BFI short Pop!

karl poyzer November 23, 2019

I had the opportunity to work as a Unit stills photographer recently on a BFI short film called Pop which is about identity and gender, the short needs some support to get it to completion.

The talented Director Laura Margo Roe and DOP Bartholomew Bazaz did an amazing job on the film as well as the rest of the crew, and it was so much fun to work on, I had the pleasure to work with the wonderful Stephen Graham and the young lead Jake.

So to get it through post-production they have a crowd funder which can be seen below, So get yourself a perk and help it get to the final stage, even a share is a big help! Take a look at some of my stills from the film while your there and some can be seen in this blog to!

Pop Crowd Funder here

Portrait of Stephen Graham who plays Pop

Behind the scene shot of Stephen Graham and art director Charlotte Ball

behind the scene shot of Jake the lead of Pop.

Director Laura Roe going above and beyond helping Jake across a flooded field.

Some of these photos can be seen on my homepage and Unit stills section too!

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Portraits with Ché

karl poyzer October 21, 2019

Recent photoshoot in the Studio with the Amazing theatre actor Ché we had so much fun capturing headshots and Portraits together!

Check them out on the Portraits section of the site!

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Poster

karl poyzer September 14, 2019

At the Beginning of this year I worked as a unit stills photographer on a short film called Snowflakes, It’s great to see one of the unit still I shot used on the poster for the film! - see below

I’m unable to share any of the BTS of the film yet but as soon as I get the all clear they will be up on the website!

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Headshots with Jo

karl poyzer September 5, 2019

Had a fun headshot shoot with Jo who wanted update her website and business portfolio as she runs a film school.

Was fun to work with her and chat about all things film while we shot!

They ca be found on the studio Portraits page to.

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Creative England

karl poyzer August 18, 2019

I Recently shoot a workshop for creative England and also captured 20 portraits of the students on the course.

This was an interesting job as the portraits had to be captured in one location but had to have some variety in the photos to match the students personalities, and there was a limited time allocation for them to be shot, so it was fun think on my feet and get variety in a small space, i’m quite happy with the results it helps having photogenic people to capture!

Some of the photos can be seen below and on the corporate portraits page.

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Megatrain Summer shoot

karl poyzer July 30, 2019

A few photos from a fun shoot with the wonderful band Megatrain!

Was a laugh as always with these guys, we did a shoot on location in a really beautiful mid century house, with such amazing decor inside and out and we shot using natural light.

The band have released a new song and music video which the photos where to accompany, which can be found here !

More photos from recent projects to follow soon :)

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Here's a catch up!

karl poyzer June 30, 2019

Hello

I haven’t updated the blog recently as I’ve been very busy, so Il catch you up on a few shoots I have done, I did BTS on a BFI short which was a lot of fun, I’m unable to share the photos from this until I have confirmation from the production so they will be added once I have the green light :).

I have done a few headshot shoots I can share the ones with actor Josh which can be seen below, and I did some for my director and producer friends for there BFI portfolios they where just as talented in front of the camera as they are behind!

I did Megatrains new band shots, its always a pleasure shooting with these guys, they will be shared in a new blog very soon :) and I have some headshots and more band shoots lined up so will keep the blog more updated with these in the future

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Busy Bee

karl poyzer May 3, 2019

Had a lovey headshot shoot last weekend with LAMDA graduate actress’s Helen, we had a lot of fun in the studio getting her headshots updated and added a little bit of time for a few portraits to!

These can be seen below and in the Studio Portraits section of the site!

Then I went on to a fun short film called Small Blips doing behind the scenes photography, which was shot it the beautiful sunshine on a farm, I will share the photos from once there edited and once I have confirmation on release!

For now il be busy editing, shooting more headshots and have another film il be doing Behind the scenes on in the pipeline!

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Pinocchio!

karl poyzer April 6, 2019

Had an interesting shoot the other weekend with the wonderful Derby Theatre production Oddsocks, I shot Promotional photos for their winter production of Pinocchio!

