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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Spa Magazine Photography shoot at Mii amo Spa
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Spa Magazine Cover shot at Mii amo destination spa in Sedona. Mii amo spa in Sedona is one of my favorite luxury destination spas. It is a very special place tucked into a canyon amidst the red rocks of Sedona. We spent about a week in Sedona covering the feature and the cover. This was my 2nd time to Mii amo and loved it just as much this time around. It was an inspiring place, very magical setting and the food was to die for. Mii amo was awarded the best destination spa in the world by Travel & Leisure in 2009.
We shot architecture, gourmet food, landscapes, portraits, lifestyle and spa still life. We had a fabulous time collaborating with the Spa Magazine creative team and the Mii amo staff treated us like royalty. The feature story was about Veronica Cribb who won a week long retreat through a Spa Magazine contest. She is an inspiration. The weather was a bit challenging on this shoot at times. For the cover shot above, I had a jacket underneath my down filled winter coat and was still cold! Check out some behind the scenes photos at the bottom.
Here are some behind the scenes photos of this shoot below. Click here to see more behind the scenes photos on Spa Magazine website.
Architectural Photography Shoot at Luxury Resort in Napa Valley CA
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Here are a few images from a recent architectural photography shoot we did in Napa Valley California at the luxurious Auberge Du Soleil. Auberge is the ultimate experience in luxury and is ranked as one of the world’s best hotels by Travel & Leisure magazine. We stayed in a beautiful suite here for a week during this shoot. It was a great experience and loved our time here. Everyone on the staff was amazing as well and made us feel right at home. We also did motion film of the architecture and food which we will be posting a video soon. A few weeks ago we did another lifestyle & fashion photo shoot here with models. We are still editing those to be posted soon. Auberge is situated on a hill, so the view of the entire property in the photo above was taken from a 60 foot crane. There are some behind the scenes photos of that at the bottom of this post. There are a few gourmet food shots and spa still life shots in here as well.
Some behind the scenes shot from this week:
California Resort and Spa Photographers
Monday, March 1st, 2010
As spa, hotel, and resort photographers, we have been doing a lot of traveling the last couple of years going to some very exotic luxury resorts and spas. Of all the places we have been, I have to say California is still my favorite place to be. On one of our recent trips, we half jokingly said we are going to start calling ourselves “California” resort and spa photographers. The reality is it’s our favorite place to live, travel and work and it just so happens to be a great place to be a spa and resort photographer.
Here are some of our favorite spa, hotel and resort locations to do photography in California. Our favorite place would probably be wine country of Sonoma and Napa. Big Sir, Carmel, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego all have beautiful hotels and resorts as well. We hope to focus our efforts more in the coming years on doing more photography in our beautiful home state of California.
Our favorite things about photographing resorts in California are the food, the weather, and the style and sophistication. I have always loved gourmet California cuisine even when I lived in the midwest and east coast. I have to admit I sometimes take the abundance of organic produce and food for granted. Whenever I come home after a long trip, California gourmet food is one of the first things I can’t wait to get back to. There is also an eco-friendliness / green living that I really appreciate about California as well. I also find that resorts and spas tend to focus more on the healthy lifestyle aspect in California, something I sorely miss at resorts that do not have that. California luxury resorts also tend to have more focus on all natural or organic spa treatments, something I really love and appreciate. As a spa and resort photographer, I really appreciate working in an environment that reflects my own California lifestyle.
Spa Magazine Photography Cover Worldwide Spa & Resort Guide
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
This photo was shot at a luxury resort, hotel and spa. It was recently selected for the cover of the world spa guide for 2010. We love spa magazine and are are so excited to see our image on the cover.
Credits:
Luxury Resort & Spa Photographer: Trinette Reed & Chris Gramly
Location: Le Taha’a Luxury Resort & Spa
Stylist: Yumi Takeuchi
Assistant: Laurent Pichon
Talent: Tetuamere Bennet
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Spa Magazine cover at luxury resort and spa in Napa Valley California
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
An image from our photography shoot at Solage Calistoga Resort & Spa on the cover of the Sept/Oct issue of Spa Magazine The cover image was used for a story about rejuvenation in California’s wine country. We plan on doing a full blog post of the shoot soon including behind the scenes, and motion video, stay tuned…
Credits:
Luxury Resort & Spa Photographer: Trinette Reed & Chris Gramly
Location: Solage Calistoga Resort and Spa
Stylist: Pauline Montupet
Hair and Makeup Artist: Brynn Doering
Model: Brittany Ward / Cast Images
Assistants: Heather Hryciw & Alessandra de Souza
Stylist Assistant – Yumi Takeuchi
Hair and Makeup Assistant – Megan Cavalli
Luxury Resort and Spa Video in Napa Valley, California
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009This is a short film we did for at a Luxury Eco-friendly Resort, Hotel, and Spa last June in wine country, California. Spa Solage was voted the #2 Spa in the US by Travel & Leisure Magazine. We shot two days with models, alternating between photography stills and video motion. This was shot with the Canon 5D Mark II.
