Brendon O'Hagan » AFP

Alright …its the All Whites ..

brendon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:54:49 +0000

back from a road trip with the allwhites football ¬†shooting for AFP , there where two games one in Auckland and one in Wellington although the results did not go the nz way they lost 1-1 to Honduras and 2-0 to Paraguay ¬†it was still a good effort and a pretty good crowd at the games , I enjoy photographing football its nice to have a change from Rugby and they games have a really nice feel about the games ¬†with usally a very vocal crowd , and there is always a very “interesting” crowd of supporter’s .

it takes me a while to get into the swing of things with football and ¬†by the time I find my feet and get into shooting football international football ¬†season is over.

some crowd shots

Qantas Media Awards 2010

brendon — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:14:42 +0000

Qantas Media Awards 2010

I was a finalist in the qantas media again this year in the Sports portfolio section , I was nice I had two finalist last year and won best feature picture last year , its always nice to make the finalists as a freelancer

there is a few of the pictures from the portfolio below

showering of stones and the Rally of New Zealand

brendon — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:41:06 +0000

It has been a very busy few weeks with lots going on so big ¬†lack of blogs ¬†.I have pretty much just going from one job to another ¬†so I’m catching up now . A Couple weeks ago I was covering the Rally of New Zealand for AFP along with Nigel Marple from Reuters , and Ross Land ¬†we all headed off to cover the rally for the three days.

in the three days we covered 1300 km and went from Northland to the Waikato.

Rally of NZ is one of my favorite ¬†events that I cover for AFP , we sign away our lives get given a green bib and told to go nuts ,stand where you like if you get run over its your fault!!

the Rally is quite ¬†a hard ¬†event one to cover ,we would pick a spot that looked good on the map drive there ,load up the cameras up on ya back and then head off up the road sometimes its a 1km walk sometimes a 5 km walk ¬†allways looking for that one spot that you think is the place to be it may be a great corner or a slight jump , the cars are traveling up to 200km a hour ¬†on metal roads so you dont have much time. even with the Canon mark 4 camera that I use that shoots ten frames a second you only get four or may five frames before the car has passed and you are getting showered in rocks as the car blast off down the road

all good fun

On the way to the World Cup

brendon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:06:24 +0000

This was a Assignment I did a few months ago in November of last year it was the world cup Qualifier with New Zealand vs Bahrain ¬†, it was a home and away match with New Zealand drawing the first leg and ¬†needing to win by a goal in the home leg it was played at the Cake tin in Wellington , one of the best stadiums in New Zealand in my opinion .

I was there shooting for AFP , I have been working as a freelancer for AFP for quite a few years now and pretty much cover all of the International sport that passes through New Zealand¬†for them ¬†, ranging from Rugby (lots of Rugby!!) sailing, tennis Rally cricket etc etc , they are one of my favorite clients , but anyway back to the football , the stadium was a sell out and was packed and being a oval stadium the noise level was right up there ,with chanting all through the game.

I have been playing around with multi media presentations and trying to prefect that so I brought along my sound recorder and recorded the sound and have made it into a little piece ( it was cut using Aperture 3 from apple it was the first time I have used it and its rather nice !!) ¬†here is a link to the slide show http://www.brendonohagan.co.nz/multimedia.html