We all believe our profession is populated with the crazy, funny, wild side of humanity. From bartenders, policemen, to salespeople, and photographers, we all think we are the craziest of the bunch.
Truth is, every profession requiring you be an extrovert is filled with strong personalities working side-by-side creating a better world (and having a little fun.)
Our HMP-Photo.com photographers saw this first hand during our work for InVision Communication at Genentech's Sales Incentive Program in San Diego when we were asked to cover four concurrent award ceremonies. Yes, that's right! Four consecutively running award ceremonies where over 300 awards were given.
So how did we do that? Cover four events at one time? We did it by digging into our pool of employees and strategic partners to find the best photographers in San Diego, Orange County & Los Angeles and to photograph Genentech's celebration of a successful 2007.
Our mission was creating photojournalistic coverage of the salespeople and managers attending these award ceremonies with individual awards in over 300 categories and, delivering digital images on CD the very same night for in-house publications. As well, all these images were also compiled into an end of the week multi-media presentation during their final gala ball.
Four photographers from HMP-photo.com showed up in San Diego with the finest digital photography equipment, computers, CDs, along with enthusiasm, creativity and the desire to create great images of the crowds, celebration and the winners.
As you can see by the photographs on the left, there was a plethora of mad scientists, cloned sheep, crazy wigs, lots of makeup, even Frankenstein and his female assistant to celebrate their achievements.
Five hours later we handed off CDs with 1,212 digital images for a multimedia presentation and in-house publications.
While we didn't see the genesis of breakthrough medicines, we did document some great people celebrating their role as distributors of life saving medicines.
Mission accomplished!