Phil Lucero Productions

This photo is from a shoot with MOOV at Transmission Studio. Lori and Jeff needed to record a cake with the candles blowing out and smoke rising into the air. We started with an overhead light, a bounce fill and some backlight for the smoke.  Then we shot the scene several times, each time removing one light from the equation.  This gave them many options to work with which will make for a tough choice, as they all turned out really good. Photo by Tom Hoch

This is the Active Force Foundation fundraising video we recently completed. Working with Dom Cimino and the Wounded Warriors program from Fort Carson we were  on hand to to document functions that Active Force Foundation organizes to help athletes and soldiers who have been injured begin to heal again through events that promote an active lifestyle.  Please check out the video and the websites and then donate anything you can to help these programs continue.

More pictures from the stage at Nightvision 2010. I took these on the second day of the music festival as I wandered around during soundcheck and set-up.  Apparently the band Third Day prefers Fender and Gretch guitars. Don’t you?

The second shot is of the stage before Third Day came on.  It was late and there were delays. But as you know, the Show must go on.

The lighting crew readies a truss full of Par lights during set-up today for Nightvision Music Festival in Olathe, CO.  I had a few minutes down time when I took this picture while waiting for the stage crew to clear water from the roof over the main stage. A big storm roared through the town and nearly ripped the tent from its moorings. It held us up all afternoon and we didn’t finish set-up until 9pm!

This weekend I’m working with the  Yellow Gal Productions video crew and their new HD production trailer for the two day festival.

This screen grab is from a production I was on last weekend at Invesco Field @ Mile High with Flying Saucer Films and !mpossible Pictures for DISH Network NFL Red Zone.  Director Randy Martin gave me a lot of creative freedom and the tools to make it happen.  I had the 24 foot Triangle JimmyJib out with the HDX900 and a super fisheye lens from MP&E.  The nice weather lasted all day and provided exeptional texture in the sky late when the clouds rolled in.

This view of San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Bridge was taken June 8th near Vista Point above Horseshoe Bay.  Though I dealt with high winds and no tripod, I was very lucky to have relatively clear weather the entire trip.  The photo was shot handheld using the Nikon D700 at f24 x .0015625 sec.

American actor Dennis Hopper died Saturday at age 74.   Seen in classic movies “Easy Rider”, “Apocolypse Now” and “Blue Velvet”, Hopper brought real life and excitement to the roles he played.  Always the underdog and sometimes accused of being difficult to work with early in his career, Hopper, a Hollywood outsider helped to establish the counterculture movement. In 1998 “Easy Rider” was included in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Here’s a Blackberry photo from our recent shoot at the Omni Interlocken Resort Hotel.  Ryan Policky of Late Night Week Night is recording HD video of Kelly for Roomlinx - an in-room interactive kiosk for hotel guests featuring movies, games, maps and internet access on the television. The production is for a new marketing push Roomlinx is queing up. Ryan is shooting the Canon D2 Mark V DSLR.

Tom took this photo during production at Vestas wind turbine company in Windsor, Colorado.  We’re interviewing Kevin Corey for an investor video with Metro Denver EDC.  This is the factory where Vestas manufactures their windmill blades. The blades are 140 feet long, made of fiberglass and weigh over 6 tons. Each windmill has three. The biggest challenge to shooting inside the factory was dealing with factory noise.  We were lucky, however, because the work of buffing out the blades required only a very quiet vacuum system.  It was consistent the entire time we were there, so we recorded additional room tone and will even out the audio in post.

Tom took these shots of our set-up for “TV Show”, a variety/talk show we’re producing at the studio. This stage is 25′ x 25′ and has suspended pipe for lighting. It is perfect for use with the curved mobile walls and can be set and re-set easily for multiple productions. In case you were wondering, yes I have removed the Christmas lights from the camera crane jib arm.

Below is a shot of me trying to look important as the lights go up.