I grew up in Canberra, and the school Narrabudah College, where I went to for years 11 & 12 was pivotal in me choosing my career as a photographer. This was mainly due to the inspiring photography teacher I had, Les Kovacs.
My parents and sister live there and I wanted to visit home, so I recently organized talks in Canberra for the ACMP at the Canberra Institute of Technology. I presented a talk on Photography Pricing as well as my Speedlight Talk & Demonstration.
When I first started shooting with Nikon speedlights, one of the challenges was finding a professional looking way to rig up the speedlights to shoot through softboxes.
I eventually asked a question on the dpreview forums and within 30minutes, someone had replied about a guy in Sydney called Elvis who makes these beautifully constructed brackets.
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.
The pregnancy test was barely dry. Already, I could not contain my excitement. In that moment, life was already different and in nine more months, absolutely everything would never be the same again. At that moment, I never realised just how true that sentiment would turn out be.
One of my favourite clients is Box Hill Institute. I have worked closely with them for years to get the best value out of my time it is not uncommon to shoot 3000+ frames over a day. They have a great presence in the global market of education and have an insatiable need for imagery [...]
As mentioned on a previous post, after being hit with a $1700 excess luggage bill a few years back on a London-Melbourne Flight for my broncolor mobil kit and extras. I downsized to a minimal kit of consisting of speedlights (that at first I had to get over how amateur I thought it was to [...]
I use speedlights for 99% of my shoots now, and am constantly surprised by how versatile they are. Here are two of my recent favorites. This first photo was for Scots College in Sydney, part of a series featured in a book celebrating 20 years of their Glengarry Campus. Glengarry is 2 1/2 hours south [...]