OLE M. WERNER

End of the Year Results!

2011-12-26T22:49:00.000+01:00

Now some results of the summer turned up and finishing the year 2011 with some musicclips of a rockband from berlin. Martin Johanus & The SpeedDates spending to songs from their latest record into the web and here you can see the two clips.

"Come Or Go"

"Magic"

On top of that here you can also see the making of to those clips on my rooftop, have fun and I whish you also a got start in 2012 as good as I have, ´cause I´ll be in Vancouver/Canada, yeah!

Ole M. Werner INSIDE: Shooting at an exhibition in Paris!

2011-11-20T01:59:00.001+01:00

This time from Paris an impression of shooting at an exhibition. It´s about lightning, booth impressions and logo placements...

Experiments with medium format camera

2011-11-08T23:15:00.002+01:00

So,

this time it´s a little bit off the topic that relates normally to filmmaking or pro-shootings. This is about an experiment with an 35mm film roll, or better two rolls in a mag of the Mamiya RB67 medium format camera.

To start this little trail you have tot equip yourself with two 35mm Negativfilm (or slide film will also do), a 220 Mag of the Mamiya, two cartridge film spools, a scissor, sticky tape and something like a changing tent.

The reason of the 220 mag is important, because if you´re put the rolls into a 120 mag it could happen that the tracking i s irritated by the thickness of the film. Normaly the mediumformat rolls have the light-tight paper around it, but the negativ 35mm have not! So better try it with a 220 magazine.

First thing is practicing. If you have an old film practise the thread up to the spools. Be aware that the right side of the film has to face the optic... Otherwise you get a red shield effect, that could also look nice but you have to be aware of it. Otherwise you underexpose the film.

Cut the edges of the head of the film and fix it with sticky tape to the spools, so that it won´t loose itself from the spool while your shooting. The difference to the normal mediumformat film is enormous, it´s tight and by the transporting of the two stripes the films will othershift themself during the transport. Of course you can fix the whole stripes with tape on the backside, but it´s become more tight to transport it and it may crack the film. Besides this otherlapping film effect may look even cooler afterwards. After that roll the film to the spool, later in the tent you may have cloves to protect the film. After you reach the end of the film cut it from the container, stick it with tape together, cut the edges and stick it to the second cartridge spool. Then stick booth cartridge spools in the mag, arrange the film and be shure that the loaded spool rolled up propertly. than close the mag and you´re ready and you can start all over again...

After you find a good way to handle the thread up, try it blind in the changing ten, because you have to change the film without exposing it! If you managed it, the mag is prepared for shooting. I helped myself with a thick light-tight cloth (molton), take my 220 mag, two 35mm film, a scissor and the sticky tape underneath it and prepared as described above.

After shooting, you also take it out in the changing tent and put them into light-tight film canister. Inform your lab that in this canister is the naked film and they do the rest.

Afterwards you scan it like you scan the lomo filmstuff for example. There are several scanners which can scan the perforation, just google. I got an Canon8800 and I taped the film into my film guides for medium format and it worked quite well... well enough for this experiment.

And then match it together in photoshop and have fun!

CCCP Shooting with Michael Schulze

2011-11-01T10:20:00.001+01:00

Last year I did my America Shooting, a political Pin Up Girl Photography and now it´s time to do it with the USSR. The whole idea was born by Michael Schulze who´s always been a helping hand to my projects and now I supported him in this shooting. We had an awesome location in an old steelfacility in Brandenburg, Germany and it was quite a work.
Micha was also shooting with an analog mediumformat camera and his results will turn up in a week and it will be posted in this blog as well. For that time being I help out with my shoots, that I´ve done there as well.

At the Dentist

2011-10-24T02:02:00.001+02:00

Aus Productionshots

This week I got a chance to look behind the scenes of this dentist laboratory. After the clean environment of a chip facility I got into the clinical facility, but this time it was fussier than in the chip facility, because the laboratory manufactures tooth crowns and dentures... So this was the film work about. Here you can see me shooting the milling machine in the laboratory...

