Back at the start of the year I did a photo-shoot for an Australia Clothing label called Donnie Bishop. Starting with the simple concept of wanting to bring an edgier style to the standard menswear market in Australia, owners Jason Sandhar and Viggaenesh Kanniah have spearheaded this lifestyle brand to encompass a hip hop style while working with underground and up-and-coming artists, models, musicians and sports persons like Brisbane Roar’s striker Reinaldo. The A-league Brisbane based star is the new ambassador for Donnie Bishop’s Clothing.
I was approached by Donnie Bishop’s Co-Owner Jason Sandhar to come up with a theme for a shoot with Reinaldo. With Donnie Bishop Clothing being such a casual/dressy urban style, and Reinaldo being such a skillful professional footballer, I wanted to bring the two elements together with a Street Football feel. Brisbane has some great alleyways in the city, and these provided us a great environment for the theme. Anna and I inspected the alleyways the week before the shoot to formulate some ideas. Its amazing what you can learn about your city if you just go for a walk with your camera and get lost in the back streets.
Well its been a little quite here on the blog the last few weeks as we are on holidays in the UK and Europe. We are 2 weeks into the trip and so far have been to the UK and Turkey for ANZAC Day at Gallipoli.
The Icelandic Volcano did its best to upset our trip but with some last minute changes we still managed to make it to Istanbul all be it 2 days late. We just had to tag onto our tour and miss seeing some great parts of Istanbul.
It was decided we needed a shot of our tour group and well since I have decided to drag my tripod around for the 6 weeks of travel it looked like a fine time to put it to good use.
So to all the guys we traveled with here it is. I’ll upload more of my Anzac tour photos once I get home and process them. It was a very moving experience to do the dawn service in Gallipoli.
Well this is just a quick post to keep you updated and there will be plenty more to come as we head off to Greece, Italia, France and then back to the UK in the next month.
Easter has arrived once again and I have seen some great shots over on flickr marking the occasion. I have been trying to think of the perfect Easter themed strobist shot when I noticed the Easter Raffle being held at my work. It was a massive basket full of chocolate. I had an idea for a shot but I had to win the basket first. So I bought my 3 tickets and on the day of the draw told everyone to come along to morning tea and see me win. I was rather cocky about it all. Sure enough the winning ticket was mine. I double fisted the sky like an F1 driver who had just won the championship. Just goes to show that as long as you believe in something enough you can make it happen.
My Self Sportraits on white backgrounds have really generated some interest in the first 60 days of my 365 Photo Journey,. A few people have asked how I do them. So for day 63 I setup my very dodgy Fujifilm D5000 and recorded my setup and then did a quick post processing tutorial. Sorry for the lack of video and sound quality. Its my first go at something this in-depth.
I’d love to hear your comments and see your result from following the tutorial.
Its been a crazy month of strobist shots for February as part of my 365 Photo Journey. I had set myself the task of primarily shooting off camera flash photos. I covered a fair few areas and also managed to fit in a on location fashion shoot. Blog on that whole thing in the coming weeks. I also managed to crank out a week of Star Wars shots and have a new video tutorial post on how to create a Jedi Lightsaber.
Hope you enjoy the slide-show of images below. Bring on March.
I have been getting lots of comments on my recent Star Wars Strobist Themed week about how I do my lightsabers. So today I want to share with you my technique.
Yesterday was the sites 1st Birthday. Its been a great year and I wanted to share with you a few stat from the year.
Most popular post is my tutorial on Smoke Photography, with 1126 unique visitors.
We have had visitors from every continent except Antarctica. America being the largest visitor.
Over 100 Unique Visitors a week so far.
50% of you guys use Mozilla Firefox. (Mozilla Rulz)
We’ve had 1 visitor from Kenya. Must have been my Qld Athletics post.
The next year will be massive with a trip to Europe and the 365 Photo Journey. The above image was Day 34′s efforts and below is a quick setup shot to explain how it was taken.
Thanks for all the support over the year and I would love to hear any ideas you have for the site and its content.
Yes I was going to post weekly my results of my 365 photo journey, but I have been so busy (and slack) in updating the blog. So this post is in review of month 1. I will try and keep a weekly or at least fortnightly review post.
This shot is one of my person favourites of the month. Its actually my first photo of the year to make Flickr Explore (#71).
Well we are 1 week into my 365 Photo Journey Project. Here is my first of 52 blog posts on the progress on the project.
Click on any of the images for more information on the shots. I hope you enjoy them.
Whilst camping at the Gibraltar Range National Park in NSW, we manager to grab this shot 30 minutes into the new year with some glow sticks. Read the rest of this entry »
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