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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

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

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 !¬†

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

Malaysia and the monsoon cup

brendon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:59:29 +0000

Back in Dec I headed off to Malaysia for a couple of weeks to work with My good mate Gareth Cooke a very very good marine Photographer .

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