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Rugby’s Finest 2012, More Gorgeous Men (video)

Adrian Weinbrecht — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:00:44 +0000

Each year I shoot a rugby calendar called ‘Rugby’s Finest’ This is possibly the most fun I have on a shoot all year. The players are a fantastic bunch of people, James Haskell pictured above has a wicked sense of humour and is a fantastic raconteur.

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Unbelievably, the images have very little retouching (just blemishes, dust and stuff like that) I’ll follow up shortly with a few behind the scenes images so you can see how everything was done, in the meantime please enjoy the video above.

One last thing, if you’d like to purchase the Calendar, click here.

The Importance of Calibration.

Adrian Weinbrecht — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:00:02 +0000

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I’ve been using a calibrated workspace since around 2000 when I first started seriously working with Photoshop.

Whilst the whole subject is a bit boring, it’s ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL for professional work. For those of you that grew up shooting film, it’s exactly the same thing as finding a daylight balanced light-box to view transparencies on.

This video looks at calibration, monitors and provides my suggested colour settings.

Around 2 years ago I replaced one of my Apple LCD monitors with an NEC Spectraview Reference 2690.

The first thing I noticed about the Spectraview was that all the monitor colours were displayed in ways I’d never seen before, they were deeper, richer but most importantly more accurate. Green grass suddenly looked real, reds were beautiful, I’m sure there were other improvements but this is where I really really noticed.

I was so pleased that this year I purchased my second one, the NEC Spectraview Reference 271. The 271 has a very useful USB hub built in and various other improvements over the 2690.

Earlier this year at Focus in Birmingham, (Which is held at the NEC, National Exhibition Centre, nothing to do with NEC) I was speaking to NEC rep Steve Cotton and praising the products I’d purchased, he suggested a video review about the Spectraviews would be great.

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Shift Your Perspective: Tilt Shift Lens

Adrian Weinbrecht — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:00:25 +0000

I have always had a tilt/shift camera or lens in my arsenal of equipment. This started with portraits on 5×4″ film then I had a Hasselblad Flexbody, now it’s the Schneider Kreuznach lens TS 120mm for my Phase System.

Phase One kindly sent me a prototype of this lens late last year, just in time for a shoot in northern Italy. There really is nothing like testing gear in real world situations! I had backup ideas in place, but I really wanted to play with this new lens.

One of my shoots was to do a portrait of the great Italian Architect Massimo Vago I felt this lens would be perfect for this. At this stage the lens didn’t have a tripod mount on it so shooting with it wasn’t easy, Phase are very responsive to considered feedback, so I’m delighted they’ve added a tripod mount to the lens. This now makes the lens much easier to use.

If you’re a still life shooter, I’d strongly recommend this lens to you, if you’re like me and shoot mostly people, then be warned the results are awesome but it’s not the fastest tool to use.

Have a quick look below at the short video I made about the advantages of tilt shift-tilt shift, I also speak a little about a funny sounding thing called Scheimpflug.

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Thanks

Adrian

SanDisk Video 3 ‘The Extreme Team’

Adrian Weinbrecht — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:01:55 +0000

Mark Wernham was the last photographer I interviewed and filmed for the ‘SanDisk Extreme Team’ videos. It was great meeting Mark and we have become good friends, he must have one of the most desirable jobs in motor sports photography. For most of the year he travels the world following the Moto GP circuit producing still images for the major sponsor. He’s a razor sharp guy (no pun intended) , that actually started his career as a programmer/Analyst. He’s a great inspiration to anyone that is keen on photography but currently works in another field. Mark definitely doesn’t follow the pack when it comes to his approach regarding his subject. A great example of the highest professionalism and driest humour I’ve ever met.

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SanDisk Video 2 ‘The Extreme Team’

Adrian Weinbrecht — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:15:23 +0000

After filming Dominique Daher I travelled further east to shoot, Marcel Lammerhirt another great extreme sports shooter, check out his video. I was very impressed with Marcel’s openness, he’s also a great guy:

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SanDisk Video 1 ‘The Extreme Team’

Adrian Weinbrecht — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:48:12 +0000

Like many Photographers, I’ve started to shoot video in addition to stills. One of the things I love about this job is getting to meet some amazing people, check out this video I shot for SanDisk on the fantastic photographer Dominique Daher. I travelled to beautiful Switzerland to film this.

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Rugby Calendar 2011

Adrian Weinbrecht — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:05:26 +0000

Every year I shoot a calendar called Rugby’s Finest. This is a collaboration amongst myself, Andi Peters (Yes the TV presenter) and Nick Kennedy (Awesome London Irish Player) We are very very particular as to whom we invite to be a part of the Calendar as we only want the best players with the most impressive physiques. Rugby Players are a truly fantastic bunch of Athletes and I’m yet to meet one I don’t like. Here’s a behind the scenes video. Enjoy. PS: I really should have been gay shooting stuff like this, but alas I’m not.

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Behind the Scenes of a Location Dance Shoot.

Adrian Weinbrecht — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:15:35 +0000

I’ve been using Phase One digital backs on medium camera since 2005 when I first went digital. I’d been waiting for PhaseOne to bring out some Leaf shutter lenses, as soon as they did I got rid of my old system of H2 camera’s. I laughed when Phase spoke to me about the V-Grip air, but they’ve had the last laugh as I actually use the V-Grip in nearly all my shoots as it’s really convenient on a number of levels. Here’s a video of the camera and V-Grip in action on a studio and Location dance shoot.

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Elinchrom Quadra

Adrian Weinbrecht — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:10:45 +0000

It’s no secret that I’ve been using Elinchrom lighting from the beginning of my career. We also often hire Profoto when travelling long distances and it becomes impractical to fly with all my own kit. Here’s a quick video and shameless plug for the Quadra packs, it shows a number of behind the scenes stills from a shoot in NYC. These tiny 400ws packs had just enough power to do what we needed on this particular shoot for UBS Bank, the client wanted a very natural look and feel to the image, so the flash was used primarily to supplement the existing lighting. There’s also a few behind the scenes stills from the 2011 Rugby Calendar shoot.

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The Proms London Shoot Behind the scenes

Adrian Weinbrecht — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:36:54 +0000

Here’s a brief behind the scenes video from a recent shoot here in London. We mixed Sunlight and Flash, unusually for London there was almost too much Daylight!

Fortunately we were able to get enough power out of our Elinchroms to get over the top of it.

In the final frames we show the chosen image before retouching, after and then finally with copy. I hope you enjoy it.

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