Photo shoot for kallos cometics. We enjoyed the challenging task to create “beauty” shots that depart from the norm yet still serve the intended advertising purposes for the LOVE product range. Playful color gels and the combination of strobe, continuous light and multiple long exposure techniques were used to achieve the desired result.
kallos cosmetics “LOVE”
LOFTHOME
Photo assignment for LOFTHOME specializing in reusing the lofts of Budapest city centre buildings from the turn of century and also modernizing, furnishing and renting classical apartments. With our compositions and subtle lighting we concentrated on highlighting the quiet modernism that is the company’s signature .
Hi!Temptation
We produced the launch video for Hi!Temptation.com The new Hi!temptation iPhone and Android application brings people together by exploiting the advantages of Facebook and mobile phone applications pointing out people, places, events in close proximity and always gives real-time information. We had a very tight deadline and managed to shoot the video in 24hours at 3 separate locations in Budapest.
Les Formes du Mal
Les Formes du Mal
Representing the state of dreaming and wakefulness blurred together by grabbing the topic of metamorphosis told in a short story was our concept for this video. Just like in a nightmare, the fears of the “I” appear in different forms of horror figures depicted in movie stills, but transplanted into the genre of fashion video.
We produced the images for the continuation of Budapest Bank’s “Egyenlítő hitel” ad campaign. The characters changed from last year but the layouts were quite specific this time. We made sure that the lighting, the composition and the mood matched the request of the client. 
The Six Deadly Sins of Mrs Herskin
The Six Deadly Sins of Mrs Herskin
The six masks embody Mrs Herskin’s private sins and innermost agonies, showing what they’d rather hide: motivations of her actions, her feelings and left-handedness – the real side. Her expressions are highly symbolic and personal, going deep down, uncovering her personal feelings and attitude, not only by emotions like sadness, happiness or anger, but expressing them without common visual boundaries. Her sins (in order of appearance) : Passion. Defiance. Conscience. Desire. Sarcasm. Words unspoken. The video shaped itself with an utmost connection to the masks. Music, scenery, story, shooting and preparations altogether became the perfect context for this story of Mrs Herskin.
Vertis
Vertis Environmental Finance the most experienced emissions trading finance house in Central Europe has commissioned us to come up with a new set of images for their new image campaign. The challenging task was to make abstract images at the factories of the trading partners of Vertis Environmental Finance. We were happy to take up on the challenge and came up with a set of images that boldly depart from the traditional industrial photographs.
Paris
Paris… Great memories instantly came back from my years playing at Roland Garros. I am spending two weeks every month for the next 6 months in Paris working on a Fine Art project. During my first leg in Paris I got inspired to start a personal project using an odd combo. Tmax 3200 developed in an unconventional paper developer printed on matt FB paper. The developer accentuates grain and gives a certain glow that no other film/developer combo can achieve.
IT’S#TEN
Independent photo shoot for Larisza Pasztircsak and Orsolya Poppre. They have made it to the finals of the prestegious 2011 IT’S#TEN young talent competition where jury consists of the biggest names in the industry including LAURA LUSUARDI Fashion Director Max Mara, SARA MAINO Fashion Editor Vogue Italia and KAT NADJ UK HR Manager, Gucci Group Services Ltd. We wish them good luck in the finals in July !!
Budapest Bank “Dalbir kérdez” Ad campaign
„Dalbir kérdez“ is the new 2011 advertising campaign for Budapest Bank. We photographed a number of different layouts of Dalbir focusing on facebook interaction to get the customers involved at an early stage. Soon after the campaign launch the images of Dalbir were used all over the media including indoor, outdoor, print, web, etc. More photo shoots of Dalbir coming soon as the character develops throughout the campaign.
We photographed six different layouts throughout the day for Soproni’s “Magyarország én így szeretlek” advertising campaign at our studio. The six layouts will represent a series of messages that forms the base of this year’s campaign for the beer manufacturer. Lili
Platinum/Palladium printing is definitely one of the most beautiful B&W printing techniques. This Pt/Pd image was contact printed in our lab on the very delicate translucent 100% rag Bienfang paper. It’s gorgeous, silky smooth, long tonal scale in the highlights are matchless by any other process. Quite interestingly it’s exactly the opposite of the Wet Plate Collodion process my other B&W favorite where beauty is found mostly in the contrasty dark tones. It all depends on the subject and your vision but if it’s about the fragile highlights then Pt/Pd is the way to go.
Mrs. Herskin
The visuality of this photo series was inspired by the character of Mrs Herskin outfits and accessories. In the final images we wanted to reflect on the slightly surrealistic forms, deranged and chaotic surface plays as well as on the great efforts of the designers to elaborate every detail manually in an uncommon way. The background details derived from certain parts of Mrs. Herskin fashion accessories and the model wearing the current collection were printed on different textured materials and were made into a collage using manual tools and embroidery.
