Blog's on the MOVE

Blog faithful- we are excited to announce our new blog!

We will no longer be updating this blog but come find us at our new address.
All the old content is there, but with a little different feel.
http://www.maloneandcoblog.com/

Welcome Avery Gavin Johnson

The teaser yesterday just wasn't enough, but we knew that would flush out some real photos. You're seeing the first of million of photos to come. Check out the newest addition.

Babies Lead to Weddings

BIG NEWS! Geoff and Anne welcomed in a healthy baby boy this week! Still waiting to hear info on the name and details. Surprisingly we have no photo yet, so Kate created this likeness to the new Johnson family in Photoshop.
Baby yesterday, wedding tomorrow. Hillary will be getting hitched to Michael tomorrow in IA. They will be getting the full studio coverage for the big event with more photos than they will ever want to look at.

Great week! CONGRATS to all! For anyone shooting with Geoff soon, bare with him as he adapts to being a daddy.

Ask Johnson to show you some photos of the kid- I'm sure he'll get around to taking some eventually...

Basket Cam on The Coconut Coast of Kauai

The coast of Kauai is a good a spot as any to hook up the 5D Mark II to the basket of a tandem bicycle.

Oversized work

It's always fun to see our work big!

Shooting at Big Omaha

Some Behind the Scenes from Big Omaha! Fun day, great information, AMAZING people!

Big Omaha 2009

Andrew and I are shooting BIG Omaha today and tomorrow. This conference is going to be off the charts!

We'll be uploading images throughout the day and they will be live right here! More to come. Be sure to refresh.

5D Motion from Tortola

British Virgin Islands, 5D Mark II from Geoff Johnson on Vimeo.

Some clips from a recent shoot in the Caribbean.

Still Kids

12 foot ladder.
Check.
Beautiful spring day.
Check.
The entire school population on the playground at one time.
Check.
Patty and Andrew wrangled over a 150 kids and teachers to create a fun cover for Brennans' schools' yearbook. Mike and Patty's daughter is hiding in this shot somewhere.
See if you can spot the creative retouching Kate had to do to stitch the two vertical shots together for the cover. Kate- your so good- it's hard to find!

Cinema Style

Twice in the last month I've been asked to shoot images which could be used as headers for web pages. Sometimes the ratios can be extreme as with these photos Alex and I shot last week. It's fun to figure out the play of foreground and background with such a cinematic crop.

Honored Work

I was honored to receive a few awards at PPA regional print competition. The image of Logan Flood won first place in the non masters men's portrait. Last summer I photographed Logan and his family at their home in Seward, NE for AOPA Magazine. The story was about how he became a commercial pilot after being in an airplane crash with a cargo company he flew and instructed for.

My overall score with other works placed me at 2nd.

A few thank yous-
Kameron Bayne and Sarah Pfeiffer for pushing me to enter.
Kate Heller for all the magic post work.
Matt Larson for driving to UPS because I sent my prints to the wrong address.
Terry Winslow for connecting with Matt to get my prints in time for the deadline.

What Cheer

Check out some behind the scenes from a morning spent chill'n with the What Cheer crew. They had some great ideas for images and totally rocked the modeling! Geoff rocked on the 5d with some video! Props to Jon Jelkin on the graphics- schweetness! Kate Heller brough it all together! Go team!

Dance Party

This is how the Malone and Torchwerks crew warms up each morning to attack the day. Let us know if you want us to teach you some moves. We've been working hard on the choreography.

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Downtown Omaha

Have you found yourself staring at old photos of the city you call home? It's fun to see what was the corner of your favorite restaurant or recognize your old digs. Sometimes it's easy to forgot that the city is a living breathing thing and that taking photos today will provide the same nostalgia in years to come. Grab that camera and capture the moment for the memories for yourself or anyone that might stumble across your work of art...

Thanks to the Wonderful Skillz of Kate Heller for blending these images to create this panoramic of downtown Omaha. You're always up to the challenge- even when everything doesn't line up!

Foto Flo Workshop 2.0

XMP, DNG, Presets, and Catalogs. AHHH. The crew of Malone & Co had their 2nd Lightroom Workshop last Sunday.

Pictured are Mike Malone, Chris Rich, Kerri Garrison, Julie Morris, Kameron Bayne, Geoff Johnson, Megan Nosbish, Ann Luchsinger, Sarah Pfeiffer, and Andrew Marinkovich. Also, not in the photo but attended is Cara Bresette-Yates, and the Torchwerkers.

It was great having everyone out. Don't forget to save your work!

