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Erin McGrady + Caroline Whatley
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Short films, Film fests, YouTube, and Reels

In 2024 we received the No Man’s Land Film Festival’s Genderqueer Filmmaker Grant which helped us bring Full Spectrum - A Queer Outdoorsy Film About Autism, to life. It had its World Premier in Denver in 2025 as well as travel around via the NMLFF World Tour. During the No Man’s Land Flagship Festival Erin received the Fem-Wow Award for favorite All-Woman production / Director. Full Spectrum was also selected for the NMLFF World Tour and was recently selected for the Muskoka Film Festival in Ontario, Canada.

We’ve been hired by numerous outdoor brands to breathe life into projects.

Recent video clients include Outside, Merrell, Coleman, Orvis, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Stio, and ENO Hammocks.

 

Authentic Asheville’s 2024 Cinematography Reel

Marathon Motivation by Authentic Asheville

 
About a third of a circular yellow plate with a reflection in the shape of an arc rests on a bright blue background. The blue is met at an angle in the middle of the photo with a white background. On the white background are three cake pops.

Play With Your Food? We're In!

Erin McGrady January 19, 2022

When HippoPops, a small business in Asheville, NC, reached out to us about creating content for their website and social media channels we were pumped. We sourced numerous props to create imagery that matched the fun, colorful, happy vibe that the pops bring to people. And were thankfully able to stave off the temptation to eat the product before the shoot was completed.

Tags product photography, food photography, content creation, content marketing

Product Photography for Well Told

Erin McGrady January 17, 2022

We started shooting product photography for Well Told (formerly Uncommon Green) back in 2016. We genuinely like their unique, high-quality, personalized glasses, barware, mugs, tumblers, and water bottles and love creating imagery for them for their website, newsletter, and social media. In studio product photography has become some of our favorite work over the years as we’ve gained new skills that allow us to shoot without natural light. In fact, almost 90% of this shoot was shot without natural light. If you’re looking to refresh your approach to content marketing, send us a message, and let’s get to work!

Tags product photography, content marketing, content creation
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Content Creation for Made By Google

Erin McGrady February 8, 2021

We had a lot of fun creating content for a recent campaign highlighting the Google Lens feature on the Google Pixel phone. The idea was to take the phone out into the wild and capture some imagery that showed us using one of our favorite features. We decided upon the Lens feature because we’ve found it to be helpful when identifying various plants on our walks - in other words, it was a natural extension of our daily lives and made for some pretty cool imagery, too. We shared the photo on @e.mcgrady’s Instagram feed and it was also highlighted on Made By Goog'le’s Feed as well.

Tags content creation, product photography

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