Face Forward

These images were created or my Fashion movement shoot. After a very serious term i wanted to have a bit of fun and this was sooooo much fun! basically i purchased skirting boards from bunnings, painted them white and instead of placing the skirting boards lengthways on the bottom of the wall where the wall meets the floor i placed one of the boards vertically up the wall and the one one flat on the floor. I simply got the model to jump in different ways to appear that she is falling so i then can rotate the image the correct way. Turn your head on it's side, and you will understand what i mean :P

Again the make up was done by Emily Walsh which was amazing! and the modelling by Andrea :)

Gucci

Familiar picture? Thats because i added this picture a few weeks back as a Christian Dior ad. This shot of Misha was originally my cosmetic photo. But i changed it to fit both the cosmetic and the perfume brief. I think this works better as a perfume add. I love it as much as i love the photo of Andrea.

The bottle i also shot for the brief. I shot it on 2 pieces of white perspex. A backing and a floor for the shot. I blasted the back with a light behind the perspex just a snoot. Then i used a soft box on the front to soften the bottle evenly. I love the bottle shot also!

Mac me over

This shot took me quite a while believe it or not to finalise into an add. It didn't have to have text it just needed to be a cosmetic shot. I changed my original shot of Misha as my cosmetic shot to a photo i took of Andrea. I love the makeup done by Emily Walsh. The eyes are amazing. I love the crop and though adding a little text and a cosmetic logo 'MAC' would make the image complete. I love it.

Sin City

After a very busy week of photo shoots, reports and presentations on Wednesday i did my sin city shoot. It was a stressful day i'm not going to lie none the less my shoot came out quite differently than i expected but positively it came out quite nice. The shoot consisted of set building, drama and dramatic lighting. Modelling for me was the beautiful Maddie Doyle and to enhance that beauty the make up was done by Demi Gourdouvelis.

The lighting consisted of three flash packs. A beauty dish on the side of the model, a honeycomb to enhance the clothing a bit and a honeycomb on the back wall to create a key light. Cutters were used to stop the beauty dish lighting from bleeding into the background causing too much brightness.

All in all it was a great experience, was fun and very experimental. Things are coming along nicely.

Fashion Editorial Cont...

this is another picture i been working on, i didn't like the other shoot i did with this coat, nor did i like the photo's i took. I think i got a bit lazy, none the less this was probably the only photo that i was struck by, it actually came up quite nice, i wanted a close up and wish i had taken some more, but i'm quite happy with the result of this one.

Fashion Editorial

This is my first editorial fashion shoot i have done for both myself and assessment. It had to be taken either at college or on location indoors. This was taken at Alex's house using our smoke machine to add texture to the background. The elegant black dress is by Erin Boubli and the larger frilly black garment is by Brad Mclennan; make up by Melissa Lek and modelled by the gorgeous Andrea Santoso. This is my first of two fashion shoots i have to complete. My other shoot is scheduled for the next 2 weeks and will be shot at college and is a movement fashion shoot.

This shot was made using two lights. One to light up the smoke with a cardboard cut out of teardrop shapes to add light and shade and texture and the other light with a honeycomb and barndoors to light up the left side of Andrea.

I shot using a telephoto lens to flatten the image instead of adding perspective. It makes the shot look a lot more elegant and less flattering for the model. All in all i think this was a great shoot!

I Dior You

This photo was taken for my beauty assignment. This assignment is broken into two specific parts. One of which is a product shot of a perfume bottle followed by a matching picture of a model to go with the product (i have yet to complete this part of the assessment) and the third shot is a beauty shot of a model advertising a potential cosmetic. In this case Christian Dior.

The Model was Michaela Skovranova; make up done by Melissa Lek and photographed by me :)

I think this shot worked well, i think its elegant, it has an 80's feel with a 40's look. It works quite well and i feel i have done a good job executing this part of the assignment.

