Guerilla event photography for Play Station’s Heavy Rain « Jurgen Doom

Guerilla event photography for Play Station’s Heavy Rain

10 March 2010 om 17:53 door Jürgen geplaatst in de categorie Commercial

Recently I was commisioned to photograph a guerilla event in Brussel. The aim was to capture the mood of a “film noir” of people walking through pooring rain. The rain was created by a rain machine. People leaving Brussels north railway station were given an umbrella in order to keep dry through the heavy rain, created by the rain machine. They had to walk towards me whilst looking into the camera.
The lights we used were cinematographic floodlights (2 times 2000W and 2 times 1000W) and were positioned in such a way that the rain was visible in the photograph.

The event took only about an hour during which time had quite a number of people walking through the heavy rain.

Using a Nikon D3s, wich is a camera designed to use in the field in the most difficult circumstances, I was able to capture the images using a 70-200mm lens at ISO3200.

heavy rain - play station - guerilla event

heavy rain - play station - guerilla event

heavy rain - guerilla event

heavy rain - guerilla event

The photograph used for the press release was choosen by the advertising agency and was used to promote the release of the new game.

press release heavy rain

press release heavy rain

Lastly, I was caught in the action by my assistent Jasmijn who took this photograph.

Jurgen in action.

Jurgen in action.

3 Comments

  1. tja, dan regent het eens een dag niet, en dan moeten ze regen maken… de omgekeerde wereld. Heeft de camera het goed overleefd?

    Comment by An — 11 March 2010 @ 15:10

  2. An, het regende jammer genoeg die dag wel. Ik zit eigenlijk in de regen foto’s te maken, maar je hebt echt wel zo’n regenmachien nodig om dat in beeld te krijgen. Ivm de camera, die heeft het goed overleefd. Ik heb altijd een zeemvel mee (eentje uit echt leer) en als je dat over je toestel en lens legt, dan blijft het toch wel echt goed droog!

    Comment by Jürgen — 11 March 2010 @ 15:56

  3. Echt een prachtig resultaat. Vooral in zwartwit. Ik denk dat het een uitdaging was om te zorgen dat het licht onder de paraplus viel, toch?
    Wat ik me wel afvraag: had dit ook gekund met strobist reportageflashes?

    Comment by Bart Goossens — 18 April 2010 @ 21:24

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