It is easy to create beautiful imagery when the location, subjects, timing and attitude all work together. So often, the circumstances aren’t ideal and the job of a pro photographer is to produce a result no matter what the circumstances are. Many students visit the studio, show their folio and then tell me with each [...]
In the past I used custom painted canvas backgrounds for portrait shoots. I worked with some talented artists who had a great understanding of how different textures appeared when shot out of focus as a background. When using these canvases, numerous stands were required: stands for the canvas background; and stands for multiple flashes, all taking up more space, more time and budget.
I love the variety of subjects I get to shoot on editorial stories. A recent shoot was for the Women’s Weekly written by Erin O’Dwyer. The story was about Muslim women wearing the Burqa and how European countries have been debating at banning them.
Photographers love industry events that are social, inspiring and affordable. Whenever I travel somewhere I look at the possibility of creating an event with either myself or somebody I “volunteer” to be the speaker.
This particular job I was working on had a very pressing deadline with local and interstate shoots needed to be done within 5 days while working around already booked jobs. I ended up shooting one of the trucks from Midnight to 5am 2 hours drive out of Brisbane, and having the owner of a major trucking company meet me at 5am to drive the truck along the local freeway.
Sally Heppleston who generously wrote a blog article for me was featured in the Sunday Herald Sun on Mother’s Day. One of my acocp session photos of her daughter hope is in the article.
I have worked with the Victorian Institute of Sport for over 10 years, outlasting 3 marketing teams. One of their events I shoot is the annual Awards of Excellence where they announce the Athlete of the Year. This year we decided to get individual shots of as many athletes as possible on their way into the event. Possibly 300+ athletes in about 45minutes. The client was happy with flash on camera but I though it was a perfect opportunity for a fast Strobist setup.
Another favourite client of mine is Melbourne University. I work closely with the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences illustrating all their different domains and have the pleasure of taking photos of some of the finest minds in the country.
I photographed another inspiring subject for my Gratis project today.
Dr Lachlan Fraser is a resident of Marysville and survived the devastating bushfires of February 2009. He was instrumental in re-establishing medical services for the community and a tireless creater of projects that brought the community together.
The iPhone is a great device that is offers excellent support for the working pro.
Amongst the 150,000+ apllications that are available through iTunes, I thought I would write a little about 3 applications that are proving very useful and 1 that possibly will make one of our more tedious tasks incredible simple.