Brendon O'Hagan » canon 7d

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

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 .

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 !¬†

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