Recent Professional Works

[haefnerphoto]

BJ, The walls were shot for strip.  They are painted muslin stretched over 1x4 frames, somewhere around 50% of full size.  Jim

[haefnerphoto]

Rudy, This approach can be applied to any subject.  The paths are the best way for me to select what I'm working on but you're right they are time consuming.  Automobiles, because of their size can make lighting challenging, which means the shots can need a fair amount of retouching.  This amount of effort is not uncommon at all.  The front tire came from a brighter capture and then was made contrastier to look like a highlight.  Jim

[Easton]

Love the shots Jim! I do love the retouched-studio background techniques and although I've tried i've never been very successful with it.

[michele]

Editorial for Valentine's Day, the 1st one is a cover shot. I only had 15 hours from shooting to PP before they print it, so those are a little rough. And of coz I got chocolate splashed all over my studio after this...

Beautiful!

[haefnerphoto]

Easton, Thanks, glad you like it!  It's probably is a little low and a little wide but I'll add it to my vintage stock library, you never know what someone might need it for.  I didn't work on it before because I had quite a few other angles I liked better but this car was just sold at auction (somewhere around 3,000,000.00) and this view is the one they used as the major illustration (unretouched) so I thought perhaps it should be finished.  It looks a bit over done so I'll revisit it in a day or two.  Jim

[feppe]

Easton, Thanks, glad you like it!  It's probably is a little low and a little wide but I'll add it to my vintage stock library, you never know what someone might need it for.  I didn't work on it before because I had quite a few other angles I liked better but this car was just sold at auction (somewhere around 3,000,000.00) and this view is the one they used as the major illustration (unretouched) so I thought perhaps it should be finished.  It looks a bit over done so I'll revisit it in a day or two.  Jim

3,000,000? Oh dear. Oh my.

Thanks for posting the before and after - very impressive. At the same time there's not much difference except for the reflections and bg, but there's a huge difference in the overall mood. Beautiful car, and a stunning shot!

[HarperPhotos]

Gidday,

States:
Mamiya 645AFDII
Mamiya AF 45mm Lens
Leaf Aptus 75
Bowens Flash
Processed in CS4

Cheers

Simon

[haefnerphoto]

Simon, That's a cool shot, what's the story behind it?  Jim

[HarperPhotos]

Gidday Jim,

Its a advert for a animal drench company, were you can go into a competition to win a a stack of tools.

They were also filming a TVC at the same so when they were setting up for the long shot in a paddock behind me. I had about 30 minutes to get my shot and get the hell out of there.

My assistant is lying in the grass by the fence so the cows would come over to her cause if you are lower than there eyes they are not scared of you and will walk right up to you.

Cheers

Simon

[haefnerphoto]

Simon, Someday I'll have to try that cow trick.  Can't wait to ask my assistant to go over and kneel before those cows!  Although, he'll probably already know that one.  Thanks, Jim

[HarperPhotos]

Gidday Jim,

Years ago I used to have a Mazda MX5 as I love convertibles.

One time after I had been up North of Auckland to do some black and white landscapes, as I came around a corner on a gravel road a herd of dairy cows were coming towards me taking up the whole road.

As I sat there they started to lick the car and me so I was covered in cow spit, I think one of them even tried to remove the CD from my stereo.

The farmer was beside himself with laughter on his motor bike.

Cheers

Simon

[mtomalty]

Nice Valentines shots,Dustblue.

Could you provide any background info on how you triggered the flash,etc to capture the 'crown' splash in the chocolate.

I've shot similar crowns in the past for stock and basically timed it manually which created 100's of misses.

Did you use actual chocolate?  I would have thought it would have had too thick of a consistency to create a crown


Mark

[dustblue]

Hi Mark:

I had a hard time to capture the crown too. Actually I just tried many times to achieve it: my asist drop the ball, and I use my D700's 8f/s continues to shoot. Even it's 8f/s, it's not enough, most of the shots are not usable, and actrually none of them is like the final one you see--I just pick up a good crown, and add a ball in post. There is a better way to achieve this, which is use a sound/light trigger, not that complex but you need to prepare for that--but I don't have the time for this assignment.
 
You are right about the chocolate, I put water in to nestle's chocolate cream, and make it fluid like water. In fact I don't like this chocolate water, I think if it's hot real chocolate like the chocolate spring, it would be much better.

Sorry for my poor English.

Dustblue

Nice Valentines shots,Dustblue.

Could you provide any background info on how you triggered the flash,etc to capture the 'crown' splash in the chocolate.

I've shot similar crowns in the past for stock and basically timed it manually which created 100's of misses.

Did you use actual chocolate?  I would have thought it would have had too thick of a consistency to create a crown


Mark

[Willow Photography]

Gidday,

States:
Mamiya 645AFDII
Mamiya AF 45mm Lens
Leaf Aptus 75
Bowens Flash
Processed in CS4

Cheers

Simon

Love this image Simon!

Can you tell us a little bit about the PP on this image?

Willow

[mtomalty]

Thanks for the background info,Dustblue.

Mark

[HarperPhotos]

Love this image Simon!

Can you tell us a little bit about the PP on this image?

Willow


Gidday Willow,

Here are the three shots it took to get the finale image.

The Art Director from the the agency did the photo retouching.

Cheers

Simon

[elitegroup]

Kia Ora,

Didn't realize this was a merge of three different images, nice work simon  

[DesW]

Ha Simon!

Here's me thinking --Hmmm Nice  shot -- and then you give away the secrets!-so do we congrat the Art Director/retoucher as well.

Are you sure the "Art Director" did the PS-- and he didn't sneak it to the Lounge /etc?

I like the Lucis/Dragan feel to the"mood" and colorise.

Good Work

DesW

[HarperPhotos]

Kia Ora,

Didn't realize this was a merge of three different images, nice work simon  

Gidday David,

As they say its all smoke and mirrors.
It seems to be the trend now days. I some times say  “I’m a jigsaw puzzle photographer”.

Cheers Bro.

[HarperPhotos]

Ha Simon!

Here's me thinking --Hmmm Nice  shot -- and then you give away the secrets!-so do we congrat the Art Director/retoucher as well.

Are you sure the "Art Director" did the PS-- and he didn't sneak it to the Lounge /etc?

I like the Lucis/Dragan feel to the"mood" and colorise.

Good Work

DesW

Hi Des,

Nice to hear from you.

The art director did do the retouching, he’s a wiz when in comes to this sort of thing.

I once asked Jason at The Lounge if he could show me some before and afters of the images on there website.

He said that he couldn't as the other photographers wouldn’t let him.

Cheers

Simon