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Lyofood
Since 4 years I’m traveling around mostly in Europe from one shooting to the next one. It’s a great way to meet many places and spend time with cool people, but there is something who I really don’t like in my job. Way too many sandwiches, sometimes you come on board of a boat and the owner comes with nice Sandwich towards you. He dosen’t know that if you spend 150 days a year on the water and you probably end up having 150 times a year sandwich for lunch.
This week it started in bit different way. I was shooting for the Polish solo offshore sailor Gutek from Operon Racing. We left the harbor as usual for La Rochelle early in the morning around 7.00 am and wonder no sandwich’s around.
Soon later the water was boiling and I got a grey small bag with some dry stuff inside. A bit of water and a wonder happend. I had a very tasty warm breakfast. For lunch we even got goulash.
Have to admit the lyophilized food tast’s way better as I bleived. The next day I was in the chopper for a 2 h helishooting. Guess what we had for lunch at the airport? Sandwich!!!
Thank you Gutek for this warm meal on board, it’s highly appreciated.
Good luck for you solo around the world.
Juerg
Posted in Outdoor, Travel, Yachting
Also tagged go4image.com, lyophilized food, offshore, performance, photo, regatta, Sailing, teamwork, Travel, Travelling, velux5ocean, Yachting
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3D Action Photgraphy
It has been a long way. Since I’m shooting I always had the feeling to show only part of what I saw in my photos. Specially in yachting photography I had the desire to show more give a feeling of dimensions and distances. The photos you see below is small selection of 3D photos taken in the last months. You have to wear a pair of anaglyphe 3D glasses red/cyan with red on the left side.
I would like to thank Nikon for there support with lenses and body to test and find out the right equipment, Rodenstock to provide over 100’000 3D paper glasses for the first publications and Daniel for his great ideas.
Juerg
Posted in Outdoor, Publications, Yachting
Also tagged 3D, 3D Foto, 3D Photo, 3D Photography, Action, Audi MedCup, Freesytle.ch, go4image, go4image.com, Juerg Kaufmann, Marco Rima, Mariquita, Mirabaud, photo, Sailing, Stereoskopy, Yachting
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Alte Files alte Erinnerungen
Es ist nun schon ein paar Jahre her seit meiner Reise nach Burma oder genauer Bagan. Eine Fläche mit 2’000 Tempel und Pagoden. Es brauchte einen regnerischen Sonntag um diese alten Files herauszugraben und endlich das Panoram Bild zusammen zu stellen.
Wie hat sich Burma verändert? Mehr Touristen die auf den Tempels hermklettern und das Regime? Seit den schlimmen Nachricheten vor ca. 2 Jahren hört und liest mann sehr wenig über dieses Land. Würde sehr gerne wieder mal in dieses Land reisen.
Jürg
Missing the sea & the sun
Guess it’s time to write a post in english. Now it’s the third week I’m at home in Zurich working on “The Project”. No shooting just paperwork and lot’s of meetings. Beside that we are again planning a new Pure Sailing Passion Tour for 2011. Last year we had 5 cities, in 2011 we plan to do 6. We missed the french part and that’s something we would like to change for 2011.
Soon I will be off to Spain for another Audi MedCup and my prototype yes there is a prototype in “The Project” made a few steps forward and I can’t see the moment to use it. Before that we will do once more a shooting with Pius Waeger the Swiss boat designer & builder. The new toys to shoot are called Gran Cru II and Targetta. Amazing boats…but more about this later this week.
Have a good start in to the new week.
Juerg
PS: If you miss the sea & the sun like I do….just look at the clip, for those who have a fast link it’s in HD
Posted in Outdoor, Yachting
Also tagged Audi MedCup, class, Gran Cru II, Pius Waeger, Targetta, Yachting
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Audi MedCup
Nun ist schon das zweite Audi MedCup Shooting zu Ende. Die Boote sind sehr ähnlich wie letztes Jahr trotz der paar Änderungen. Die Segel etwas grösser, Team kleiner, meht Tiefgang und ein Bowsprit. Sind das genug Änderungen um das Bild neu gestalten zu können oder werden wir fast die gleichen Bilder wie letztes Jahr machen? Es ist immer wieder eine Herausforderung neue Bilder zu machen von Booten die wir schon x mal fotografiert haben. Zum Glück ist der Fantasie keine Grenz gesetzt und somit gibt es immer wieder neu Ideen. Es ist auch spannend die neuen Fotografen zu beobachten. Bringen sie ein neue Idee oder finde ich meine besser. Es ist schon ein wenig ein Kampf ohne zu übertreiben aber genau das motiviert enorm. Neu Winkel oder sonst etwas neues zu versuchen.
