Trevor Hart Photographer

New RED Cameras - Scarlet & Epic

2012-01-28T12:39:00.006Z

I recently met up with my old mate Jonathan Lovekin in London and we went to Red Europe to have a look at the the new EPIC and SCARLET cameras from RED. Based in Pinewood studios Red have a UK office where we met Alan who gave us an enthusiastic welcome and showed us both of these amazing cameras. He also gave us a pretty definitive run through about RED CODE and RED RAY, the ground breaking technology which makes the whole RED system possible. His description of how the RED camera came about reminded me of Steve Jobs and Apple. Basically if you cant find what you're looking for then design and build it yourself. Which is pretty much what Jim Jannard of Oakley sunglasses fame decided to do.

The reason we wanted to see them is in a month or two the Epic will start to ship to the rental companies including The Production Depot here in Dublin and for anyone shooting commercials it's a good idea to see what's coming down the pipe. The Epic is about $50,000 for a basic kit without lenses but the Scarlet which shared the same sensor is about $15,000 which makes it much more affordable if you want to step up the quality from say a Canon 5 or 7 D. The reason Epic is more expensive is the processing power of the engine inside. It's my understanding that with Epic higher frame rates of 60 or so are possible at full 5k resolution in RAW format! and 300 fps at 2k. So what does that mean for stills? The sensor in both these cameras is the same,14mp. Okay so thats lower in resolution than the Canon and Nikon cameras that we've been using since 2005 and a lot lower than any of the LEAF, PhaseOne or Hasselblad medium format backs, (80mp from LEAF and PhaseOne now) but considering how fast this technology has evolved since 2006 how long will it be before these cameras shoot 21mp at 100 fps? I dont think too long. When that happens it will mean that finally a frame from a TV shoot on EPIC can just about be used on a 48 sheet and certainly for most magazine and other press. Have a look at the RED website and you'll see how many Vogue covers have been shot on Epic or Scarlet with photographers like Bruce Webber.

I've been shooting a little bit of TV work for stings etc on 5D and plenty of stills for print campaigns during TV shoots which is never very productive for anyone, so I can really see how this is going to help when there is no choice but to shoot TV and print together.

Jonathan has been directing food commercials for Tropicana, Sainsbury's etc for some years now shooting both digital and film and we can both see how the new Red Cameras will most definitely be part of the equipment list in the very near future.

Interesting times.

Jonathan Lovekin, Director and photographer, at home

Epic and Scarlet together -(Scarlet with no monitor)

Looks a bit like An Apollo Hasselblad from above?

remote for controlling all functions off the camera

128GB memory

Epic

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After Sales Service

2012-01-27T11:13:00.013Z

Last June I was commissioned by Rockey Grenell at Designworks to photograph a group of his clients from ESPION in Dublin. During the shoot I photographed Dermot O'Brien, part of the information governance team at Espion. At the end of the shoot when Dermot was looking through his shots, he asked if I could Photoshop a few pounds off his waistline. My customary response to this question is usually "Hey I'm a photographer not a magician" In this case though I didn't respond. Having been 2-3 stone overweight myself for about 10 years I was in no position to comment. In fact I was in the middle of doing a 20 week Motivation weight loss programme myself so I told Dermot about Motivation and that I thought it was pretty good.

Fast forward to December 2011 and I get an email with the Subject title 'Big thanks for your inspiration'. It was from Dermot, he had joined Motivation and had lost 56lbs! Since he started, his type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure had gone and he felt great. I was so delighted with his progress I asked him to come to the studio and I would photograph him again.

Old and New Dermot - July 20 2011 & January 27 2012

I'm so delighted that what seemed like a two minute conversation about trying to lose weight turned out so well. Congratulations Dermot and good luck with the marathon training!

Now you're just making me look bad!

