Jan Steinhilber on lighting something that’s not there

. Jan Steinhilber recently shot a campaign for Porsche’s Black Edition series, the 911 and Boxster, for art directors Zoran Vasic and Julia Fuhl at Kemper Kommunication in Frankfurt, Germany. Interestingly, all of the concrete elements of the images (the cars and backgrounds) were done in CGI, while the arguably ephemeral one—the light—was photographed. I’ll [...]

Gallery: Car Photography, Nine Ways

Nine very different takes on the automotive genre. Featuring Stockland Martel photographers Jorg Badura, Fulvio Bonavia, David Drebin, Uwe Duettmann, Kai Uwe Gundlach, Jason Hindley, John Midgley, Martin Sigal, and Jan Steinhilber. . Click on any of the images to view the complete gallery.

Nadav Kander’s “Turbo Face” portraits for Hyundai

Usually, car ads try to woo you by showing how sexy and awesome you’ll look in a certain vehicle. They try to flatter you. Not flatten you. Clearly, the print ads for Hyundai’s 2011 Sonata Turbo—shot by Nadav Kander for art director Frauke Tiemann at Innocean Worldwide—are not the usual. .

John Midgley featured in Communication Arts’ 2010 Advertising Annual

Communication Arts recently released its big 2010 Advertising Annual, which honors the best advertising of the year, and our own John Midgley is featured in the Consumer Magazine Ads category for this Acura ad… . . Congratulations, John! To view a complete list of winners and a gallery, and to read about this year’s judges, [...]

Spring 2010 E-Newsletter: Stockland Martel presents 26 new blog, advertising, and editorial highlights

We just sent out our spring e-newsletter, and it’s jam packed with new work that—when you look at it as a whole—represents a pretty large slice of popular culture at this moment. There’s super-chic fashion… . Matthew Rolston’s “Art of Fashion” for Neiman Marcus . …spirited, poppy fashion… . Liz Von Hoene’s Kate Spade campaign. [...]

Using CGI to make “emotional” automotive images?

Lots of photographers use CGI to create scenarios that would otherwise be impossible to execute, but it’s usually because they’re under budget and time constraints or because they want to achieve something fantastical. John Offenbach, on the other hand, has been experimenting with using CGI to achieve an emotional special effect. I’ll let him explain: [...]

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