Tim Tadder's Blog, Daily struggles of a light gangster.

Move over Hasselhoff, We are big in Turkey

Tim Tadder — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:37:04 +0000

Don't Chase The Weather

We just finished a crazy eight weeks that saw non stop travel to just about everywhere. Now we have a few weeks at home before heading east again. Speaking of the east coast we spent four days last week in the Florida Keys shooting a campaign for Columbia Sports Wear. We got very lucky with the weather, Here is what it was looking like the night before the shoot. Forecasts were horrible, but someone once told me, you can’t chase the weather. The next day was perfectly clear and proved to be a window between two hurricanes that allowed us to get the shots we needed.

So I got some visuals, here is a shot for our fun campaign for CA with Michael Strahan as well as a magazine cover from a piece running about our studio in Turkey. Looking forward to some FOOTBALL!!!

Because it doesn’t get any more random…

Tim Tadder — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:34:29 +0000

We recently set out on a completely unique assignment to photograph some very interesting people. The nature of the assignment at this point in time needs to remain under wraps, but I can share one of the most random thank you notes I have every received. It is certainly going in a frame on our wall of random assignment memorabilia.

Now if that is not enough for you, how about a dog, that surfs! We recently went to Hawaii to photograph Bugsy, the surfing pug for a Reader’s Digest cover. It was great assignment, to say the least. It was pretty amusing chasing this dog around Waikiki.

The past six weeks have been very rough with a ton of travel, including trips to NYC, Chicago, DC, Dallas, SF, and Beijing. This past week we were able to stay in San Diego and shoot a piece for Newcastle Brown Ale. Nice staying local for a change.

Polaroids From Pitchfork

Tim Tadder — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:53:01 +0000

Just Finished up in Chicago enjoying the Pitchfork Music Festival!!! I’ve been playing around with a Polaroid 300 making mini art, and hipster hunting. Super fun just making simple images. I must have heard “Everybody Loves Polaroid” a thousand times. Getting ready for CHINA!!! Heading out on Sunday for a shoot in Shanghai and Beijing. The Yeti returns!!!

Pitchfork Polaroids

I Love New York

Tim Tadder — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:47:57 +0000

We just finished three days in NYC working with Computer Associates and Michael Strahan. Fun shoot, and even though it was blazing hot in NYC (103 degrees), I still had an amazing visual adventure. I was able to cruise around the city shooting for a couple of evenings. It was great for the mind and I am newly inspired by the change of background. We are now off to DC then to Dallas and SF for a very, very interesting series of shoots that will surprise you. Stay tuned for those! Our train stop is minutes away so be on the look out for something new and surprising, in about a week! Here is an image from NYC and some recent new work you might like to see. Arriving in Baltimore, got to run.

World Cup McDonald’s Images and New Work

Tim Tadder — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:26:51 +0000

How awesome is it to wake up for work and have a world class sporting event to eat breakfast with? Explaining to my 4 year old why Scooby Doo got shelved for men kicking a ball around did not go over well, but she will be 8 the next time soccer is on so I figure I can Jedi mind trick into thinking it’s okay.

That being said we did some work for McDonald’s for a World Cup Poster so I thought I’d post that image and some other new work we finished this week, enjoy.

new running images

McDoland's Soccer Poster

McDonald's Soccer Posters

Rock Fans Shoot

Tim Tadder — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:00:53 +0000

Hope you enjoy this one, we recently shot a little faux rock concert up in LA, I’ll let the images and the time lapse speak for me. The time lapse is quick and dirty, there was not a ton of down time as you can see from the video but its pretty funny, look for some hidden gems in there. Its pretty funny to see the chaos of 12 hours in 3 minutes. Enjoy the images!

New Work

Tim Tadder — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:55:36 +0000

Here is something we worked on recently for Do Or Die – a new MMA clothing company. The studio seemed smaller than usual with these eight gigantic MMA fighters hanging out, eating extra-large pizzas. The evening’s shoot yielded some really outstanding results, and the athletes, like Rich Power in the shot below, worked really hard to help capture them. I’m just glad there was a camera between us.

I’ve also been working planning a lot of my own shoots—interesting concepts that challenge and inspire. Here are two we did recently – the first focused on a range of emotions, and the second was a chance to polish my underwater skills.

Otherwise, we just wrapped up a fun shoot with Marlboro at an incredible swimming pool location in Malibu. This month also brought trips to photograph a surfing pug on Waikiki Beach—yes, really—and Navy chaplains here in San Diego. Coming up (as in tomorrow at 5:30 am), we’ve got a large scale “rock concert fan” shoot planned at a warehouse in LA, and a few more cool projects in the works.

Rich Power for Do Or Die MMA

Andrew Emotional

Corbis Swim

Got to Go Go

Tim Tadder — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:24:32 +0000

Every once an a while I see something that catches my eye and I want to shoot it. So was the case with Go Go dancers. Special thanks to Vixen V and Rick Ahumada for providing the connections the girls for this shoot. The talent was amazing and needless to say we had a very fun day. Besides for shooting this we have been SLAMMED working on shoots and retouching for Coke, Craftsman, and prepping for another underwater shoot with Marlboro. Hope you enjoy got to go go….

Go Go Vixen V

Wrangler Print Ads Selected in Luerzer’s Archive

Tim Tadder — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:38:10 +0000

So the grape vine tells me that our print work we did with two x four in Chicago with the infamous Ryan Bloecker made it into the fashion section of the current issue of Luerzer’s Archive. Super happy to have the opportunity to make some interesting print pieces with Ryan. This is our second selection in the publication with Ryan. When he’s not bowling, he has some serious creative skills. Thanks Ryan for making me look good! Check out the ad’s

Wrangler Print

Adidas Energy Video

Tim Tadder — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:27:50 +0000

We have some new work to share and this time its a combination of stills, motion graphics and video that we put together for Adidas Golf. This will be used with a QR code on the print ads that we shot for the Adidas Golf shirts. I’m glad we got to shoot the print and the video, that way it all feels the same. We shot the video portion in our studio on green screen. It helps to have a 45′ foot cove to work with!

On the print front we just wrapped up retouching on our McDonald’s USA shoot and a MONSTER shoot with Marlboro International, with our good friend T-Sizzle from Leo Burnett. We shot non stop for days, capturing over 15k frames with some amazing talent. Right after the Marlboro shoot we worked on an out of home (Billboard) piece for Craftsman. Good stretch and now its time to do some serious photoshop! Below is a print test with did recently, were really working hard at the moment testing and pushing our work. We have new website coming out in 8 weeks and with it will be an entire new portfolio of new work with a few surprises! Enjoy!

New Testing