A young actor called Ethan Lewis was to be our Pinocchio model for the day, and the talented Charlie Mackenzie Barrow did his wood themed make up, including a prosthetic nose for some of the shots, and we had Andy Barrow as Geppetto.

We had a lot of fun with the actors getting into character and creating warm looking shots for their posters of the show!

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Tractors and Robot Arms

karl poyzer April 2, 2019

I worked on a little Commercial last week doing behind the scenes photography on a Farm in Rugby it was an interesting shoot with tractors and a robot arm for the camera, which was called the Milo! It was very fun to photograph, and watch manoeuvre around the actors to capture the scene.

Here’s a few photos from the shoot, I met some lovely people and leaned how to sneakily get my shots without being hit by a gigantic mechanical arm!

I’l now be moving onto a short film next week doing more Behind the scenes!

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A Catch up!

karl poyzer March 25, 2019

So I’ve been very busy over the past month, with a few commercials, Headshots, portraits and so much editing, which has kept me very entertained!

I have an exciting short film coming up which I will be doing behind the scene photography on, and more commercials and headshot shoots to, I have a very exciting project in the pipeline which I’m looking to working on soon!

So to catch the blog up here’s some BTS and photos from some of my recent shoots!

BTS of a Business headshot shoot with Director Jake.

I got to work with the wonderfully talented make up and hair artist Monica Montalvo, and Model Rosie, which was a very fun collaboration! The photos from this can be seen below and on the Studio portraits page.

A shoot with the wonderfully talented Make up artist Monica Montalvo and Model Rosie.

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Gemma

Portraits and Short Films!

karl poyzer February 25, 2019

I had a wonderful shoot recently with the amazing musician Ajay Henry a local RNB singer, we had so much fun creating portraits together in the studio!

The Behind the scenes from this shoot can be seen below!

The studio set up with a colourful background!

I have a busy week coming up, I’m working on a short film doing Behind the scenes photography, I’m looking forward to meeting some new crew and working with some talented people I already know! Then its back into the studio for some business headshots.

So I will update you with the photos from these soon!

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A Snowy Day

karl poyzer February 21, 2019

As I’ve mentioned a few times photography is not just a job to me its my passion and I enjoy doing it in my spare time as much as I do for work! One of my favourite aspects of it is going out into the country side and capturing the natural beauty, so when some snow had settled in the local area I had to go and explore.

I visited Attenborough Nature Reserve and it was like a beautiful Winter wonderland, So here’s a few images from my day exploring this stunning scenery. It’s so important that we take time for ourselves and do what we love!

Hope you take some time to do something that makes you happy!

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Beat the Street's!

karl poyzer January 28, 2019

Yesterday was Nottingham’s Beat the Street’s music festival, which is an event where local Nottingham musicians play in venues across the city to help raise money for the Framework Charity which is in aid of helping homeless people, every penny raised goes to this charity!

It’s for such a good cause, Living in a city I see more and more homeless people each day. I volunteer to photograph this day for DHP to document the event to help raise awareness and funds for framework.

It’s such a fun event and everyone buying a ticket, working or volunteering their time to make the event a success makes me proud of my city!

So here’s a few photos of the bands from the Day :)

The Band Dandylions- these guys where so colourful and so much fun!

The Band Don’t Forget Rupert! - they had so much energy!

The Band Ajaj Henry- He has a beautiful voice and amazing vibe!

Rob Green- Such a sweet kid, great vibe and he was so happy to be playing at rock city!

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First Shoot Of The Year!

karl poyzer January 15, 2019

First shoot of the year was shooting Behind the scenes photos on a commercial for Glide. It was a lot of fun and a great start to 2019! The commercial can be seen here Glide-Typical Student.

I have some exciting shoots coming up this year which I look forward to sharing in time!

But for now here’s some of the BTS photos from the Glide shoot, more can be seen at the Unit Stills section of the site!

BTS of Andrew and Matt ready with the Stedicam.

BTS of a shot of Beth and Andrew ready to go!

