Sunseeker predator photoshoot

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.

All photography by Joel Barbitta

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Photography of Room Sets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.






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Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

The Islands

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

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

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

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

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

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