27 published pages-holiday gift guide

JimmyHickey · January 5, 2010

A while back in November I was assigned to shoot one third of the holiday gift guide for PaintballX3 magazine. I met up with another photographer and friend Matthew Gilbertson and started planning for the shoot. Looking at the random amount of paintball gear and apparel that had been sent to us for the shoot, we decided to have the shoot based around a Christmas party that just gets way too out of hand. We got our friends together and being all college students with nothing but small dorms and apartments to work with, we were able to find an abandoned laundry facility that was owned by a family friend. That location was full of challenges including no inside lighting, no furniture and creepy onlookers outside, but we were able to work around them and get the shoot up and running. Looking back on it I feel we would have done things a bit differently if done now, however this shoot was a major learning experience for both of us, and I feel we did the best we could at the time and fulfilled the magazines requirements. The editor was pleased with the images as well. Please let me know what you think!

Here is a link to the video of me flipping through the pages showing more of the images and explaining things a bit more in depth-
http://jimmy-hickey.blogspot.com/2010/01/27-pages-of-published-work.html

Here are some of my favorite images from the set,
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Thanks for looking!

JimmyHickey · January 5, 2010

Anyone? I am really excited about this set and publication, and would appreciate hearing what others had to say

Darren Troy C · January 5, 2010

If there's one thing I certainly take from this is that it has nothing to do with paintball. A christmas party gone awry...yes. The PB equipment is tough to see quickly and plainly...it's almost a "where's waldo?" type search. I played for many years (Tippman Bad A$$!

) and know what I'm looking for. Others thumbing through a publication may not see this as such. I don't get the surprise flame-up either....what's it from?

JimmyHickey · January 8, 2010

Darren Troy C wrote:

If there's one thing I certainly take from this is that it has nothing to do with paintball. A christmas party gone awry...yes. The PB equipment is tough to see quickly and plainly...it's almost a "where's waldo?" type search. I played for many years (Tippman Bad A$$! ) and know what I'm looking for. Others thumbing through a publication may not see this as such. I don't get the surprise flame-up either....what's it from?

haha good point, thats pretty much what we were going for, so perfect:)