Pro Book Q4 – 2015 Launches

The ‘Pro Book’ represents a online copy of our automotive car photography work presented on screen as a portfolio but more in the traditional sense, a soft copy you could say of the actual Pro Book that we may use in client meetings or with agents and art buyers.

The book is updated four times each year and we are very pleased to announce the launch of the Q4 2015 version of the book which includes all the latest new work from commercial photographer Tim Wallace.
The Pro Book receives a vast amount of interest from clients and agencies alike and we hope that this new release of Tim’s ongoing creative commercial work inspires and demonstrates his unique style and approach as well as showcasing some of his recent work both in the UK and Internationally with our corporate business clients and agency clients.

Commercial Pro Book
A online dedicated version is also available for agents and clients to view here at http://www.commercialphotographerportfolio.co.uk

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Aston Martin – ‘The Book’ Project enters final stages

Aston Martin over the years have created and crafted some of the Worlds most recognisable and iconic cars and in 2013 the company celebrate 100 years in the industry. As part of this celebration commercial car photographer Tim Wallace was commissioned by our UK client Aston to produce a major book looking through the 100 years to celebrate all the models in the Aston range from the very first model that David Brown created to the latest super cars from the Aston stable such as the DBS and new Vanquish. This month saw AmbientLife photographer Tim Wallace working alongside the designers to review and make final amendments to the page layouts as the book nears the final stages before going to be published. Over all the final book will feature over 680 full colour pages of high quality photography that captures and drives forward the spirt of Aston Martin through the last 100 years.

The luxury brand marked the official anniversary of its founding 100 years ago with a ceremony in Chelsea’s Henniker Mews – the original home of the company that went on to become Aston Martin, founded on 15 January 1913. Aston Martin CEO, Dr Ulrich Bez – “I am proud to be celebrating 100 years of heritage and the best of British craftsmanship.”
“Aston Martin is known around the world for our leading design combined with advanced technology. Ours is the coolest luxury car brand on the planet and I am looking forward to our second century of building the world’s most desirable sports cars.”

Tim – “Being asked to create all the photography for the Aston 100 year book is indeed a great honour and its a project that we have been working on for just over a year now. The book will primarily be a ‘coffee table’ style book of great photography looking at each of the models through the history of Aston Martin design and endeavour to create cars that instil both passion and soul. Its a massive project and currently we are very close to completing the project now.
Some of the cars that I have captured for this book such as the Zagato’s VEV1 and VEV2 that are very rare and today are in the same condition as the day that they drove out of the factory gates.
For me personally it’s a joy to shoot these cars and we have been working with Aston in the UK and Europe for just over 7 years now so I am very familiar with both the company and the vehicles themselves which is a major benefit to the project for me personally. We are having the final design meetings for the project and we anticipate that the book will launch this year globally, I can’t wait to see all that hard work come together in what I hope will be a book that young and old will enjoy a like.”

The book covers all the major models produced by Aston Martin through the years from the very first early cars, through to the infamous DB5 that will possibly always be inextricably linked to James Bond and the 007 books of Ian Fleming.
It also covers the most recent years of design and development at Aston Martin with the One77, Astons first £1 million pound car, the DBS, V12 Vantage, and the new model all carbon fibre Vanquish.
Designed and produced to be a general book for the market this publication reflects the history of design and how the cars have evolved over the years but is not a technical based book as many before it have had their base, bit more a book of simply beautiful photography to celebrate a iconic and world famous British brand that is as strong today as it ever was.

Aston Martin – 100 Years

Today the prestigious UK based car manufacturer Aston Martin celebrated 100 years since it birth in 1913. UK commercial car photographer Tim Wallace is probably best known for his work shooting Aston Martin and is currently working on a book for our client Aston that we anticipate will be available and released for sale during 2013 the celebratory year.

The luxury brand marked the official anniversary of its founding 100 years ago with a ceremony in Chelsea’s Henniker Mews – the original home of the company that went on to become Aston Martin, founded on 15 January 1913. Aston Martin CEO, Dr Ulrich Bez – “I am proud to be celebrating 100 years of heritage and the best of British craftsmanship.”
“Aston Martin is known around the world for our leading design combined with advanced technology. Ours is the coolest luxury car brand on the planet and I am looking forward to our second century of building the world’s most desirable sports cars.”

In the UK, a week-long Aston Martin festival will take place from 15 July to 21 July. Designed to appeal to owners and enthusiasts of the brand, the Centenary Week will include ‘open house’ activities at Aston Martin’s exclusive Gaydon headquarters, including factory-based events and driving tours and will culminate in a 1,000-guest ‘birthday party’ on Saturday 20 July and a spectacular Centenary gathering in central London on Sunday 21 July.

