Beachside Leighton

I recently shot the newly completed luxury apartments by Mirvac located on Leighton Beach.

The shoot ran over 3 days, every room/angle was shot in either early mourning late afternoon and or in evening light depending on its orientation and how the natural light filled the shot. Plenty of artifical light was also braught in to to create the desired look.

Here is some images from the shoot. More images can be viewed http://beachsideleighton.com.au/index.html

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Architecture Photography Blog

D-Max photography New Studio

Over the Christmas break we moved over to our new Subiaco studio, here is a quick image. I will post more images when I get some time to do a full shoot of the studio and all areas.

Joel Barbitta

88 Noodle Bar

88 Noodle Bar on the casino gaming floor at Burswood Entertainment Complex is now open. With the Interior design by Mata Design Studio, we recently shot the interiors first up in the mourning to avoid the crowds. The biggest challenge apart from colour balance was keeping details in both highlights and shadows. This was solved making 3 exposures and blending images in photoshop.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Architecture Photography Blog

Merry Christmas

Sneak Peak

D-Max Photography is on the move after several years in East Perth. We are packing up the studio and moving into a Subiaco warehouse. Carpet has been removed, Jarrah floors have been polished painting is nearly done. When finished the new studio will include boardroom, client sitting area, playstation room, kitchen, post production area and studio. We will continue to specialise in architectural and interior photography of designer and display homes, commercial buildings, boats, apartments, bars, restaurants, retail fit-outs and anything else relating to built form along with advertising and product images shot both in studio and out on location.

You can take a look at the work in progress images below and I will post final images when all is complete in the new year

Just let me know if anyone would like to rent out my current photographic studio in East Perth.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

2010 Telethon Home

2010 Peet Telethon Home built by In-Vogue has just sold for a record $865000.00 for Princess Margaret Children's Hospital. I photographed the display home in Shorehaven a few weeks ago. At this early stage it was the only completed home in the estate with power coming from an external generator that I tripped out several times due the the high voltage of my lights. Here are some images from the home.

All photography by Joel Barbitta

D-Max photography ©2012

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New D-Max Photography website

After two years my portfolio website has finally had an update.

I have added a few extra Portfolio categories such as Display Home External Photography, Display Home Internal Photography.

Check it out at www.dmaxphotography.com.au

Thanks

Joel Barbitta

The Islands South Beach

This is a recent shoot at The Islands apartments in South Beach. Built by Pindan Construction for Stockland it has recently won the 2010 MBA Award for best Multi-Unit Development over $30 million. With the apartments facing directly west I shot the internals with the sun flooding into the apartments balancing the light with Profoto flash heads giving me detail in the highlighs and shadows. Please see some images below shot with Nikon D3x.

All photography by Joel Barbitta

D-Max photography ©2012

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Sunseeker predator photoshoot

Sunseekers new performance motoryacht Predator arrived in Perth and a few days later we photographed the boat for Ocean magazine. The shoot started late in the day to take advantage of the low afternoon sun. The running shots were taken from a second boat just out of Fremantle followed by the onboard photographs that started only minutes before the sun hit the horizon and ran into the evening.

All photography by Joel Barbitta

D-Max photography ©2012

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Photography of Room Sets

We recently shot two days of room sets in a makeshift studio at the Brooker Furniture factory. Brooker Furniture have been producing fine hardwood furniture for over 27 years.

The shot list included beds, dining tables, coffee tables and wall units. A shooting platform was set up consisting of two temporary walls and a timber floor. Various pictures, curtains, floor mats and props where used in each of the image to get a variety of looks on the same set.

The pictures below show the set and the final image. Lights were used through makeshift windows (plywood clamped to light stands) to give an early mourning look to the set.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

National Photoshoot

I have recently returned from the Adshel National Photoshoot covering 5 cities in 17 days. 500gb of images were taken to capture Adshel street furniture in relationship to its surroundings and their interaction with people.

Long exposures were used to emphasise the busy locations allowing motion blur of people and cars to contrast in with the stationary environment.

Here are a few images below from the shoot

Melbourne

Adelaide

Brisbane

Sydney

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

Hotel Rottnest

We took the early ferry over to Rottnest to shoot the newly renovated hotel. As there are no cars on the island we had to drag over the lighting and camera cases to the hotel . Starting the shoot in the rooms with the key focus on the spectacular views. All lighting via Profoto flash heads to lift internal light levels so views did not blow out. I followed with the bar / restaurant images. The images needed to be shot in the middle of the day to capture the busy lunch period meaning sun was very high in sky, care was taken to to make shadows to deep. The afternoon Ferry was caught back to Hillarys Boat Harbour to finish a long day. Here are a few images from the shoot.



Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

WA's First 5 Star NABERS energy rating

I recently photographed Stockland's new A-grade 7,185m2 four level office building located at 2 VICTORIA AVE, Perth. This is the first of its kind to WA with 5 Star NABERS energy rating featuring the latest in energy efficient design.



Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

2009 Zorzi Appealathon Home

D-Max Photography was pleased to shoot the recently completed 2009 Appealathon home. The Home built by Zorzi Builders who are known for their exceptional build quality and design is located at 11 Jutland Pde Dalkeith. The charity home is now open for inspection with a selling price of 9.5 million.

Bad weather was unable to hold the shoot off due to deadlines. The overall external images shot from a cherry picker required a higher than normal iso to compensate for the sway.

Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Retail Shop Design

Jools has recently opened their Karrinyup store to showcase their stunning range of world class designer jewellery. The unique shop design was put together by The Urbani Leyton Design featuring circular display cabinets a large detailed wall mirror and ceiling. All images shot with Nikon D3x using tungsten lighting working around staff and clients during open hours.


Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Wolf Lane Bar

This cool new bar tucked away down Wolf Lane in the Perth CBD has recently opened. Designed by Bremick the bar has a New York feel with high ceilings exposed brickwork and raw timber floors. Images were shot into the evening with minimum lighting introduced just to balance in with the existing tungsten lighting. Here are a few images from the shoot.

Joel Barbitta

D-Max Photography

2009 Telethon Home

I again had the opportunity to shoot this years Telethon Home built by In-Vogue Living in Halls Head. The 4 bed 3 bath two story home will be auctioned off for charity over the Telethon weekend at 11am 4th Oct 2009. You can check out the home during home open times, more information can be found at Telethon Home Website See a few preview images below.






Thanks
Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

The Islands

We managed to get a beautiful day last week for a shoot at for The Islands by Cedar Woods at Mariners Cove in Mandurah. The shoot stared early mourning where we were able to get perfect reflections and morning light for the externals. Images that followed included internal lifestyle images, images from a boat out front of the development and local ares of interest.



Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Luciano’s Hairdressing

After many years in Claremont Luciano’s Hairdressing went through a major face lift as they moved into the new Claremont Quarters shopping Centre. Designed by Anitma design group Liciano's new store is being entered into the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) Awards. I arrived on site first up in the mourning to shoot before the shop opened to not include people and allow us to run power cords and lights around without the worry of of customers tripping over them.


Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography

Queens Riverside Showroom

Designed by Holcam Creative to showcase Fraser's Property Groups new Queens Riverside apartments in East Perth. The images were shot utilising the existing tungsten lighting, I added only a few hot lights to bring up shadow details and control highlights. The area had a couple of windows allowing natural light in causing some problems with colour balance that was later corrected in post.



Joel Barbitta
D-Max Photography