I’ve been invited to join “The APE” an online gallery selling a select group of photographers work as limited edition archival prints.  Check out the site here.

The Affordable Photography Emporium, or just the APE as we like to call it is a new venture set up by photographers for photographers to sell beautiful limited edition prints at an affordable price.

We thought that money shouldn’t be a hinderance to quality or choice so everything on our site is priced at very reasonable amounts.

To keep things simple all our photographers’ work is uniformly sized and priced so once you know how much you want to spend all you have to do is decide what type of photography you want to spend your money on.

We have everything from famous musical icons through to stark haunting landscapes and we’re always on the lookout for new talent too so if you don’t see something right away that really knocks your socks off then keep checking back every once in a while and you’re bound to find the perfect piece sooner or later.

I am very pleased to announce that I’ve had a successful launch of a selection of my work entitled ‘a portrait of Wiepersdorf’. The preview exhibition was held at Schloss Wiepersdorf as part of the ‘Summer Festival’ or ‘Sommerfest’ on Sunday the 19th of July 2009. The preview gave the assembled artrists, invited guests and local people photographed for the series a chance to view the finished photographs as a collection.

Click here to see a teaser of some of the photographs from the series.

You can see more photos from this project on my web site portfolio under ‘Villagers’ and ‘The Village’.

The first photographs of Mr Dresden & Mr Eliot from the Orange Film Studios photo shoot are now online. You can find the photos by clicking on Saving Private Ryan’s Number in the film strip navigation at the bottom of the web page.

Both actors were lit dramatically against a neutral backdrop in order that they could be cut out, and then montaged into the web design by Poke London.

More photos of Eliot & Dresden will follow over the coming weeks as the new commercials are unveiled.

UPDATE: 11/08/09

More photos are now online. Click on the photo above to see some screen shots or go to the Orange Film Studios web site to see more.

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We just had a great shoot in London for Orange. In collaboration with TV production company Biscuit and the creative digital media people at Poke, Photographing Mr Dresden (Brennan Brown) and Mr Eliot (Steve Furst) the two principle characters from the Orange Film Board commercials. The commissioned set of photos will be used in the new Orange Film Studios website.

After a journey of epic proportions getting to the shoot, involving 2 cancelled flights due to snow and then a mad dash taxi ride to another airport. We were very much relieved to arrive at Mount Pleasant Studios.

The brief was to shoot the two characters in a filmic style, similar to that of a dramatic hero movie poster or DVD cover. We shot digitally using a mixture of flash and tungsten lighting to create the filmic look we were after. Brennan, Steve and the AD Alistair Kilpatrick were a breeze to work with and as a result we shot some really nice stuff.

The above photo was taken by my colleague Mark Garner. Unfortunately I can’t post and pictures from the shoot until the campaign goes live.
Watch this space…

UPDATE: 11/08/09

More photos are now online, go to the Orange Film Studios web site to see more. Or click see the post “Saving Private Ryan’s number” to see some screen shots.

The goZOOMA photo agency now represents a selection of my archive photography. The pictures are now live!, to see the photographs available for purchase please go to the goZOOMA.de website and look for my work under photographers.

The premiss of goZOOMA is to offer high quality photography for advertising and design clients from a select, hand picked  group of photographers. This is not your run of the mill stock library!
 

goZOOMA

Grosser Burstah 36-38
20457 Hamburg
Tel. +49(0)40 30 03 23 67
Fax +49(0)40 30 03 23 69
info@gozooma.de

In addition I have tried to present my photography in a clean and elegant way, as a series of slideshows, so all the normal blog clutter doesn’t detract you from looking at the photos.

I will continue to update and maintain my online portfolio http://martinbennett.com but for the latest work and news please return to the blog for a taste of what I’ve been up to.

I hope you enjoy the site and its content.

Martin

PS for those of you not familiar with blogs and how they work here are the instructions, please do not throw away!

