Pastel portraits, the past revisited. Our young model in this image is Leila, who you may remember appeared on this blog a couple weeks back. This series of portraits was created in the studio. Leila had just finished tossing her hair all over the place for a photo series. She rested for a moment, and [...]
When all said and done. Photographers are painters. Except we use light. No light equals no photos in our world. How we shape and mould light has a great bearing on the way our photography looks. Today’s brief post was to be about how and why we choose to use different equipment to do different [...]
Print quality, or how good your print looks. Print quality can be divided into to loose categories. Firstly how good the finished photograph looks when it’s hanging on your wall. Secondly, how durable is the print. How long will it last. We’ll deal briefly with how good it looks first. This naturally has a lot [...]
Engagement photos on location, always a lot of fun and sometimes a challenge As time came closer to photographing Sarah and Natale. We became more nervous. Looking at the local weather radar every few minutes wasn’t helping. Out to the West, headed right towards us, a large band of rain. Would the rain hold [...]
Autumn look, mid Winter Earlier this week I posted a sample outdoor portrait photography image from a shoot with the Howard family. There were supposed to be two photographs with that post, I forgot. Photographed just a few metres from from the last image, the shot below features a popular garden location. However, this is [...]
Having that studio surrounded by outdoor photo settings that constantly change is wonderful.
You wouldn’t think it with all the fog around this morning but autumn is our absolute favorite time of the year for photographing outdoor portraits. Fabulous weather, short of calm, peaceful and a little reflective makes for a great time to have both family and individual portraits created.Autumn shoots and another couple near completion.
Picture below from a shoot we did with a great guy and musician named William. Photographed on location at 555 Music, in Burwood Rd., Hawthorn. Amazing location and a great place to shoot with Nikons new f1.4 24mm see in the dark lens. Mr Nikon sure knows how to make a fast wide angle lens, [...]
Photographers from all genre’s, habitually make a habit of pushing the envelope. Finding new ways to create interesting images or tell stories. There’s always new angles, new equipment, new techniques and now days new software to get us excited and allow us to produce photographs that where unto now, difficult or impossible. For wedding portrait [...]
Here’s another shot of William, cigarette man from below, who is a musician. Surrounded by guitars and all sorts of other music stuff. Shot in the vast display area of 555 Music, fabulous location, great people for allowing us to shoot in and around their premises for a while on a wet and windy Melbourne [...]