New Web Site

The new site is up

www.carllyttle.com

Hope you all like it - lots of new blog updates coming soon.

Hasselblad Press Article

More Press - thanks to Hasselblad for the coverage, and big thanks to Trevor Lansdowne for the kind words.

Hasselblad Bulleting - Carl Lyttle Article

And now Photograph of the day !

It must be my week, first photographer of the week, and now photograph of the day !

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE WEEK 14th January 2013.

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY 17th January 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Eyeland photographer of the Week.

Delighted to see I've been chosen as photographer of the week at One Eyeland and a Global ranking of 21. 

   PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE WEEK 14th January 2013.

 

 

Calumet Winter Edition - Article

And another year passes us all by, and what a year it was - and as usual my blogging updates have been some what minimal, but I will put up some of the projects I worked on during 2012, as most of them I can now share.

I also had a nice article published on me in the Calumet Winter magazine, so check it out from page 34.

Open publication - Free publishing - More calumet

Graham Coxon Fender Telecaster Film

Way back in the summer I made a little Graham Coxon film for fender, and I forgot to hang it on the Blog - so here it is.

Graham Coxon - fender Signature film

GQ Car Awards 2012 Images

Carrying on from the previous post showing "the making of " film from the GQ car awards shoot I did in Silverstone, here are some of the still images that go with the article.

 

GQ Car Awards 2012

Back in Decemeber in the freezing cold Northamptonshire winter I spent the day at Silverstone photographing the GQ Car Awards 2012 article for the April issue. Its out now so go take a peak, here's "the making of" film.

GQ Car Awards Making of video

Johnny Marr Fender Jaguar Shoot.

As most of you who know me will know ( seeing as I've gone on about it relentlessly ), I had the pleasure of working with one of my childhood legends, the one and only Mr Johnny Marr. I spent an epic couple of days with johnny shooting, filming and editing and really enjoyed working on the project.

So here are 2 of the films I produced for Fender, some of the press pictures and a few behind the scenes pics as well. Hope you like them, I certainly enjoyed making them.

The first film was a little 3 minute teaser

Johnny Marr - fender teaser video

And the second was a mini documentary about the design of his new signature guitar for Fender.





Johnny Marr Fender Jag Mini Documentary


And then the press images.

And some behind the scenes fun.

2012 Here we Come

I think 18 months without adding to a blog is a bit lame, so I have to hold my hands up and plead guilty to wearing that badge. Its been a crazy 18 months were I have watched the photography industry change direction yet again, but it seems that most of us have adapted to the change and moved forward with the change.
2011 started quite slow but from May on it was nuts and I've crossed the globe from Barcelona to Shanghai to Barcelona, back to Shanghai , then wizzing through Detroit, up and down the UK and of course Paris and the projects that I was shooting have destracted me from my blog duties and I'm going to do my very best keep the blog updated through 2012.
I worked on some great projects last year for Nissan, a few for General motors in China and a monster project for GM in the states that is being delivered as I write and was great fun to work on, and then at the opposite end of the spectrum I did a few projects for Fender guitars culminating with a piece on Johnny Marr, which was an awesome treat working with one of my childhood heroes.
The year finished at Silverstone shooting and filming for the GQ supercar awards article to be published in April and that was great to work on also.
I plan to publish all the images and film shorts from 2011 over the next few weeks and that should hopefully bring the blog right up to date before the production craziness begins again. So a big happy new year to everyone , lets hope its busy and prosperous for us all.

What's up ( pt 3 - Isuzu Rodeo - Making of )

And finally for this series of blog updates, here's a little fun - a nice little film made by Rodger Stanier ( the art director on the shoot ).



ISUZU RODEO ( The Making of )

What's up ( pt 2 - Isuzu Rodeo )

No sooner had I put the cosworth job to bed, when PH-WT commissioned me to shoot some tasty location images for the launch of the newly facelifted Isuzu Rodeo.

Art directed by Rodger Stanier and Holly Pallister, it was a great shoot and we found ourselves in Wales around the Devils Bridge area for the first 2 shots, then down to Sharpness Docks on the River Severn for the next shot, then finally racing down to Exmoor to shoot a dam for the background of one of the shots.

I had a lot of fun on this shoot, with some great people, and I hope the shots do the brief justice.

What's up ( pt 1 - Subaru Cosworth )

I Know I know, it's been 10 weeks since my last blog, and I promised I would keep it up to date.

To make up for the silence, I have a 3 part blog going out today that brings me right back on track.


April was a quiet Month for me, but May picked up at pace and I was briefed on a nice Subaru Cosworth studio shoot, which I shot up at Junction 11 studios in Banbury ( nice studio ).