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Kodak

2012-01-20T10:39:00.014Z

I thought I'd share some memories about Kodak. The first images that sparked my interest in photography seemed always to have been made using Tri-x black and white film. I don't know how I know, I just do. I guess I must have read about photographers like Eamon McCabe, Don McCullin and various others who used Tri x, in magazines like 'Amateur Photographer'. I loved the beautiful grain of Tri-X and for many years I used it all the time. I processed it myself in the basement of our house and, pushed it to about 1200 ASA in Ilfosol II. As you can probably tell in the picture below, I almost always had a yellow or this case, orange filter screwed to the front of an old F mount non AI 28mm Nikon lens that my uncle John Hart gave me.

This image was shot on Brighton Beach, new years day 1983 with a Nikon FM. It was the first image I had ever enlarged to 20 x 16 inches. It was also the first image I had ever taken that I really loved and I knew that I wanted to do this for ever.

When I started my professional career shooting 5x4 and 10 x8 transparency films with a 10x8 Linhoff, the film I used was Ektachrome 64 (6117 for daylight and 6118 for Tungsten). Same for 120 formats. How I miss those yellow boxes stacked in the dark room.

Photo: Paul Lepreux

I'm sure an investor is out there waiting to further harvest the billions in potential income from the thousands of patents that Kodak own but much more importantly, to continue to make the films and chemicals that have had such a huge part in the history of photography. There are still many photographers who shoot film and will continue to do so but alas the large portion of Kodak's market was always the consumer rather than the professional photographer. Most people now prefer the convenience of digital despite the fact that most of our images are confined forever to hard drive discs on computers or phones that wont last as long as any photograph album. Please everyone back up to prints, DVDs or cloud.

On a final note, one of the best digital cameras I ever had for colour rendition and skin tone was the first one I ever had. The Kodak 14N (below). It's Serial number P14N0-1979 - (I started taking photographs in 1979). Kodak didn't really make any headway into digital cameras for the consumer otherwise they wouldn't be bankrupt, they were however one of the earliest developers (sorry) of the digital imaging and eventually created an amazing sensor. I sent the first 15 images from the 14N to an art director in McCann Erickson for a Coca Cola campaign that I was working on. He thought I'd had 5x4 transparencies scanned on a drum scanner. I did that too of course but the gap seemed to be closing. Kodak Digital had come of age, well in my studio anyway.

My old Kodak 14N from May 2003. One of the first in Ireland.

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Kenco Millicano TV stings

2012-01-04T16:17:00.006Z

We recently shot a series of stings for Kenco Millicano through agency DDFH&B . Whilst we have shot for TV before, this was a great opportunity to shoot a food / beverage product in close up. The script required a 5' long tracking shot around the product which we did using track and a rolling spider from the Production Depot. We shot on the Canon 5D MkII with a Marshall Monitor.

Watch the 10' sting here

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Cara Magazine Cookery School series

2011-12-22T13:55:00.002Z

Commissioned by Fran Power at Cara this is our third portfolio featuring some of the best cookery schools and their teachers in Ireland. It was great to meet these great chefs and I was particularly happy to photograph Darina and Rachel together in Darina's own kitchen. During the shoot we were also treated to some delicious food, most notably lunch at Ballymaloe and at Lyons with Clodagh and tea with Eimer Rainsford and Catherine Fulvio !

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Irish Magazine Awards

2011-12-05T14:44:00.007Z

Last week I was thrilled to find out that I had been nominated for The Irish Magazine Awards, Photographer of the year prize. The awards ceremony was held at The Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin and I was delighted to be invited along by Richard Power, MD of Image publications. The award was presented by Grace Aungier and was for the feature we did for CARA on the racing industry in Ireland.

Photo: Paul Sherwood

Here's my original post on this shoot.

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Tullamore Dew

2011-12-05T14:23:00.002Z

These ads were created by McCann in Paris and art directed here in Dublin by Shay Madden, Creative Director at McCann Erickson in Dublin, to be run in France as part of a global campaign. We shot the background images at the Tullamore Dew visitor centre and the portraits in my studio in Dublin. The retouching was done by Stefano Cherubini at Happyfinish in London. Paddy Daly at Yoke Productions produced the casting and Suzie Coen was the stylist.