Low Budget Showreel Offer - Example online

2011-10-20T02:08:00.003+02:00

Spontaneously last week I met with a close friend of mine and we shot a little material for his showreel in Berlin. He´s actor and we spent not much time for this clip, just 3 hours in the evening. So, if anybody wants something like that don´t hesitate to contact me and we can talk about realisation and budget, but as the title say: it´s low budget, so it´s maybe the chance for actors to get some good material for a low costs. Click my Contact Website to see more about my skills and feel free to contact me!

Hammer to Fall - Corronez and Ole Mikumi record a Queen Song

2011-09-01T23:21:00.001+02:00

This week I was busy with an old friend of my in recording her voice for a demo CD. Normaly Corronez, that´s her artist name, doing in the middleage scene her perfomances and songs, but she´s also a great Queen Fan. So we record our special version of "Hammer to Fall" and I took the camera and made this little making of video. Normaly I use the sound setting for dubbing but it´s amazing what you can afford by using todays technology. 15 years ago I remember me sitting in the cellar with the band and we actually tape our self over and over until we got some of these noisy sounded tapes... Incredible what we can do today with just a mic and software. So here we are, I am introducing my third art, next to Film, Photography its the Music.

Rooftop again! - Martin Johanus + The SpeedDates Musicvideo

2011-08-17T22:49:00.000+02:00

So here we are again shooting on my roof with crane and three DSLRs a musicvideo vor Martin Johanus + The SpeedDates. In fact there was two songs so it´ll be two musicvideos. Directed by Josefin Kuschela, she´s also directed the previos musicvideo "Alpha Girl" for the band and now she was supported by Alexander Altmann and me in doing this life music video.
We are looking forward for results!

No Dust!

2011-08-03T21:09:00.000+02:00

Today I was shooting for KOBN in a semiconductor facility in bavaria... high security level of course. There was locks, antistatic dresses, antistatic shoes and dustless environment, a dream of everybody who knows about sensor spots by changing lenses...
In the end of the day I got some detail shots about microchips and labour people who worked there under enormous conditions. It was very loud and if I would be there everyday I would go deaf and used to breath clean air... So, enjoy the picture above and let´s see if I can post in future about results.

The Library Fashion Shooting - Part II

2011-06-17T13:34:00.000+02:00

Yesterday, or let´s say this morning, we finished the second library fashion shooting in Potsdam. A few months ago we test this location and now we got a it for a serious thing for designer Nora Fritz and her dresses and skirts. First st was on the crane at the ground, after a little bit of rain we decided to go to the upper levels and shoot some pics with a bubble machine. In we end we got a lot of fun and I have to thank my assistents for their condition and willing to go thru this shooting until 2:30 a.m. and helping us with heavy light equipment. Also our Models, which participate very spontaneously and bear with us thru all this dust and dirt of the construction site... Thank you all!!!

The green fairy - Teaser out now!

2011-06-15T00:56:00.000+02:00

Die Grüne Fee Teaser / Teaser for The Green Fairy from videoslr.de on Vimeo.

It´s nearly one year ago that Alexander Altmann and Katrin Kawinkel initiate the idea of shooting the tale of the green fairy. So now we can see the first trailer and we looking forward to see more of our production!

Bring back the 80ties... with a spiderweb

2011-06-12T23:28:00.004+02:00

A few weeks ago I got an arrangement with a Rigger who annonced a shoting in Berlin with a Bondage-theme. I was interested and had some theatrical spider theme idea related to the aesthetics of floating humans, the idea of the surrender of male by the females... so it´s all come down to a very 80ties-look-and-feel und I thought in the end by doing all this stuff with lights and studio... why don´t you film it anyway and move the photographical project more to a videoclip... So here we are, doing Dollyshots with a fabulous high prof Rigger from Frankfurt/Main, experienced female model "Dee Solutio", brave male model "Garcia" and my "potsdam dreamfilmteam"...

