Three Chain Road Craft Gin Distillers Photography
Product Photography of Three Chain Road Craft Gin in our Melbourne Studio.
Three Chain Road is a Craft Gin Distiller from Rutherglen, Victoria and is made by Buller Wines who are well known for making great fortified wines. Working with Trish from Design Energy, a boutique Wine label specialist, we wanted images to have dramatic shadows created by coloured glass and textured objects. In our West Melbourne studio (Glow Studios) we put together a simple set with a few props to photograph the range of gins.
To capture the fine colour foil on the texture labels, a lot of attention was placed on complex lighting. The mixing of hard lighting for dramatic effect and soft gradient lighting for tone comes from years of lighting experience for all sorts of products. Our studio has all the strobe lighting and modifiers required for studio and location photography.
One of our tricks to photographing ice which is fast melting is to use hand carved acrylic cubes. We have a selection of cubes for any liquid and drinks photography.
Images are captured on the Hasselblad X1D 50 megapixel digital mirrorless medium format camera. The Hasselblad is a high resolution professional camera that captures far more detail and colour compared to 35mm digital cameras such as ones from Canon, Nikon or Sony due to the sensor being nearly twice the size of a 35mm frame.
ABOUT BULLER WINES
Established in 1921 by Reginald Landon Buller and has been associated with Rutherglen’s finest fortified wines for almost 100 years.
In 2013 the winery was purchased by the Judd Family and now has 3 co-owners- Gerald Judd, David Whyte and Michael Murtagh.
Distiller & Wine Maker: David Whyte
Label Design: Design Energy
Digital Retoucher: Steph Fraser
View our Wine and Liquid Product Photography Portfolio
Koala Comforts | Commercial Photography
On location Commercial Photography for Koala Comforts Towels, Blankets and Sleep wear.
New Australian label Koala Comforts needed content to launch their range of towels and blankets. Coming out of lockdown in November we spent a day on photography in Caulfield and Blackrock.
Having to work quick and with no Lighting Assistant, multiple high power battery powered lights were used to light the scene and shooting directly to the computer for immediate client approval help speed up the entire process.
Belinda Woolcock for Spinfire Tennis Ball Machines & Tennis Warehouse Australia Advertising Photography
Campaign and Product Photography for Tennis Warehouse Australia & Spinfire Tennis ball Machines Featuring Australian Tennis Player Belinda Woolcock
Tennis Warehouse reached out to IJ productions during the Covid stage 4 lockdown in 2020 to photograph their new Spinfire Tennis ball machine. Product Photography was completed by Ivan at home due to travel restrictions (Melbourne residents were only allowed no further than 5km radius from their home for a few months). A day was spent photographing the machine and most images can be seen on their website.
Once lockdown restrictions were lifted photography with Australian Tennis Player Belinda Woolcock could take place in our West Melbourne Studio.
Tennis Court in Action Images
Another 1/2 day was allocated to shoot on location at Melbourne Tennis Centre Courts with Belinda using the Spinfire Tennis ball machine. A series of images of her using the machine and setting up the machine was taken. The high sun would have been an issue if we didn’t have high powered Profoto battery powered flashes and high sync speed GODOX portable flashes. Now we had perfectly lit images without the harsh midday sun shadows.
Super fast flash duration was required to create a sharp image to freeze the movement without blurring. Using a mixture of specialised studio strobes we were able to capture very fast movements in camera with minimal digital retouching.
Client: Tennis Warehouse Australia
Camera: Hassleblad Digital Medium Format/ 80mm & Canon 5D MKIV/24-70mm
Lighting: Profoto B1/Godox AD200 & Profoto Pro 7B /Acute 2400
Advertising Photography for Argentinian Winery Domaine Bousquet & Warburn Estate
Warburn Estate Winery is the Australian distributor for Argentinian Organic Winery Domaine Bousquet, having photographed their range of Gossips wine, Photographer Ivan Lee was asked to create a series of images for the Domaine Bousquet range of wines.
