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Vote for the WORLD YACHT RACING IMAGE OF THE YEAR
Mid December during the World Yacht Racing Forum will be announced the World Yacht Racing Image of the year. Now everybody can vote. Click here or on the image, to give your vote .
The photo is from Plymouth taken during the America’s Cup World Series. It’s also included in my 2012 Sailing Calendar and has already been published as double page on the current issue of Swiss Boat Yachting.
The image features Emirates Team New Zealand leading the fleet approaching the first mark after the start, it was a very special moment shooting from the first mark in this kind of event.
Will keep you posted on how the votes are going, right now my image is on the 3rd position which is already great so every vote counts.
Thank you
Juerg
Posted in America's Cup, Outdoor, Photography, Publications, Yachting
Also tagged America's Cup, ETNZ, go4image.com, Juerg Kaufmann, regatta, Sailing, switzerland, World Yacht Racing Image of the year, WYRF, Yachting
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Cercando un certo che..
Yesterday I went to Nice to visit the Extreme Sailing Series, no assignment no stress so the right moment to try out new things with the camera. Since a few weeks I’m editing some of my images on the Ipad, and upload them directly on the web like this image, the editing software is quite powerful and give you lot’s of freedom . A boring moment out on the rib with a few photographers and a little action, this is a good moment it’s challenging to produce an action shot. Why not focusing on the core element in the image and leaving the rest blur? Painters use this technique to give a certain 3D effect. is this a “certo che”?
Posted in 3D Photography, Outdoor, Yachting
Also tagged extreme 40, nice, nice4you, nizza, photograhy, regatta, Sailing
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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, Cup, go4image.com, Juerg Kaufmann, multihull, Nikon, Sailing
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3D Fotografie Interview auf www.fotointern.ch
Langsam steigt das Interesse an der 3D Fotografie. Heute wurde auf der meisst besuchten Schweizer Fotowebseite ein Interview publiziert über die 3D Fotografie.
Ich bin wirklich gespannt auf den Feedback der Photo10 Besucher über das Thema 3D Fotografie.
Posted in 3D Photography, Outdoor, Publications
Also tagged 3D, 3D Photography, Yachting
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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 foto, go4image.com, lyophilized food, offshore, performance, 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, foto, Freesytle.ch, go4image, go4image.com, Juerg Kaufmann, Marco Rima, Mariquita, Mirabaud, 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
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, foto, Golf, Golf Fotograf, Golf Photography, Green, Reinhard Trophy, switzerland, Thun
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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 foto, go4image.com, motivation, outdoor, Patrouille des Glacier, PDG, 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, foto, go4image, go4image.com, 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, foto, go4image, go4image.com, Imaging, Lugano, 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, foto, go4image, go4image.com, Oracle, 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, foto, go4image, go4image.com, Sailing, switzerland, 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, foto, regatta, switzerland, teamwork, Yachting
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New Book: CLASSIC and MODERN YACHTS in SAINT-TROPEZ
PARTNERS IN TRADITON – CLASSIC and MODERN YACHTS in SAINT-TROPEZ
Saint-Tropez, France (September 26, 2009) –Yachting photographers, Juerg Kaufmann and Daniel Forster, and sailing writer, Lynn Fitzpatrick, have teamed up to produce a coffee table book of Les de Saint-Tropez entitled PARTNERS IN TRADITON – CLASSIC and MODERN YACHTS in SAINT-TROPEZ. The book will be packed will stunning images and highlights of the yachts, people and atmosphere of the event.
The regattabook’s development can be followed online at regattabook.com. Each day we will reveal the images that the team will publish.
The 10th anniversary of the event will be exceptional. This year, Les Voiles celebrates the 100th year anniversary of Tuiga and her sistership, Mariska. Many of the world’s most beautiful traditional yachts such as Elenora, Cambria, Shamrock and Moonbeam will ply the same waters as the stylish Wallys. Additionally, all five of Eric Tabarly’s Pen Duick yachts will be assembled in the marina and raced during the day.
The regattabook will capture the essence of the event – the excitement, the venue, the yachts, the organizers, the partners, the characters and personalities that sail these boats. From the quiet of first light to the cacophony of 300 boats leaving port and the Mistral whistling through the rigging, the regattabook will enable you to live vicariously and remember a decade of regattas marking the close of the summer sailing season in the Mediterranean.
Posted in Publications, Yachting
Also tagged Book, regatta, Regattabook.com, Sailing, teamwork, Yachting
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Ladycat
What to do with a grey day? Add a bit of color
2010 Classic Yacht Calendar
Last year I did my first calendar with images from the Olympic games. Many of my readers are enjoying the calendar every day now.
Now it’s time to plan the 2010 calendars. Yes we do two, a racing calendar with Swiss and international regatta images and the classic calendar. The images are chosen and together with the editor Sailing Media we publish it, the focus of the exclusive black and white images is the famous Belle Classe, some of the yachts are Tuiga, Mariquita and a few more.
Posted in Publications, Yachting
Also tagged 2010, calendar, la belle classe, Mariquita, monaco classic week, Sailing, Tuiga, Voiles de St. Tropez, 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.