Destroyer of romantic - Nippon no yuhi

2011-06-06T13:38:00.002+02:00

Last thursday evening I spend this german holiday (Herrentag, Vatertag) with a long kept vision of mine on a hill near Berlin. Since nearly 3 years now I wanted to shot a sailormoon girl with a katana at sunsetlight. Don´t ask me why, but now with the help of the Model May-Li and the Skirt design of Nora Fritz , I was able to catch this vision in my camera.
The only thing that I didn´t aware of was that on this day, everybody got off and spend the day also on this hill. In the end we were surrounded by party people, some drunk, some just looking for quite romantic view over Berlin, and we trying to get some shots with sword and a G-36 rifle. It was a kind of bizarre to have this weapons next to a couple which looking for romantic peace and from the other side we heared some tecno-rap-hiphop-pop-music from a mobilephone of a group of party-teenies... well, no place for romantic in this world to shoot "Japan´s sunset"...

Merhaba TRT!

2011-05-23T20:39:00.000+02:00

Surprisingly got a camerajob for TRT a turkey television channel. They wanted to shot an interview with Frauenarzt, a german musicianduo ins something that´s hiphop-pop... It´s not that kind of music I hear, but the guy were really cool and solid so it was a very smooth shooting in Berlin City...

TYPO Berlin 2011 - Impression Clip and what´s next?

2011-05-22T08:32:00.002+02:00

So, here it is, the traditional closing film for europes biggest design conference TYPO Berlin 2011. I am doing filming for the TYPO since 2002 and it´s alway an interesting challenge to find a new way to shot this conference... This time I was simply inspirated by the topic "shift" to do some work with tilt-shift lenses and continue the way of the up-and-coming way of "mini-toyland-look" that´s done by every agency and TV-Station by now... I would normally say that by now, these effect is overloaded and the people got fed with it, but the reaction was quite good so I was good with it..

But beside this 5 minutes clip I provide the TYPO with a video podcast which you can see on the TYPO Berlin Videoblog site if you like, just click on "shift".

In the next few month I spend time in inscenical photography work with bondage, sailormoon action and of course I sit in the edit for KOBN. Results will be showing on this blog... Let´s start the summer!

Shift-time on TYPO Berlin 2011

2011-05-20T18:10:00.004+02:00

Once a year I spent time to shot at the international design conference TYPO Berlin a video podcast. I startet to work with FontShop 7 years ago now and delivering at the end of the conference a small impression film... since 2009 we provide a video podcasts with 2-3 clips a day. This years topic is "Shift" and I am in the middle of shooting, editing and uploading my clips to the internet and enjoy good weather, exciting topics and nice workshifts...

Check out the Video-Podcast on the FontShop Video Account here!

Results turning up...

2011-04-27T18:03:00.000+02:00

Last year I shot for KOBN in the O2 Arena Berlin ( Blogentry: shooting at fresh air ) and now I found the video on the Boschsite. So, this is one of the films I am participate as Cameraman and Editor and the client was KOBN. The Agency produced this clip for Bosch, so I am glad to show this video, because it shows some results in what kind of activity I´m spending my time with. So here is a sample, but be aware that this clip is an imagefilm and it´s very technical orientated... So no Popcorn.

Bon! - quel surprise...

2011-03-18T21:20:00.000+01:00

This day was an awesome steadycam-job with 5 other operators in berlin esplanade hotel. Upfront I had no idea what we are really shooting, it was some kinda of "45 seconds, 20 peoples faces and all french"... well... after all it was a company movie of AS24 that supported by concept-audio and it was quite funny...

Me, the french chef de palteau, operator kevin (behind the camera) and the steadycams..

Little Red Riding Hood and the old library

2011-03-01T11:02:00.001+01:00

Yesterday we shot in the construction site of the old libary in potsdam. On the site there was this only lit staircase in the dark enviroment, so Fashion-Designer Nora Fritz asked to take some pictures in this amazing location....
The Photo was taken by Alexander Altmann who helped us and take this documentary photographs along the shooting, Thanks!

