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.

Travel and Adventure Series Core Client

We started our huge Experiential Photo Marketing Green Screen Photo Booth five years ago, with the Travel Channel.  Travel Channel hired us to integrate a 10′ x 10′ photo experience into their 20′ x 20′ overall booth, using green screen photography to showcase travel destinations — and Travel Channel programming — world wide.  The next year, Travel Channel decided to eliminate their booth, and we thought the travel destinations green screen photo experience would fade away.  We were wrong.  The Travel and Adventure Series show management, who were impressed by our approach with participants, decided to hire us directly and we took over the entire 20′ x 20′ footprint.  Now the green screen photo booth is sponsored by various world wide tourism destinations, and features a different world wide experience every week.  The show travels to Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC, Dallas, Bay Area (San Francisco), Los Angeles, San Diego and Philadelphia.

Photos from this year’s San Diego Travel and Adventure Show

Chicago green screen photography for this year’s Travel and Adventure Show

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.