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.
How many jobs entitle you to travel to the adventure capital of New Zealand, and shoot video of luxury german cars power sliding in the snow? Well… not many, thats for sure. Lee Howell of Kaptured Photography and I were comissioned by Audi New Zealand to photograph and video an extraordinary event known as the ‘Audi Ice Experience’. Lee was focusing mainly on stills, while I was shooting exclusively video. Needless to say, I was excited to sink my teeth into this project and produce a show piece I could be proud of.
Hosted at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds, near Wanaka, the Audi Ice Experience is a driving event like no other in New Zealand. Participants learn advanced driving skills on snow and ice on top of the Pisa range, at this world class testing facility. The landscapes of Wanaka and Queenstown are diverse and picturesque, and lend themselves well to creating amazing imagery. Add in a dozen immaculate late model Audi Quattro A4, A5, S4 and S5′s, and its hard to produce something ugly!
Check out the video we produced, and head over to Lee’s website to see some stills from the event.
During the last two weekends I took some photos for a project a friend was filming. Little Sister have created an interactive comedy-zombie youtube film for New Zealand pizza chain “Hell Pizza“.
Check out some of the photos – Emily plays the character “Sarah”;
Deejay plays “Steve”;
Ben plays “Jason”;
The directors of Hell Pizza, in zombie makeup after peforming a cameo in “Deliver me to Hell”