The Thing with the Food

2011-02-27T23:42:00.002+01:00

The Thing with the Food, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Ole M. Werner

This kind of picture reasonable established by the dioxin-egg-affair in germany and my opinion is that our food is contaminated anyway and just the kind of food is changing... Thanks to Ralph that he was participating my vision!

2084 - What´s left of my future

2011-02-20T22:41:00.001+01:00

2084 - What´s left of my future, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Ole M. Werner

Some Props are really resistent... formely know as the barrel of BP from the image America, I turned it into a nuklear waste barrel... more resonable out of desperation than practicality... BTW, the barrel is for sale...

BTW: Shooting for KOBN at Omnicard with Sascha Lobo

2011-01-26T15:17:00.001+01:00

Last Week I shot for KOBN an interesting Interview with Sascha Lobo, one of germany´s famous blogger in the internet. Now I have done the editing finished and it´s quite interesting what he said during his speach on Omnicard 2011 Conference.

Fashion Week Berlin:Nora Fritz - Video Release

2011-01-24T08:47:00.002+01:00

Young Designer Nora Fritz presents "sweet-candy" fashion on the Fashion Week Berlin 2011 sponsored by Katjes.

http://www.norafritz.de

Video produced by TPDvideo.de

Camera: Josefin Kuschela
Producer & Editor: Ole M. Werner
Music: Lammfromm & Vögeln
© TPDvideo 2011

Sweet things happend on Fashion Week Berlin

2011-01-21T02:45:00.001+01:00

The crew came back with some nice impressions, here an image of Alexander Altmann, of the awesome show of young designer Nora Fritz. Video will be coming up next week!

TPDvideo support Fashion-Designer Nora Fritz

2011-01-17T22:49:00.000+01:00

On Thursday the 20th January 2001 at 11 p.m. starts the Fashion-Week-Show of the Designer Nora Fritz in Berlin, Germany. TPDvideo is supporting the show with a video- and photographical mediapack, so we are expecting wonderful pictures of Fashion inspired by sweets sponsored by a german candy factory "Katjes"!

http://www.norafritz.de

The Delegate

2011-01-01T23:59:00.003+01:00

The Delegate, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Ole M. Werner

New Year, New Chances... Spontaneous Idea for selfinscenation... I think from now on I do one on every new years day!

Qui aurait cru...

2010-12-14T21:22:00.002+01:00

Qui aurait cru..., ursprünglich hochgeladen von Ole M. Werner

Who would it thought... 10 days after you can see some results of the Versailles Shooting on Flickr...

Brandenboro Country - Finally you can order big Poster-Format on Whitewall !

2010-12-12T13:39:00.002+01:00

Brandenboro Country, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Ole M. Werner

Aftr 5 years it´s now possible to order a big 50x70 cm Poster Print of nearly all Brandenboro Country Images. Just get on:

http://www.whitewall.com/Brandenboro

Spieltrieb´s: Marlborough Hair Musicvideo is launched

2010-12-10T10:14:00.002+01:00

Here it is ... The second musicvideo of the singer songwriter duo "Spieltrieb", have fun and stay tuned for a live perfomance of Spieltrieb on your location that could be announced here!

St.Nikolaus shooting in Paris!

2010-12-07T00:51:00.000+01:00

To stay connected in french, my following activity leads me to paris, france. Shooting a high technology conference at the exploration parc near charles-de-gaule-airport but first we good an award ceremony on schedule that lead us in the heart of paris... In missing St. Nikolaus with my son I dress as the inoffical nikolaus... ;)

Quand je suis là, je suis sans souci!

2010-12-04T20:41:00.001+01:00

Today´s challenge was the shooting at Sanssouci with four Cosplayer as the baroque metal band "Versailles". After a long journey thru snowy country we met each other on freezed location with bright sunshine and blue sky... luckly we had this nice weather and got some nice shots despite the tourists along the way...

Are you experienced?

