How I Shot Throne Portraits of Flo for Progressive Insurance
My name is Dana Neibert, and I’m an advertising photographer based in Coronado, California. I recently shot a series of portraits of Flo from Progressive Insurance. Here’s a look at the project.
We had our art department prop stylist, Anthony Altomare of Buffalo Art, work with Cycle Zombies in Los Angeles to create these amazing thrones.
As with all commercial jobs, we are responsible for every aspect of the production. Heading up the production was my producer Paige Dorian of Paige Dorian Productions. Paige spent nearly a month overseeing the throne production, securing locations, permitting, arranging traffic control, coordinating crew, etc.
The initial post production look and feel was created by myself and then final retouching was handled by Sugar Digital in San Francisco.
Here are the resulting portraits and time lapses of the shoots that condense 6 to 10 hours down to 1 minute or less:
P.S. A fellow photographer (Chris Swainston) from the LA photo community was recently in a skateboard accident which resulted in some head trauma. He’s in pretty bad shape and has no health insurance. Please consider supporting him on GoFundMe.
About the author: Dana Neibert is a commercial and advertising photographer based in Coronado, California. You can find more of his work on his website, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