This highlight of the centenary celebrations will be held in partnership with the Aston Martin Heritage Trust and the Aston Martin Owners Club will feature 100 of the brand’s most iconic cars in a multi-million pound timeline display. The event will also see one of the largest gatherings of Aston Martins in the 100-year history of the great British marque.

In addition, appearances at iconic events throughout 2013 including Nürburgring 24-Hours, Silverstone Classic, Villa D’Este, Le Mans 24-Hours and Pebble Beach will ensure that the celebration is truly global.

Dr Bez explained: “Aston Martin remains one of the most exclusive and sought-after brands in the world, so it’s right that our centenary celebrations take place around the globe this year.

“It’s appropriate that we mark the first 100 years of the company in this way and, with exceptional new cars like our ultimate GT – the Vanquish – timeless new DB9 and super-exclusive V12 Zagato, we clearly have a vibrant and exciting future ahead.”

The London event recalls the day 100 years ago when founders Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford saw their new automotive venture incorporated as ‘Bamford and Martin Ltd’. Production of the very first Aston Martin car, known as ‘Coal Scuttle’ commenced soon after. The ‘Aston’ element was inspired by Lionel Martin’s passion for hill climb competitions, in particular the Aston Clinton hill climb in Buckinghamshire.

10 things you may not know about Aston Martin:

1. There have been 10 different versions of the iconic Aston Martin badge. The current version was introduced in 2003
2. The Aston Martin wings badge has its origins in ancient Egypt – derived from the open wings of the scarab beetle
3. In 100 years Aston Martin has produced just over 60,000 sports cars
4. It is accurately estimated that more than 90% of all Aston Martins built are still in existence
5. Aston Martin has manufactured cars from seven locations in the past 100 years
6. Aston Martin’s global HQ at Gaydon, the company’s first purpose-built home, celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2013
7. The Aston Martin Owners Club was founded in 1935 at The Grafton Hotel, London
8. The now sold-out One-77 hypercar is Aston Martin’s most exclusive, powerful and expensive production model to date
9. It took 2,700 man hours to produce each One-77
10. The painting process for the current Aston Martin range takes between 50 and 70 hours per car

Hasselblad 2014 Masters Awards

The Hasselblad Masters Award is one of the most prestigious awards in the industry, each year celebrating the best photographic talent. Masters Awards are given in recognition of a photographer’s contribution to the art of photography and are judged on overall photographic ability, encompassing creativity, composition, conceptual strength, and technical skill. Past Masters include both renowned artists of international standing as well as promising newcomers in a wide range of fields and disciplines. Ambient Life photographer Tim Wallace has been invited this year to enter these awards with a body of his automotive car photography and here at Ambient Life we join to wish ever success in this prestigious competition and will keep you advised of his progress for the 2014 awards.

Tim has been shooting on high end Hasselblad’s for many years now as well as working closely with Hasselblad on his live shoot seminars and events.

Recently Tim shot the infamous One-77 Aston Martin for a series of new global advertisements by Hasselblad featuring this exclusive £1.2m Aston Martin

This new prestigious car from the Aston stable derives its name from its high price tag of £1.2m and the exclusivity of their only being 77 examples built. It’s not hard to imagine the remarkable attention to detail that the designers from the Aston Martin Centre at Gaydon in England have lavished on its conception and it was very much in keeping with this tradition that photographer Tim Wallace was chosen to shoot a series of work to be used by Hasselblad and Aston Martin.

Tim- “The One-77 is a truly remarkable car and although I spend a great deal of my time around this type of vehicle, and very often Aston Martin’s, I was still impressed over by both its beauty and design, the famous Aston saying of ‘power, beauty, soul’ certainly applies here. The shoot was commissioned by Hasselblad in Denmark and was to show both the car overall and some of the close detail captured using my Hasselblad H3 DII camera for the advertisements that would run a strap line of ‘Getting Down to Details’. The actual shoot came at very short notice with only 2 days to prepare as Aston had only one model available and built to work with and as you can imagine the car was very much in high demand around the world for events and shows as it was just at the stage of being officially unveiled and launched by Aston. All the work I did was shot at Aston’s Design Centre in Gaydon and I managed to get a few hours with the car so that we could complete a range of photographs that hopefully do the car and the camera justice.”

2013 Aston Martin Book – Work Begins

Exciting news this week as work has now officially started on a proposed Aston Martin book. This has been a long term personal for car photographer Tim Wallace and has been under discussion for over 2 years now. It is hoped that the book will be completed and available by the end of 2012 for launch in early 2013 and it will be a hard back book with the aim to bring together the very best collection of Aston Martin photography very before made available to the public. Featuring all the Aston Martin models through the ages from the very early DB1 right through the the current range and the infamous One77 super Aston’s.