2010-11-26T01:10:00.004+01:00

Yesterday was the End-of-Shooting Party of the Flammenrausch-Production and for this I got a t-shirt with my well-used sentences as 1st A.D. during the shooting... So, this blog-entry is something about shooting experiences and what I´ve learned all over the years as 1st A.D./Unit Production Manager, Cameraman and Director:

1. Drehen ist Krieg (shooting is war)

2. Leben ist Luxus (life is luxury)

3. Film ist Betrug (film is fake)

4. Willkommen beim Film (welcome in the film business)

1. Shooting is War:

It´s all about fighting, fighting against yourself, fighting against the time, fighting against the financial loss, fighting again the weather... the gaffer fights against tired eyes, the actors fight against ignoration, the camera fights against the technical conditions, the writer fights the director, the producer fights against creative decisions and the director fights them all...

2. Life is Luxury

If you´re on project, you have no life. Pre-Production is filled your time with details, questions, self-doubt, canceled locations, canceled men-power, wrong weather expectations... In Production you´re 16 hours of the day minimum before-, on -and after- the shooting... 20 hours are often more realistic. At this time you spend your time with details, questions, self-doubt, sick actors, injured team-members and wrong weather expectations... In Post-Production you´re at least two months busy with getting the film finished and your life starting to reclaim your time with everyday matters like family, parters, friends, self-doubt, canceled relationships, canceled company contracts and wrong weather expectations.

3. Film is Fake

At the beginning of your project you have to comunicate your idea to the team. It´s vital that everybody knows your ideas of the scenes, they should become trustful in you. They should get the feeling that you are responsible and that you know what you are doing even if you not. If you appearendly get lost on the set, you get to the point that everybody starts to feel responsible for the project and take over the directors role... never let this happen unless you want a bad film!

So, if everybody trust you, everybody got involved and everybody knows the scenes, it starts to get to the point that things go easily to shot. SFX looks good ´cause they know their position and their timing, actors have their marks and trust you in directing them because you are in charge. Cameraman knows that you are responsible of the amount of the shots that you need in the edit afterwards... So, nobody starts to get nervous about lambs that could be in frame, about continuity matters and jump over camera-axis... because everybody trust you and everybody can concentrate on that job for that she /he is hired for... This leads to the creation of the perfect illusion.

4. Welcome to the Film-Business

If you get really used to failures and victories after a lot of years you get the right attitude to face this kind of things like zen. Mostly problems appear without warning an that´s the point where you can show how tough you got over the time. In the first moment you have to calm yourself down, let the shock pass you by like a cloud on the blue sky... and then start to get practical... solve the problem with improvisation, short things down, replace things without consideration... think big... As director you are responsible for the story, not for the shots, not for the actors ego, not for the producers budget... just for the story. This is the big responsibility that you take... And if you screw it up... Never, ever will anybody work with you again. Always keep that in mind and do your best. If you get this far, to leave all the problems, desires and selfserving behind you, then you are welcome to the film-business!

Starting a project that I´ve put off for a long time

2010-11-17T14:05:00.001+01:00

Yip... starting the big parts now... This is something to build the mould of the frontside , without actually casting it... After a several months of shooting and working for clients as editor, I´ve took off these days and spend it with my son and the "Nippon-Project". Let us see how and if it´s working!

Two nights with rain.. again!

2010-11-13T01:58:00.002+01:00

Oh hey Ole ... what are you doing in autumn-nights like these? .. Ehm... Standing in the rain for hours and watching strange people handling with fire in the woods... Well... that´s kindly it... But this time my son was taking part as 3rd assistant director and tell us where the "circle" has to be... (insider)

By the way... one more night or afternoon to shot and the Flammenrausch-film is finished... Today, we shot the final scene with a lot of fire!

fire surrenders water - abort the flammenrausch shooting

2010-11-06T00:42:00.002+01:00

Actually it was almost the hope that the rain just passed us by, but it came harder and harder and in the end we called that a day and packed our things...But at least we got 13 shots done...

Spieltrieb - "Ich war mal Cowboy" released now on YouTube

2010-11-04T00:15:00.002+01:00

After a delightfull premiere in Potsdam the Musicvideo of Singer-Songwriter Duo Spieltrieb - "Ich war mal Cowboy" is released on YouTube. The Second Video follows on 10th December 2010... Check out the YouTube Channel for HD Version!

