Horta Writing Centre

Being dragged away to a spectacular location two hours inland from Barcelona could hardly be deemed a chore. Thats what happened last September. Fours days shooting in a most beautiful location - Horta de Sant Joan. The sun shone throughout the whole experience, lighting up the rocky mountains, the vineyards, the olive groves. Stupendous. Meeting the very friendly and extremely helpful people from the town was an unexpected bonus, they helped us out in every way they could. The project was shot for a creative writing centre - http://www.hortawriting.com - which has recently opened their school and guest house to visitors. Well worth checking out. And look at their impressive list of tutors.

 Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

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                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Fresh Fruit

A lovely selection of labels for Dunnes Stores Yogurts. It is nice to get such lovely subject matter to photograph. Not that all the fruit was in season at the time of shooting. Nevertheless we got a lovely series of close up images that could appear on any poster as well as their intended labels.

 Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Green Dragon 'Round the World' Racing Yacht

During a year of many highs this particular project stood out. Sailing on the Green Dragon for three days in Dublin Bay and then off to Galway and sail out to the Aran Islands, down to the spectacular Cliffs of Moher and back to over night in the never ending party town of Galway. It was terrific. We had all weathers over the four trips - calm and sunny to blustery winds with rain. The boat itself is an equivalent, in motoring terms, to a formula one racing car - very big at 21m, but sparse with little in terms of human comfort- this is a racing machine. She successfully sailed around the world in the 2008/09  Volvo Ocean Race.

 Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

A Brisk Day at the Beach.

A storm force wind is blowing. The sun is shining. And I'm walking on Portmarnock beach, just north of the city of Dublin. What a view. The Martello tower on Ireland's Eye is half lit by bright sunlight. Flocks of brent geese and oyster catchers struggle in the breeze. A fishing boat heads for the safety of Howth Harbour before the worst of the storm.

Eh! No, actually.

The photograph is made up of 10 different photographs. (Mainly shot on a Canon Eos 1DS Mk iii.)The back ground of sea, sky and island is a panoramic photograph made up of 4 different shots joined together using Photoshop:

The 2 flocks of birds were shot at the same occasion but are made up of 4 different photographs.

Each bird was cut out of the background and then dropped into the final seascape.

The little fishing boat being thrown about by a rough sea and strong winds was actually photographed 250km away, on the Atlantic coast a week later, in much calmer conditions with a nifty little snap camera - Canon G12.

And the boat's wake in the final photograph was made up of a composite of waves from the original shot.

And hey presto! Can we believe anything in a photograph?

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

National Digital Research Centre Annual Report.

The NDRC is an amazing organisation. It supports digital entrepreneurs both on the technical and business end and all the way to venture capital - supporting new innovative digital projects. It was a joy photographing the different and talented people in their offices in the Digital Hub, a location full of atmosphere and enthusiasm. Above is a selection of some of the photographic spreads from the recent annual report. The full report is available on the NDRC website where more of the photography we shot is used to great effect.

 Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

    Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

O2 Christmas Campaign.

We spent some time photographing a range of mobile phones and accessories for O2 again this year. Mobile phones are technically challenging. Their reflective surfaces don't make the job easy and add to that the different types of reflective surfaces on a single phone; red ones, black ones, glass and metal, all make for an even more entertaining days work.
But thats what we are here for - we just love a challenge.

Bewley's Christmas Exhibition

What a great days shooting we had with the team in Bewleys Cafe - a really great group of people and the students from Johnstown primary school. Both adults and children needed to work really hard for the camera, being happy, sad, angry and funny. And everyone was terrific. There are definitely a few gurning champions here. A selection of the portraits were part of the 'Mirror, mirror' installation in Bewley's Cafe window this Christmas, one part of a great exhibition of scenarios 'Once upon a Thumb' by the sculptor Paddy Campbell. You can still see them up until the 6th of January. And well worth the visit. Some details from the scenarios can be seen below.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

A Series of Salad Labels for Tesco Finest.

This was a lovely shoot to be involved with. Using the ingredients again to compose some lovely, fresh and natural looking labels. The ingredient lists were great and gave us some nice colour and composition options during the shoot. The labels wrap around the transparent salad containers so you can see what you are buying.

 Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Tasty Paté Selection

A nice series of shots here for Dunnes Stores Paté. Photographing just the ingredients of each of the patés and creating a rustic and wholesome mood in each studio set up. Nice to find and use forest mushrooms in season for one of the shots. And slices of carmelised orange. And brandy. Brandy? I ask ye. Lovely to photograph and lovely to eat.

 Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

Tesco Finest Whole Grain Bread Labels

Together with Tesco's hard working design team we came up with a series of labels for the Tesco Finest range of whole grain breads. Using each loafs' unique ingredients to identify the different labels,
we kept a simple rustic theme running through the different packs. The bakers chose a really interesting selection of grains and seeds for each loafs ingredients. And tasty too.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

NEW EXHIBITION - PUNT NUA, CREATIVE ECONOMICS

'Promise' by Eugene Langan - 50x50cm Giclée print. 

Designer Con Kennedy and illustrator Steve Ruane have organised this creative response to the economic downturn.  Featuring the work of 10 creatives including myself. It will open Tuesday May 29th at darc space, 26 North Great Georges St., Dublin 1, at 6.30pm. It will be opened by Brian Lucey, Professor of Finance, Trinity College Dublin. Come along if you have a moment.

'...you can eat a hill o' beans.' by Eugene Langan. 50x50cm Giclée print.

                        Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

New Jameson Branded Glassware.

We had fun in the studio recently shooting this new Jameson branded glassware for Pernod Ricard Irish Distillers. A very tricky assignment capturing the etched logo and reflections on the glass interiors and on glass base. But doesn't it look very well in the finish?

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com

James Joyce's Dubliners - Audio Walk through Dublin.

What a smashing idea from Wonderderland Productions - an audio walk through the streets of Dublin with James Joyce's Dubliners. Read by a bevy of very fine actors. We had fun shooting the actors on Henrietta Street recently. With the cast fully dressed in their Edwardian clothes. You can still pick up a head set from the Dublin Writers Museum and take a stroll yourself. Lovely.

Contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of photography:

Eugene Langan Photography

Studio Eight, 

32 Northbrunswick St., 

Dublin 7.

Tel. 01.4163837

Mob. 087.2597907

e-mail. langan@indigo.ie

                                        web. http://www.eugenelangan.com

                             Foodblog: http://foodphotographytips.blogspot.com