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I had another fun portfolio shoot this weekend with Samara who I met through the Model Mayhem website, we spent an hour or so of a glorious spring morning shooting in Hyde Park where even under a cloudless sky you can find plenty of shade under the canopy of trees.
I was keeping it simple with a one-flash setup, but as I was without Sonia this week to help out I had to abandon the shoot-through umbrella for some shots when the wind got up a little but the images ended up being a little more diverse because of it.
Samara was great to work with, super friendly and very comfortable infront of the lens and she has a great knack for flipping from an intense model pose to a great natural smile with ease. Hit this link to be whisked away to Samara’s Model Mayhem profile!
Here are some of my favourite photos from the shoot:
I tried playing around with backlighting for this last photo and was successful in creating the washed out low-contrasty look that I was going for by shooting wide open into the sun. The flash provided fill to prevent Samara being a silhouette and the sun created a nice rim light. I then overexposed the background and added a warm gradient in photoshop to create the final picture.
Until next time… Have fun!
I met up with a wonderful model Julia this past weekend for a photo shoot in Newtown. We met through the Model Mayhem website and after a few conversations felt that we both had something to offer each other on a TFP basis as we are both at a similar stage in our respective modelling and photographic path. Julia’s a big fan of vintage 50’s and the pinup image, so she offered to go for that kind of style with her make-up, hair and outfits, whilst I had the relatively easy job of making sure the camera recorded how great she looked.
We spent a couple of hours meandering through some of Newtown’s back alleyways and various other locations, setting up with a simple 1-flash umbrella shoot-through rig whenever we found a scene that took our fancy. Sonia was helping out with the light whilst Kyle provided wardrobe assistance for Julia and the four of us worked together on putting a number of the shots together so it really felt like a collaborative effort and worked out well.
Julia was great fun to photograph and made it easy for me to settle into my first real model shoot. If you’re thinking about getting in touch, you can find her on Model Mayhem here.
In the mean time, check out some of the shots we made below and hit the gallery at the bottom of the page for a bunch more!
Driving around Sydney this weekend around the golden hour Sonia and I stopped off at Cremorne Point to get some shots of the city skyline from across the river. Here is a couple of similar shots in terms of subject and composition, the only real difference being the 45 minutes (ok so an hour sounded better for the title of this post!) between them. The first shot captures the beautiful golden light against the buildings as the sun crouches low in the sky off to the right, the second was bout 15 minutes after sunset when the sky lights up with an almost surreal glow as the suns rays are filtered through the atmosphere to create the sometimes unpredictable tones. Incidentally, there is a pretty small window of opportunity when the lights come on in all the buildings and there is still enough sun to give the sky some nice colour.
Enough talk, here are the shots!
Sydney skyline @4.30pm
Sydney skyline @5.15pm
It just so happened that it was also the penultimate evening of the Vivid Festival, a month long celebration of the arts and of which a major feature is the “lighting of the sails” when every night between 6pm and 1am a display of light and poetry is projected onto the sails of the opera house.
Check out the gallery below to see the two photos from above in a larger format as well as a handful of shots of the Opera House in the lighting of the sails attraction.
Well you have no doubt seen or heard about the amazing dust storms that hit Sydney today so I won’t bore you with detail. I just thought I would share my view of the phenomenon as I took my short daily walk from Elizabeth Street to Wynyard, through Martin Place.
Castlereagh Street
Martin Place tube station
Martin Place & the Post Office clock
George Street
Martin Place
Martin Place
George Street with Australia Square in the background
George Street
Wynyard Park
Wynyard Park
Suncorp Building from Wynyard Park
Erskine Street
Erskine Street
While you’re in the mood, here are some links to a bunch of other photos of this strange, strange morning:
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/22/red-dust-over-sydney/
The sign of things to come?
Sydney Daily Photo
Here’s another handful of shots of the Opera House that I took from another trip to Macquarie Point a week or two ago. I have been in Sydney for less than a year so I am still in awe at how every sunset seems to give you something different to shoot. The colours on this night were just beautiful and this first image has had little post processing done on it and is a pretty accurate reflection of the scene infront of me as I pressed the shutter.
The world famous Opera House and Harbor Bridge
Another wider angle shot of the famous landmarks
Sonia taking time out to pose for a snap
A shot from earlier as the sun was setting
The photo of Sonia really stretched the capabilities of my popup flash. It was pretty dark by the time I took it and I used rear curtain flash to light up the foreground whilst creating a longish exposure of the background. I was happy with the effect although I would love to see what I can achieve when I invest in a proper flash unit.
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