Here's the shots - hope you like the results.

PDN Award Winner

I'm delighted to have been told I have been selected as a winning finalist in the advertising section of the PDN image awards in New York. The winning images are those that I featured in an earlier blog that I shot for corvette in China.

In addition to this I've been selected for the finals of the AI-AP with one of the images I shot in New York back in October, its the image of the Coney Island Cyclone from the subway train.

All being well, I'll be in New York late in May for the award night, and I'm sure I'll have some pictures from the event.

Agent News

Well its been a few weeks since I entered anything on the blog, its been busy busy doing lots of housework, getting web images uploaded, printing new portfolios and generally catching up on the things that take ages and ages to put together.

I am delighted however to announce Jamie Stephen as my new agent/rep for the UK, and his details are :

www.jamiestephen.com

tel : +44 20 7228 6667

I'm really very excited about working with Jamie and look forward to working with him.

Also on the agent front I'll soon be announcing new reps in other territories around the world.

Yamaha Campaign Images

At last the embargo on the Yamaha images I shot in New Zealand has been lifted and I can show the project. The campaign was created and art directed by Mike Boekholt, and the concept was commissioned and nicely handled by the creative force of Two Fish in Amsterdam.

I'd also like to thank Mark Bullen for his endless hours of retouching on this job, and for having the patience and vision to bring it altogether for me.

Shanghai Windows

Just a quick blog with some images I took when I was working in Shanghai at the end of last year.

Surfs Up

Some recent personal pictures from Fuertaventura - hope you like them.

Seminar and Exhibition time - Gecko Advertising Festival

Those who know me, know I have a love for Italy and spend as much time as a can chilling out in the Ligurian Hills, and I was delighted to be invited to present a 3 day seminar this summer in the wonderful medieval village of Apricale.

The Apricale Commune are hosting a photographic advertising festival http://www.geckofestival.it/workshop.html . The festival is to be called the Gecko festival, which ties in with the Lucertola (lizzard) association that the village has. Apricale has been a mecca for italian artists for years and houses many talented artists and exhibitions and I'm honoured to be able to present the seminar.

The seminar will be hosted over a 3 day period 5th, 6th and 7th June and will cover in detail the subject of CGI car photography. I'm hoping to make it as hands on as possible and look forward to presenting it. My presentation is the only english speaking one of the festival, but I'll have to brush up on my italian just in case.

For more information on the festival contact Susanna Perachino susanna.perachino@gmail.com or call her on +39 347 628 6890.

Here's the exert about my seminar.

CARL LYTTLE 3D Car Production (genere scatto: automobili) 3 giorni da sabato 5/06 a lunedì 7/06
	Recipient of many high profile industry awards and at the forefront of digital and CGI photographic image making, London based Carl Lyttle first fell in love with photography in his native Belfast. After graduating at Poole College of Art and Design, he assisted the renowned advertising photographer Christopher Joyce. Working mainly with automotive clients, like Nissan, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Landrover and Lexus, he also has many other high profile global campaigns under his belt, such as Barclays, BAT and Microsoft. His work in digital imaging has now moved into the field of high-end, innovative CGI imaging. This complements his automotive and landscape skills, and in 2007 Carl was a co founder of the ground-breaking CGI house “this little fish”. www.carllyttle.com

In addition to all this I have been asked to host an exhibition in the castello in the heart of the village, and I'll provide all the info on that as the exhibition curation takes shape.

Whats been happening ?

Its hard to believe that we are 8 weeks into the year already, and its been a crazy busy start to 2010, which is why I've not made so many blog entries of late, but I do intend to change that as I've got lots of content to share with you over the next week or two..

I started the year shooting a Subaru Ad for CST in London, which was shot under the worst weather conditions I've worked in for a long time. We shot the car in the snow and -5 degrees c weather conditions of south London, and by the power of post production it ended up looking like spring.

Almost immediately I was off to New Zealand for a shoot for the new Yamaha Tenere, shooting a series of backgrounds, which again was hampered by terrible weather - mostly sea fog and heavy rain ( its the worst summer new Zealand has had in a long long time ), but we got some gritty abstract backgrounds all the same. From there we headed straight to Amsterdam where the bike units were to be shot, and even though the Amsterdam weather cold and snowy, we were in the studio all tucked up nice and warm.

The Post production on the campaign is nearly finished, and as soon as the press embargo is lifted off the images I'll get them straight up here for all to see.

Currently I'm waiting on confirmation for a couple of projects, but in the meantime I've been working on a few new personal images and will get those upline this coming week.