We premiere the Spieltrieb musicvideos in Potsdam!

2010-11-01T21:15:00.000+01:00

The two musicvideos to "Ich war mal Cowboy" and "Marlborough Hair" that we shot in august this year premiere on the 3rd November in the "Pub-a-la-Pub" Bar in Potsdam.

Beginning: 8:00 pm, Screening: approx. 8:30 pm

at

Pub-a-la-Pub Bar
Breite Str.1
14473 Potsdam

Public Screening so bring friends and fans!

On every Friday we sitting near the fire...

2010-10-30T03:35:00.001+02:00

Yip... it becomes a regular thing to shot in the woods by my home... This time the lights worked with good cables and the concept of two powerlines... I think we´ve done the half way.

shooting at fresh air!

2010-10-27T23:23:00.001+02:00

Shooting for KOBN with a Canon D5MII on a crane and dolly is fun!... Besides the awesome location of the O2 Arena Berlin rocks, too... The technical specs are the Canon 5DMII with Zeiss Lenses ( 21,50,85mm) and the mentioned crane and dollystuff... yeah!

Nightshot – Nearly with available light...

2010-10-23T03:33:00.001+02:00

During the Flammenrauschproduction several obstacales appeared on the set... One of them was the absence of light... So, almost just the full moon gave us the only light that we could use for staging "the beast"... A fire-set-action-armor that performed by Nils who done an awesome job, we looking forward to see the premiere...

FAQ - My Business Jobs... What kind of videos do you shoot anyway?

2010-10-11T16:01:00.002+02:00

Here is a good example of a documentary video for an agency that I´m working for. Mostly it´s difficult to explain what this is all about, because the topics are very specific in a Business-to-Business (B2B) affair about Mobile -Contactless - Payment Technology.
For this one I went with the agency to nice, france. We were shooting there with handcamera style various impressions and interviews. Afterwards it went straight into edit, that´s mostly done by the person who shoots it in order of the agency politics, and after the confirmation of the agency´s client or the agency itself, it goes online...

Busy day, busy Night...

2010-10-04T03:09:00.003+02:00

After opening by Angel-Exhibition in Potsdam in the Afternoon, it went straigt into a nightshooting for Alexanders Fire-Artist-Story. The bright side: it was only 5 minutes from home by feet... especially I liked my lightconcept with my favorit green-blue ( in fact I own nothing else) with the combination of the "Nonnemacher-Lights" (boomoperated balloons), which was never approved but now it´s going to work very well...

Exhibition opens on Sunday, 3rd October 2010

2010-09-29T21:53:00.001+02:00

"Fallen - The Apocalypse of Angels"

12 Photographies of fallen, desperate and lost angels, debrived of their meaning, of their duties, they wander about their spheres with their internal life in a enormeous curse send from above...

After three years it´s done and the presentation located in Potsdam, for all outsiders: Click here for location information.

Start: Sunday 3rd October at 3:00 pm

The early bird.... got no idea about nightshoots...

2010-09-28T04:27:00.000+02:00

Just drop back home from the Videoshooting for the Fire-Artists Group "Flammenrausch", directed and photographed by A. Altmann... First of several shootingdays that will follow in the upcoming weeks in that I´m participating as 1st AD or, as you look to the image above, the steadycam-operator for the dancing scenes...

Let´s get to the shot...

2010-09-27T01:59:00.002+02:00

or even shooting... movies... in 6 and a half hours I´m going to support Alexander´s Fire-Artists Video as 1st Assistant Director... Let´s see If I get some sleep tonight... The photography above is a result from the Jakuza-shooting with Micha... The other variations follow on Flickr as soon as possible...

Remiel - Keeper of the Souls

2010-09-22T22:23:00.001+02:00

Thats it... Remiel - the despaired angel of the souls, got herself lost in the world and now the last angel of my series. Now its going to an exhibition.

