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Rockabilly Zombie Weekend

Over the past month we have been in Production on a new Horror film titled, Rockabilly Zombie Weekend. A rocking take on the Zombie genre, Written and Executive Produced by Tammy Bennett and Directed by Jaime Velez-Soto. I came on as part of the producing staff with my co-horts Melissa Gruver and Randy Molnar. Check out the website for killer imagery and stay tunes for more info!

Official Website

Official Facebook

PHOTOSHOOT: aXis Magazine Cover, March 2012

Ahh the month of March. At aXis we are always hitting up our favorite Irish drinking Holiday, St Patrick's Day. This month's cover got done a little last minute. We literally had cover model Amber Sym flying straight to the shoot from another shoot in Panama. Using a little luck of the Irish, we pulled off this image in the zero hour!

Some Behind the Scene goodness! Model: Amber Sym

Shot in Studio: Orlando, FL

Canon 5D Mark II, 70-200mm f/4L Canon Lens

Lighting: Alien Bee 1600, 800 & Ring Flash

Video by: Paul Steward

Edited by: Steven Shea

"As The Sun Begins To Fall"

Back to basics with our boys in Of Valleys. For this new "robot-free" music video, I wanted to get down to a much more personal level, and show the more vulnerable side of the twins. Big shout out to Croix Provence our female lead for doing a great job!

As The Sun Begins To Fall by Of Valleys

PHOTOSHOOT: Yogurt Smoothness

I have known the guys in Yogurt Smoothness for a bit, mostly through other bands. But I always dug their style and wanted to do something visually with them to bring that out... Here is what we came up with.

Model: Yogurt Smoothness

Shot on Location: Kissimmee, FL

Camera: Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens

Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & 800

"Chained To The Bottom"

I have known Cragmire, the lead singer of The Bloody Jug Band since attending college at UCF. So when his musical outing decided they needed someone to make their first Music Video, I was not surprised to get the phone call. After deciding to do a throwback video to the 1930s style of moving pictures, we gathered everyone, grabbed a greenscreen and threw this together. [NOTE: Check out the tubular cameo by J LaRose (from Saw III & IV, and Repo: The Genetic Opera) as the Devil]

Chained To The Bottom by The Bloody Jug Band

PHOTOSHOOT: aXis Magazine Cover, February 2012

For the month of February, we decided to do a cover themed around the biggest event in Central Florida for the month, The All-Star Game. It drew celebs and crowds from around the country. We used Gabriella Katia as the cover girl, one of the best models i've ever worked with. This was shot in Rok Room (where Gabriella bartends) and the Grey Goose 180 Lounge on top of the Amway Center. Enjoy...

Some Behind the Scenes video action: Model: Gabriella Katia Shot on Location: Amway Center, Downtown Orlando, FL Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & Natural Light

PHOTOSHOOT: The Sounds

One of my favorite bands is the Swedish indie rock group, The Sounds. I had the ability to shoot them for Et Cetera Magazine, which was a pretty gnarly experience. Check out the photos below:

Model: The Sounds Shot on Location: Firestone, Orlando, FL Camera: Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & 800

So JAWSome...

They officially closed the JAWS ride at Universal Studios in Orlando on the 1st of January, 2012. In honor, my buddy and Internet sensation, Adam The Woo and I went down and made a very nice tribute video. Thanks for letting me tag along in one of your zany adventures!

PHOTOSHOOT: Guns & Roses

I realized that I hadn't updated this thing in a while... my bad. Things got busy. So here are a bunch of updates to see what I've been doing for the past few months... I got do to a photoshoot of Guns & Roses (or what is left of them) performing at our new Amway Arena in Orlando. Pretty sweet digs. Buckcherry also opened, they are always great. We had to get escorted out of the security pit for GnR, due to the amount of pyrotechnics in the area. Awesome!

Boom!

PHOTOSHOOT: Star City Meltdown

I got a call last month from the boys in Star City Meltdown, a Rock/Alternative band out of Johnson City, TN that I had the pleasure of shooting some promotional shots for last year. They were in town recording a new record, and their new label (Standby Records/ Victory Records) wanted some new shots. They were planning a new marketing campaign, so we knew these shots needed to be epic. We shot these in a backyard, while I was running to get into a secret concert with The Killers. Here is what we ended up with...


With Logo...


Models: Star City Meltdown
Shot On Location: Orlando, FL
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & 800

PHOTOSHOOT: The Shea Family Christmas Card 2011

It's that time of year again. When people gather together and prepare for the most joyous and celebrated event of the last 365 days... the unveiling of the Shea Family Christmas card.
This year we decided to go with the 2nd highest grossing film of 2011, and one of my personal favorites of the year: TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON. I think its probably the best written of the series, and anyone who knows me, knows I'm a pretty hardcore Transformers fan. So check out the Wife and little Dude below, and see how there's nothing like the end of the world to bring a family together!


