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Monday, January 19, 2015

The Recovery Village video

This is a video we shot for The Recovery Village:



Join Allison Walsh with an overview of the The Recovery Village (TheRecoveryVillage.com) treatment programs, facilities, and amenities.
Whether you're struggling with substance abuse, alcoholism, addiction or an eating disorder, The Recovery Village is here to help. Our highly trained staff is here to guide all participants to to a new life.
The Recovery Village is a premier private detox and residential treatment facility. We provide affordable luxury and recovery in a setting where lasting health and peace of mind are the goals.

Photography on location for advertising, editorial, corporate, video, magazine, architecture and sports clients in the Orlando and Central Florida area.



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Thursday, January 8, 2015

UCF Foundation 2014 Annual Report

This is the third year I've worked on the University of Central Florida Foundation annual report.













Photography on location for advertising, editorial, corporate, video, magazine, architecture and sports clients in the Orlando and Central Florida area.



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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Lifetime Achievement Award video

This is the second year we've been asked to shoot the Lifetime Achievement Award winner video for the Association of Fundraising Professionals annual "Philanthropy Day" meeting.
http://www.afpcentralflorida.org/
We had to shoot five testimonials in a short period of time at the Orlando Science Center.
http://www.osc.org/
As the museum was open that day, and because of the time constraints, we had to shoot all of the testimonials on green-screen in a conference room and then shoot the backgrounds later.  In doing so we had to carefully match the same angle, lens length and depth of field in order to make the backgrounds look as natural as possible.  See if you can tell.




Dan Dennis:  Editor

The client gave me a nice comment as well:

Steve Williams has produced the video for the Central Florida Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Lifetime Achievement Award for the past two years and I highly recommend him. Our videos require multiple testimonial interviews of high-level people from our community, integrated with still photos from the life of our recipient. In addition to creating a beautiful, emotional portrait of our award winner, Steve has all of the qualities that reduce my stress. He is engaged in the process from the very beginning to get the best results possible, is always on time, dressed properly and respectful to our participants. He gets the job done creatively, on time and on budget. What more can I say…hire him, but not when I need him!
Katie 

Photography on location for advertising, editorial, corporate, video, magazine, architecture and sports clients in the Orlando and Central Florida area.



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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Baywash Bikini Car Wash

Every once in while an assignment comes along that makes you go, "Huh?".
I got a call from a British company called Barcroft TV, which I'd never heard of, but they have 700,000 youtube subscribers and half a Billion views!  They wanted video and stills of an Orlando car wash near UCF that has young women in bikinis washing the cars.  Tomorrow.  We said yes.
Dan shot the video (I'm in the first shot and later), Barcroft edited in London and I shot the stills.  It was wicked hot that day and the place looked like crap, but we did the best we could with what we had.
And yes, it's sexist.

Baywash Bikini Car Wash



The video already has over 380,000 views














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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Gate Hospitality Group/Burdette Ketchum Advertising

I was chosen by Burdette Ketchum ad agency to create lifestyle photos for their client, Gate Hospitality Group in Jacksonville.  The four-day shoot took place in September at four of their resorts:  Ponte Vedra Inn, Lodge and Club, Epping Forest Yacht Club and The River Club.  We had a great crew and models, along with with wonderful production and art direction from the agency.  The client provided extra models and props that were very helpful.  The only thing that didn't cooperate was the weather, as it was overcast almost every day.
These photos will be used for ads and websites.
Here are some of the photos:

















Here how the photos were used:






and some "behind the scenes" shots





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Steve WIlliams is an Orlando and Central Florida based photographer specializing in people, lifestyle, advertising, editorial, corporate and video production.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Sometimes I get a fairly specific layout from a client of how they'd like to see the final photo.  This was the case for Sanford-Burnham with their "Portal" magazine cover.
http://www.sanfordburnham.org/Pages/Splash.aspx

Here's what the comp looked like:


and here's what the final cover looks like:


See if you can tell how many ways the original photo I sent them was altered:



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Monday, May 19, 2014

Vac-Tron Video

Vac-Tron manufactures industrial vacuum products and I shot this at their facility in Central Florida.  We tried to make the manufacturing process at interesting as possible, while showing how the product performs at the end.  This video is used as a sales tool.



http://www.vactron.com/

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Mirasol Condos at Celebration videos

Shooting interiors on video is a lot more complicated than it looks.  When we shoot architecture photos inside there are a lot of tricks using Photoshop and multiple exposures to balance the inside/outside differences in exposure and color. 
In video we have to cover the windows with dark orange gels to balance the light.  You can see one shot in this video where that was not done, as the window light look blue and over-exposed.  It takes more time, but it really looks nice when done right.

You can find the Rosco gels we used here:  http://www.filmandvideolighting.com/roeco208ndct.html



Here's another we shot of the amenities:


http://www.mirasolcondos.com/

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Viva Gourmet video

Viva Gourmet is, as it say on their site:  "a paradise of products and solutions that aren't available at your local grocery store".
In this video my wife Rachel shows how she used ingredients from Viva Gourmet to create a memorable meal for friends.

http://www.vivagourmet.com/





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Visit Mount Dora--30 second TV spot

"Visit Mount Dora" wanted to target tourists visiting the Orlando-area attractions in an effort to get them to come spend at least a day in our town.  It was decided that promoting our quaint, historic setting and our connection to nature would help entice people to get out of the typical Florida tourist parks.
I came up with a list of shots that I thought would get that idea across in a visually compelling way, and after approval, set off to find locations, secure local friends for models and design the camera movements.
Rich Lawrence did the voice-over and David Coulter did the editing, music selection, graphics and map.



http://www.visitmountdora.com/


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First Green Bank website

I was asked to photograph the First Green Bank headquarters, which is a very cool, LEED Platinum Certified building (7th privately owned commercial buildings in Florida to reach that environmental certification).
https://www.firstgreenbank.com/
The photos were mostly used for the redesigned website, so I shot the building itself, along with officer headshots.













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