World Class Loop Shooter

Loop photographer, David Osborn, is pretty much in a field of one. He shoots with the worlds only digital panoramic camera, a Seitz 6x17. Traditional digital cameras expose the whole image in one go with the resolution of the image limited to the small size of the capture chip recording the image. With the Seitz 6x17, the image is scanned from left to right, building up the image as it goes, creating file sizes unimaginable in standard digital cameras - a whopping 21,250 pixels wide x 7,500 pixels high creating a monster 922 megabyte 16 bit tiff file. In fact, the worlds largest digital capture file. To put this in perspective, it creates an image 1,229% larger than the newest professional Nikon camera on the market today.

The resolution is made possible due to a sensor produced by Dalsa, a company with vast experience in creating high resolution imaging sensors for satellites and the space industry, with an imaging sensor currently on Mars with the Mars Rover. The benefit of this innovative technology is that it creates a printed image, razor sharp and without enlargement at 7 feet 5 inches x 2 feet 7 inches. The only camera in the world to do so.

However, technology alone will not produce a great photograph, it requires a combination of art and technology. David's image above of Westminster Bridge required over 150 hours of work to print in order to realize his vision for the scene; working like a painter, setting the mood and bringing up the finest detail. The image, however, is not a composite or fake, every detail in the image is as recorded on the day.

Seitz have been so impressed with David's work that they have given him an open brief to shoot what he wants, with selected images to be used for their global marketing campaigns. David brought over some prints to the Loop offices recently and we were totally blown away. Seeing is believing, and if this is the way technology is going, grain, artifacts and softness will be something added in post-production, not the spectre that haunts the capture process for many current photographers.

To learn more about David and his work go here, or to see some of David's work that Loop represent exclusively, go here.

Loop's very own Moustache Man!

Loop shooter, Rick Senley, has just had a novel published called 'Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers.' Billed as a tragic tale of one man’s descent from a dishy fellow about town to the wretched underbelly of Victorian London, it features some of Rick's anarchic wit and his leftfield view of the modern world. His bio hints at the wry humour you can expect in his formal writing. In his own words..

Rick Senley is a 36-year-old photographer and journalist who has been arrested late at night in several countries and was last year shortlisted for the Travel Photographer of the Year. He writes about prostitutes, cooking and the underworld for FHM and Loaded as well as less classy publications such as the Observer – his subjects are all-inclusive apart from landscape gardening and cars and he will take pictures of anything that will not bite him. Rick is making his film debut in this year's British gangster flick Killer Bitch for which he has written soundtrack music and has recently begun to meditate but finds it too tiring. He once tried to stop drinking by cycling to the South of Spain, has been shot at while drinking in Georgia, molested in a Turkish bath and wounded by an insect in Australia. Rick went to university in Italy, Leicester and Hungary and unsuccessfully tried to escape from a police station when working as a teacher in Greece. He can swear in Norwegian and nearly appeared on a flower-arranging programme in Brazil. He plays squash and the zither, has made two albums of ‘music’ occasionally works at the Old Bailey and resents living in London.

To see some of Rick's work on the Loop network you can go here where among other gems you will find some contemporary Ireland imagery Loop commissioned from Rick last year. To buy a copy of the book, go here.

Happy Holidays from Loop

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very merry holiday season and a happy, peaceful and prosperous 2010. Thanks also for your custom and support throughout 2009 and we pledge to continue bringing you the most original, innovative imagery of Britain in the coming year..