Wedding – Photographer Jonathan Dear – Website www.vibrantphotography.com.au
LOCATION: In the middle of Lake Illawara, about 2 hours South of Sydney, Australia.
CAMERA AND LENS: 5D Mk II + 70-200 f/2.8L IS – I started wide, but the sky wasn’t that interesting, so I found an area I liked and isolated it with a longer lens. Usually my 17-40L lives on my lens for environmental strobing action.
LIGHTING: Elinchrom Ranger Speed RX AS pack firing an Elinchrom A head into a Mola 28″ Setti Silver Beauty Dish with white diffusion sock. Unit was triggered by the Skyport RX triggers, supported by an avenger C-stand. The c-stand was pushed down into the wet sand until the legs disappeared and it didn’t move. The pack was sitting on a tarp we brought to keep it from getting wet. The pack was powered right down to its minimum of 1.5 (approx 17ws)
CREATIVE PROCESS: Another photographer / friend of mine took his rubby-ducky (inflatablemotorboat) out on our local lake and found a nice looking sandbar. We shot there for a while using the models own wardrobe but weren’t really feeling it. The model was kinda awkward and she wasn’t what we expected when we cast for her. It wasn’t until we popped her into the wedding dress nearthe end of the shoot, I started to get into the shoot.
POST PRODUCTION: Not too much, some cleaning up (pelican poo etc), the typical huge amount of dust I get on my images from my dirty sensor and some selective dodging and burning. The lighting really did most of the work for us.
Fashion – Photographer Jay Mawson – Website www.jaymawson.co.uk
LOCATION: Apartement, Leeds, UK
CAMERA AND LENS: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm 1.8
LIGHTING: Natural Light
CREATIVE PROCESS: The shot was for my book; the model is predominantly an art nude model – I wanted to bring some fashion into her portfolio. I also wanted to capture some of Leeds in the images, I feel a strong attachment to my home town!
POST PRODUCTION: Lightroom export – contrast and colour adjustments only
Portrait – Photographer Crash Taylor – Website www.crashtaylor.com
LOCATION: Beautiful old house in Nottingham, England. This location was stunning as most of the rooms had old wallpaper and hand painted walls.
CAMERA AND LENS: Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 70-200 2.8 IS L
LIGHTING: Natural Light coming though a huge bay window camera right and I was shooting into a mirror.
CREATIVE PROCESS: This was an image taken for a personal project I’m working on. It’s a series of portraits over two years with my favourite model and friend Ava. She is awesome and between us we come up with great ideas for shoots. The end result will be a limited edition book entitled Ava which will consist of 40 portraits over the two years.
POST PRODUCTION: Photoshop was used to give it that vintage colour effect which I achieved through some of my actions. I also added a border.