Good morrow kind sirs,

I decided to give Sonia a break from modelling for me last night by giving some self portraits a go as she went off and did her thing taking some twilight shots of the Opera House and city skyline. I felt a little dorky setting up my tripod and light stand and posing for myself whilst all the tourists passed by – I got over the whole self-consciousness thing pretty sharpish though mostly by harnessing my powers of ignoring.

I think I got the lighting and shadows on my face just right in this shot, giving enough of an angle to de-fatten my face (you’ll see some not-so-good examples in a minute). Underexposing the background a couple of stops resulted ina really nice deep warm glow just behind the silhouetted city buildings and overall I thought this was my best effort.

Going through the bunch of photo’s I came back with I hit across a couple of examples which sprang the idea to make this into a bit of a tips/how-i-did-it post. …

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Hello! I was out and about with my camera again tonight and have a handful of new images to share with the world. I had another go at some off-camera lighting using my 2 new Cactus flashes at a local park after finding a cool graffiti wall there as to use as a background for some [...]

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Well what do you know, two posts in two days – must be some kind of miracle! Today I am sharing the results of my first try at shooting some sunset portraits with off camera flash. I had planned to have a go at using an underexposed sunset as my backdrop and my two [...]

Well its been long enough, but I eventually got myself a couple of flash units, light stands and umbrellas so that I could try my hand at some strobist-style photography.
I went the budget route, getting a couple of Cactus KF36 flashes and some cactus v4 wireless triggers from gadgetinfinity.com and then a couple of light [...]

Today is Australia Day, the countries national holiday to celebrate the anniversary of colonisation by captain cook and his folk 200 and something years ago.
There’s always a tonne of stuff going on around Sydney but the highlight for me is the classic car show in the streets between Hyde Park and the Domain.
It was an [...]