cars & landscape photography Jan 2008

Brian Stewart is a former high-profile and highly awarded London Creative Director, who worked on launches for Jaguar, Chrysler, Jeep, BMW and Land Rover. He started shooting as well as providing art direction for campaigns five years ago.

Brian is as comfortable with the creative development of a campaign as he is with taking the pictures. "I think like an Art Director. I can't take a photograph without thinking 'Where will the headline go?'"

Recent projects include the launch of the Toyota Rav 4 and Avensis, the launch campaign for the Jaguar XK8, and ongoing campaigns for Jaguar S and X types.

"OK, he can shoot cars," we hear you say, "but does he shoot anything else?". His current personal project is a book of the world's most peculiar trees.

Photographer Carl Lyttle has recently been around the globe, travelling from Thailand to California, Canada, Turkey, Chicago and back to London, producing shots for clients including Nissan, Mercedes and Land Rover, amongst others. Almost all of these images have been created in CGI.

The images have been produced by working closely with the highly skilled 3D and retouching team at This Little Fish.

Caspar & Co. Productions has over twenty years of experience producing car shoots for the advertising industry. Understanding the specific challenges involved, and able to meet the particular requirements for producing successful car photography, the company has worked with major brands from across the automotive industry.

The company's highly skilled professional team all have backgrounds in car photography, and can combine technical knowledge with extensive experience within the advertising industry.

Caspar & Co. also offer a comprehensive location library, with particular emphasis on roads and scenic locations. The company has broad international experience thanks to strong ties with location partners throughout the world.

2007 saw the company shoot in many worldwide locations for Audi, Bentley, BMW, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mazda, Mini, Opel, Toyota and Volkswagen.

Chris Myhill's recent clients include Lexus in Brussels, Honda, Kia and Bentley in the UK, and Fiat in Turin. An interesting CGI project for VW saw Chris in action in Berlin, immersed in a spot of gardening with a VW Golf during the summer heat!

Most of his time has been spent in the studio, however a personal project saw Chris put on his hat and coat and venture outside to shoot construction cranes from various angles and heights. This project was picked up by Odd Girl Out Productions and used to illustrate a Channel 4 series.

With nineteen years of experience shooting cars, Chris still believes the idea of doing it for a living to be as fantastic as ever. "Digital photography has opened up an endless amount of interesting ways to achieve the end results."

Hamburg-based photographer Conrad Piepenburg began the year with a project for Lexus in Los Angeles.

He ended 2007 with a film shot in southern Spain for BMW. Shooting for all the major car manufacturers, he travelled virtually non-stop throughout much of last year.

Featured in this Spotlight are a selection of his pictures from 2007, shot on location in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Monte Carlo.

Conrad Piepenburg is represented by his agents in the US, Spain, Argentina and Germany.

Recent projects by Diederik Kratz Photography:

• Pan-European Campaign for Organon Bioscience. Shot and produced in several locations across the Netherlands.
• Editorial shoot for Sanoma magazine in Belfast, N. Ireland. Exploring the roots of the Delorean car and how it came to be built there in the 1980s.
• Mitsubishi Colt for Mitsubishi Motors Europe. Shot and produced for ten days in the environs of Lisbon, Portugal, for the new pan-European brochure.
• Editorial shoot for Sanoma magazine. Shot the prototype of new Spanish Super Car Tramontana at the Autodrome Terramar/Sitges in Spain, an old racetrack dating from 1922.
• Mitsubishi Grandis for Misubishi Motors Europe. Nine days spent shooting and producing on location in the Siërra Estrala mountains in Portugal, for the new pan-European brochures.

Automobile and architecture, people and places, advertising and editorial... an entire world of pictures. For several years, Erik Chmil has been creating what he describes as "a new picture language" for national and international agencies and automobile clients.

Since switching to high-resolution digital photography, Erik and his partner have managed the entire production process for each project - from the shoot to creative retouching through to printable data.

After jobs this last month for clients including Porsche, Opel and Acura, Erik is now working on a project for the BMW annual report. His long-term projects, landscape photographs and such series as 'Where to Park', can be seen at LUMAS gallery.

John J. Breen has over twenty three years professional experience working around the world as a freelance car photographer.

Editorial clients include Formula One Magazine, Business F1, Eurobusiness, Performance Ford, MaxPower, Autocar, 911 Porsche World, Auto Express, Classic American, Classic & Sportscar, and Fastlane.

Agency clients include Porsche UK, Mitsubishi UK, Renault UK, and Honda UK.

Promotional clients include Simply Red, Chris Rea, Billy Ocean, David Knopfler, T'Pau, Joe Jackson, Roger Daltrey, Berlin, The Tremeloes, Mud, John Otway, Peter Sarstead and Boy George, to name but a few.

