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The President’s Photographer

brendon — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:57:01 +0000

Here a link to a really good ¬†Nat Geo doco its a ¬†50min program on the US President Photographer , Pete Souza ¬†a really good watch

really worth the watch , narrated by Morgan Freeman !!

http://video.nhptv.org/video/1672209202

picture by Pete Souza

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 )

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

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!!

Bowling through India wins

brendon — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:10:40 +0000

A book Bowling through India wins!!! Bowling through India was a book I shot a most of the pictures for along with another mate John Bougen , the scribbler was ¬†my mate Justin Brown ( we has really there to carry my bag) was ruthe book was runner up in the Travel book of the year last week .

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

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