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Mary Byrne album cover

2011-11-28T14:08:00.002Z

I was delighted to be commissioned by Universal Music to photograph Mary Byrne for her new album. Produced by Phil Coulter, it's a collection of classic love songs and one or two originals by Phil himself.

We shot a number of looks over the course of the day and Mary was a true pro. Billy Orr did hair and make up and Catherine Condell did Mary's styling. It was great to finally work with Catherine ( I've been trying to for years!)

Thanks to everyone for all their hard work and especially to Mary for giving us such a great shoot.

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Cara Magazine Musicians

2011-11-18T15:36:00.001Z

This is our second shoot for Cara, the Aer Lingus in-flight magazine. It was shot over 2 days at Odessa in Dublin city centre. Lauren McCreery was the stylist and Brown Sugar did hair & make-up. I did my own colour grade and retouching for this shoot. Odessa is a great location but quite difficult to light so we used all the 7b's and used a little bit of daylight also. It was great to meet all the artists and to talk to Lisa Hannigan a little bit about her new album. A big thank you to Lisa and the other artists, Matthew Jacobson, Claudia Boyle, Padraic Keane, Bressie and Jennifer Walshe for their patience and time.

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Brown Thomas Marvel Room window display shoot

2011-11-03T11:32:00.066Z

It takes two weeks for the the design team in Brown Thomas to create their now famous Christmas window display. So to hide their secret elf-like activities they commissioned designers Cody Delahunty to design vinyl displays to put in the window. In this case something to help launch The Marvel Room inside the store. The two images were shot using merchandise from the store which my assistant Sylvie launched into air and some of which we rigged in a falling position. I'm particularly pleased with the 400 or so images of the scarves. They formed some amazing shapes. The only way to get those lovely curves in the ribbon was to photograph lengths falling through the air. Tony Gold put the images together from a working rough we did at the time of shooting. To freeze the motion we shot using the LEAF 40mp back on a Mamiya RZ at 400th of a second and with 2 7A Profoto packs set quite low to reduce the flash duration.

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Book cover shoot for Mary Byrne

2011-10-28T12:22:00.001+01:00

O'Brien Publishing commissioned me to shoot the cover of Mary Byrne's coming book, which is coming out next week I think. Since then I was commissioned by universal music to shoot Mary for her forthcoming album. It's been produced by the brilliant Phil Coulter and I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Once again it was great spending time with Mary, she's a great woman and worked really hard all day to give us lots of options. My hunch is that they'll use one of the first images we shot that day. She's such a pro she nailed it in the first 20 minutes!

I'm afraid you'll have to wait until November to see the results though. As soon as the album is out I'll post some of the images.

And here's the final cover :

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BMW shoot on the Mamiya RZ67 Pro II for Chemistry

2011-10-25T11:11:00.003+01:00

In addition to shooting digital DSLR and HD video, I have purchased an Aptus II, by Leaf, which is a digital system that I can use with my Mamiya RZ cameras to create very high res files.

The system renders exceptional skin tone and highlights. Coupled with the Mamiya system which synchronizes at high speeds with my PROFOTO lighting, liquids can be photographed and captured at very high speeds which cannot be achieved with DSLR cameras.

When art director Adrian Fitzsimon from Chemistry, commissioned me to shoot an image for a BMW ad, I decided to shoot with my new LEAF Aptus 8 40mp digital back. It was great to be working with the Mamiya RZ again after 5 years and I was delighted that the incredible lenses were up to the job just as much as they were when shooting film. I love the skin tones the LEAF produces and in terms of composition so good to be shooting to the Aptus 8 format rather than DSLR. I'd like to thank Joerg Hagitte from Probis Media Solutions in Hamburg, where I bought the LEAF, for his excellent advice and speedy supply of the equipment.

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Corporate portraits for Espion

2011-10-25T10:54:00.000+01:00

For their new website designed by DesignWorks .

