RuairĂ­ O'Brien (I.S.C.).

What follows is a collection of still images from films I have shot. I hope you like them. If you do, then click on the image them to enlarge pictures.

You can see more of my work at www.ruairiobrien.com



Wednesday, December 4, 2013


SMA Baby Milk.
Directed by Stevie Russell.
We shot on an Epic using Zeiss Masterprimes and flared every shot with a light pointing down the lens.

Production Company - Sonny London.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Life Of Crime
Episode 1
Set in 1985. We set out to emulate the look of the time.

For this scene we had a couple of practical flourescents set up in the ceiling and some 4K lamps outside the windows at the end of the room. But once the art dept. appeared with the food service area with heat lamps (on the left in this picture), we decided to turn off the flourescent lights overhead and go with a dimmer, sadder look.

Shot on the Alexa with Cooke S4 lenses.

Colourist Gary Curran at Screenscene.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012


This was a test frame - looking at adding muzzle flash to a gunshot. From Injustice.

Thursday, December 29, 2011


This is from an ITV show called Injustice.
Shot on the Red MX.
Canon 24mm swing and tilt lens with blue streak anamorphic flare filters. We stuck a light in the background shining right towards the lens for a hot streak of flare. Backlight was a 6k.

Colourist Jet Omoshebi at Deluxe 142.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Nike, test grade


















Shot on the Red MX. A rough grade for the director. Zeiss ultraprimes. T2.8 1/2.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Five Minutes Of Heaven






One take. We waited for the exact right moment at magic hour and torched the car. In the picture Diarmuid Noyes, Conor Mac Neill, Mark Davis and Mathew McElhinney. Super 16 with a 16mm lens I believe.







Brian Molko of Placebo - Bright Lights







We shot with some scaffolding which we wrapped a load of strings of 100 watt bulbs around. Brian had a big soft light over his head and was very good at playing into the light. We streaked the lights in post. What looked shambolic on the day (we had the producer asking us were we sure it would work) turned out like this.






Monday, February 14, 2011

Teeth





35mm film. 5245 (the last rolls available in the country before it was discontinued). Location Glendalough, Ireland.









Sunday, February 13, 2011

Domhnall Gleeson in Corduroy








This scene was supposed to be shot outdoors at night but a huge storm drove us indoors. I think the scene actually wound up working better than it may have if we had shot it the way we originally planned to.