Camael - Leader of the Powers

2010-09-22T19:13:00.000+02:00

Here it is... The result of the Camael shooting. Camael – known as the Angel who´s leading the powers of heaven against the army of darkness and protect the borders of the devine heavens.

Once upon a time...

2010-09-21T02:54:00.000+02:00

It´s still in the edit, the Musicvideo for Spieltrieb, I would say 70 percent done... But meanwhile I scanning the transparencies for the exhibition, the Still-Photo of the shot reveals from the film... These particular good looking gentlemen reminding me not forget to pursuit my goal of a good musicvideo...

Spontaneous Bloodshot

2010-09-19T14:34:00.001+02:00

"This sunday Micha exchanged 8 pounds opium, belonged by the japanese mafia, into four bags of eight months decomposed catfood on the Osaka marketplace for Pets... he said to the Jakuza-Boss he never dare to do this... And the Boss believed him, but as a profession of faith Micha had to chop off one finger of his left hand."

On special request I shoot Micha with a shotgun and cut off finger on my roof.

Remiel - The Last of my Angel-Shooting is finished

2010-09-17T23:48:00.000+02:00

After three years of Angel-Shooting, the last motive of the Apocalyptical-Angels are done. Therefore I have to say a big "Thank-You" to Madeleine and Alexander for supporting me for this vision... Now, the twelve Angels are completed and after scanning the transparencies next week, it goes straight to an exhibition in october... but thats ´s another blog that will coming up in time.

Sommer is returning...

2010-09-14T16:50:00.000+02:00

... just for me, sorry folks. Very beautiful weather in Spain, it´s recovering my throat and all is very relaxing here.. even the work... Laid back shooting in Sitges!

Shooting for Camael is finished

2010-09-11T22:06:00.000+02:00

With a wonderful bright sky this afternoon I returned from the shooting from the old military tank training area near Luckenwalde. This shooting was quite easy, cause there was no model, just need some props and the right sky in a desert...

upcoming projects...

2010-09-07T19:58:00.000+02:00

So,... What you do after a weekend on the sea?... You get ill... nasty thing. Until now I´m not recovered completly, but several projects announcing my attention. One of them is a new video created by my last cameraman of the Spieltrieb-Videos and involved fire-artistic-features of a fire-art-group from berlin. The other is an imagefilm for a B2B-agency that leads me for shooting in Sigeos, Spain. Then there is still my Photo-Angel-Project in which I wait for the right weather, blue sky is welcome for the Camiel-Motive. And... last but not least the second photographical motive for the Personal-Politcal-Pinup-Series "Nippon" for that is some preparation required as you can imagine in the pic aside.

Artwork for the new album of Spieltrieb

2010-08-28T16:36:00.000+02:00

For the last two months I´ve been working on the artwork for a Live-Record of germany´s best singer-songwriter duo Spieltrieb. Now it´s released and everywhere available (regular Musicstore or Amazon also), most obtainable at Spietrieb Homepage, where you actually find every information about it.

You get a lot to like - Brandenboro Country

2010-08-27T14:34:00.000+02:00

As a little intermission: My last Brandenboro Country Motive is available on Whitewall!

Four days of Beach, Guns & Music - Shooting of Spieltrieb´s Musicvideos in Meck-Pom

2010-08-25T01:14:00.000+02:00

Saturday, the 21th, We start shooting the Musicvideos for the german songwriterduo "Spieltrieb" on the beach at Darß/westbeach. Suspiciously observed by holiday-maker we shoot the start sequences for the song "Marlborough Hair". We had a lot of fun and it´s quite a big deal to shoot with digital SLR, which give us the opportunity to get an enormous hollywood look!

On Sunday, we moved upcountry to a farm of two wonderful people which invited us spontaneously. Great thanks to Sophie & René and not forgot to mention, Xena, for that big deal to shoot the Song "Ich war mal Cowboy" (One upon a time I was a cowboy) on your very beautiful place!

With a schedule on a nightshoot we spent less time than expected and the normal "Murphy-problems" keeps within a limit!

