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

I had thought I would budget to get a ipad down the track as I see it as being a great work tool for a photographer ,but afer having a play with one for a short time ,I ended up buying   one on the first day . for me it is for displaying Video jobs and portfolio pictures to new clients , with a pitch coming up for a client I took the plunge a little easier than I would have liked but I brought a ipad , so far I have used it to pitch for three large jobs and have got every one  to be able to hand it to a client and let the hold and view the footage in the way they would like and that is suits them , I really hope this ebook/ipad really takes off its a great medium and for the photographer/ video camera operator it  could opens alot of doors in a industry that of late has been having a lot of doors shut on it  it could be a a great new medium for photographers  .

all picture copyright of AFP/Brendon O’Hagan

I have been recording the progress of the building with still images, (a canon 5d sitting in the corner of the factory taking a picture every 2 hours ) we also have been shooting video for a mini doco on the making of the yacht , and I also have two web cams set up so the client can login and see real time progress of his once in a life time build .

and we are now also working on the custom made book to feature the making of the Yacht .

all this takes place in Alloy yachts in Henderson where the factory pumps .. maybe not pumpsout … it takes over two years to build a yacht… ¬†they have up to five on the go at once , the finished products are floating luxury hotels with every thing you could every need in them .

I will post some more images when it completed  .

( I am also working on the next alloy yacht as well with a second time lapse camera ticking away )

here is a sample of two ads from the last shoot with a few more ads still to come  still to come

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

the cup travels in style where I was told on some stages of the trips it has its own plane!! , while it was in NZ in flew every where by helicopter ! 

still we work with what he have and now I have a day of editing on the computer working out which of the 2864 pictures  ..not so much fun

the thing is when you write about these jobs they sound like so much fun with travel great locations etc ¬†which is all true , but there are few down sides , the heat and the Bugs ….huge bugs some the size of a sparrow!! and when the run into you they hurt !!! I now have bugs crawling around in my camera so I will have to have a good clean when i’m home

it was Thailand new year so its a three day holiday and as part of the tradition you throw water over ever one . the kids love it and there is nothing better than getting a white boy wet! so we where a target still you are not going to argue with a two ton elephant that wants to throw water over you!!

home on Sunday looking forward to that

ya kinda win the water fight when you have a elephant on ya team!!

Justin Brown at www.justinbrownbooks.com it a story about five blokes going on a boys trip to play cricket in the slums of India.We had a blast on the trip and it is the first book that I have worked on. we had a great crew and have had stayed in touch after the trip for a little tesser on the trip here is a like to a little multi media project that explains the trip better than I Can

http://www.brendonohagan.co.nz/india.html

I’m on the road for the next week weeks ,with a job in France to shoot for a week and another one in Thailand on the way back

so keep a look out and I will up date my blog while I’m away ( if nothing eles at least my mother and wife will read it !!)

cheers Brendon

Its the second time I have covered the event for AFP and its at good fun event , Long days but when the weather is good and wind is blowing in the right direction it can make for some great Pictures , Unfortunately we had neither for the last three days of the Finals  but still we have to provide coverage no matter what the weather  .

to cover the event we pile into small and fast photographer  rib boats which gives us good access and the ability to race ahead and get shots of the boats as they round the marks  all good fun the bonus for us in our boat is the skipper james and fishing lines aboard so in betwwen races and delays ( and there where a few Long ones!!) we headed out a went fishing !!

a total of 12 snapper for the day  and top top it off I was still able to send  couple of picture  out as well, so all good fun !

Oh and Emirates team New Zealand won

here is a few pictures

We were there to cover the World Match Racing tour , the Malaysia leg is called the Monsoon cup. it was the last leg of a Nine stop ¬†tour and as it happen a kiwi team www.blackmatchracing.com was at the top of the leader board and if they won the would win the event overall , which was kinda cool as one of my other companies I have a share in http://www.thevc.co.nz had designed there website and done some promotional video clip for the team , Hamish Hooper for editor had worked on the site and the video for quite a while and we had perfected the site so it could stream the races live over the net which I thought was rather cool. any way the guys won the Moonsoon Cup and won the title of world match racing champions ! , its always nice to see a Kiwi team win I can’t say i have done much yachting photography bar three America’s Cup and a Few Louis Vuittion cups but really enjoyed it and will hopefully be doing a few more Yachting Jobs in the future here are a couple ¬† pics from the Monsoon Cup