Mörbisch Seefestspiele Shooting

Finally I have few moments to catch up with things. Last weeks got really busy, I knew July would be hectic, but all got really heavy duty. I have been working on the project in Mörbisch by Neusiedler lake, shooting preparations for "Der Bettelstudent" (Beggar Student) by Carl Millöcker, then rehearsals, and finally premiere of the operetta, by the way premiere show was attended by all front politicians of Austrian scene, including Austrian chancellor. 

It was really great assignment, I loved the atmosphere around me, people, artists, leading team, whole team. Totally friendly welcome, and full cooperation from everyone. When I needed this or that, there was no problem, nothing was impossible. When you deal with professionals this is how the cooperation looks like. Awesome!

I had some ideas for shots from tower above, we only had to find good time slot, when stage is being rearranged, got dressed up in something dark (to be less visible from the audience), and climbed to the top. Then the real problem were... mosquitos, bloody nuisance. But I am happy with pictures. And this was shot during the show!

Burn Studio Residency Assignment at Ibiza

Covering International Music Summit

I knew May and June would be crazy but in my wildest dreams I would not have come up with this idea... and especially in that period.

Despite having contracted events for end of May and beginning of June I managed to squeeze in over two weeks job for Burn Studio Residency finals at Ibiza, Spain. 

Together we fellow photographer we had to cover whole event in terms of stills, while other team had to film the lot. I think planned release of video footage is July 25th. I am really looking forward to see final film.

There were 18 finalists of DJs competition "Burn Studio Residency" (out of 500), and 3 of them won season residency at local Ibiza clubs - Mambo, Sankeys, and Privilege. 

Finalists came from all over the place including Japan, and Brasil! So very international atmosphere we had there and tons of fun besides really hard work, sometimes in very hot and conditions.

Giga Bytes Smoothly Transformed to Tera Bytes!

Time is playing some funny games with me.

Shooting, processing, shooting, shooting, and shooting, and simply have not time left to process pictures not to mention videos. Have not been so busy for years!

Positive aspect of those circumstances is that when looking briefly at most of the shots I had taken recently, they do not need any post processing at all! Got them right in the camera. Videos are the pain though, especially disk space wise. My another 2 TB disk is almost full. Having uploaded Steve Hackett's  2.5hrs concert footage I just realized I need again new disk. We used to work with giga bytes, now I smoothly switched to tera bytes simply. B letter all of a sudden unnoticeably switched to T. Recently uploaded Steve Lukather interview filmed in Graz before his concert.

I am trying to organize myself between different concerts, interviews, workshops and my landscapes.  Working also on printed album with some of my better work, and hope to have if for sale in few months.

Weather got really good, and I was able to spend few days outside also filming. The other day I went to Hohe Wand for sunrise where I also filmed, some time later had nice session by Ottenstein Lake, in May I will be able to share new video. I really started to enjoy mixing filming with photography. However I must say doing it all on your own is extremely hard and time consuming. Here's short trailer:

Shooting Water. Digging Through Piles of Shot Material.

I managed to cut my latest video about how to shoot flowing water explaining usage of filters to achieve slow shutters speeds during a day. Took me a while because I was quite tight on time with many assignments. Different footage keeps piling and awaits its turn in the queue.

Höllental

Every time I go for a shoot I try also to take some video footage, which is sort of a burden especially when it comes to carrying equipment but on the other hand it opens up so many new opportunities starting with simply documenting sessions and ending with long time DVD project.

Besides documenting landscapes sessions, trips I also film action during concerts I shoot, having in mind different documentary about concert photography. Here I have to overcome different problems starting with extremely low light and horrible sound quality when recorded by camera microphone. I am contacting bands asking if I can use original well recorded sound tracks, so it will take some time. Here's short sequence out of already something like 20 hours of footage taken at different stages and different concerts. Final version most probably look different and way better!