D-Max Photography - Architecture Blog

Stefan Jewellers opens new Perth store

2011-12-07T05:09:00.001-08:00

We have recently been commissioned to photograph the new Stefan Jewellers Perth Store. The showroom is spread out over two floors with various lighting sources and colour temperatures. Some time was spent correcting colour temperature in post and levelling out the huge contrast range from the bright display cabinets.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

ANZ Bank North Perth

2011-11-06T01:14:00.000-07:00

Here is a recently Architectural shoot of the old 1817 North Perth Building that has been converted into a new ANZ Bank. The ground floor went through major renovations to cater for the banks special needs such as reinforcing the floor to accommodate the Safe. The shoot ran over a few hours just after the bank closed for the day. Here are a few images from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Toni & Guy Subiaco

2011-07-12T06:02:00.000-07:00

The new Toni & Guy Salon has opened in Subiaco just a couple of streets from our Studio. This was a nice close location for the shoot. Designed by Mata Design Studio the two level 150 sqm interior was shot over twilight with special attention given to controlling the bright lights and dark interiors. The externals were shot with car trails running across the frame adding some additional foreground interest.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Cocoon Fires

2011-05-30T06:05:00.000-07:00

I recently shot the product range for Cocoon Fires . The cool looking architectural freestanding fireplaces run on biofuel alone. The Full day shoot was shot on location in Northbridge with all props brought in by the stylist. Lighting was set to balance the light from the flames. Many images were shot for each setup to get the flames looking its best. Care had to be taken when shooting into the mirrored marine grade stainless steel to avoid any unwanted reflections.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Short Film

2011-05-25T07:35:00.000-07:00

We had a spare hour in the Studio this week so we thought up this short film. Shot and edited by Nik Douglas within 24 hours. Unfortunately I am killed off in my debut role.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Webb & Brown-Neaves Desire Campaign shoot

2011-05-15T07:19:00.000-07:00

We have just shot the new ad campaign for high end home builder Webb & Brown-Neaves. The concept being a couple who have grown out of there small house and needing to move on up to a WB home. The brief for the shoot was was quite specific with images to follow a certain look and colour grading.

The final images and artwork are below.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

joel@dmaxphotography.com.au

Venn - Queen St Perth

2011-04-03T06:34:00.000-07:00

Venn has recently opened in Queen St Perth. The converted old flour mill in now a funky three level bar / cafe, retail shop, art gallery and artist studios. Designed by Matthews Architecture Venn has become an instant perth hotspot. Our shoot began 4.30pm on a Friday afternoon and by 6.30 the bar was at capacity. Only available lighting was used on the photographic shoot as it was not possible to run lights and power cords with so many people.

Here are a few architectural photographs from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography
Architecture Photography Blog

Beachside Leighton

2011-03-22T06:39:00.000-07:00

I recently shot the newly completed luxury apartments by Mirvac located on Leighton Beach.

The shoot ran over 3 days, every room/angle was shot in either early mourning late afternoon and or in evening light depending on its orientation and how the natural light filled the shot. Plenty of artifical light was also braught in to to create the desired look.

Here is some images from the shoot. More images can be viewed http://beachsideleighton.com.au/index.html

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography
Architecture Photography Blog

D-Max photography New Studio

2011-01-28T01:41:00.001-08:00

Over the Christmas break we moved over to our new Subiaco studio, here is a quick image. I will post more images when I get some time to do a full shoot of the studio and all areas.

Joel Barbitta

88 Noodle Bar

2011-01-09T05:00:00.000-08:00

88 Noodle Bar on the casino gaming floor at Burswood Entertainment Complex is now open. With the Interior design by Mata Design Studio, we recently shot the interiors first up in the mourning to avoid the crowds. The biggest challenge apart from colour balance was keeping details in both highlights and shadows. This was solved making 3 exposures and blending images in photoshop.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography
Architecture Photography Blog

Merry Christmas

2010-12-21T04:53:00.000-08:00

Sneak Peak

2010-11-28T00:31:00.000-08:00

D-Max Photography is on the move after several years in East Perth. We are packing up the studio and moving into a Subiaco warehouse. Carpet has been removed, Jarrah floors have been polished painting is nearly done. When finished the new studio will include boardroom, client sitting area, playstation room, kitchen, post production area and studio. We will continue to specialise in architectural and interior photography of designer and display homes, commercial buildings, boats, apartments, bars, restaurants, retail fit-outs and anything else relating to built form along with advertising and product images shot both in studio and out on location.