Der Audi MedCup ist für mich auch ein Platform um eben etwas neues bahnbrechendes zu testen. Ja es gibt etwas, es ist eine alte Technologie die mich in den letzten paar Monaten sehr stark beschäftigt hat und hoffentlich auch noch in der Zukunft wird. Die ersten Tests in Barcelona liefen sehr gut. Auch gabe es dazu gab es noch ein paar hilfreiche Erkenntnisse um die Entwicklung voran zu treiben. Im Moment will ich noch nichts verraten. In ein paar Wochen gibt es mehr darüber….
Jürg
Posted in Outdoor, Yachting
Also tagged Audi, Audi MedCup, go4image, go4image.com, Juerg Kaufmann, Sailing, Yachting
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Golf
Es ist nun schon das dritte mal, dass ich mit den Kameras und Objektiven auf einem Golfplatz unterwegs war. Sehr oft bei Gesprächen übers Golf kam das Argument wie gut man auf dem Golfplatz abschalten kann. Gestern durfte ich die Reinhard Trophy im Golf Club Thunersee fotografieren und es funktionierte wirklich, hatte das Gefühl für diese Zeit in einer anderen Welt zu sein. Hoffe sehr dass ich noch weitere Golfplätze kennen lernen darf.
Ein grosse Hilfe im Golfprojekt ist die Diane von Koi gmbh
Vielen Dank Diane
Jürg
Posted in Outdoor
Also tagged Bunker, Golf, Golf Fotograf, Golf Photography, Green, photo, Reinhard Trophy, switzerland, Thun
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5.5 Zeitlos wie die Klassischen Yachten
Es ist nun schon das zweite Jahr dass ich die 5.5 Schweizer Meisterschaft fotografiere. Die Boote sind einfach unglaublich schön. Zeitlose wie die Klassischen Yachten.
Wäre super wenn es mit der WM in Torbole klappen würde da sind die Windbedingungen etwas anders und das wird man sicher auf den Bilder sehen.
Grüsse
Jürg
Posted in Outdoor, Yachting
Also tagged 5.5, go4image, go4image.com, Sailing, switzerland, Yachting
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Asche und Helikopter
Nun ist es wieder soweit, morgen reise ich ab nach Zermatt an die Patrouille des Glacier. Eine Übernachtung im Tal und dann rauf auf die Tete Blanche um dort gute Bilder zu machen bei Nacht. Und genau das ist die Frage, wie kommen wir rauf auf die Tete Blanche? Mit der Asche in der Luft die man nicht sieht dürfen die Helis nicht fliegen.
Letztes mal durfte ich bis Col de Bertol fliegen und danach zu Fuss auf die Tete Blanche. Es war ein super Gefühl in Arolla in del Heli zu Steigen und rauf bis auf den Col de Bertole, ich genoss die paar Minuten im Heli die Hänge rauf zu fliegen. Der rest von da weiter war schon ein ziemlicher Effort mit ein fast 10 Kg Rucksack. Die letzten hundert Höhenmeter waren ein Kampf. Ich zählte die Schritte bis wir endlich oben waren.
Nun sieht es anders aus…dieses Jahr laufen wir wahrscheinlich von Zermatt aus. Die Asche ist da und wird auch noch ein paar Tage bleiben.
Dafür gibt es dann auf der Tete Blanche eine überraschung. Wir habe von dort danz Swisscom Zugriff aufs Netz und somit können wir Bilder “Just in time” ins Tal senden. Also freuen wir uns doch.
So nun mache ich langsam Schluss für heute damit Morgen die Energien nicht fehlt.
Jürg
PS: Bilder von 2008
Posted in Outdoor, Travel
Also tagged go4image.com, motivation, outdoor, Patrouille des Glacier, PDG, photo, switzerland, Tete Blanche, Wallis, Yachting
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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, Cup, go4image, go4image.com, photo, Sailing, Spain, valencia, Yachting
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on tv
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It was sure one of my highlights during the 33rd America’s Cup having a professional TV crew following me during 1 day shooting. The TSI is the Televisione Svizzera Italiana the Italian part of Switzerland where I grew up, unfortunately because of all this travelling for sailing I spend too little time at home.
The portrait went on TV the 13th of February during the news, it’s impressive to hear from the TV crew that at least 100’000 person saw it.
Grazie TSI
Jürg
Posted in America's Cup, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, go4image, go4image.com, Imaging, Lugano, photo, regatta, Sailing, TSI, Yachting
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Congratulations to BMWO
Posted in America's Cup, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, BMW Oracle, Cup, go4image, go4image.com, Oracle, photo, regatta, Sailing, Yachting
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They left the harbour and raced: BMWO 1 Alinghi 0
The race was way out, Alinghi on port and BMWO on Starboard entry, first cross dialup and penalty…..BMWO with the wing sails higher and faster on the beat almost 10 degrees and deeper and faster on the run almost 30 degrees.
