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Sweet Exposure

Photography is not only about capturing the moments during the golden hours. Life happens 247 and we can just not afford to freeze life and wait until the sun sets or before it rises to take that ‘perfect’ exposure.

Knowing how to interpret ambient light will free you from the worry of quality of light.

This is a repost from my other resource site that I thought may be useful for my regular photographer visitors of this blog.

The technique of exposure under the sun carries a cute name of sweet sixteen.

When shooting under the sun, a good starting point is to put your aperture at f/16 and at a given ISO setting, your shutter speed would be at the inverse of that value.

For example, if your ISO is 100, your shutter speed would be 1/100 second.

A more in detail post about this technique, and illustrations, can be found here

Outdoor Flash Photography

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Catching Up

Way too long since I last post here and bot because I’ve been lazy but because I’ve been all over the place… OK and a tiny bit lazy too.

I’ve been between shoots, wedding, projects, edits and all sort of thing photography related (very exciting projects that I am very excited to share with you).

Aside from setting up a few community websites and instructional website, yes I am now providing 1-on-1 flash photography workshop for other photographers, and I can tell you that I didn’t see winter gone by..

You may also have noticed that during the winter, wedding off season, I got more and more into editorial and fashion photography, which I enjoy more and more shooting.

Here are some recent projects and some from older shoots that I recently edited.

I found that coming back to a shoot later in time allows me to have a different perspective on the shoot and edit them with another feel.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Catch up soon for more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nomad Models

Winter is settling in in Canberra and the Wedding season is almost over.

I then turned to my second passion for photography: Fashion.

From an event and wedding “profile”, I do prefer shooting outdoor, event for fashion photography and here in Canberra, we do have some amazing locations to shoot.

For these various shoots, I mainly use Profoto lighting gears and alternated Hasselblad H4D40 with Canon gears (5D2, 1D4) and Nikon gears (D3s, D3x).

I also used a couple of C.Buff products including Alien Bees B1600s and Einstein with VBII and Mini Lithium battery packs.

 

Check out more of these models on www.nomadmodels.com.au

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TAG – Cont.

Following the first post for TAG, here comes the BTS (Behind the scene) video before the shoot.

I used a Nikon D3s, with continuous timing capture of 1fps. The lens is the Nikon 14-24 AFS – G. The camera was set on medium JPEG with an ISO of 3200. Images have been cropped in the video. I use iMovie to make this basic video.

Thanks again to all the models, the two make up artists Claire Warmenhoven and Elicia Ringuet  and the hair stylist Bianca Pezzella (www.biancanerohairboutique.com)

Special thanks to Lyndell Roberts for assisting me for this shoot.

Check out the HD mode in full screen below.

Nina – Make Up by Elicia Ringuet. Image straight out of camera, lit with a Profoto Acute2.

 

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TAG

The last project for my 2010 Season before heading off for some holidays with my Family.

For this project, I wanted something a bit different and with new faces, people that I didn’t have an opportunity to work with …. well most of them as for this shoot I called back Sam (from my M for Mola shoot) and Katie whom I shot for a bridal magazine back to the end of November.

So what is TAG about ?

TAG stands for …

T for Ted’s Canberra. Special thanks to Greg, store manager Canberra, for lending me a Nikon D3x for this shoot, as I wanted to compare the pixels to my Canon 5D Mark II.

A for Alliance Francaise. Special thanks to Philippe, director of the Alliance Francaise in Canberra (www.afcanberra.com.au), for letting my use the premises for this shoot.

G for …. Guess where I got my inspiration looking at their behind the scene shoot for their 2010 campaigns. Of course we don’t have the same budget with the same team but I think we managed to pull out something decend.

On the side, I am also a huge fan of TAG (Heuer) watches as I have a few of them myself, so this project is a little bit more personal than my previous ones.

While we are in the confidence, I approached GUESS in the Civic and asked for some outfit for this shoot…

The brand being global and their commercial shoots are planned way a head and it is not to be shot in Canberra … (not yet) so we ended up using some of the models gears.

Mega thanks to all the talents involved:

Models: Carlie Potter, Natalie Edwards, Chloe Henderson, Nina, Samantha Lawson Fletcher, Katie van den Bos and Michale Kucharski (Canberra’s Bachelor of The Year 2010 finalist)

MUA: Claire Warmenhoven & Elicia Ringuet

Hair: Bianca Pezzella (www.biancaerohairboutique.com)

Assistant: Lyndell Roberts

Camera gears: Canon 5D Mark II & 7D – Nikon D3s & D3x

Lighting gears: Profoto Acute2 2400, acute2 heads with Giant Reflector & Mola beauty dish (Setti silver).

Video behind the scene and more coming soon.