You can take a look at the work in progress images below and I will post final images when all is complete in the new year

Just let me know if anyone would like to rent out my current photographic studio in East Perth.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

2010 Telethon Home

2010-11-09T04:18:00.000-08:00

2010 Peet Telethon Home built by In-Vogue has just sold for a record $865000.00 for Princess Margaret Children's Hospital. I photographed the display home in Shorehaven a few weeks ago. At this early stage it was the only completed home in the estate with power coming from an external generator that I tripped out several times due the the high voltage of my lights. Here are some images from the home.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

New D-Max Photography website

2010-08-31T06:45:00.000-07:00

After two years my portfolio website has finally had an update.

I have added a few extra Portfolio categories such as Display Home External Photography, Display Home Internal Photography.

Check it out at www.dmaxphotography.com.au

Thanks

Joel Barbitta

The Islands South Beach

2010-08-10T05:16:00.000-07:00

This is a recent shoot at The Islands apartments in South Beach. Built by Pindan Construction for Stockland it has recently won the 2010 MBA Award for best Multi-Unit Development over $30 million. With the apartments facing directly west I shot the internals with the sun flooding into the apartments balancing the light with Profoto flash heads giving me detail in the highlighs and shadows. Please see some images below shot with Nikon D3x.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Sunseeker predator photoshoot

2010-06-24T06:41:00.000-07:00

Sunseekers new performance motoryacht Predator arrived in Perth and a few days later we photographed the boat for Ocean magazine. The shoot started late in the day to take advantage of the low afternoon sun. The running shots were taken from a second boat just out of Fremantle followed by the onboard photographs that started only minutes before the sun hit the horizon and ran into the evening.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Photography of Room Sets

2010-04-25T01:48:00.000-07:00

We recently shot two days of room sets in a makeshift studio at the Brooker Furniture factory. Brooker Furniture have been producing fine hardwood furniture for over 27 years.

The shot list included beds, dining tables, coffee tables and wall units. A shooting platform was set up consisting of two temporary walls and a timber floor. Various pictures, curtains, floor mats and props where used in each of the image to get a variety of looks on the same set.

The pictures below show the set and the final image. Lights were used through makeshift windows (plywood clamped to light stands) to give an early mourning look to the set.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

National Photoshoot

2010-03-09T05:44:00.000-08:00

I have recently returned from the Adshel National Photoshoot covering 5 cities in 17 days. 500gb of images were taken to capture Adshel street furniture in relationship to its surroundings and their interaction with people.

Long exposures were used to emphasise the busy locations allowing motion blur of people and cars to contrast in with the stationary environment.

Here are a few images below from the shoot

Melbourne

Adelaide

Brisbane

Sydney

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Hotel Rottnest

2010-01-25T05:11:00.000-08:00

We took the early ferry over to Rottnest to shoot the newly renovated hotel. As there are no cars on the island we had to drag over the lighting and camera cases to the hotel . Starting the shoot in the rooms with the key focus on the spectacular views. All lighting via Profoto flash heads to lift internal light levels so views did not blow out. I followed with the bar / restaurant images. The images needed to be shot in the middle of the day to capture the busy lunch period meaning sun was very high in sky, care was taken to to make shadows to deep. The afternoon Ferry was caught back to Hillarys Boat Harbour to finish a long day. Here are a few images from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

WA's First 5 Star NABERS energy rating

2009-12-20T05:50:00.000-08:00

I recently photographed Stockland's new A-grade 7,185m2 four level office building located at 2 VICTORIA AVE, Perth. This is the first of its kind to WA with 5 Star NABERS energy rating featuring the latest in energy efficient design.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

2009 Zorzi Appealathon Home

2009-11-11T05:27:00.000-08:00

D-Max Photography was pleased to shoot the recently completed 2009 Appealathon home. The Home built by Zorzi Builders who are known for their exceptional build quality and design is located at 11 Jutland Pde Dalkeith. The charity home is now open for inspection with a selling price of 9.5 million.