Solo Exhibition – Brody House, Budapest
Solo exhibition featuring a mix of my earlier and latest images at Brody House presented by CAW Gallery. My latest images including the Specular Seduction and the M4 series were presented on 105cm x 140cm canvas material while my earlier work were presented on 150 x 200 cm canvas and 45cm x 60cm Difosec material.
M4
M4 is an independent fashion editorial / fine-art photo series. These photographs combine an extraordinary location with one of the new 2011 Spring/Summer fashion trends. The raw, monochrome, gigantic beams of an underground construction site of the new M4 subway line in Budapest designed by sporaarchitects is counterpoised with the actual fashion trend of daring colors in a bold, somewhat futuristic but still very sensual way.
Group exhibition in London featuring some of my work from the Manier, Nanushka, and Tamas Kiraly series presented on 45cm x 60cm Difosec material.Specular Seduction
The Specular Seduction high fashion / fine art photo series adjoins the trends of independent magazines that favor elusive and intangible visuality over the realistic and elaborate depiction of the subject matter. This visual world provided the inspiration for making the video. Paradoxically, we transferred the long exposure technique that requires the model to stay motionless for a long time during the photo shoot to motion picture. Our goal was to preserve the translucent quality of the photographs but at the same time make the fashion footage more dynamic by the movement.
Budapest Bank “Egyenlítő hitel” Ad campaign
Zoltan and Emese were paired together for the final time in the Budapest Bank „Egyenlítő hitel“ advertising campaign. They were hugely popular among viewers for the last couple of years. We executed a number of layouts for different usages of this 6 months long campaign including billboard, print, web, etc.
Alive
The Alive photo series dedicated to BMX Street and BMX Flatland riders records the peak moments of the riders in challenging action. Capturing these tricks – often made only once – with no opportunity for rehearsal require deliberate pre-visualization, quickly improvised lighting technique on location, and perfect timing to record the single moment where the actual movement becomes most spectacular. The whole series was made with a medium format Hasselblad 205FCC camera using slide film to pay tribute to the one time only approach of the riders where mistakes cannot happen without serious consequences.
Allee “Back to School” Ad campaign
After producing the new image campaign for Allee earlier this year, this time the advertising campaign was concentrating on the beginning of the school year attracting customers to the shopping center. The brief was fairly straight forward with only two variations to be made for the different applications.
The Rite
During the summer of 2010 „ The Rite “ Warner Brothers production starring Antony Hopkins was filmed in Budapest. We were more then happy to supply our Profoto, Bacht, Avenger studio lighting equipment to the production and assist the multi-day photo shoot.
Special Thanks to: Pete (Peter Tangen Photographic Inc.) David and Jacky (Ignition Print).
AM Denmark “Keep your search private” Ad campaign
We accepted this assignment because we really liked the creative idea. Fairly straight forward product shot with the right amount of lighting twist on the keyboard and tabletop to keep the overall mood natural but still guide the viewers eyes throughout the important parts of the image. A typical example where photography complements a creative idea and not vice versa.
Opera House
B&W Selenium toned image of the Budapest Opera House. The variable contrast liquid emulsion was painted on Arches paper with Japanese Hake brushstrokes and developed in our traditional darkroom.
Cili
This image is part of a series made for my „Contre Jour“ exhibition featuring ballerinas of the Hungarian National Ballet. Lightpainting techniques were used in combination with strobes and gels to achive the humble athmosphere. The position of the model is complemented by the visual movement in the background created by backdrop motion live on set .
Solo Exhibition – VAM Design Center, Budapest
Solo Exhibition featuring my work – the result of a cooperation with 7 fashion designers and 7 ballerinas of the Hungarian National Ballet. All 26 images were printed on 150cm x 200cm canvas material as well as 45cm x 60cm Difosec material and were exhibited in three levels at VAM Design Center in Budapest.
Tamas Kiraly “A hölgy egy kissé bogaras”
Tamas Kiraly is an avant-garde fashion designer and cult figure with a truly unique style that has earned him appearances in Berlin, London, New York with the likes of Vivienne Westwood and other prominent designers. His creations – which in this case include the set design as well – are fully hand made, planned, selected and prepared all by himself in advance. The challenging lighting scenario of shiny black PVC dresses and black accessories in front of a black background was welcomed by the photographer to push the boundaries together with the designer.
Nanushka
The Nanushka photo series is a result of another cooperation with a well-known fashion designer. Each image records a motion sequence – capturing the beginning, the transitional and the end phase of a motion – achieved by the combined use of electronic flash, continuous lights, camera and subject motion during a single long exposure. The resulting images that are sharp, soft, frozen and in motion at the same time accentuate the playful but minimal attitude of the designs made visible by the uncompromising style of the photographer.
The ad campaign „Teret adunk élményeidnek“ features the new image of Allee. The goal of the campaign is to attract a younger more dynamic cosmopolitan crowd to the shopping center. We produced the images for the billboard composite and also variations for citylight, combino, print, and web.Nanushka LookBook AW11
Although our studio is not a rental studio it is available for rent on an individual project basis. We have rented our equipment, studio space, and provided our professional experience for a number of local and international commercial photo projects. For the creation of the 2011 Authum / Winter Nanushka lookbook we provided our studio space, expertise and Profoto lighting equipment to the designer and her creative team.