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Karsh

2011-09-05T17:09:00.001+01:00

I was researching for an upcoming project recently and found some work by the late Yousuf Karsh that I hadn't seen before. I particularly liked these portraits, despite both being made in 1936, I was surprised how modern they look, especially 'Grey Owl'. He was, and I quote from the official website, 'The English gentleman Archie Belaney (who) became so obsessed with the culture of Native Americans that he transformed himself into Grey Owl. He lived as a tribesman, taking an Indian wife and described vividly the life and everyday struggle on the Indian reservation'.

The image must have been even more striking in 1936 than it is now when you consider the the style and formality of the lighting that was the norm at the time. Perhaps Karsh himself liked to shake things up from time to time and shoot from the hip.

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Paul Fusco's "RFK" photobook

2011-08-30T11:54:00.000+01:00

I was fascinated by the Channel 4 documentary, 'Bobby Kennedy: The Last Journey' about the photographs taken by Paul Fusco from a train carrying the body of Robert F Kennedy to his final resting place in Washington. The train travelled through miles of waiting people hoping to pay their respects and as the train passed, Fusco photographed the people with a 35mm camera using Kodachrome film. The images have the wonderful colour that you would expect and a little motion blur which also adds a point of focus and stillness to the faces of all those people. The photographs tell the story of that day but also of that time and it was inevitable then that the documentary film makers tracked down and interviewed some of the people waiting to see the train that day in June 1968. The book has been beautifully produced with really great scans of the original slides. If I can find a place where the documentary can be seen I'll post a link.

Aer Lingus TV

2011-08-30T11:26:00.001+01:00

After having won a recent pitch for Aer Lingus, Irish International art director Paddy Geraghty asked me to shoot a portrait of Aer Lingus cabin crew and pilot for a TV ad he was working on. We cast the crew from Aer Lingus staff and shot in the glass walk way at the new terminal 2 at Dublin airport.

The retouching was completed by Jeff bennett. For the techies among you, we shot on a Nikon D3X using the 14-24mm 2.8 lens and Profoto lighting.

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Irish Examiner ad on teens' porn addiction

2011-08-30T11:09:00.000+01:00

Fortunately we didn't need to buy 10 blow up dolls, just a choice of 2. We photographed 'it' in various positions around the hero of the piece and then Stefano Cherubini from Happyfinish in London put the images together for us. Lauren McCreery was the stylist who dressed the doll and confessed to being horrified by the fact that the uniforms were size 9-10!!! The final result is quite shocking but I'm glad to say the 48 sheet poster remained in place all over Munster without being banned! The art director was Nicole Sykes at Chemistry, Dublin.

Electric Ireland ESB rebranding image bank

2011-08-11T16:52:00.008+01:00

These images are from an image bank recently completed with art directors, Steven Mangan, and Nicky Hooper, working with Cawley Nea.

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Recent Work in France

2011-08-03T12:25:00.005+01:00

I recently had lunch with my family at Le Caillau in a beautiful valley full of vinyards in the heart of the Cahors region in south west France. Chas and Caroline Sharp have restored an old vineyard and created a cafe, restaurant and gite. The happy coincidence of the visit was that they needed photographs of the finished accommodation in the the gite for their website and a number of on-line guides. I spent a lovely morning taking photographs and in the evening while I waited for the sun to go down over the view from the bedroom (see image above), the rest of my family enjoyed their dinner in the restaurant!

I also did a quick video of the place and the pottery workshops (see below).

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Cara Magazine feature on the Irish horse racing industry

2011-08-02T15:29:00.032+01:00

The new edition of the Aer Lingus in-flight magazine CARA is out today and I'm delighted to have been commissioned by its new editor, Fran Power to shoot a series of photographs featuring key people involved in the Irish racing industry. We enjoyed two days of shooting at the Curragh in Kildare with a typical mixed bag of Irish weather. I would like to thank Lynda Fraher from Horse Racing Ireland who produced the shoot and worked with us throughout to help pull everyone together. Here is a selection from the spreads and a video of the shoot can be seen below.

