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Actually its more like the new days, but you know when something has that memory of just being easy, fun, and natural kind of like the old days!? Well, thats kind of how shooting video has been with my best friends/partners/collaborators/joke makers/all around insane times or what ever you wanna call us reminds me of!
It started a year ago when Adam Boozer of Jewell and Ginnie along with his sidekick Aeron Myers joined me on a fashion shoot. The shoot was a fashion story my team and I had put together and wanted to see what would transpire if we collaborated on shooting stills and motion! Needless to say, we got some amazing work out of it and it just made since that we need to continue working together and since then have created so many more amazing films together!

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“ah, present company, the best that you can find”! The absolute best at that! Having the best company, friends, family, loved ones, lovers, significant others, secret admirer, neighbor, or the random person that always walks by your house and waves even if you dont know their name or really anything about them at all but you still wave back; is one thing that shapes who you or I is as a person!

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” Hunks of 237 Saint Margaret,

It was a pleasure to visit you. The future calls and I must go. I know great things are already happening for each of you. Keep at it. It is only the surface of the greatness each of you will accomplish. One day we will rule the world, or we will be so great that we will find a way to make our own.

Here’s to the future, gentleman.

I will only be next door.
I love you guys.
-Seth Amos

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… I can’t believe I am actually at the point to post this stuff! It has taken me weeks and weeks of contemplation, frustration, and distraction to finally be at a point to post only a small portion of this HUGE project I undertook…

J. Davey

skip to the bottom if you want to read the, hopefully not to boring, back story on this shoot…
Also, to see a gallery (easier to scroll through) of all of these images click here!
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… I’m havin’ such a good time! Again I apologize for taking so long to update! My life has been a whirlwind of craziness the past few months! Incredible things have been happening and making my life insanely amazing, complicated and just down right tiring! But all is good on the home front! Some serious new and important update follow this, so READ it! Please! click for more of the story

… listening to a little yeah yeah yeahs. Maps are interesting to me. Thinking about how much of my life depends on one and how much I use it. You used to have to pull over to read the damn thing because it was like 10 feet wide and as soon as you open the window you rip the map right down the middle of the street you have been searching for the past 30 minutes! Now having maps on my iphone is a whole different world. I find locations, places to eat, friends houses and can pretty much get anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. If I want to scope out another country and see what the landscape is like, bam, 2 seconds later I am checking out the nile river basin in Egypt. It can take me on a wonderful drive across country telling me where to stop and instantly give me reviews on the place I wanna stop, even if the wait staff at the place you go are a little strange and they forgot to mention online that their chairs dont support people who are 6’7″, or even lead me to other great discoveries like techno hoodies! But no matter how many other places it takes me it will always lead me home, or take me to the place I used to live 17 years ago and show me how much the area has changed or stayed the same. Those awesome hills I used to bomb on a skateboard when I was 8, Google street view takes me right down all the places I wiped out. My career takes me all over the world and hopefully one day I will see all that it has to offer and I have to thank technology for getting me around with such ease! In the end the the best part of maps is finding home and coming back to it, it will always be there along with whatever you left behind. You can always pick up where you left off…..

OK enough of that, as my good friend would say HTFU!!!! Time for some work! The photos in this post are from a wonderful shoot I had the pleasure to shoot with Troubadour click for more images and stories

Hello all! and so my quest for world domination continues! At least in a photographic sense! Today is a big update for me! A recent project I worked on with some very dear/close friends of mine is now being released to the world! A few polaroids are included from the shoot and if you want to see the whole story and some video go here! Woooooop! We worked on a little lifestyle fashion piece about the rekindling of a group of city and back woods friends who let loose on a weekend of love, friendship, and ridiculousness! Here is what spawned my recent shoot…

Its very easy to sit at your desk/computer and think about ideas, waiting for the next client to call, watch tech sites, and behind the scenes, etc. etc.! Well, Im kind of tired of that, and it doesn’t get me anywhere, while I agree that its fun but if you need to see that much about how to do something, you need to find a new career! The fact of the matter is that I chose this career because its what I love to do, all I think about is creating, I am so happy when I pick up a camera, which means while I am thinking I also need to be doing!