At last we finished on a cloudy monday with a good feeling of getting some great shots onto the hardrive, I guess thats the right term in this digital business, and I hopefully get it edit and composed until november to premiere the musicvideos in Potsdam! Thank you all it was a pleasure to meet and work with you! Yeeehaaa!

The Shooting for Spieltrieb Music Video begins

2010-08-20T02:01:00.000+02:00

In twelve hours from now we are heading for Darß/Ostsee to shoot the musicvideos for Spieltrieb, a german singer songwriter duo! Packed full of equipment, props and outdoor survival things, my cameraman , my prod-assistant and me hope to shoot a very smooth video this weekend! Stay tuned and enjoy meanwhile the Spieltrieb Homepage here !

Prints on WhiteWall

2010-08-17T18:28:00.000+02:00

Now, I am going commercial on WhiteWall and try with my first high-technical production work to refinancial my project. So, if you like to order something, go for it!

Ole on WhiteWall

America

2010-08-13T16:53:00.001+02:00

Faster than I thought I finished my main motive of the tuesday shooting. It is a beginn of the new series which is going to be a littlebit more political.

Flags, Guns, Money & ... Cops

2010-08-10T23:50:00.000+02:00

Done... The Shooting is over and the whole crew done an awesome job... As the preproduction went slightly smooth, the shooting by itself was a littlebit disturbed by technical problems, curious parcour-kids that step out on the roof of our location and call the police into action... So... As they see us shooting they wanted to know who we are, what we do, where is our permission and if the gun in my models hand was doing any harm.
After a while they let us continue with shooting, we were artists, no commercial agency, I had a permission and the gun was a harmless prop... In the end we get some nice shots and I wish to thank all my members for they great enthusiasm to fullfill my vision for the startup-motiv of my new series...

2010-08-09T14:44:00.000+02:00

Last day before shooting... And.... it´s all prepared! Nothing left to do... Strange feeling, feels like you have forgotten something. But I have to Model, Make-Up-Artist, Location, all props, costumes, lightning + SFXs, Kamera-Lenses, Assistants even a littlebit of catering... So... let´s see how it all come together tomorrow evening!

Where is the Money, Lebowski!

2010-08-03T13:57:00.000+02:00

Here it is... a further incredience for the tuesday-shooting...

Preparing the next shooting...

2010-07-28T15:25:00.000+02:00

In twelve days from tomorrow on, I´ll start the new series for which I have no name for it yet... Shurly it contains women, blood and red elements... The first one got the working title "America"... So here it starts to set up the different props...

Sariel - Angel of Death

2010-07-24T22:23:00.000+02:00

Here it is. The Result of the Thursday-Shooting.. Thanks to all involved people for the spontaniously helping hands!

Neuenkirchener Open Air

2010-07-24T01:10:00.000+02:00

Since a little while now if been involved in a little festival in northern germany as a photographer and layout-designer for their corperate identity... As every year I also shot several pictures of the Rock-Bands performing on stage nearly one month ago. Now the photographies are released and I´m able to show you this years rock-circus on germany loudest sportfield in Neuenkirchen.

Shooting for Sariel finished

2010-07-22T20:46:00.000+02:00

Just before the rain appears the shooting for the new angel Sariel is finished. Here´s a little documentary...

Current Project

2010-07-20T12:33:00.000+02:00

On thursday I´ll shot "Sariel - The Angel of Death" of my current project "Fallen - The Apocalypse of Angels"... This will take place on our roof... For that I have to build a Stack of Bones - Prop... well, let´s see if it works...

The last shot was done with a good friend of mine nearly three weeks ago: "Uriel - And the Gates to Paradise" See here:

Now here we are...

2010-07-20T12:23:00.001+02:00

On my way to virtual immortality you can see here the process of my current projects in action. I declared myself for an non-artist, but most people call me an artist, so whatever... basically I do Photo-Work in paintingstyle. The reason for that is .. I can´t draw very well, so I paint my visions with the photography. On the way to the finished project I have to build the settings and the costumes on my own, I that way I get in touch with the other plastic arts as well...