Hopefully you aren’t getting sick of this model yet. I know I’m not. Anyway this was once again a fairly short spur of the moment shoot one night after a long night out. This time we started out with a half hour or so shoot in just a single outfit in the makeshift “studio” before it was almost sunrise. So from there we changed outfit and moved to the rooftop of the guesthouse to play in the rising sun. Read More ››
Ok, her name is really something more like Nyung, but us western barbarians aren’t expected to be able to make such sounds (I guess they think we all come from America) so she tends to get called Young. In any case this time around I thought we’d do something different and do some shots in the room. Lighting was a couple 500w halogen floodlights, the type you buy from your local hardware or department store for working on cars. One was bounced off a reflector held in place by a chair and a camera bag, the other was hung... Read More ››
I wasn’t confidant that Young’s promise (it’s a name, not an age – though come to think of it I guess it’s both really) that she’d get up and model at 5:30am this morning would hold. That is, once her alcohol fueled enthusiasm waned and her eyes closed into the welcoming sleep of the halfway drunk. Indeed it did take some effort to rouse her at the appointed hour but I’m glad I did. After a couple minutes on a moto we were at the beach, I wish my beach shoots in Aus were so easy to get to! ... Read More ››
Ok, before I get stuck into the tutorial I’ve got a quick challenge for those of you photographically minded: have a look at the shot, look at the shadows and have a guess yourself at what lighting setup I used, then read on to see if you are right! The reason I thought I’d do a quick lighting tutorial on this particular image here as it’s probably the number one image I get asked about in terms of technique used in the lighting setup. These questions often come with explanations of attempts made or theories as to what the... Read More ››
A couple weeks ago through an unfortunate set of occurrences I ended up meeting a couple pretty cool people. One is the model in this shoot, who ended up being a substitute called in at the last second when things went awry with the first model. The other being Ian Barclay, the excitable Scottish bloke who is himself a decent snapper, model Psychologist, impassioned shirt connoisseur (trust me, you don’t want to wear a Hawaiian shirt in front of this guy) and finally the owner of the resort these images were shot at. The beautiful Serene Sands Health Resort. He even came... Read More ››
Well it’s been MIA for a couple years now but now the blog is back, along with a whole new folio site wrapped around it. As it is with most of the work I end up doing it was necessity more than anything else which bred creation. It was an arsehole hacker’s immature actions which ended up having an unbeknown positive side effect: they surgically removed my thumb from an unspeakable place. Ok, the (more) complete story goes like this: Hacker hacks the server my site is on and does such a number on the server that not only are all sites... Read More ››
This is the first in what will hopefully be a long series of tutorials I’ll be posting on how I’ve achieved the effects I have in some of my creative photography shoots. The subject for today is one of the more creative setups I’ve come up with. It’s the kind of setup that you run over in your mind and are never sure if it’ll work until you give it a go. First up here are a couple of the shots I took with the setup: Now there’s not as much photoshop done to these images as... Read More ››
When Beck contacted me a few weeks back to tell me she was going to be in NZ for a week and was keen to shoot I was dubious to say the least. Thing is I’ve had a couple bad experiences with Beck pulling out on shoots we had organised previously, however she seemed very sincere in her desire to shoot & it’s always good to give people 2nd chances when you can. Well she exceeded all expectations, it was a cold morning with temps hovering around -5 to -10c and I can hardly recall a single complaint out... Read More ››
I always grab every oppurtunity I can to work with Soph and so when she was up in Brisbane recently for a few days of work I did just that. We had some makeup artist issues with a late cancelation but Carla came to the party and all ended well. After we finished up with the car shots we filled ourselves up with an awesome homecooked meal (thanks Anne!). The goal for the evening then was just to fit in a bunch of different beauty looks in a fairly short shoot (about 3hrs from makeup start to last shot).... Read More ››
