Emily Roper - Commercial Photography & Video Portfolio

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Collaboration - The Leo Style x Sunglass Hut

Brief: Photograph some stills for a collaboration between The Leo Style and Sunglass Hut. For this shoot, Leo and I spent an evening chasing the light together as I photographed her in multiple looks.

The Boutique Collective - Lookbook

Brief: Captured photography to be used on the website for The Boutique Collective.

Coconut - Stills Photography

Brief: On set stills photography for NZFC Short Film - Coconut. This short film was shot across two days and one night. These images were used for their international press kit, and on all promotional materials.

Director: Charlie Bleakley

Production Company: IBC Films

The Last Night - Stills Photography

Brief: On set stills photography for NZFC Short Film - The Last Night. This was a great little project to be a part of, filmed accross two seperate nights. These images were used for their international press kit, and on all promotional materials.

Director: David Strong

Producer: Wanda Lepionka/David Strong

Little and Light

Brief: My own photography business I recently launched in 2023, specialising in capturing images for whānau across Tāmaki Makaurau.

Client wedding photography

Brief: Some examples of wedding photography I have captured for multiple clients over a number of years. Wedding photography is an excellent example of problem solving on the go. 99% of the time you will get no time to set up lighting or spaces. I loved capturing the real moments as they happened.

Client Wedding film

Brief: Filmed, recorded sound, and edited a wedding film for a couple during my final wedding season in 2018.

Music Video - Personal Project

Artist - Lost Bird

Song - Grace Has Got Green Eyes

Brief: I created the concept for the video, and then directed, filmed and edited it myself.

Dore Promotional Video

Client: Dore - Learning Assistance in New Zealand

Brief: Filmed and edited a promotional video for the company Dore. For this documentary I interviewed the subjects, and set up sound and lighting myself. They wanted me to create a case study video about one of their students and his success with their programme.

Orangebox Promotional Video

Client: Orangebox

Brief: Create a corporate video for Orangebox. They wanted it to tell the story of how their company grew from a tiny project of passion, and how far they’ve come now. They wanted to show the sense of community in the company and why the people there love working for them.

Filmed & interviewed, set up lighting, recorded audio, and edited by me.

Angostura Bitters - Global Cocktail Challenge

Client: Angostura

Brief: Capture the Global Cocktail competition as a promotional video for Angostura to share for marketing purposes.

Filmed, recorded audio of competitors, and edited by me.

Street Hospital - Stills Photography

Brief: Capture press kit photography for season one of TVNZ series - Street Hospital. This was a reality series about paramedics at work at night time in Wellington. It provided an exciting challenge for me with very limited time and utilising any available lighting I could.

Produced by The Gibson Group

Massey Fashion Students - Final Editorials

Brief: Some highlights from three seperate editorials I captured for three different design students. They each approached me with completely different briefs and ideas and tasked me with capturing their lookbooks for them.

Clients: Liah Roebuck, Hannah Shand, and Lucy Scanlan

Living Light Candles

Brief: Capture product photography for Living Light Candles. For this task, the client left the entire concept in my own hands. They are based out of Nelson, and they shipped boxes filled with their candles to me in Wellington.

Personal photography projects

Brief: Some images I captured for my own personal projects

Along with all the work I have shared above, since 2013 I also have kept very busy working as a freelance VFX Photographer and On-set Technical Director (in VFX) across a number of feature films and tv series. Due to the NDA’s I have signed on all of those jobs, I do not have the rights to share any of the images here. However, I have a selection of behind the scenes photos from some shows below.

You can also take a look at my CV:

Emily Roper CV

For Spiderman: Far From Home, I was sent to Prague to capture the Charles Bridge. Here I am on a rooftop overlooking the bridge

For Spiderman: Far From Home, I was sent to Prague to capture the Charles Bridge

For Spiderman: Far From Home, capturing a town square from a rooftop in Liberec

For Spiderman: Far From Home, shooting panoramas using a roundshot motor in the Dolomites, Italy

Being transported around Venice on Spiderman: Far From Home. I spent a month living in the city capturing VFX Photography for the film

For the film Aquaman, I was sent to Erice in Sicily and tasked with photographing the town for VFX Plates. I am the one in black in this photo taking images from a rooftop overlooking Erice, while a friendly Italian Grip stays close for safety

Shooting stills for Aquaman. In Erice, Sicily

For Spiderman: Far From Home, capturing the destroyed town of Belchite in Spain

For Spiderman: Far From Home, capturing the destroyed town of Belchite in Spain. (I am the tiny dot in the doorway)

The full body photogrammetry rig which I was building and running in Australia, then London

After capturing Taylor Swift for Cats (2018)

Filming VFX background plates in Thailand for Infinite (2019). For this job I was on my own with a translator, a water safety expert, and a snake wrangler.

Capturing the Angkor Wat Temple for feature film Infinite (2019). On this particular day we had the entire upper temple to ourselves.

Capturing the Angkor Wat Temple for feature film Infinite (2019). We spent about two weeks here, and at the end we had captured an entire large scale 3D model of the entire temple.

Capturing helicopter plates for The Rings of Power (2020)

A photo taken of me, about to get sent up in the helicopter to photograph some landscapes for Rings of Power (2020)

Taken from my perspective, harnessed to the outside of a helicopter. Capturing photogrammetry (VFX Photography) on the Alderman Islands for The Rings of Power (2020)

After being dropped by helicopter on this mountain range in Fiordland, a rig I set up and ran to capture photography plates for The Rings of Power (2020)

Capturing photography plates for The Rings of Power (2020)

me working on the set of Marco Polo in Malaysia (2015)

Emily Roper CV

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