We recently had the chance to do a lifestyle shoot for Pullman in Danang – a really beautiful location right at Danang’s beach.
Here a few previews from the shoot which involved a lot of pool and ocean action..
Last year our team had the chance to follow American actress Angie Harmon around for her visit at different UNICEF projects in Vietnam – we went to Dien Bien Phu in the very North as well as to different places in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City – visiting families with victims of human trafficing, orphanages, schools and other projects our job was to illustrate Ms. Harmon’s visit as well as showcasing the different projects. We did photos as well as video.
Here are a few take-outs of the assignment:
This was quite a challenging shoot – In a way it combined so many different aspects of photography – travel photography, food photography, portrait photography and event photography – sometimes under extreme time pressure – all over the course of 3 days on different locations around the beautiful Intercontinental Danang Peninsula Resort as well as in the ancient town of Danang.
Our team (Christian Berg and Hoang Anh Nguyen) was hired to cover the visit of multiple times Michelin-starred chef Pierre Gagnaire who is now in charge of Intercon Danangs fine dining restaurant La Maison 1888 – a) to support the international Media visiting from as far away as China or Australia, who did not all bring their own photographers b) to document the press visit, different activities and of course chef Gargnaire’s work for Intercon Danang.
On the first day we started joining a trip organized for the visiting journalists to visit a local fish market in Hoi An – a few strong espresso helped everyone to overcome the 4AM start.
In the late afternoon this was followed by tour discovering the amazing street food of Hoi An.
Chef Gagnaire arrived the next day, and as he is a very busy yet incredibly sweet man, we only had a bout 15 minutes to actually take the portraits – this was one of the major challenges – but good preparation, location scouting and our set of profoto lights (link) led to some really nice shots.
Later on we had the chance to cover his work in the Kitchen with his team
And the dinner itself
The assignment ended with a food shoot on the last day (again under extreme time pressure – this time about 30 minutes for 7 dishes) – again planning ahead and profoto lights worked their magic – on top of this the challenge was that the focus was just on the dishes itself on a simple white plate with white background – while this sounds easy it is in fact much more tricky then some of the modern more wild food photos you come across these days. Chef Gagnaire was really happy with the food shots – and in this case this was the most important thing!
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