Tim “Its a great honour to be asked to do this book based around the range of Aston Martins through the years. Over the last few years I have become quite well known for my automotive car work and most of all probably for my Aston Martin work, for me photographing cars has never been about just showing the viewer what a model looks like but more about trying to capture and represent its form and character, cars to me have a personality, each one slightly different to the other, its having the ability to capture this passion and drama in a single image that is for me the gift of great car photography. We started work on the book earlier this week and as the chief designer said, ‘this is going to be a little like eating an elephant, one mouth full at a time…’
Over the last 5 years I have shot a huge amount of Aston’s and at last count that is near the 200 mark however as with any commercial work the photography and its style is dictated by the final requirement for its output so not ever piece of work has been shot in a dramatic style, for instance people very rarely think that all the parts and engineering side of the work has also to be covered, not to mention the ‘clinical’ work as I call it for marketing and brochures, so it is quite a massive task to ensure that I produce enough high quality work to fill a 300 page book. Also we are seeking to shoot all through the range and some models such as the infamous DBR2 are rare to say the least with only two in existence and with a price tag of £8m we have our work cut out for us but we are very lucky that as this is a joint venture with our client we have amazing access to some of the Worlds most beautiful and best kept Aston Martin secrets.
An amazing project and one that will I feel prove to be both demanding and ultimately very rewarding all at the same time.”

Aston 2012 Calendar Project Completed

This week commercial car photographer Tim Wallace completed the final work on the Aston 2012 calendar. Tim has been producing and shooting the calendar for Aston for some 4 years now and over that time the calendar has become somewhat of a collectors item with tens of thousands of copies being sold worldwide and many people reporting that they would like multiple copies as they have one saved from each year.

Tim – “The Aston calendar is really special to me and each year a huge effort goes in to making sure that we have something different, this year I was lucky enough to spend some time in Switzerland and after falling in love with the sweeping mountains and snow covered peaks it was an obvious place to shoot Aston Martin’s. These cars represent different things to different people, some have fond memories of their boy hood dreams after watching the latest James Bond film hankering after that elusive silver birch DB5 classic, while others enjoy more recent memories with the DB9 and are drawn to the styling and engineering of some of Aston’s more recent triumphs such as the One77. Whatever the reason it is safe to say that Aston’s just never die, they stay in our hearts and in our imagination always. It was a pure pleasure to create the images for this years calendar and I hope that many people all over the World will get much enjoyment from it.”

New Aston Martin Media of the work of UK Car Photographer Tim Wallace

A year in the work of car photographer Tim Wallace with this exciting new update showcasing just some of the automotive car photography that Tim Wallace produces of Aston Martins both classic and modern.

43 seconds…

The average time that a client or designer takes to decide if they like your style of work is 43 seconds, many photographers argue that it’s simply not possible to get across your message in this short amount of time. Today we launch ‘Made in England’ our creative burst that highlights some of the work of UK car photographer Tim Wallace over the last 12 months.

Creativity is the fundamental key to any successful commercial photography when mixed with a strongly defined shooting style. Commercially it is very important for client to choose a photographer based not only on their obvious technical ability but most importantly on their ‘style’ of work, this has been the main driving force behind all successful photographers for over 100 years and one that is just as important to day as it ever was with the age of digital technology. True creativity still exists in the capture and control of light with your subject mixed with a strong creative vision of the world.

Aston Martin DB9 Shoot

This week we were out on location as well as working hard in the studio to shoot some marketing material featuring the infamous Aston Martin DB9. Photographer Tim Wallace has been working with Aston for over 3 years now and talks a little about his approach to this World renowned brand.

Tim- “Aston Martin has to be one of the most well known prestige car brands anywhere in the World today. Arguably being in the forefront of this market sector since the 60’s with iconic exposure in films such as James Bond. I have been shooting with Aston’s a for a number of years now and a great deal of work has been centred on the classic range however from time to time we do work with the more modern vehicles such as the shoot with the One-77 that we undertook at Gaydon recently. This week however our work was centred on the Aston Martin DB9. Our client required a broad cross section of material which meant that some of the shoot was performed in a studio and some out on location. With one main model to work with the first part of the shoot was to look at the detail lit work in the studio, its always the best approach as the cars cleanliness will start to suffer as soon as its exposed to the elements.”