A special thank you to Gary Carroll, Justin Carthy, Richie Galway, Lucy Stack, Jessica and Kate Harrington and Mariann Klay for giving us so much of their time.

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Dr Oetker packaging and side dish shoot

2011-07-25T15:32:00.008+01:00

Caroline Burton, Marketing Manager at Dr Oetker has commissioned Marco Roccasalvo, award winning chef and owner of Campo De'Fiori restaurant, Bray, to come up with 7 starters to accompany each of the pizzas in the Ristorante range. Myself and food stylist Sally Dunne photographed each of the dishes with Marco's supervision. If you're looking for a fresh alternative to garlic bread, check out their website for the recipes.

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Jane Bown 'Exposures'

2010-12-28T16:08:00.013Z

I started taking pictures in 1978 after my parents gave me a Zenith E for Christmas. I suppose my uncle John in Australia also inspired me to be a photographer but more by the stories of his glorious Australian lifestyle than the pictures themselves. It was't news or sports photography that interested me anyway. It was the portraits of Jane Bown published each week in the Sunday Observer. Her portraits were starkly graphic and visually simple. You may have seen hundreds of pictures of any one of her subjects but never one like hers. At the time I was 13 and unable to articulate the sensitivity and emotion that Jane was able to deliver every week in her portraits, and it hadn't really struck me that she was 'a woman in a mans world' competing with male photographers. I was only aware of my desire to photograph like her. This was what I wanted to do. When she stopped taking pictures I would take over, get a job on The Observer and that would be it. All very possible as far as I was concerned. Then years later I realised those male contemporaries of hers were running to keep up, she wasn't competing at all. She was and is an artist despite her own insistence that she's a 'hack'. Perhaps that was a term she used just to provide for herself a place of safety in which she could work. Each week being left to do her own thing and deliver another beautiful portrait for her editor and the their readers unencumbered by the pressures put on an artist to deliver a new kind of genius in every new piece of work. Jane Bown's new book 'Exposures' makes a beautiful collection of portraits both published and until now, unselected from a vast archive of contact sheets. The book shows an incredible range of subjects over a long career. Above all it reminds us of her real genius, a unique view point and insight that she delivered again and again.

If that is the job of the 'hack' then I aspire to be a hack and leave the attempt at art to other photographers.

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Erin Quinn - 'Dreaming'

2010-12-18T10:12:00.014Z

Photographer Erin Quinn has made a beautiful series of images. She asked people to record their dreams and write down the most vivid of them on a card for the photograph. She photographed each person in their own bed. With simple lighting and her sensitive approach she has created an atmosphere which for me sums up those few glorious moments between waking and actually getting up. The images are available to view at www.wooloo.org/erinquinn

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It's a wake up call for the whole country David!

2010-11-30T22:45:00.008Z

I was looking through my archive recently and found this ad from a series I did with John Martin for Newstalk back in about 2003?? In years to come our kids may not remember the names of the 4-in-a row Kilkenny hurling team but they'll be taught the name of David McWilliams. And the Geansaí? Well the marketing director at Newstalk was really into the idea of photographing David in his 'Saturday' jersey to make him look more 'approachable'. It wasn't the right look really and even David's wife called the show to say that she thought she'd given it to Oxfam! Oh happy, happy, spend-thrift days.

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Landscape Photographer, Eoghan Kavanagh

2010-11-30T12:11:00.006Z

Since opening a studio in Dublin in ‘95, Eoghan has worked extensively in commercial photography for design and advertising clients. His passion though has always been Landscape Photography and in 2005 he began exhibiting his portfolio throughout Ireland.

Eoghan has since relocated to Kenmare, Co. Kerry and established the Gallery there. Living in close proximity to some of Ireland’s most magnificent locations has allowed him the freedom to frequently expand his collection.

Evergreen Forest from Skyline Gallery on Vimeo.

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Fragrances shoot for Arnotts Magazine Published by Image

2010-11-17T13:49:00.014Z

Here is a selection from a recent shoot for Arnotts department store in Dublin. We shot the bottles on vinyl sheets in various colours and then used two Profoto Strip lights to create some interesting highlights and sharp reflections. Fortunately the print quality of the magazine did them justice.

