Recent Professional Works

[Rob C]

The proportion of the viewing 'figures' for the three images above gave me a little giggle: the power of the sexual pull is alive and well.

Rob C

[BobDavid]

Great work, Frank!

[Frank Doorhof]

Thanks Bob.

[SeanBK]

Hasselblad's TV channel. I think it is real good, wish other mfr would follow suit.
http://htv.hasselblad.com/
   

[HarperPhotos]

Gidday,

Here's a shot I did a couple of weeks ago for VW Golf.

Re touching by Lightfarm Studios.

http://www.lightfarmstudios.com/

Cheers

Simon

[bcooter]

Gidday,

Here's a shot I did a couple of weeks ago for VW Golf.

Re touching by Lightfarm Studios.

http://www.lightfarmstudios.com/

Cheers

Simon

Simon,

Nice ad.

Whoa, things are expensive in OZ.  A mitsubishi base Lancer goes for 30k?  Heck in the U.S. they give you one in a box of cereal.

All the best.


BC

[HarperPhotos]

Hi James,

Thanks.

Cars are more expensive in OZ compared to NZ. That VW Golf Cabriolet in the pic is $43,000 NZ ($36,000 US) new which I reckon is good value.

Changing the subject but this new Nikon D800 is only $3,000 US which is $3,500 NZ for 36 million pixels and video.

Now that is a bargain.

Cheers

Simon

[bcooter]

Hi James,

Thanks.

Cars are more expensive in OZ compared to NZ. That VW Golf Cabriolet in the pic is $43,000 NZ ($36,000 US) new which I reckon is good value.

Changing the subject but this new Nikon D800 is only $3,000 US which is $3,500 NZ for 36 million pixels and video.

Now that is a bargain.

Cheers

Simon

Sorry Simon I meant to add New Zealand.

It's been a long day.

Regardless nice ad.  Most people look at an ad with a lot of post work and think the post work did it all, but as you and I know, most of the time shooting for something with a lot of post work is harder than a more direct organin image.

Good job.

BC

[haefnerphoto]

Simon, Nicely done!  What's the surface those vehicles are on?  Jim

[HarperPhotos]

Hi Jim,

The surface was taken at a old air force base in an area where they used to have a number of  Irikoy helicopter helipads. The concrete there has a great texture. The sky was taken back in the ‘90s when I was camping one summer and was take with a Nikon FA and good old Fuji Velvia.

Cheers

Simon

[HarperPhotos]

Giddy,

Here's another shot I did about a week ago

Retouching done by D2 Creative retouching.

http://www.retouching.co.nz/

Cheers

Simon

[Rob C]

Hi Jim,

The surface was taken at a old air force base in an area where they used to have a number of  Irikoy helicopter helipads. The concrete there has a great texture. The sky was taken back in the ‘90s when I was camping one summer and was take with a Nikon FA and good old Fuji Velvia.

Cheers

Simon

This is all very clever stuff, and I mean no disrespect to anyone, but isn't this all so depressing?

Whither reality and some real fun with the business?

Rob C

[HarperPhotos]

Hi Rob,

I understand where you are coming from. In a perfect world I would have shot the cars on location.

As you know there restraints like budget, time, weather, and the logistics of getting 3 cars to the location can make it just to hard.

So now with the talents of great re touchers like Lightfarm the image can created with a lot more control than trying to do it in one shot.

The same applies with the rugby player shot. As some of them are All Blacks which in New Zealand means they are worshiped as Gods. It is very difficult to get them because of other commitments so we shot each player over a 10 day period. One All Black told me that in January they had a combined total of 18 TVC and photo shoots for the 2012 season because after that they are off limits from the sponsors.

Cheers,

Simon

[Rob C]

+1

Simon, your work is solid, all high end commercial work. No apologies required. You're in the 1%'ers of photographers. Very easy to tell from the high level of work. How something is produced nowadays is simply not an issue. Creativity is all about constraints and the constraints of business are real and require creativity and visual problem solving.

John, no negative implications were being made about Simon's work, as he clearly understood.

The sadness to which I referred was exactly on the points Simon made: time, budgetary restrictions etc. which remove the real pleasure of a location shoot. To some, I believe that's absolutely as you feel: "it's simply not an issue." To others, like myself, it was probably about 80% of the reason for being in photography in the first place. That's all I have to add.

Rob C

[ACH DIGITAL]

Interior photos in the new headquarters of the Norwegian Embassy in Caracas. ACH

[rcdurston]

The above is on a Mamiya RZ with a 90mm on Fuji 400H.
The one below is on the same camera with Fuji RMS 120 cross processed.

Both using Profoto lighting, strip banks, silver soft light reflectors and grids.

[andreagenor]

I did a shoot for Marcatto, brazilian hat company.
Sorry my bad English!

Mamiya RZ Pro II + Leaf Aptus 75

[HarperPhotos]

Hello,

Firstly just like to say that these a great images.

I also use a Mamiya RZ ProIID camera with a Leaf Aptus 75 back and I was wondering if you had any problem with colour moiré when you did this shoot?

Cheers

Simon

[andreagenor]

Hello,

Firstly just like to say that these a great images.

I also use a Mamiya RZ ProIID camera with a Leaf Aptus 75 back and I was wondering if you had any problem with colour moiré when you did this shoot?

Cheers

Simon

Hi Simon,
Thanks, your portfolio is beautiful.
I had some problems only with the jacket of him, but nothing big problem, I solve this rapidly.
Do you use Leaf 645 Mount?

[ACH DIGITAL]

I did a shoot for Marcatto, brazilian hat company.
Sorry my bad English!

HI, beautiful images, post and locations. Where about Brazil were these images taken?

ACH