“Following the completion of the detail work we then moved the car to the separate locations for the static work. For me personally I always feel that shooting a car is very much the same as shooting a portrait of somebody in as much as you really need to capture the character of the car, the mood, the passion. Prestige cars are an emotional purchase in my view and the drive to promote a car or model is often a case of giving the viewer / customer a glimpse into the world through your eyes, setting the scene and making them want to be standing where you are. The shoot was completed in one day and I’m very pleased with the results as the client is also, which is always a good thing!”

The DB9 is the first model to be built at Aston Martin’s Gaydon facility in Warwickshire, England. The moniker “DB” stems from the initials of David Brown, the owner of Aston Martin for a significant part of its history. The DB9, which was designed by Ian Callum and finished by his successor, Henrik Fisker, superseded the now-discontinued Aston Martin DB7 (also by Callum) which started production in 1994.

On the British automotive show Top Gear it is thought of highly, notably on the show’s “Cool Wall” segment, where the presenters considered it to be “too cool” for the wall and it received its own category, dubbed the “DB9 Sub Zero Fridge” which was in fact a mini-refrigerator with the car’s card within it.

Victor Magazine – April 2010

Today sees the launch of the April Edition of the infamous Victor magazine by Hasselblad and features the work of UK based commercial photographer Tim Wallace.

Victor April 2010

Tim Wallace flew out to Hamburg as a guest of the World famous Victor magazine recently in Germany for two days to be interviewed by the magazine as he has been selected to be profiled for his work and creativity in the field of automotive photography. In keeping with the Hasselblad philosophy of developing products of outstanding quality that are ahead of their time, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of Victor Hasselblad’s birth, the magazine showcases the work of selected photographers from around the World and looks in depth at who they really are. Victor is regarded by the professional community as a both exciting and visually stimulating magazine in a large, professional format, and it has proved a huge success amongst top class photographers since its launch in the autumn of 2006. Recently in order to allow a wider audience to enjoy this exclusive publication in the future, Hasselblad announced that Victor would be launched in an online version – providing all the content and all the quality of the paper version, plus the advantages of an online publication with an interactive media facility the enables readers to search all articles and content from the current issue, access tutorials and behind the scenes videos as well as Victor Podcasts. In addition, those wishing to get closer to some of the world’s finest photography will be able to zoom in on image details thanks to the large format quality of the online PDFs that are made available to subscribers. The magazine is very much seen to be one of the most exclusive and desirable publications within the photography community and each year receives requests from over 3,000 professional photographers to have their work viewed and considered for publication.

Stephan Bittner

Stephan Bittner (Editor and Architect for Victor Magazine) – “Each year I see thousands of images, we are sent them on a daily basis quite literally. What I get excited about is when I see something new, something that I have not seen before, at Victor we really strive to bring new photography to our readers and of course also look at the photographer themselves, who they are, what makes them tick. I first saw Tim’s work late last year and had heard his name mentioned by several people for his automotive photography, when I saw it I knew we needed to get him over to Germany to find out more about the man behind these incredibly moody images. Even if you don’t like cars you can’t help being drawn into some of Tim’s work. I met with him along with our writing staff and I have to admit that there is a lot more behind him than I’d expected, it’s a great story and we will be aiming for release in June for our readers to enjoy. I would also point out that next time we meet I hope his baggage makes it, it’s a long story!…

Tim Wallace

” Tim- “Being invited over to Germany to be interviewed by Victor was something that came out of blue for me in truth and at first I pretty much thought that maybe they had the wrong guy…lol It’s not really something that you need to think about when an opportunity arises like that and of course I feel very humbled to be asked to be featured. My work is very important to me and anybody who has met me professionally as a client or as a guest at one of my seminars will tell you that once you get me started on the subject of passionate photography it’s hard to get me to stop! I went out to Hamburg for two days for the interview and really wished that I could have stayed a little longer if not simply to enjoy the city of Hamburg in winter, its a very beautiful place, especially at night when the lake is frozen and the local community take to the ice skating and enjoying the evening together as well as all the good eating and drinking to be had! I spent the day with Stephan and his writing team as we discussed my background, my approach, my visions for the future and where I saw my work in the years ahead. One of the hardest things I think in the day was trying to select the portfolio, I’m glad to say that we did manage this in the end and the feature will I feel reflect a good mix of my style which I’m very happy about. All in all the day seemed to go quite quickly and I have to mention that Victor has it’s own bar right next to the meeting rooms which is sheer genius, for a hot coffee of course! My time at Victor was rounded off with myself being invited to a group celebration meal with the guys from Victor and where we were joined by the MD’s of Hasselblad UK and Germany, Chris Russell Fish and Uwe Moebus. A great night and given that I’d been on the go since 2am with flights etc and my bags had been left in a different country to me I have to say that I didn’t notice that it was 3am by the time we bid each other farewell!”

Victor Magazine