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Un certo che
It’s about 4 years I’m shooting sailing boats almost every week, and sometimes I wonder myself how many different ways can a sailing boat be photographed. Is there anything new we can do or are we almost done with it. Its there a limit in creativity? Once a friend told me, the secret of a good picture is “un certo che” like the Italians say. Do I have “un certo che” and once we have it, can we always get it, or does this “un certo che” disappear sometimes? Can we find a new “certo che” in case we loose it?
Since a bit more than year I’m experimenting with some new editing techniques, amazing effects, it’s like opening a new door to a new world. The angles how we shoot the boats may remain the same but the way we look at a picture will this change, is this a new “certo che”?
Juerg
Posted in America's Cup, Yachting
Also tagged Action, go4image.com, Juerg Kaufmann, multihull, Nikon, photo, Sailing
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Pure Sailing Passion Tour 2011
Der Start der 2011 Tour steht kurz vor der Tür. 9.1.2011 20:00 im Fotoforum der Photo10 der Maag Halle. In der 2011 Show finden wir Bilder vom letzten America’s Cup, Louis Vuitton Series, Audi MedCup 2010, Classic Yachten aus dem Heli Cannes & Saint Tropez, Starkwind Segeln mit dem Star und natürich das Highlight die 3D Selection.
Nach Zürich gibts eine Pause und im Frühling März/April gehte es auf Tournee zusammen mit den Cornércard als Hauptsponsor und die Partner Nikon und Rodenstock in die folgende Clubs:
Yacht Club Romanshorn
Zuger Yacht Club
Thuner Yacht Club
Circolo Velico lago di Lugano
Société Nautique de Genève
Posted in America's Cup, Outdoor, Yachting
Also tagged 3D, 3D Foto, 3D Photo, 3D Photography, Alinghi, Audi MedCup, BMW Oracle, Circolo Velico lago di Lugano, Cornercard, fotoforum, ishares cup, Juerg Kaufmann, JUERGKAUFMANN.COM, Louis Vuitton Trophy, LVPS, Maag EventHall, Mariquita, Nikon, photo10, Pure sailing passion, Rodenstock, Société Nautique de Genève, Thuner Yacht Club, Yacht Club Romanshorn, Yachting, Zuger Yacht Club
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My favorite photos from the 33rd America's Cup
It was a cold day, waiting on the photo boat for the race committee to start the race, then speeding around like devils at 50 miles/h following the boats after the start (now I know how fast is Hydroptere).
5 Miles in to the race we had to stop and after a short break off again full speed for almost 20 minutes towards the gybing mark. Once there we had to wait a bit. My Iphone was playing Jean Michel Jarre, with the big lenses we saw them on the horizon coming closer and closer, they seemed slow.
Soon we realized that they aren’t. My song wasn’t over and BMWO followed by the umpire boat gybed allready at the mark. Right after comes Alinghi 5: The cup is gone from Switzerland.
Jürg
PS: The photo of Alinghi 5 was taken on the same leg as the BMWO photo, on the way to the finish after the gybe.
Posted in America's Cup, Outdoor, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, BMW Oracle, boat, foto, go4image, go4image.com, photo, Sailing, Spain, valencia, Yachting
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Congratulations to BMWO
Posted in America's Cup, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, BMW Oracle, foto, go4image, go4image.com, Oracle, photo, regatta, Sailing, Yachting
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Getting Ready for the Cup
Since a while Daniel Forster and me we started to work together on projects, this give us the chance to cover more complex shootings easier such as for example the 33rd Americas cup.
The distances are so big it’s impossible to shoot at the start and then being on time also at the weather mark. So during the 33rd America’s cup we will share the positions on the race course with the goal to give a better coverage to our customers.
The size and speed of the boats is also a bit of a challenge. For those who shoot in their free time try to go on the street and take a picture of a car moving towards you with 50 – 60 km/h maybe even more, you have to be quite fast with framing and the focus to get a sharp picture. Another point are the distances that’s why we will be using the big long lenses. For the cup Nikon Switzerland give me the chance to use their 500mm lens with VRII function. I really curious too see the difference. by the way the lenses it selves is 3.5 Kg plus 1.2 Kg the camera this means holding up almost 5 Kg.
Sometimes I think back at the Olympic Games where we got Chinese agency photographers used to work in the football stadiums with tripods, coming on board with tripods and monopods. Very quickly they realized that this is of no use as the boats are moving too much. Some even got seasick but that’s another story.
Please come and visit our new website www.go4image.com especially for the 33rd Americas cup we made a gallery with Daniels images of the last 10 America’s cup going back more than 30 years to Newport 1977 until the images we will start to publish next week.
Jürg
Louis Vuitton Pacific Series Book
Together with Lynn Fitzpatrick we managed to publish the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series Book within hours of the prize giving for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, a coffee table book with a foreword by regatta organizer, Bruno Troublé, will be available for distribution.
With just the right balance of prose from sailing journalist, Lynn Fitzpatrick, and some of my best images. The book is the perfect keepsake for everyone attending this historic match racing event in Auckland, NZ. For those who were not present for five days of practice and 16 days of exciting match racing between world renown skippers, helmsmen, tacticians and crew from 10 teams representing 9 countries, this photo journal allows you to live vicariously.
Posted in Publications, Yachting
Also tagged Alinghi, America's Cup, Auckland, Book, foto, Louis Vuitton, LVPS, New zealnd, regatta, Yachting
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America's Cup: There is no winner
Photo courtesy of (c) Martin Gilles-Raget
33rd America’s Cup just entered in the startbox
What a situation, we just had the most interesting cup since ever with great races and since months two big guys of our sailing world are demonstrating their power.
Saturday GGYC came up with a new press release telling that Alinghi is not quite open to find a amicable settlement…
Sunday Alinghi came up saying we want to find a solution, we are ready to meet monday morning in New York….
Hard to belive, who is right who is wrong, that’s up to the judge of the New York court to decide, but I have a strong feeling that one of these two teams will come out as a looser. Is it SNG or GGYC?
Wee will se…
Probably the 33rd cup just entered the start box and the boats instead of a nice and calm dial up they just crossed each other with contact.
Now the question is did yellow (Alinghi) altered the course and infringe rule 16 or did blue failed to keep clear by rule 10….this time it’s not an umpire call but the court of New York.
Must be a quite hopeless task to go back to the team a say, guys we lost in court but now we go a win on the water….lets hope that the cup itseleve will not be the looser.
Good luck
Jürg
