Career Highlights / History

 

Mark first gained a degree in Physics from the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1979 then became a Technical Director and Master Controller for a major television network (TEN) for nearly a decade.

A passion for photography saw Mark make a career change that started with another degree, this time in Photography from RMIT in 1991. As a commercial and advertising photographer he worked with major clients such as Nissan, Holden Special Vehicles, Ford and the Henley Properties Group in a career lasting ten years.

The culmination of Mark's experience in both moving and still pictures, combined with the advent of digital technology, has seen the development of a new and innovative motion picture effect – a multiple camera array technique called Time Splice. Time Splice is used to “freeze” a moment in time as you move around it.

Television commercials using this technique have been produced for leading brands such as: Poise, Carlton United Breweries, Sea World, Hyundai, Lexus, Red Bull and Energizer.

Mark travels the world! Successful assignments have been completed in Japan, U.K., New Zealand, India, South America, North America, Spain, Germany and China.

A real time system was also designed and used on Rove Live and Big Brother 07.

Mark has also created major milestones in the area of still photography being one of the first to complete a long term, time-lapse project with a digital still camera of the Southern Cross Station (Spencer Street) over a period of three years. He also successfully completed a 360 degree virtual reality HDR time-lapse, at the Space Needle in Seattle using twelve cameras to capture 360 degree, with one full 360 every minute, for 24 hours.

Click here to open a small Quick Time show reel of passed film based still photography.

Click here to open a small Quick Time show reel of commercial camera array work.