Working with Melbourne based Stylist Bonnie K. we created a set from stained wood.
Client: Warburn Estate
Stylist: Bonnie Kay
Gossips By Warburn Estate Wine Bottle Photography
Studio Wine Bottle Photography of Gossips New Label
Warburn Estate Winery recently updated their Gossips range and we photographed the bottles in the studio. The new Label was designed by Melbourne based wine label design studio Design Energy.
View out Wine Bottle Photography folio here.
Images Captured on a high resolution Hasselblad Digital Medium Format camera & Profoto Lighting equipment.
Fashion Photography for Zaket and Plover 2020 Summer Campaign
Studio Fashion Photography for Australian Fashion Label Zacket & Plover Summer campaign
Client: Zaket & Plover
Photographer: Ivan Lee
Talent: Tess Mimmo & Bela Palacio (Giant Management)
Studio: Glow Studio (West Melbourne)
REDJADE Food Photography
Studio Food Photography for Melbourne based Food producer REDJADE
CAMEC Easter Campaign Advertising Photography
The set was put together in the NorthernRV warehouse. Approximately 10 lights were used at a total of 8500watts
Client: Camec
Campaign: Camec Your Easter
Agency: Kommunal
Creative Director: Tony Osborne
Producer: Bridget Materia
Production Company: Eric, Tom & Bruce
Creative Producer: Sam Haines
Production Designer/Stylist: Elle Steiner
Production Assistant: Olivia Altavilla
Lighting Assistant: Jonathan Ho
Make Up Artist: Shelby Rose
Talent: Steve Hayden
Digital Retoucher: Alisa Nuachan
Warrabilla Wines of Rutherglen Studio Product Bottle Photography
Family owned and run winery from Rutherglen, Warrabilla Wines is known for their big reds and fortified wines.
We were recommended to the winery by Wine Marketing Consultants - Wine Brain to photograph their range of wines because of our expertise in photographing wine labels with foil detail. Standard product photography lighting would not be able to capture the tone and colour in the label. To create gradients and highlights in camera involves a lot of control of light and reflections. IJProductions are the experts in wine bottle photography.
BankVIC We Are Stronger Together Campaign
BankVIC portrait of staff who has won their quarterly staff award for showing values of Together, Honest & Brave.
One of the coolest common areas we’ve seen in any corporate office settings is the extra long LEGO table at BankVIC Melbourne CBD main office. For their portrait BankVIC wanted a fun image featuring their staff who had recently won a staff award. We came up with the concept to use the table as it is a unique feature that is very popular with staff and guest.
Planning for this photo shoot was important as we has only little time with the subject. In our pre production meeting we worked out placement with stand-in subjects and camera angle. On the day, the people were photographed in smaller groups and digitally merged together afterwards.
Client: BankVIC
Photographer’s Assistant: Jonathan Ho
Hair and Make-up: Nathalie Prince
Corporate Portraiture and Headshots Photography of Rome 2 Rio CEO Yeswanth (Yesh) Munnangi
Travel & booking website Rome2Rio appointed a new CEO after it was acquired by Omio, A Berlin based travel booking platform. IJ Productions was commissioned by PRGROUP to photograph newly appointed CEO Yeswanth Munnangi.
Location: Rome2Rio Richmond headquarters
Marketing agency: PRGROUP
Photographer’s Assistant: Dhyan Verco
View our Corporate Headshots and Portrait Photography Portfolio
Portrait of Anthony Jones for BankVIC
As part of BankVic’s partnership with the Hawthorn Football Club, Hawthorn FC recognise an Emergency Services member at each Melbourne home game who is known as the BankVic Emergency Services Champion. A champion is nominated by each of the Emergency Services agencies for going above and beyond their normal duties to contribute to the Victorian community. We had the opportunity to photograph Anthony Jones from ESTA000.
BankVIC Emergency Services Champion & Trained Dispatcher at ESTA 000 Anthony Jones
Client: BankVIC
Agency/Film Production: The Incubator