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.