Tomorrow is another day, forcast 2 knots. Alinghi keep saying we are fast with light wind…let’s see if we have a race tomorrow and who knows maybe we have a third race too…
Good evening from Valencia
Juerg
Posted in America's Cup, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, BMW Oracle, boat, go4image, go4image.com, photo, Sailing, switzerland, Yachting
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Will they ever leave the harbor to race?
Posted in America's Cup, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, go4image.com, Sailing, switzerland, Yachting
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Valencia is getting ready
First day in Valencia, it doesn’t seem that in less than 3 days there will be the 33rd Americas cup. Plenty of activity going on, tv trucks cables, noise etc. The harbor is busy but no AC boat’s. BMWO is in the commercial harbor and Alinghi 5 is under the tent.
On the top of the Varadero building you can find 2 SNG flags and a big sign “Mediacenter” at the entrance. Even here lot’s of preparation activities going on. Nearby the Alinghi base, impressive building, shop is open, music plays.
We are used to those prevent activities, for a typical regatta that what’s normally happen but for the cup it’s a bit a strange feeling.
Another thing: The weather forecast for February 8th announce 5 knots of wind in the morning, will this be the Alinghi day or does the wing from BMWO will impress us all?
I’m looking forward to see what’s happening in the next days.
Jürg
Posted in America's Cup, Travel, Yachting
Also tagged 33rd, Alinghi, America's Cup, BMW Oracle, go4image, go4image.com, Sailing, Spain, valencia, 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
Your Still Camera Also Does Great Video!
One of my favorite images of this year…do we need to see the before andafter or is it just better this way?
Today Nikon announced the new Nikon D3s. I was expecting a new semi pro camera something between the D3x and the D700, a high resolution camera with with aprox. 20 megapixel at a affordable price.
Dreamer..the D3s is a 12.1 megapixel camera with great ISO values. The big surprise was, it takes video. Why not, this is the ongoing discussion in the mediacenters at big events. All photographers are talking about the two worlds getting closer to each other. Honestly I’m not so sure.
Recently at an event the organizer hired a film crew who worked on the water and up in the air without gyroscope. I never getseasick no matter how big the waves are but the outcome by watching this movie I almost got seasick, this TV crew was simply useless. Now everyone believes that videos out of the still camera will change the market. I’m really questioning that.
I doo like changes and I take changes as a chance to do business but this time I have my doubts. Today in the yachting photography we are trying out so new angles to get more dynamics in to the images (have a look at this one), when I used the D3x in Singapore for the Volvo Ocean race felt the freedom to crop the image and this was a real new way of working. I didn’t bought the D3x as I believe it’s simply too expensive to go out on the saltwater with such a camera. This explains why I’m waiting for the Nikon semipro with 20 megapixel.
For the home/family use a camera doing also video is great but do we really need that in the PRO world? Are the good still moment similar as the good video moments? I think not. For the daily use on websites and agencies for the press this may be a solution. Two weeks ago Lynn, Daniel and I we just finished the book of the Voiles de Saint-Tropez and we have been very hard on us to choose the images for the book. Many of them are unique moments where the before and after doesn’t really matters. It’s rather a split moment captured who also gives you a bit of interpretation freedom about the before or the after who makes the image better.
Question: What is more sensual a beautiful women completely naked or dressed with a shirt where you can’t see anything but imagination goes wild?. Isn’t a video different from sill image? Browsing in the web about video and the still discussion I found a post from APhotoEditor he believes that top shots with a good headline are more successful as videos. On top it takes much longer to get the video edited and up on the web as a image.
What do you think about this?
Juerg
New Book Classic and Modern Yachts in Saint-Tropezrdre the
After 2 weeks shooting the classic yachts on the cote azur…here is my best image, enjoy….
See the book online
Posted in Publications, Yachting
Also tagged Book, photo, regatta, switzerland, teamwork, Yachting
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Always look twice
Yesterday on flight back from the Audi Medup in Cagliari I found this picture. It’s a sunset on the Hirzel one of my favorite shooting place. Right after the shooting the picture didn’t made it in to the selection of the day, would have almost deleted it, sometimes you really need to look twice before you see the real beauty.
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, Cup, Louis Vuitton, LVPS, New zealnd, regatta, Yachting
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Il mondo della Vela in immagini
Serata foto giovedi 5 Marzo 2009 ore 19.00 Palazzo Congressi Muralto
In collaborazione con la Federazione Ticinese della Vela e banca SYZ&CO organizziamo una serata foto con le più spettacolari immagini di vela internazionale come:
-Maxi Catamarani
-Monaco Classic Week
-Barcelona World Race
-Tour de France a la Voile
-Giochi Olympici di Qingdao
-Voile des St. Tropez
-Volvo Ocean Race Singapore 08/09
-Louis Vuitton Pacific Series Auckland 09
Entrata e libera
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