I recently had the opportunity to work on a photo shoot featuring the brand new Mercedes-Benz S-Class in collaboration with a team of talented individuals, including Calum Currie as the DOP, Chris Nichols as Director, myself and Jack Harding as photographers, as well as Francesca Petta and Roberto Napolitano, featured models.
The shoot aimed to juxtapose the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class with a young pianist who has been striving for mastery his whole life, representing the precision and elegance of the S-Class, which is a true masterpiece of engineering.
The shoot was challenging, a perfectly black car and perfectly black piano sounded on paper like an automotive photographer’s nightmare with all those reflections, but it forced us to bring our creativity to the table. We shot at 3 beautiful locations, one in Snowdonia with natural light, another in an airport hangar where we built a set featuring lighting provided by Nanlite and smoke to enhance the mood creating a super cinematic effect, and the final location was a piano restoration workshop in Buckinghamshire. The resulting images aim to showcase the beauty and sophistication of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the aspirational message of being driven for mastery.
Be sure to check out the talented individuals involved in this production linked below.
DOP/Editor: Calum Currie
Director: Chris Nicholas
Photographer: Jack Harding
Photographer: Oscar Lumley
Model: Francesca Petta
Model: Roberto Napolitano
Colourist: Lucrezia Pollice
Film Score: Louis Loze-Carey
Piano Restoration: https://pianorestorations.co.uk/
Car supplied by: Mercedes-Benz UK