Volupte'

So today i had to my perfume product shot for assessment. I wasn't too up for it nor prepared for it but none the less i thogught id do a mock up and if it turns out well i will use it for assessment, if not then i'll reshoot another bottle with a different feeling and mood. This is volupte' by Oscar de la renta. It is an old woman's perfume, Old money very old. haha so the feeling was a bit old, afternoon maybe evening light. The shot was done using a white perspex base and background wall and 3 lights. The first light placed above the bottle giving a top light with a beauty dish. No flash only used the modelling light for it. The other 2 lights were placed next to each other both with honey combs, one of them with barndoors to cut out the light on the back wall to make it a bit darker. They both were shining through 2 glass bricks covered in orange gels to create warmth and mood. Pools of white, dark and orange light spilt through the bottle. Also behind the bottle is a piece of flat aluminium foil to reflect some light back into the bottle of perfume to add dimension. It was shot using a tripod. the only thing stak suggested was the foil trick but other than that the rest of the shoot was completely created with my own mucking around techniques which i'm pretty proud about.

Dead Meat

This is the final meat shot that i had to reproduce in the studio at college. The teacher did not like the back light but preferred the morning light to come in from the side as if it were gleaming in from a window. I used a honeycomb and barndoors to cut off the light and shined the light through a patterned cut out to place pools of light over the still life piece. I added a lot more herbs to fill it in a lot more, and twisted the ribs to add more dimension. I also used a gold reflector to reflect gold light back onto the meat to add a bit more warmth. I like this shot i still think the test shoot was lovely, i still like the shot a bit desaturated. Stak (my teacher) suggested i don't desaturate it as meat should be vibrant and red as it is. But i like the look of the shot desaturated as it turns a shot from becoming a food shot to a classical still life which is what i'm required to do for this shoot, but i shall show you the shot the teacher prefers and the shot i prefer.



This shot Stak prefers



This is the shot i like

Mocking it Up

So today i decided to do a mock up for my still life assessment after class today. I went and bought everything that i needed to do the shoot and went straight home to start it. I don't think Stak will like this shot at all, he wasn't too keen on my idea, it sucks because Greg would absolutely love my idea and probably help me in ways Stak can't. Anyways, this shot is based on a painting by Jacopo de Barbari titled "Partridge and Iron gloves" in 1504. I think i did a fairly good job, i wanted the background behind the fence pailings to establish morning light pouring through the wood and keep the lighting on the inside fairly dark showing available natural light coming in from perhaps another window inside the house. All in all i think i did fairly well in the end, only about 5-10 minutes of photoshop time just to vignette the edges, desaturate the colours slightly, add a curves and some grain.

Olympus OM10

Hi guys, haven't blogged in a bit, i just started college today which was kinda exciting but at the same time exhausting. I think too much words, sounds and theory does my head in. It's nice to know that looking at things doesn't make me tired, which is in a way the reason why i love photography. I simply love to look.

Anyways back on topic, so a while back i bought an olympus OM10 at Vintage Delight on King st in Newtown and it was awesome purchasing a nice durable film camera at a cheap price. This is my second film processed but foto reisel fucked up my first roll by mixing up my film with another Adrian. So this is truly my first roll i have physically been able to see. Some blurred images, some out of focus, some overexposed and some beautifully captured. No particular subject matter, just what caught my eye. none of the image are photoshopped, just cropped in to remove the film border so the colour that the photo is in is how it processed.

enjoy!

A Formal Affair

This photo was done quickly before Rebecca's formal, im not allowed to post any photo's of her in her dress but im only posting this one cause i love it. Lovely and simple and fresh. The dress is amazing! it is a Nicola Finetti and just looks gorgeous on Rebecca.

Fashion Shoot

Here are some more pictures from the fashion shoot that i edited, i wanna re-edit some more on the one page so i have a few nice long landscape pictures to place in my portfolio. Some of these were for the model as she needed some shots with 2 similar pieces of jewelry for college.




and one of Alex

Fashion Look Book

This is a shoot done at college for Erin boubli whom is a graduate fashion designer of 2009 at raffles. She asked if i could do a look book of her collection as part of her assessment. This is my first fashion look book shoot and i am very pleased with the results of the shoot. The lighting is dark made with 2 lights. A beauty dish on top slightly of centre and a honeycomb on the background but out of frame so only the tones of the light come through.

The make up was done by Melissa Lek whom did a very beautiful job. It made my job as a photographer a lot easier as little to no retouching was done on photoshop, only to enhance the overall contrast of the photo.

Andrea Santoso modelled for the shoot.