Bad weather was unable to hold the shoot off due to deadlines. The overall external images shot from a cherry picker required a higher than normal iso to compensate for the sway.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Retail Shop Design

2009-10-20T06:03:00.000-07:00

Jools has recently opened their Karrinyup store to showcase their stunning range of world class designer jewellery. The unique shop design was put together by The Urbani Leyton Design featuring circular display cabinets a large detailed wall mirror and ceiling. All images shot with Nikon D3x using tungsten lighting working around staff and clients during open hours.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Wolf Lane Bar

2009-09-22T06:57:00.000-07:00

This cool new bar tucked away down Wolf Lane in the Perth CBD has recently opened. Designed by Bremick the bar has a New York feel with high ceilings exposed brickwork and raw timber floors. Images were shot into the evening with minimum lighting introduced just to balance in with the existing tungsten lighting. Here are a few images from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

2009 Telethon Home

2009-08-27T05:48:00.000-07:00

I again had the opportunity to shoot this years Telethon Home built by In-Vogue Living in Halls Head. The 4 bed 3 bath two story home will be auctioned off for charity over the Telethon weekend at 11am 4th Oct 2009. You can check out the home during home open times, more information can be found at Telethon Home Website See a few preview images below.

Thanks
Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

The Islands

2009-08-12T06:46:00.000-07:00

We managed to get a beautiful day last week for a shoot at for The Islands by Cedar Woods at Mariners Cove in Mandurah. The shoot stared early mourning where we were able to get perfect reflections and morning light for the externals. Images that followed included internal lifestyle images, images from a boat out front of the development and local ares of interest.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Luciano’s Hairdressing

2009-07-12T05:34:00.000-07:00

After many years in Claremont Luciano’s Hairdressing went through a major face lift as they moved into the new Claremont Quarters shopping Centre. Designed by Anitma design group Liciano's new store is being entered into the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) Awards. I arrived on site first up in the mourning to shoot before the shop opened to not include people and allow us to run power cords and lights around without the worry of of customers tripping over them.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Queens Riverside Showroom

2009-06-28T06:59:00.000-07:00

Designed by Holcam Creative to showcase Fraser's Property Groups new Queens Riverside apartments in East Perth. The images were shot utilising the existing tungsten lighting, I added only a few hot lights to bring up shadow details and control highlights. The area had a couple of windows allowing natural light in causing some problems with colour balance that was later corrected in post.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

National Lifestyle Village

2009-05-31T06:57:00.000-07:00

Howell Builders has recently completed the new clubhouse for National Lifestyle Village in High Wycombe. The Clubhouse includes a gym, indoor pool spar and sauna, library, squash court and large hall and kitchen. The external images were to be shot at Dusk meaning the sky behing the eastern facing building would be lost at this time of day. After trying graduated Neutral density filters but not getting the desired look I decided to go with two exposures and blend them in photoshop. You can see this in the first two images below.

Two new elevations

2009-04-20T05:46:00.000-07:00

It is great to see the end of daylight saving, at least for a while. The sun is now heading down at 6pm a much better time for a dusk shoot than the middle of summer where the sun hangs around till 9pm . Here is a external image shot at dusk of an impressive home in Dalkeith built by Polazzo Homes.

Another impressive Dalkeith home shot last week was form builder Webb & Brown-Neaves. We were lucky to get a beautiful yellow Lamborghini in the driveway for the shot. The camera was set up just inside the boundary fence with a 14-24mm lens set to 19mm. This is wider then I would normally shoot an external however I preferred this composition, by framing out the front fence I was able to get a clearer view of the car. The camera was sent up the tripod to full height over 2.5m exposure 4 sec st f11

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Nautilus Display Home

2009-04-05T05:11:00.000-07:00

Here are a few images from a recent architecturl photoshoot for Dale Alcock Homes. The display home was required to be shot with talent in a natural way. The images were shot to look very naturally lit however each shot required considerable time and artificial lights to achieve this. Slow shutter speeds was used to achieve motion blur in some images while others used shallow depth of field to achieve a fresh look. A prop stylist was on hand to style each image through out the day.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Another Magazine Closes

2009-03-17T16:23:00.000-07:00

This week heard the closure of two more magazines, Habitat and Lifestyle Magazine and Perth Vita. With the worlds obsession with online content magazines are becoming less relevant finding it harder to keep up with current information being produced on the web every second. I was lucky enough to shoot for both publications including the cover of the final issue of Perth Habitat and Lifestyle Magazine available now.