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Scheisse it’s been a minute since I have done a blog! A ton has been going on! I recently did a branding seminar with Beth Taubner from Mercury Labs, uhhhhhhhhh.. it was incredible! For those of you not sure about Branding, I will try and give you a brief synopsis (and when you are finished reading got get yourself Branded!).
Branding yourself is an intense, emotional, thought provoking, in your face strategy that guides you as a business to be able to market who you are for what your are. In my case my photography as a business “Sully” needs to be a brand so you remember me for Sully and when you hire me you are hiring me for “Sully”. So basically after the seminar I will have an entire new brand of Sully Sullivan photography so I can market my self to target Audiences. New website, business cards, promotional pieces, portfolio, etc! A big part of this though is realizing who I am as a person and applying that to my work. So on every shoot Im applying me, sully, my brand, my heart and soul into every photo. Alright it’s getting to deep, and Beth will kill me if I give out any more info check out Mercury labs if you need to find a direction and brand yourself. Its the smartest thing I have done!

The shoot in this post is from Hampden Clothing, a little fashion story we worked on together! It was amazingly hot and windy! Thanks to everyone for their super awesome help! Stacy at Hampden, Ashley Perryman for the awesome hair and makeup, Kyle and Kate for being awesome assistants, and Zoe for being a wonderful model to work with! The original place we built the set was to windy so we had to break it down and find a new location! My next blog I will explain a little more of set building and following through with your ideas on shoots!

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Greetings everyone. Quick update, these are some photos of Designer Julie Wheats new collection. Her line is called Cavortress. These are just a few polaroids from the shoot. Im so in love with shooting film, I am making myself shoot it everytime I pick up a camera. I used to only know film, even when the big “popular” switch to digital was made. I love both but Im in love with film way more. It slows me down, makes me concentrate on whats in front of me. I should have the rest of the photos up soon. I shot digital and film so as soon as I get out of the dark room and “digital” dark room aka computer land! I should have some photos up for everyone to see. Thank you to Mike Grady my new stylist/set prop designer who rocked out with me all day to get our swing together as well as Kyle Morris rockin out as my assistant! Its so important to have a good team that you can trust to help you make your vision come to life. I cannot stress this enough, without all of this help us photographers would be lost. I know this, as a full time assistant as well. Here is a little insight for what help is worth in our industry and the amount of work that goes on before, during, and after a shoot (worth reading, I dont expect these terms by any means they are just industry standards). It was a crazy night but we got some rockin stuff! Thank you to all the models for being patient and rockin out! You ladies effin’ rock!

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Greetings all! The photo attached with this post is from the 1st Annual Southeastern Beard and Mustache competition held in charleston SC. This is an outtake from the shoot, Im not sure quite yet what I want to do with the photos… Im thinking to do a little preview show at my house, sort of like an indie rock art show, good ole’ house party style. Just something low key and super fun for everyone. (so be on the lookout for an update on a secret art show!)
I recently gave my first lecture ever at the Charleston Center for Photography, I want to say thank you to everyone who came out, I spoke about the importance of being an assistant as well as going over a little bit of my work and creative process. Pretty basic stuff, but hopefully informative! The reason I am mentioning this is that in my lecture I talked about making sure you shoot your ideas you are thinking about and always pushing your work forward. Always keeping your work fresh and shooting things that could get you great photos, even if it means spending your own money on renting equipment, paying for models, hair and makeup, stylists, whatever! SHOOT IT! Thats what I did with this beard and mustache competition. This also means not just shooting it just to shoot it but making yourself try new things, new lighting set ups, props, sets, whatever it takes BE CREATIVE! Make yourself try those crazy Ideas you have! The harder you work at something the better results you will have. Who knows, maybe a client will call you one day asking for that style that you did a test shoot with, and boom, you already know how to do it!
Alright, its back to the website updating for me! More news soon! Keep being inspired and push yourselves to new levels of freakin awesomeness!
Let me know if there are any other creative questions you have! Im thinking that maybe once a week on my blog I will answer questions that anyone has about assisting, photography, whatever! Ask away!