Arany Ászok “Foci VB” promotion
Recently Arany Aszok has been focusing it’s advertising campaigns on amateur football. We produced the images for the beer manufacturer‘s ad campaigns the last couple of years – this time we executed a number of layouts for different purposes including indoor, outdoor, print, web and in- store Football World Cup promotions.
Pilsner Urquell “Loyalty” Ad campaign
The Pilsner Urquell „Loyalty“ promotion poster is a 6 picture composite. We executed the layout with the utmost precision paying attention to the smallest details. Special attention was payed to the careful lighting of the individual elements of the poster and to create the desired overall mood of the scene.
Manier
The Manier photo series was made using the 19th century Wet Plate Collodion photography process resulting in a unique set of 10 x 10 inch ambrotypes. Despite being very unusual in the world of fashion photography this complex “hand made” technique combined with the use of large format vintage Petzval lenses was chosen to match with the designer’s traditional hand made tailoring techniques. The inimitable visual character of this photographic process is worth the list of challenges and extra effort that this technique demands from everyone involved.
Venexiana
Venexiana is a brand created by NYC based fashion designer Kati Stern. The shooting took place in the prominent building of the Opera House in Budapest. For this photo series, to underline the graceful characteristics of the dresses and hinting the feeling of the 1920′s-40′s to the images large format Zeiss lenses from the time were used. To further emphasize the slightly romantic mood of that era the now very rare, 8×10 inch Polaroids were used in combination with a truckload of meticulously positioned movie flood lights illuminating the the neo-renaissance building interior.
Red Bull “Street Parade”
We have been shooting assignments for Red Bull for a couple of years now. It’s always fun and challenging to be working in an environment where the adrenalin level is much higher then usual and where getting the right shot or not is determined in split-seconds. This shot was taken at the Red Bull “Street Parade” where Sebastian Vettel was driving his Formula 1 and Sebastien Buemi was driving an Indy race car.
Emese
This image is part of an ongoing fine art project utilizing the early Wet Plate Collodion process. The unmistakable visual character is achieved by the combined use of an 8×10 camera with a 19th century Petzval lens, a number of carefully positioned Fresnel 2K continuous light sources and long exposure technique
We produced the images for the 2009 spring / summer Amnesia image campaign. We photographed a number of different sets during the day paying attention that the overall look and the specific lighting remains consistent throughout the whole series. Hell “Vodka / Whisky” Ad campaign
The brief was to create dynamic product shots of the new Party Edition Hell Vodka / Hell Whisky energy drink bottles. Instead of post production manipulations on the bottles we came up with a complex lighting solution – mixing strobe lighting with lightpainting techniques to achieve the desired „glow“ of the bottles.
Felledi
The futuristic visuality of this photo series was achieved by the careful positioning of a custom light source shining beams of light through haze. Light gels and controlled fill lighting on certain parts of the body were used with special attention on creating deliberate lens flair in camera instead of post production to achieve the desired effect.
Arany Ászok “Jól esik mint az elismerés” Ad campaign
Arany Ászok „Jól esik mint az elismerés“ advertising campaign was a large scale work for the beer manufacturer. During the multi-day photo shoot that took place in an indoor football hall and in a local pub we executed numerous layouts for different purposes ranging from billboard, POS, indoor, outdoor, print, web etc.
Custo
The Custo photo series was taken at the Spring/Summer 2009 New York Fashion Week. The aim was to create images during a ‘live’ fashion show in a way that they overstep the marks of the usual “runway photographs”. The visible movement - created by a special panning technique during long exposures that challenge long-time runway photography conventions – highlights the playful attitude of the collection, while the lively colors associate perfectly with the brand image of Custo.
Joker
Independent photo shoot for Attila Futaki the New York Times Bestseller comics book artist and painter. He is currently illustrating Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book two: The Sea of monsters, The Graphic Novel, based on the #1 New York Times bestselling novel of the same name for Disney Ÿ Hyperion Books, and a seven issues mini series called Severed for Image comics, with Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft.
LG “Talma” Ad campaign
Gabor Talmacsi the 2007 125cc World Motorcycle Champion was contracted by LG to promote their new product lines. We executed various layouts in our studio for the client. Talma was photographed with a number of LG products as well as with his title winning motorcycle for different applications including billboard, in-store promotions, product catalogues, web etc.
Solo Exhibition – MOM Park, Budapest
Solo exhibition featuring my Extreme Sports images including Skateboard, BMX, Snowboard, MTB Downhill, FMX at MOM Park in Budapest. Many of these images were published in the French Soul, the Hungarian Offline and BikeMag extreme sports magazines. The images were printed on Metallic Paper and mounted on 120cm x 120cm aluminum dibond material.