D-Max Photography

Porsche in the Lounge

2009-02-28T05:13:00.000-08:00

Here is a unique home that features the owners Porsche viewable from the Lounge room through glass doors. The Porsche sits in its own air conditioned room and can be seen from the moment you walk through the front door. Images shot with 14-24mm lens 1/2 sec @ f10 on Nikon D3x

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Welcome Ryley Barbitta

2009-02-13T04:41:00.000-08:00

Something a little different for the blog. This week we got a new addition to our family with the birth of our second son Ryley, here is a photo at 1 day old shot iso 4oo in available light on Nikon D3x. Many long sleepless nights to ahead.

Novus Homes New Building

2009-02-03T04:35:00.000-08:00

Novus Homes has just built and moved into there new office building in Balcatta. Along with shooting some daylight internal and external images was this final image shoot in twilight. Last minute changing of blown light globes was needed first in rapidly changing light. Images shot with the new Nikon D3x with a 24mm PC lens exposed for 6 seconds at f8.5.

House & Garden Magazine

2009-01-18T05:06:00.000-08:00

Here are some images from a recent House and Garden magazine shoot. The Beach house located in Baldivis a one hour drive south of Perth was designed by Optimum Resource Architects . The Holiday house is just meters from the Ocean and blends in with its surroundings through the use of natural building materials. A natural look to the lighting was required for the photos just two or three studio heads with large soft diffusers were used as fill and to balance the light and outside the windows without overpowering the views. Here are some images below from the shoot, you can read the article and see more photos in the current January issue of Australian House & Garden Magazine on sale now.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Perth Aerial photography and Cityscape

2009-01-04T03:16:00.000-08:00

The week before Christmas I was commissioned to photograph the Perth City Skyline from both ground level and from the air to show off Frasers Property Group's new site located on the corner of Hay Street and Adelaide Terrace East Perth. The site will house 288 apartments and townhouses, commercial space, a new retail precinct and a luxurious apartment hotel. Part one of the photography was the Aerials that required a nice blue day and the charter of a helicopter. As you can see in the images below the door comes off allowing more freedom to move and less chance of the aircraft to appear in the images.

Part two of the shoot was the ground level views from South Perth. After a reccie shoot all along the South Perth foreshore two locations were selected by the clients. Each of the final panorama images below were stitched from 3-4 images. Various images were shot over a half hour time slot allowing for various looks.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Merry Christmas

2008-12-21T03:39:00.000-08:00

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and see you in 2009.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Applecross Renovation

2008-12-14T03:21:00.000-08:00

Last week I shot this home renovation for Matthews Architecture. The Modern extension features a large curved roof flowing from the alfresco to the sitting room that is flooded with natural daylight in the afternoon. The extension also comprises of a new kitchen, lounge and a free standing pool room. See photos from the shoot below.

Monier Roof Tiles

2008-11-27T03:17:00.000-08:00

This week I was required to hire a cherry picker to shoot a 9 unit development in Baldivis for Monier roof tiles. A 12m Cherry picker was towed into positioned early Monday morning and lifted to full height as you can see in this behind the scene photo.

After waiting for some clouds to pass I managed to get a few images in good mourning light.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Oswald Swanbloune Residence

2008-11-16T03:14:00.000-08:00

Here is a comparison between daylight and a dusk elevation from a shoot this week. Most clients prefer a twilight external image as it generally has more appeal. What do you think?

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Updated D-Max web site

2008-11-04T19:51:00.000-08:00

I have just updated my web site galleries to a new streamlined look. The galleries now load much quicker for easier viewing. Check it out @ dmaxphotography.com.au and let me know what you think.