John offers a broad range of photographic skills from complex studio to worldwide location shoots. He is fully experienced and equipped with all photographic formats and lighting techniques, using creative digital technology, retouching and image manipulation software.

Julian Calverley shoots on location.

Using Sinar high-end digital, he undertakes his own post production in a fully ICC colour-managed workflow.

Over the last 12 months he has worked in the UK, Europe, the USA and South Africa.

For more information and work samples, please visit his website.

He is represented in the UK by Lisa Pritchard Agency +44 (0)207 250 1362 and in the US by Tim Mitchell +1(781) 631-5235

Photographer Lorentz Gullachsen has been busy shooting logistic images: a series of motorway images were commissioned by Propaganda for Cert Octavia, a premium logistics company.

Roads are an ongoing passion for Gullachsen, and an empty road is hard to resist.
"They promise adventure and make me want to put my foot down. Not always a good idea!"

Gullachsen has also been shooting more trucks for Mitsubishi with PHWT.

Manu Agah is a Hamburg-based car, landscape and portrait photographer who has been commissioned to shoot around the world for agencies and individual clients alike.

He began his professional career as a portrait photographer, but now also shoots for many top car clients.

Recent clients have included Mercedes, BWW, VW, Mitsubishi, Honda, Toyota, and Renault.

Manu Agah has a new agent in the US, i2i photography.

Photographer Paul J. Harvey's passion is his landscape work. A personal series he is currently shooting in Venice will soon be completed.

Recent commercial projects have included work in France for Peugeot and Volvo, and in Germany for Renault.

In conjunction with a post-production studio Paul has been using the latest techniques to generate CGI images. 3D automotive computer data and landscape elements are subtly blended together in retouch to look as dynamic yet as natural as possible.

Take a look at a wider selection of personal projects in books 1, 2 and 3 on his website.

Dutch photographer Peter Boudestein hails from Rotterdam, and is considered one of the Netherlands'  digital pioneers.

His specialism is car photography, but he is also an excellent all-round photographer with particular focus on boating, jewellery, and landscape shots.

Digital retouching is his personal skill, and he loves to play golf.

Clients have included: Audi, BMW, Carros Magazine, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford, Fiat, Jaguar, Nissan, Renault, Saab, Skoda, Ssang Yong, and VW.

Working worldwide, recent shoots include:

• Aston Martin - Vantage RS, DBS and Vanquish - UK
• Lamborghini - Reventon - Italy
• Renault - Laguna concept - Paris
• Alfa Romeo - GT Blackline - advertising & PR campaigns - UK
• Ferrari - massive 35 car shoot in celebration of Ferrari's 60th anniversary - Italy
• Lexus LFA - Texas/USA
• Ferrari FXX - Maranello, Italy
• Worldwide exclusive shoot of the Ferrari 612 P4/5 by Pinifarina - Torino

Visit the company's website for more shoots ranging from Automotive to David Beckham billboard campaigns.

Stephan Romer is a freelance photographer with over 17 years professional experience. For more than 10 years he has focussed his work on high-end car photography, with shoots taking him all over the world.

On location he loves working in extreme conditions, pushing the limits to get the best possible results. But, as the photographer himself says "Sometimes it's nice to have the light under control in the studio".

Some of his recent projects have included the Porsche Cayenne GTS, shot in Spain (Campaign and Catalogue), the Porsche "Modelle" range, shot in Chile (Campaign), and the Volkswagen After Sales Program (studio work).

An extraordinary project was the "United" shoot for the Volkswagen AG. A former military air base was the playground for 6 weeks of catalogue shooting. Graphic elements and shelters were the background for these unusual pictures. 120,000 watt/second of brand new BRON equipment transformed the whole area into a huge outdoor studio.

Thilo Sicheneder studied communication design and photography in Hamburg, Germany, before becoming a professional photographer in 2005. He is still based in Hamburg but travels around the world on commissions. Thilo is represented by Marlene Ohlsson, and is currently shooting in Bangkok.

His client list includes such names as Allianz, Reemtsma, KarstadtQuelle, BMW Magazine, GQ, and TUSH.

He works for agencies including BBDO, Euro RSCG, Jung von Matt and Scholz & Friends.

Tim Andrew has over 20 years of experience shooting cars and landscapes in a varied range of locations.

He thrives on the challenges presented by each new situation and location. His versatile creativity has enabled him to produce stunning and unusual imagery. Clients include Nikon, Mercedes, Nissan, Honda, BMW, Peugeot, VW, Car Magazine, and Automobile Magazine.

Nikon Cameras recently commissioned Tim to shoot worldwide lens brochures for the launch of its latest camera range, the D3 and D300. Tim is also the featured photographer in the opening shots and for the movies of their D3 Web tutorials.

Also, Honda's UK website is now teeming with Tim's QTVR interiors and many other interactive studio photography shots.