Yeah, I know I’m always posting pictures of ballet dancers. That’s because I love shooting with dancers, just don’t get enough opportunities out here in the never never.
Anyway there is a slight age difference between our two models today, both are regulars here at excitations barn style studio and both know how to use the studio space to their advantage. Will go with youngest first, Clancy, who, after the addition of another sibling, is now the big girl in her family.
Clancy gets ready to hit the stage at excitations studio.
Slightly more dramatic shot of Mikayla in excitations photo studio. Instead of using soft lights, we went with a number of small spot lights, a couple of them rimlighting Mikayla's form and another lighting her face. Also poped a couple of blue gels into the mix, just to add a bit of moodiness to the final image. I love working with hard lights, unfortunately unless your model has great complexion you stand the risk of emphasising even the tinyest skin flaw with this style iof lighting.
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People expect all shorts of different things from a photographer. I recently heard a lady complain that her photographer turned up and took photos of her family and all he brought with him was a camera…. nothing else. While her friend had another photographer who turned up with a car load of photographic equipment. She felt ripped off.
Truth is it doesn’t really matter how much equipment the photographer brings to a job, providing of course he has all the gear necessary to get the pictures required. And some times you need a whole bunch of equipment to do what looks like a simple job. I’m just as happy shooting with just one camera and one lens, with nothing else because that allows me to concentrate 100% on my subject. It all comes down to the photographers ability to see the picture. communicate with his or her subject and capture that special moment. Sometimes of course you can’t take a picture without all that extra gear hanging around. But at days end, the final result comes down to just one thing…. the photographers ability to SEE.
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Excitations studio will be closed the week commencing Friday 6th August through to 14th August.
We’ll be away from the studio doing stuff, learning stuff, trying out new stuff, playing with new toys and stuff and generally stuffing around.
We’ll be doing all this stuff, so that when we get back to the studio we will have a whole lot of new stuff we can do. So that when you pay us to do stuff, we will not only have all the old tricks in our bag of tricks but a lot of new stuff.
Star Gate 38, the result of doing stuff... Now we know what not to do on the next portrait shoot!!!
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Yesterday Ian and Robyn came and did a shoot out on location and as always created magnificent shots. It was the day of my Debutante ball and the highlight of my day was standing in front of the camera looking and feeling like a bit of a bride. It was a hectic day with lots of appointments and sitting in chairs while people were helping me get ready for my special night.
First appointment of the day was hair. All us girls lined up to get our hair styled and looking beautiful, I walked out with my hair in curls with a clip on top and was very happy with the end result. Next was makeup, this was the last appointment before our photos and I was ready to go. I decided to go a bit out there with my makeup and go with a striking smoky eye with a bit of pink in it as well to soften it up. When I put on my dress the nerves were starting to hit, i could see mum tearing up a bit as she looked at me in my princess styled gown.
We met Ian and Robyn at Chateau Mildura and we were ready to shoot. Being familiar with how Ian and Robyn work at excitations, this made it easy to pose and work quickly as we didn’t have much time left. We started off with some individual shots before my partner Jack came and we had the most amazing scenery to work with. Worn down brick walls and wine barrels were a great backdrop for photos and the overcast light outside was perfect for shooting in the type of location we were in. We done lots of different combinations, making sure we had every group shot possible in front of all the beautiful walls. Jack and I even had a practise of one of our dances while Ian stood by and captured it on his camera. Over an hour went past in what felt like minutes and it was time to make our way to the Club Da Vinci. All the girls there looked beautiful and it was so much fun celebrating the night with friends and family. No stuff ups were made during the dances which was a relief and my dress made it back home in one piece. I had a great night and i would just like to thank Ian and Robyn so much for creating great photos i absolutely love them.
a close up of Maddy in front of an old stripped wooden door
a portrait of Maddy and her family in front of the entrance of a old wine cellar
a beautiful shot of Maddy and her deb dress in front of an old wall in an underground wine cellar
a great portrait of Maddy and Jack ready for their deb ball
a fantastic angled shot of Maddy and Jack getting ready to dance at their debutante ball with a nice view of the old building behind
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Dale has launched his new web site, so if you’ve been thinking about burning off a few pounds/kilo’s, you’ve now got no excuses, all you have to do is click the link to Dale’s site in our side bar, under Web Sites, and the rest is up to you so to speak.
This shot of Dale from a series we shot in the excitations studio with him last year.
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Promised that I’d post another shot of Andrew Clegg. Last time it was a pretty straight portrait of Andrew with a mug of tea at sunset. This time we’ve got Andrew on the dry edge of Lake Eyre, juggling fire no less. Not exactly the shot we went out to do but when mother nature decides she doesn’t want to play, then you just have to make do.
I’d been hoping for one of those red hot outback sunsets that had happened for three consequences nights, but, no it didn’t happen. Anyway, Andrew was a real trooper and the show went on.
Andrew Clegg, juggles fire on the dry shoreline of Lake Eyre.
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So its cold, I’m snowed under with work… all the kinda stuff I’d rather not be doing. Yes even photographers pile up jobs that they really don’t want to do.
Which puts me in the mood for something light and beautiful and Mikayla fits the bill nicely. Shot this image a while back but I wasn’t allowed to show you, well that’s a bit strong. Mikayla asked me to hold them until she had a look. Now I’m allowed to post a couple, so be warned, you may get a couple of these over the next weeks as I grapple with the winter blues.
We were playing around in the studio. Maybe I should say Mikayla was playing around, I was just taking pictures, when she came up with this pose. Nice one Mikayla. We knocked a bit of the colour saturation out of this image and added some brown tone to it.
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We’re in the process of changing our online proofing galleries. Most if not all current galleries have been changed over to the new system which can be accessed through clients on the menu bar of excitations main site. the link called proofing will disappear shortly. If your gallery has for some reason stopped working or is no longer visible please let us know. We’re confident that we’ve got it all sorted but stuff happens.
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Still wading through all the work that has piled up around the place while we were away shooting hot air balloons flying over Lake Eyre. Here is a link to the first gallery of stock pictures of the balloon flight over Lake Eyre.
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