Models: Steven, Melanie & Victor Shea
Shot in Studio: Orlando, FL
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600, 800 & Ring Flash

PHOTOSHOOT: aXis Magazine Cover, Dec 2011

For this month at the magazine, the cover was sponsored by Coors Light, and features the Coors Girls. The original concept was to have the ladies enjoying a cold one at their fireside winter snow lodge (which luckily we have a winter lodge themed watering hole based in downtown Orlando cleverly titled, The Lodge). They were kind enough to let us take over and get some pretty cool shots (some with the help of their snow machine). Our adventures led us outside, and the shoot extended to the streets of downtown (much to the excitement of the male onlookers). The powers that be ended up deciding on an exterior shot, which I was still excited by since they turned out so well. I've always wanted to make a cover where it snowed on downtown Orlando, and here is how it would look...



Here is a Behind the Scenes video for the shoot, shot and edited by Paul Steward.


Models: Lauren Kiser, Ali Roberts, Melinda Sabina
Shot on Location: The Lodge & Downtown Orlando
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600, 800 & Ring Flash

PHOTOSHOOT: Of Valleys

Ahh my brothers in Of Valleys. The rising Alternative/Pop group from Central Florida, who I completed the "dancing robot" music video for earlier this year. I have been with these guys for a while, and when it came time to do a new group shot, I had two concepts in mind... For concept #2, luckily I had secured a prop police car for a month while shooting our film "Two Days" and just so happened to have it standing by when the guys came down to shoot. We got some fun shots running around with it you can check out below...





I can't wait to release the next concept shot from the band we shot... plus we just shot a new music video that is going to be pretty amazing. Stay tuned!

Models: Of Valleys
Shot on Location: Orlando, FL
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & 800 & the Sun

PHOTOSHOOT: Dollface

There is a pretty rad pop-rock powerhouse all girl band (and yes I say band, because they actually do play all of their instruments) called Dollface from Orlando that is starting to make quite a name for themselves. I had the recent ability to do a studio shoot with the band (after having shot lead singer, Tiffany Martin many times before). They were looking for a high fashion style, but of course mixed with my photoshopped sensibilities. Here is the fabulous shot we came up with. Each girl shot in studio individually, and then composited into the background image. I liked the idea that the girls were inviting the viewer into their lair... of rock.



Models: Dollface
Shot in Studio: Orlando, FL
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & 800

PHOTOSHOOT: Sarah & the Shark

During a recent photoshoot for our boys in Of Valleys, I had the opportunity to bring in one of my favorite alternative models, Sarah Ann Martini. I had a hotel room for an hour, and that day I was super jonesing to do a shoot with a hammerhead shark... Sarah also happened to be standing nearby, and so this image was born.

Model: Sarah Ann Martini
Shot on Location: Days Inn, Casselberry, FL
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600 & 800
Lighting Assistance: Joe Loffredo

TWO DAYS

This past October, I had the opportunity to come on board and help produce a new Police-thriller feature film to be shot in Central Florida.

TWO DAYS tells the story of GUY MARKS, a police officer with 27 years in the force. This is his last day before retiring. His job is being a police officer, his life is being a police officer. His entire existence has been the daily routine of patrolling seedy streets and dealing with scum. Now it is all coming to an end and all his inner demons finally will get a chance to surface.

We shot for 18 days throughout October, on location from Sanford, FL to Lake Wales, FL. We had a great crew and cast, and knocked the project out on time and on budget.

Here is a concept poster I shot and designed-


Here are a couple of the film stills I grabbed while not running around the production office like crazy.



We now are working, editing the film in Post. Find out more about it at it's Facebook page here.

PHOTOSHOOT: aXis Magazine Cover, Oct 2011

I've fallen behind in the Blogging, due to two new feature films Ive been working on... so here come the updates!

I shot the October 2011 Cover for aXis Magazine, featuring my buddy, Tiffany Martin (Radio DJ from The Monsters on Real Radio 104.1 and lead singer of the gnarly girls rock group Dollface) The shoot was set up at the UCF World of Beer, where the cover promoted their WOBtoberfest event coming up. Here is the final image...


Here is the Behind the Scenes video, Shot & Edited by Paul Steward


Model: Tiffany Martin
Shot on Location: World of Beer, Orlando
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600, 800 & Ring Flash

PHOTOSHOOT: alt NOIR Magazine

I've been super stoked to release the images from this ExtraTerrestrial themed shoot for altNOIR Magazine. I teamed up with Orlando model Lily Le Roi to do a shoot based on Katy Perry's "ET" video for the Out Of This World themed issue of the magazine. The article is used as a makeup tutorial. The shots came out stellar! You can check out the tears below (FYI: I did NOT shoot the cover), and see more info on the magazine at their site here.






Model: Lily Le Roi
Makeup: Lily Le Roi
Shot in Studio
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40mm f/4L Canon Lens
Lighting: Alien Bee 1600, 800 & Ring Flash