Ok this is the bit for blog virgins…

Navigation
There are 2 main places to navigate around the site. At the top of the blog and also on the right hand side. 

Overview
(found at the top of the page & under ‘Navigate to’, in the right hand menu) is the web site bit of the whole thing. It cuts out all the text and takes you directly to a gallery view of all the Slideshows available. So no text, just pictures!

When viewing the Overview gallery you can see all of the slideshows available. When you click on a thumbnail you will be shown a slideshow. To return to the gallery click on the icon at the bottom left of the slideshow navigation. If you press the play function (bottom right) you can sit back and watch all of the Slideshows in sequence. Alternatively you can use the – & + icons to navigate manually. To exit and return to the blog, click on “Back to blog” at the bottom right of the screen.

Slideshows
To view individual slideshows simply click on any photo in a post and the slideshow will present itself. All the controls can be found at the bottom of the screen. There’s even a snazzy little button that displays the Slideshows in full screen mode, wow! To quit the slideshow and return to the blog, click on “Back to blog” at the bottom right of the screen. 

Comments
Basically you can write your own comments about each post & read what other have had to say. The number of comments written about each post is displayed at the top right of each post. To access the comments you need to click on the title of a post.

Subscribing
Under each post is the option to sign up to receive an email every-time I post new work on the site. So you will be always up to date with what’s going on. Or you can add the post to your favourite social networking site.

Email a post
At the bottom right of each post is a little blue email icon that if click gives you the option to send an email to a friend containing the post. 

Finding stuff

Categories
This is a simple way to find photos or other posts linked by a common theme or subject.

Recent Posts
Well this pretty much does what it says. Its a just a convenient list of the most recent… umm posts. 

Archives
So there are lots of ways to display/find the information/photos. You can look for older posts not displayed on the front page by going to the Archives, listed in the main navigation at the top of the site. Here you will find all of the posts listed in date order.

Search
You can look for relevant info on the entire site by using the search function. Just type something in and see what is thrown up.

Keywords
Further down on the right hand side is a list of keywords which I’ve put together, that will help find posts or photos that are similar or linked in someway.

Links
This a list of friends and colleagues sites. Check them out! 

I hope that you made it to the end of the instructions and didn’t simply get bored halfway through, gave up and started clicking wildly!

The Hamburg based image library has a select group of photographers who’s work they represent. A selection of my work will soon be available for purchase via the goZOOMA website. 

Philosophy

“The idea of the goZOOMA.de photo agency is to search for pictures taken by photographers that were neither accessible nor published so far and that have a special message to convey. Apart from the photo content these should offer room for inspiration and contemplation.

The most important selection criterion of the photos on offer is their particular world outlook, the high photographic level and the individual history of the photographer. Curious, we set off on an expedition into drawers, files and on hard discs, search associatively, collect pictures from all sectors of photography, re-arrange the information and through this show the possible connections and applications. 

Through the photographic language of the individual photographers a well-facetted and unusual archive comes into being that makes the search easier for the customer thanks to its subjective pre-selection of photos. 

The search function or the personal contact to the photo agency gives the user the opportunity of getting to know the photographers and their work or to find pictures for his project in a targeted and topic-orientated way”.

Introducing…

mustard-berlin

Documentary / EPK / Photography / Internet

Mustard specializes in high-end motion picture requirements for:
on set Still Photography, Documentary making, EPK & Internet components. 

Stephen French & Martin Bennett formed Mustard to produce innovative photography and film elements.

Whether it is creating 1934 period photographs with Tom Cruise (Valkyrie 2007) or producing an “International Press” nominated DVD documentary for 20th Century Fox (Omen 2006), Mustard can assist you in producing first-class photographic & video solutions or to put it more simply… help you to create better promotional material.

What we do

— Film stills photography

— EPK package

— Documentary making 

— Film Internet presence

Mustard handles the complete process from shooting the films photography & video material, liaising with the producer & director and delivering the media.

To find our more about mustard please contact us via our web site:
http://mustard-berlin.com

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