Chill'n with Malcom Gladwell

Malcom Gladwell hit Omaha to talk to its young professionals and challenged all to frame their vision of this community and develop connections to make it a reality. Malone and Company got in the mix with the media. Geoff Johnson got some great shots of Malcom and Torchwerks rolled some footage while he did an interview with Jeff Slobotski of Silicon Priarie News. Interview coming soon- check back.

Dog Overload

Last Thursday the studio was taken over by 19 dogs. Great job from the crew from Sergeant's, Tamar Geller and her team. The pup on the right is former Malone & Co crew member Stephanie's new Labradoodle.

You just might see some of the images in a pet store near you.

Tortola Sunrise

Andrew and I finally made it here. We are now heading over to Surfsong on Beef Island for the days activities. Andrew has none of his clothes as the airline lost his bag. I will only say the airlines initials are "AA".

Here's a time lapse from my room this morning. As you can tell it's beautiful here.

Foto Flow at Malone and Co

Workflow workshop coming your way. March 8th- it's going down at the studio. Want to know what we know? This is that start. Come in for a download and see how we keep the images flowing through without getting bogged down. Get the specifics on Adobe Lightroom and how we make best use of it. Space is limited, but we'd love to share how we keep our workflow moving.
Shot out to the What Cheer crew for the awesome new logo and site redesign. Workshop 2.0 here we come...

Plastic World

The studio was transformed to a Brady Bunch style "backlot backyard". Thanks to all for shooting late into the night- the images turned out great! Anthony- you rocked the shoot with that heroic balancing act of luggage (this shot was not PSed- it's the real deal).

The concept for the shoot was to build a plastic world because a lot of people have been burdened by those tiny little plastic cards they carry around in their pockets. Plastic rules our life. Then, after we use the plastic we carry around that debt of the purchase. (Easier explained by a photo- for sure.)

Inaguration Day- Hillary Tells All

No, not Hillary Clinton. Our very own Hillary Sinn was in Washington D.C. and recounts a trying day that was the inaguration.

We considered ourselves incredibly fortunate to have scored Silver Tickets to the Inauguration in DC. We set out from our friends' apartment in NW DC at 6a and by 6:20a we were standing in a crush of people at what we thought was a holding spot for the access point to the Silver Gate. While we stood there waiting for the security gates to open (scheduled for 8a), we started to hear that Silver ticket holders needed to relocate. We managed to get out of the throng we were in and rush to where officials told us to go. Upon arrival we encountered another crush of people, gridlocked and confused about where they needed to be - these were Purple Ticket holders (Purple tickets were closer than Silver) who said we were in the wrong place. So we slithered and squeezed our way out to hunt down someone in uniform to set us straight. It was then that the most amazing thing happened: a credentialed member of the Inaugural Committee saw us with our Silver Tickets and gave us three Blue Tickets that she didn't want to go to waste. Score! Blue Tickets would get us closer to the Capitol than our Silver Tickets. We tracked down an officer who told us to cross to other side of the Mall, by way of a tunnel, to get to the Blue Gate. On our travels, my fiance spotted a group of three older African Americans who didn't have tickets - we gave them our Silver tickets and they gave us big smiles and hand warmers. We finally found our Blue Line at 8:15a. From 8:15a to 11:15a, we moved approx half of a block in the freezing cold and with no Blue Gate in sight. It started to become clear that we weren't going to make it in time. And we didn't. They closed our gate. We completely missed the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. Us and 10's of thousands of others with official tickets. Apparently, the situation at the Purple Gate was even worse - our friend was stuck underground in a tunnel for 4 hours and was never admitted. That tunnel is now being referred to as The Purple Tunnel of Doom. Nobody really knows what happened. There's only anecdotal evidence from shut-outs like us. An investigation has been launched into the breakdown of security, crowd control and ticketing. If you were sitting at home, or at work watching on a tv or computer, consider yourself lucky - you had a better seat than we did.

Read more about the situation here - this was posted on Inauguration Day, the early official reports were COMPLETELY inaccurate. Be sure to read the comments following the article.

As a small consolation we were able to have a once in a lifetime dining experience at Komi, courtesy of our hosts.

At least we have a new President. That's what really matters. Hail to the Chief.

Countertop Blender

Kate Heller and Mike Malone created these blended scenes for VT Industries in Iowa. Mike shot the countertops and Kate added the post magic. Check out the before and after in Kate's gallery.

Chuck Hagel

Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel was in the studio for a cover shoot recently. Time was short, but we had a bunch of ideas. Chuck had a long day- he was upbeat and had a great time with the shoot. Come back any time Chuck, and we can shoot a couple more scenarios. Check the video.

Canon 5D Mark II from Breckenridge

The latest video work with the Canon 5D Mark II from atop the mountain.


Canon 5D Mark II in Breckenridge from Mike Malone on Vimeo.