the Herald-Leader, served as the moderator for the forum.
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.
Personal Work
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While Vellum’s team stays extremely busy producing work for their industrial clients, they also juggle the occasional commercial photography job for clients outside of Vellum’s industrial focus. Since shooting and producing personal work is highly valued at Vellum, we wanted to feature one of those images here. This image was produced for a large series of posters and media guides for the University of Kentucky lacrosse team.
While not directly related to industrial photography, we look forward to having the opportunity to produce similar images for our industrial photography clients.
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.
