National Event Photographers

Will and Grace, the Emmy Award winning ground breaking comedy returns to NBC, and we are honored to be asked to help promote the series throughout the country.  With stops planned in Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, the schedule could expand.  Participants are asked to “jump in” with the cast in a giant bubble bath, sip champagne, and be a (temporary) BFF!  Photographers Mike Gatty and Matthew Frey are handling each experiential photo marketing event, and worked hand in glove with the client to develop a custom photo set around the giant bath tub.  To add realism, a digital overlay is added to the finished photo, preventing the “cardboard” look, a problem which plague most of these types of photo executions.  See all the photos HERE.  They post live, as they are created in each city.

In the first blog post in this series, I looked at how business has changed over the past decade – and how it hasn’t. Next, engagement was under the Michaelscope. (See how I made up that word? Just like Rudy decides which version of the truth “truth” is, I’ve decided it’s ok to make up my own words.) In this next part, I present Queen.

Not The Queen. Not “Mike you are a bit queenie”, but Queen. Or, more pointedly, Freddie Mercury, Queen’s infamous lead singer.

Freddie was born in Zanzibar and grew up in India. He was geeky, an awkward kid with a terrible overbite due to four extra teeth.

But man, he could sing. Even more important, he loved to sing. To write. To perform. Even before his band, which took immediate flack for being named “Queen”, broke through — his producers hint he was a handful. He knew what he wanted, they said. He did what he wanted, they said. He plowed forward when he thought he was right.