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Happy Days with Jon Steed On Bulmers

2010-11-17T12:21:00.008Z

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Model Maker Jon Steed has died.

2010-11-15T16:22:00.003Z

Jon Steed, model maker died earlier today. He was a great friend for the last 20 years and a great model maker. We worked together on many Irish ad campaigns and he had just completed work on models for a campaign I am shooting in the coming weeks. I met him for lunch a few weeks ago in Islington to discuss the job and we had a great chat and a good lunch together. I'll miss him very much and I send my love to his family. A fantastic bloke and a highly talented man will be missed.

Image Man Portraits

2010-07-27T00:52:00.004+01:00

I'm really happy with the spread in Image Man, a supplement in the Sunday Business Post last week-end. Thanks to Richard Power for commissioning me and Ingmar Kiang for staying the day to help, interview and coax our subjects along. I hope this may be a regularly commissioned magazine by Image Publications for L'Oréal.

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RIP Duffy

2010-06-08T13:14:00.003+01:00

Sleep well Duffy, I wanted to shoot like you when I started taking pictures in 1978. To be able to shoot ads and record covers and incredible reportage as well as you was my goal back then.
(image courtesy http://www.duffyphotographer.com/)

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Patrick Demarchelier Photographer

2010-05-11T22:30:00.004+01:00

Emma Watson Shot by Patrick Demarchelier for Vanity Fair, Stunning! (Image: Condé Nast, Vanity Fair)

Jonathan Lovekin Photographer

2010-05-11T22:07:00.003+01:00

Eagerly awaited new book from the kitchen table of Yotam Ottolenghi with photographs by Jonathan Lovekin. I can't wait to see the results of this collaboration. I have been talking to Jonathan recently about all things digital and geeky alongside his passion for film. I'll have some answers to a list of questions soon about this and other ideas when Jonathan comes back from a shoot in Dorset with Mr.Greedy himself, Valentine Warner.

'You tell us, and we'll tell them'. Gerry Ryan RIP

2010-05-01T11:25:00.002+01:00

Accessories Now Making the 5D really usable.

2010-04-28T18:27:00.009+01:00

There is a flood of accessories available for use with the Canon 5D. This is the RedRock Micro DSLR Cinema Bundle. Shown here with optional blue focus gears.
(photo courtesy of Redrock Micro) . Zacuto also make a range including what seems like a very good view finder. If you need to add a monitor, I've seen the Marshall 7 inch LCD HDMI which is bright and crisp and you can use it with either Canon or Sony V type batteries.

Carl Zeiss has launched a new series of compact prime lenses, for further reading see their release.
http://www.zeiss.de/C1256A770030BCE0/WebViewTopNewsAllE/811E21A25E0C620FC1257704004BA71E?OpenDocument

Last Minutes With Odin.

2010-04-14T22:02:00.010+01:00

Ciaran found this incredible and very moving short film.
Shot on the Canon 7D, it tells the story of Jason Woods' last moments with his dog before it has to be put down due to illness. I think it's beautifully shot and well edited.
Credits as follows,
Directed/Edited: Eliot Rausch
Director of Photography: Luke Korver, Matt Taylor
Song: Big Red Machine / Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner

Oliver Comerford at the RHA

2010-04-10T12:33:00.009+01:00

Maybe its becuase Oliver Commerford's painting look like the photographs I'd love to have taken but I'm really drawn to the work he has in the RHA at the moment. I wish I'd seen his work before. I'm off to research. There are some similarities in style with Colin Martin, another brilliant artist who's work I'm very fond of. Images copyright Colin Martin and Oliver Commerford. See also RHA site for Colin and Kevin Kavenagh Gallery for Oliver.

www.cookseystudio.com

2010-04-08T12:06:00.007+01:00

Have a look at Thomas Cooksey's amazing fashion photography. He's the consummate fashion photographer, YOUNG, HUNGRY and TALENTED.
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Mike O'Toole Launches Photoparley