We had a great time on this photography shoot with our fantastic crew and models. We stayed at the resort for a full week spending two days shooting the spa lifestyle content and the remainder shooting architectural, food, and detail photos. This luxury resort is right up our alley, modern design, eco-friendly, luxurious, California cuisine, amazing spa and mineral pool, we were in heaven.
Credits:
Luxury Resort & Spa Videographers: Trinette Reed & Chris Gramly
Location: Solage Calistoga Resort and Spa
Art Direction: Caroline MacDonald
Stylist: Pauline Montupet
Hair and Makeup Artist: Brynn Doering
Model: Brittany Ward / Cast Images
Assistants: Heather Hryciw & Alessandra de Souza
Stylist Assistant – Yumi Takeuchi
Hair and Makeup Assistant – Megan Cavalli
Luxury Hotel & Resort Photography- St. Barths
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Last year we did a photography shoot at a Luxury Hotel & Resort on the island of St. Barths in the French West Indies. This luxury hotel was recently designed by famed Parisian designer Christian Liaigre. The resort was very good to us and made our stay wonderful. This luxury hotel is located on a private beach and was noted by The Travel Channel as one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
We loved the beautiful modern design architecture of the rooms and bathrooms – our room was right on the beach. We spent two days photographing with models and then we picked up some extra images of food, architectural photos and hotel details the rest of the week.
Here is a small collection of images from the shoot:
Credits:
Luxury Resort, Hotel & Spa Photographer: Trinette Reed & Chris Gramly
Luxury Resort & Spa in Tahiti
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
We flew to Tahiti (French Polynesia) to shoot at this luxury Resort and Spa. After three plane flights and short boat ride (two days of travel from San Francisco) we arrived at the private island. This resort was definitely one of the most remote places we have ever been, it truly feels like you are on the edge of the earth. We spent months producing this photography shoot and ended up hiring 4 local models from the main island of Tahiti.
Originally we intended to shoot only photography stills on this trip; however, after talking with some photographer colleagues weeks before our trip we decided to add a motion video element into the mix. That had to be pulled together rather quickly as we were less than two weeks away from leaving San Francisco. The shoot ended up being 2 days of shooting photography stills and 2 days of shooting motion video. It was a great experience.
The trip was not without some major challenges, the main challenge being the weather. We experienced some severe tropical storms with some of the loudest thunder we have ever heard in our lives. Chris nearly got struck by lighting with his camera out on the deck outside of our room. I tried to warn Chris about 4 times to come in and that he should not be standing outside over water with a metal camera and tripod during a lighting storm. He insisted it was fine until the biggest bolt of lighting I have ever seen struck right by him and he got shocked because his foot was on a nail on the deck. We quickly retreated to the (safety?) of our thatched roof bungalow. The staff assured us that these storms were a regular occurrence and there was nothing to worry about, and they pass quickly.
Given the time of year we were there some days it would storm for hours and then we would get 10 or 15 minutes of sunshine. We would stand at the ready and run out and shoot as much as we could before the weather turned again. It is safe to say that our shoot time was cut by at least half by the weather during the trip. Having said that we made the best of it, and took full advantage of those sunny moments. As most photographers are aware of, on every shoot there are things that you cannot control and you have to go with the flow and work with what is in front of you. Weather of course is one of those things.
Location: Le Taha’a Private Island Resort & Spa, French Polynesia
Luxury Resort & Spa Photographer: Trinette Reed & Chris Gramly
Director of Photography (Video): Dan Coplan (http:/www.dancoplan.com)
Stylist: Yumi Takeuchi
Assistant: Laurent Pichon
Talent: Tevaiti Hart, Tetuamere Bennet, Ariirai Manutahi, David Meitai
More photos from the shoot:
