...to Amriphotos Blog.

We are going to use this blog to give you news from our shootings and about equipment, etc. While we will not cover all of our shootings it should still give you some insight into our work. For registered users we plan some "behind the scene" info, "making of´s" along with tips from the pros.

Beside that registered user are going to be informed about special deals in a newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading and are looking forward to your feedback.

...Synchronized swimming high and dry

The first shooting dealing with olympic sports is done. We still take applications though, so don´t hesitate.

Since the water is still pretty cold outside, we chose to start in our studio. We had two perfect models - twins - the output was great. It´s just great fun to shoot with professional athletes.

Thanks you two for a great shooting. Hope to see you again in the water soon.

...für eine Sportfotoserie

als ehemalige Sportstudenten wollen wir im Jahr der olympischen Sommerspiele in London ein paar richtig aufregende Sportfotoshootings machen. Tja, und das geht leider nicht ohne Models. Daher haben wir eine Kampagne gestartet. Für alle Sportler da draußen: wir brauchen Euch.
Wen suchen wir?
Semiprofessionelle oder professionelle Sportlerinnen und Sportler, die ihre Sportart richtig gut beherrschen. Also nicht hin und wieder am Wochenende, sondern "richtig echt". Zumindest jeder, der einmal mit Sport professionell zu tun hatte, erkennt auf einem Foto, ob es ein Fake ist oder nicht.
Was habt Ihr davon?
Zunächst einmal richtig gute Sportfotos von Euch, denn jede(r) Teilnehmer bekommt einige Bilder von dem Shooting für Euren privaten Gebrauch (natürlich auch für Sponsorunterlagen und Website). Für manche Athletinnen und Athleten können wir auch eine kleine Gage bezahlen. Das ist aber zum einen sehr stark von der Sportart abhängig, zum anderen von der Tatsache, ob wir von Eurer Sportart schon ein Sportmodel haben.
Also: am besten gleich bewerben über´s Kontaktformular

Weitere Infos gibt´s unter www.amriphoto.com/sportmodels

...not really relevant for non-german speaking blog readers

this is our first non-photography related blogpost - it´s about reactivating a mailbox on an iPhone in Austria (and perhaps Germany) - a very cumbersome task if you ever transferred the number from a previous provider to a new one. So I´m gonna save the time it takes for translating it to english because it´ll be hardly ever needed outside Austria.

...quite a difference

Perhaps one of the shortest blogposts ever, because it´s in our new webarticle and also quite self-evident: Makeup before/after

...but now it can´t get any better

We already wrote a lot about our cyc wall, but now we managed to optimize it even further. The images are now ready to use, right out of the camera - perfectly isolated on white - and all that on an area approx 9-12ft wide.

What´s the advantage you ask yourself? Well - speed. You save a lot of time by not continuously adjusting the lighting while shooting just because you changed your position. The output of a day shooting is extermely high and series like the one on the right are as easy as 123.

...from the ski-slope to the beach and back.

Perfect timing: -17°C in Vienna, 29°C on the Maldivens, you could think we booked the trip short-term. But with two photographers, four models and a makeup artist, that´s a rather bad idea.

After twelve months, we visited our second home. Nowhere in the world did we spend more time (apart from Vienna) than on these tiny islands in the indian oceans. In the meantime it´s more than 8 months total we´ve been there. This time we had to shoot a new island resort for our client AAA Hotels and Resorts. Well, you can imagine that many people used the opportunity to wish us a nice "vacation". OK, this time we managed to stay beyond 170kg of luggage and we also had less stres than in previous years. The island itself was rather small and therefore we saved a lot of time walking from one end to the other. Nevertheless we had several photo- and videoshoots a day - with and without models.

A big part of the work is still ahead of us. We reduced the number of pictures to 4.500 and the videoclips to around 250, but we still have to reduce them more, retouch the photos and cut the video. As expected we didn´t have time and resources to do it on the island.

Well, and there are still very good snow conditions in Austria. We definitely need to take the opportunity to gather more skiimages and skifootage this season. Lots of things to do in the upcomming weeks - and lots of vacationwishers ahead too ;-).

...Skiclothing.

Being enthusiastic skiers it was great fun to shoot the ski clothing collection for Frencys - one of the best known Austrian ski clothing companies (due to their market strategy to not sell at sports stores, but directly to ski schools, raceteams, mountain rescue and the like they are best known amongst ski instructors).

We took special attention to the repeatability of the shots. Every jacket, trousers, shell, shirt,... was photographed with the same ellbow-,shoulder-, hip- and kneeangles. Therefore the use of models was impossible from the start. Being able to choose the desired angles and not just use one that is readily available was nother task and it took us quite some developing work before we were able to come up with the perfect solution.

The result was some great collection shots in front of perfect white backtround. Loyal blogreaders know that we prefer to shoot isolations in camera rather than isolate the objects with paths in post production. Our customers are rewarded with a very natural look of their clothing, especially when the product images are used on different backgrounds.