2010-04-08T11:38:00.005+01:00

http://photoparleydublin.blogspot.com/
Mike has launched a blog where photographers can meet to discuss their work with like minded creative artists and professionals.
Contact Mike at 0862428882
or email mike@mikeotoole.com

LeafAptus-11 10 Digital Back

2010-03-31T09:33:00.012+01:00

LEAF have launched the most incredible digital camera back. Not only does it capture huge files but with it's new SensorFlex technology, allows you to shoot a variety of sizes and formats within the overall 9288 x 6000 pixel sensor size. So for shooting large format ads like 96 and 48 sheet formats the resolution provides great cropping potential (see approximate area image above). The big difference I find between PhaseOne and Hasselblad is the colour rendition especially with skin tone. If you don't want to routinely desaturate reds by 30-40% every time you shoot, you're going to love LEAF. I'm going over to Pear Tree Digital in London soon to try the system out with my Mamiya RZ kit. I'll let you know how it goes. Page image from http://www.leaf-photography.com/

Gary Coyle RHA,

2010-03-28T16:37:00.007+01:00

Image Copyright Gary Coyle from the RHA website (see link below)
Gary Coyle is currently exhibiting at the RHA from 19 March – 2 May. If you get a chance, go in a have a look at this startling work. This particular set of images are C Type prints which I always think help to retain an analogue photographic quality. Any of you working in DDFH & B can see a large print of Gary's from this series in Paudge Donaghy's office!
>http://www.royalhibernianacademy.ie/ for further details and opening times.

'Content Aware' with CS5

2010-03-25T22:41:00.003Z

This could be very time saving but I'd really like to see in detail exactly WHAT Content Aware means in terms of the details. This clip is brought to you courtesy of Adobe and YouTube via my good friend Matthew Weinreb.

Image rights and copyright protection

2010-03-21T12:00:00.006Z

If you are concerned about the possibility of your web images being downloaded and reused unlawfully then have a look at imagerights.com They are offering a new service for photographers where you can upload images which are then monitored on the internet 24/7 for any publication on the net. Costs are about $55 per year for up to 250 images. I've uploaded about 70 images so i'll let you know how it goes.

Also on the subject of protecting copyright, a company in Ireland called digiprove.com also offer a protection system where you can digitally encode an image and register the image with a date and time, rather like posting documents to yourself and lodging in a safe deposit box unopened.

St Patrick's Day Photos

2010-03-17T11:49:00.002Z

Please post your best photo from today's parades. There may be judging! (but not from me)

Ely Book Wins in Paris

2010-03-07T12:59:00.002Z

The Food Photographer

2010-03-05T10:23:00.000Z

The Genius of Jon Steed - Model Maker

2010-03-05T09:45:00.002Z

Despite the very slightly 80's synth band spelling of his name (un-verified), he is actually something of a genius. Jon has been around probably as long as me and unlike me, maturing with age. Have a look at his web site for inspiration. I'm always banging on about finding a balance between retouching and crafting a real model to achieve certain visuals and here's why.
http://home.btconnect.com/steedmodels/

3 Mobile shoot in Killarney with Bill Hollingsworth

2010-03-05T02:03:00.000Z

2010-03-05T01:50:00.000Z

Welcome to my Blog. From time to time I hope to bring you details of projects I am working on with my assistant Ciaran. Hopefully we'll include some snaps taken on the various jobs we are doing and any other thoughts and feelings about photography, advertising and the creative life in general. I hope you will find the time to share your thoughts on all of the above too.

January and February were pretty quiet months but it's all recently kicked off with a campaign for 3 Mobile's sponsorship of this years Irish Open to be held in Killarney, Co Kerry. All I can say for now is BALLS, and plenty of them. I'll be adding some work in progress snaps from the shoot and of course the final images but only when the ads start to run.

In the mean time look out for work from 4FM (huge campaign), Rice Krispies and Bord Bia.