In November this year, good friend and colleague Lee Howell of Kaptured Photography undertook an ambitious photoshoot in Auckland’s Victoria Park tunnel, armed with a limited edition Audi R8GT and a state-of-the-art car photography rig. I created this behind the scenes video that shows in details what it takes to capture the images for high end car photography.
Video directed, filmed and edited by Simon Waterhouse
Special thanks to: Mark Cornellison – Post production
Andrew Bright – Assistant & BTS images
Olaf Jablonski – Move N Shoot
Darren Utting – Victoria Park Alliance
Fiona Wooley – Audi NZ
Chris Tudehope – Apix Photography
Cameron Officer – Top Gear NZ
Back again for another year! Last years video for the Ice Experience was well received, and I was lucky enough to be offered the job again. This time we followed the experience of Television Chef and Audi ambassador Simon Gault. Simon was thrown in the deep end and tested at the end. On Day 2, Simon was joined by TVNZ journalist Mark Sainsbury, and the two went head to head, with hilarious consequences!
Filmed and edited by myself, and directed by Patrick of Socialize Group.
For over a year now, I’ve had plans to design and build my own Time Lapse Rail Slider – essentially a camera dolly which moves ultra slow, to create movement in time-lapses. It took a while, but eventually I got there.
The rails are annodised aluminium section from the hardware store, seperated and held in place by custom channel made with plywood and fibreglass. The sliding cart uses Teflon (PTFE) pads to create a smooth and low friction glide. The drive train uses timing pulleys and a timing strap imported from SDP-SI.com, and the power comes from a modified RC servo and servo controller from ServoCity.com.
Here’s some more clips that I’ve produced using this system;
I’m hoping to use it extensively over summer and start contributing clips to stock libraries.
Way back in February I had an opportunity to spend a bit of time with Andrew Lumsden, A.K.A “Te Radar”. Radar is, (by his bio) “an award winning satirist, documentary maker, writer, stage and screen director, and amateur historian”. Add to this, “hilarious” and “all-round-nice-guy”. 15 minutes wasn’t nearly long enough, but I did manage to squeeze of a couple of quick shots in Riccarton House and Deans Bush.
One of Christchurch’s iconic natural landmarks collapsed in the February 22nd earthquake. In the last couple of years, Shag Rock had shed a few kilos as part of a natural erosion process, but during the earthquake, it collapsed to less than half of its former size. Last week I headed down to the beach at sunset to shoot some landscapes, and lucked out with a perfect sunset. Here’s what I got.