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HAPPPY NEW YEAR!

karl poyzer December 30, 2018

Well Its the end of 2018 and its been an amazing year, I’ve managed to lock down a beautiful studio to capture some wonderful portraits and headshots in, and have met so many wonderful people in the process!

I’ve had plenty of adventures with traveling for work and working with some extremely talented people in the film industry working on brilliant short films, music videos, and commercials. Some of which have had Vimeo staff picks and one has won a few Shark awards. I’ve had some of my work exhibited at Nottinghams first photography festival.

Most of all I’ve had a lot of fun doing the job I love, which il be forever grateful for, I look forward to the future in 2019 for even more photoshoots and adventures!

Here’s a selection of some of my favourite photos that I captured in 2018!

I would like to wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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The Last Few Studio Shoots Of The Year!

karl poyzer December 23, 2018

Had some studio fun towards the end of 2018, Had a headshot shoot with the lovely Andrew who is an actor from London who studied at LAMDA Drama school, some photos from our shoot can be seen below!

An amazing portrait shoot with Daisy Godfrey who is a local musician, we had a lot of fun creating some beautiful portraits for her portfolio!

More photos from these shoots can be seen on the Studio Portraits section of the website here.

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Christmassy work!

karl poyzer December 6, 2018

Hello again so I guess this is another update on the work I’ve been up to!

It’s been a christmassy couple of weeks of work!

To start I had another studio shoot with the wonderful band Megatrain, with the lovely Felix and Tiger, shooting their Christmas photos and Cover shot for their new Christmas single Bolshevik Xmas No. 1, which is an amazingly Beautiful song and now available to listen to on Spotify and by clicking Here :). These guys crack me up, I struggled to take some of the photos due to laughing so much, the shoot was a lot of fun!

Check out the photos below from this shoot!

Here’s the cover photo from the new xmas single on Spotify!

I’ve been Pretty busy on commercials and Music videos shooting Unit stills and behind the scene photos, some of which can be seen below, some are actually from Megatrain’s music video to!

Unit still From the Xmas Bosch commercial

BTS photo From the Xmas Bosch commercial

There’s more from these shoots on the Unit stills section of the site so go check it out!

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A little Update!

karl poyzer November 21, 2018

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Thought I would do a little update of whats been happening! I have been a little unwell so that took me out for a week and a half, but I’m healthy and well now so all is good!

Ive been in the studio again shooting headshots and playing with my lovely new hand painted backdrop from Bespoke Backdrops, it has a lovely colour and texture to it, and I look forward to creating some interesting portraits with this soon!

Some of the photos below have been shot on this new backdrop!

Portrait Of Ryan on the Bespoke hand painted backdrop!

Headshot of ED.

Portrait of ED.

A few of the films I have worked on have had the all clear for the unit stills to be shared, so I’m happy to share some of these with you below. Some of which are from a lovely new music video orange from Artist Daithi which can be seen by clicking here Orange.

Checking the shot, BTS from a music video for Daithi.

Uni still from a music video for Daithi.

BTS of Director Lochlainn directing the Actor Diarmuid on a music video for Daithi.

MUA and costume working on the short film connective tissue.

Unit still from short film Connective Tissue.

DOP getting the shot on short film Connective tissue.

More from these films can be seen on the Unit Stills section of the website.

I’m busy on a few studio shoots and commercials over the next few weeks so will update you all with another blog soon!

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Exhibiting at the Off centre Photography Festival!

karl poyzer November 1, 2018

Super stoked that three of my portraits will be exhibited at the Off Centre photography exhibition taking place in and across Nottingham for two weeks from the 1st to the 11th November. It’s Nottingham’s first independent photography Exhibition, and I feel very privileged to be exhibiting work there!

Melvyn is one of the portraits Exhibited at the Exhibition!

The festival spans across multiple venues in Nottingham city, my work will be shown at the Backlit gallery which can be found here:

Backlit Gallery, Alfred House,
Ashley St, Nottingham, NG3 1JG.

open-Weds – Sat: 10am – 4pm!

Theres lot of amazing photographers exhibiting to, so make sure you come and have a look around!

More information can be found here at: offcentrefestival.co.uk

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