Brendon O'Hagan » canon 1d mark 4

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

ipad….iwant….itried….ilike …. igot

brendon — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:24:49 +0000

I got a Call from AFP to cover the launching of the ipad in New Zealand , after jumping through many hoops I finally got some details and a place to go and cover .

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

A rather Large Yacht

brendon — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:06:26 +0000

One of the projects that have been working on for the last two years is the recording the making of a rather large 67 meter luxury yacht

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 )

“Cold and very wet water”

brendon — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:25:06 +0000

one of the jobs I have done lately ¬†(and another favorite client) is Surf lifesaving New Zealand . A few weeks back we shot a few picture for a new manual . Surf life saving ¬†the service will start using jet skis a cross the country , to use alongside there IRB ¬†boats .

I have great admiration for these guys they do a great job during the summer and have to deal with more than there fair share of idiots ¬†.

most of the pictures where shot with a canon 500mm and a 1.4 convertor ¬†on a 7d (a a few with the canon 1 d ¬†mark4) ¬†giving me a lens of 1120mm lens which was still on the limit as the waves where a bit further out the assignment was ¬†shot in one of the two locations , with this one being in Muriwai in Auckland ¬†on a good surf day .

wet shoots for Blue Seventy

brendon — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:25:46 +0000

A few months back I did a shoot for Blue Seventy , who make Hi end wetsuits , they are one of my favorite Clients and have worked with them for the past 5 years or so . they do great ads and use pictures really well and it always great when you get sent the finished ad that had run in mags all around the world .

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

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

the Tale of Two cups

brendon — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:19:14 +0000

something happened a few weeks ago that I can’t see I will repeat any time soon, I was hired to shoot the football world cup by Coca cola as it did a world tour and stopped off in New Zealand for a visit , and at the same time our video crew from www.thevc.co.nz ¬†were shooting the rugby world cup in Wellington for a promo for the 500 days for the Rugby world cup ! I cant see the two cups ever being back in New Zealand ¬†at the same time again … unless we win the football world cup that is …¬†Coca cola put on a big event where lucky members of the public could get a picture with the Football world cup ,( New Zealand ¬†will be at the Football world for the first time in many years)

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 !¬†

Huge Bugs and wetsuits

brendon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:48:24 +0000

Have just finished ¬†shooting a job in Thailand on the island of Krabi for a client . was a very hot and sticky day with the temp around 36 degrees ¬†, it was a full on day with a 4.30 am start ,the idea was to make most of the morning Light , trouble was it was not that nice a morning .

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!!

Fishing and the Louis Vuitton Trophy

brendon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:43:38 +0000

I have spent he last three days covering the Semi and Finals of the Louis Vuitton Trophy for AFP .

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

Canon Digital DSLR Day

brendon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:55:33 +0000

my mate Simon Baker held our first digital video course , It was a introduction to shooting video with the Canon series of camera’s that shoot 1080 hd video ¬†.
Simon and myself had been shooting video with the camera’s for about 18 months now , I use the camera’s on a weekly basis and being a photographer not a videographer it suits my style nicely .
I am also part of another business that does Video full time www.thevc.co.nz which we use a variety of camera. At the moment we are using the 5d mark2 , 7d and the 1dmark4 all very good camera’s.
Canon was great to have aboard as was A2Z tech where we get all of our sound gear , and helping us out with lending us cool toys like Zacuto stuff was rubber monkey in Wellington ,we hope to offer some more courses in the future .
here are some pic from the course