Dale Alcock Homes Shenton Lakes display home

2008-10-26T04:10:00.000-07:00

Dale Alcock Homes have just opened a new display home in Champion Lakes. 8 hours was spent on location shooting the home. A stylist was also on hand to give the home a lived in look. The external images shot at dusk finished off the shoot at 7pm. The home is open for inspection Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 2-5pm. more information can be found at Dale Alcock Homes

New covers

2008-10-16T05:30:00.000-07:00

D-Max photography recently shot the cover of the current issue of Habitat & lifestyle magazine. The home built by Riverstone is located in Mosman Park. Check it out on stands now.

Every year I shoot the cover of the Swimming Pool and Spar Association magazine. The Magazine produced every year showcases the best pools and spars from WA. The magazine out now can request a copy on their website http://www.spasawa.com.au/

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Luxury Apartments by Webb & Brown-Neaves

2008-10-05T05:22:00.000-07:00

Webb & Brown-Neaves has just completed their latest apartments building at Mandurah Ocean Marina. Named Platinum the 5 story complex consists of 6 unique and exclusive apartments right on the waters edge overlooking the marina and Indian Ocean. This is one of three apartment buildings at the marina built by the exclusive home builders Webb & Brown-Neaves with Nautica already completed and the Landing due for completion mid 2010. Further info can be found at http://www.mandurahapartments.com.au/. After a couple of cancellations due to bad weather we finally managed to shoot it on a beautiful blue day. Here are a few images from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

South West Photoshoot

2008-09-21T02:03:00.000-07:00

Last week took me to Cowaramup, a 3.5 hour drive south of Perth for a stunning beach side residence. The home built by Zorzi Builders takes advantage of the spectacular 180 degree views, no expense was spared on this luxurious residence from the home theatre to the huge cave like cellar to the glass pyramid roof. This is the main house on the lot though Zorzi builders also built the guest house that you can rent out for $1000.00 a night. We shot the guest house last year and it won the HIA Australian house of the year, you can check out those photos at http://www.incognitoescape.com.au/ Here are some photos from this shoot.

Thanks Joel Barbitta

CTA Building

2008-09-10T05:26:00.000-07:00

External photography was required of the CTA building on the Esplanade in Perth. Photography of the building was commissioned by Perth Precast along with other multi story buildings in the CBD and a number of train stations. A late afternoon time slot was chosen for the image due to its southern orientation, tilt sift lenses on medium format digital camera was used for vertical perspective corection. Here are a few images.

2008 Telethon Home

2008-08-31T05:14:00.000-07:00

The 2008 Perth Telethon Home built by In Vogue builders is now finished and open for inspection. As always D-Max Photography was pleased to be asked to photograph the home for charity. The home located in Southern River will be auctioned over the Telethon Weekend with all the money going to Princess Margaret Children's Hospital. You can find more information on the home at http://telethon.7perth.com.au/view/telethon-homes/ . and view the first pictures on the home here.

South Perth Appartment - Zorzi Builders

2008-08-18T06:00:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos of luxurious South Perth Apartment. The images were shot in the late afternoon running into twilight to take advantage of the city views of the Perth skyline. The apartments have been finished to the highest standards by Zorzi Builders.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max photography

Zekka - Matthews Architecture

2008-08-12T05:24:00.000-07:00

D-Max photography was recently commissioned by Matthews Architecture to photograph their recently completed project Zekka. Zekka is a very cool mens boutique fashion store located on King Street Perth. It incorporates a cafe that you will have to check out next time you are in Perth. Take a look at some images from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max photography

New Oswald Display Floreat

2008-08-05T05:29:00.000-07:00

Oswald Homes has just opened its latest display home in Floreat. A grand single story home designed around a large internal courtyard. As with most shoots not everything went to plan. Due to bad weather there was many delays with the home and photography had to be shot around tradesman doing the last final details. Externals had to be shot under a umbrella due to the rain and to make thing worse we were unable open up any of the courtyards doors restricting some good angles.
Here a few pictures from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max photography