Location scouting in New Zealand

31/08/2018

Considering how close this incredible place is it was time to revisit the South Island of New Zealand since I hadn’t been back in over 14 years. It’s truly an amazing place that I feel is generally still quite raw. This trip was partially to re-visit some amazing locations and gather some location imagery for future campaigns shoots, and partially just to get lost and have a break. Travelling around the island in a campervan was a breeze. The country is practically designed for this type of exploration with their amazing campgrounds, scenic roads and overall friendliness to this nomadic …

Ring light fun

05/02/2018

The insane popularity of ring lights in the last year is astounding. As photographers we’ve had this type of lighting for decades but it was always expensive and difficult to justify as the look is very specific. With the advent of LED technology these lights have now become a lot more affordable, and give constant light – unlike a flash-ringlight. In fashion their use isn’t that prevalent as it fails to contour the clothing as well as other lighting setups. However, it does give a very cool catch-light once we start coming in closer for beauty photography or accessories – …

December = Beach time!

07/12/2015

So yay for some sunshine, although, the window of a comfortable summer is quite small where the weather will go from freezing cold to someone-opened-the-oven-door. Anyway, we managed to get a pretty cracking day for this beach shoot. Met Chloe on an unrelated shoot and thought she seemed super fun so organised some swimwear and off we went. This girl has some crazy energy – woha! Perfect for shoots I reckon because nothing worse than having a model who is so quiet and uninspiring that you get more poses out of the local beach crabs. Anyway, not the case here. …

‘Mazing Madi

13/11/2015

Whilst searching the house for some hidden chocolate I stumbled across an archive hard drive I had been missing. As one does, hoping to find a small time capsule of whatever, I plugged it in to find some behind-the-scenes photos of a shoot I did with my pal Madi. I shot this model YEARS ago when she was a real youngin’ and to now had the opportunity to fire off some frames with her after she has been on modelling TV shows, traveled the world and grown into a rockin’ model. I always find it is a little disappointing when …

Raggatt Skate Shoot

10/11/2015

It was time to get my “skeg” on and show up to a Melbourne skate park on crisp weekday morning. Shooting the talented Naomi’s latest range with the absolute divine Bela from Giant Management. It was actually heaps of fun even though we had to shoot around skaters, and I’m not talking 16yr olds skipping school. Had a chat to a 30-something guy who was trying to get back on the board after massive back surgery due to a skating accident. He comes down from the office for morning tea and lunch to “grind out” some tricks. Can you tell …

Lookbook Lunacy with Verity

06/11/2015

Had a really fun lookbook shoot today. I know I know, lookbooks? Fun? This one actually was as the designer actually stepped out of that stale, stinky mold of simply shooting straight up down poses of front,side and backs. Unleashing a fab Nat from Vivien’s Models, she embraced the mood board and busted out pose after pose without breaking a sweat. Makeup and hair was tamed by Vic Martin followed by her inspiring cowboy-stance final-looks phone photos of the model. And I thought I pull weird poses when I shoot. Quite unusually this young designer busted out playlists containing soft-core …

Tiahnee Beauty

04/11/2015

Had a fab time shooting with Tiahnee (Pride Models) and Zoe Karlis on hair and makeup. Tiahnee is relatively new to modeling and has entered at a very young age. It’s scary when you hear you’re shooting a model on this side of the Millennium flip-over. I mean, she wasn’t even born when Nirvana was around. Suddenly I feel super old…BUT…that’s ok, because we live vicariously through the youth and beauty of models who are as friendly and easy going as Tiahnee. Little behind-the-scenes shot of Zoe cranking out a look.

Studio Mascots?

04/11/2015

I’m quite interested in knowing what other Photography mascots people have in their studios. To be honest, I’d prefer a puppy. Tried bringing the cats in but they just FREAKED out and hid in the back-most corner shaking. Humans tend to get irritated with my extremely well thought out playlist of popular 80s and 90s hits, which leaves possibly a cactus. But everyone has cacti – I need something that’s less of a prick. Mascot Inspiration…come at me!

New York Fashion Week

20/10/2015

What a fashionably crazy time happens in New York during this annual gathering of the most beautiful. Spent near on two weeks here soaking in the sights, food and fashions of the amazing city. Scarily, I found myself staring through real-estate windows at apartment for sale. The amazing architecture that this place offers is mind-blowing and simply not something we have back home. What we do have we demolish to put up glass towers of bland, livable boxes. Such a shame. Crazily, apartments aren’t out of reach here. Sure, they are expensive, but not totally unobtainable. Although, living in a …

Virtual Photography Storytime

04/10/2015

Ok wow, so I have this “Blog” thing going now (do kids still call them blogs?) and will now have to regularly think up creative content to take you, dear reader, on a fantastical journey. I know right, where do I sign up? At this point I’m not entirely sure what I will cover here. Being a picture-maker I kind of like dealing in…well….pictures. So having to type words is certainly a new turn of events – but apparently this will allow me to answer some questions and also show some of the behind the scenes stuff that happens. And …