Picture of the Week

12 March 2001

The Agfa Professional Portfolio features professional photographers from around the world who display their work and share their professional secrets.

From Germany, Thomas Herbrich has some great transportation images, including a futuristic image of Berlin featuring a BMW 5 Series touring model.

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I originally did the background scene for the 'Concrete' campaign of Springer & Jacoby. The buildings are the backs of television sets, a curling iron turns into a tower, and the rest is made of all sorts of other scrap - although there are also some 'genuine' models. I photographed the car in the studio, while the road is the side view of a big bridge.

We took photos of a normal bus in London and attached a few applications in the studio: the front engine consists of printer cartridges, electronic scrap and paper cups. The side exhausts are dust-busters and the tyres came off a toy car. The speed effects and the smoke were produced by image editing.

I photographed the yellow machine in a museum of road construction machinery. The chain drive is from an excavator. We built the red superstructure with the exhaust pipes as a model. I subsequently added some "speed" to the motif, while the reflection in the wet asphalt and the swirling water are also purely the result of image editing.

The ship is a model about 60 cm long, while the desert sand is a perspective model measuring roughly 4 square metres. We made the clouds of dust on the beach on holiday. The mountains in the background were originally a snowy region in the Alps - recolouring turned them into mountains of sand. The people on board are Nils and Markus from my studio. The clothes were simply stapled together from cloth.

We had the basic Harley assembled by a specialist workshop: extra-long front fork, yellow tank, special backrest and turn lights, etc. The engines are in fact just made of a wooden jet painted silver. The background was taken from my archive.

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Menno Huber (Dec 2000)
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Michael Schultes (Oct 2000)
Ondrea Barbe (Sep 2000)
Wolfgang Peter (July 2000)
Tony Demin (June 2000)
Andreas Werth (May 2000)
Thomas Haltner (Apr 2000)
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Harald Schlüter (Feb 2000)
Matto Barfuss (Jan 2000)
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