Fun at this years Supanova, saw some familiar faces (well, familiar voices, totally didn’t recognise the faces!). Managed to find a good spot for taking pictures, end of an aisle with a nice black backdrop and bit of carpet (maybe it was supposed to be a stall and they cancelled late?), quickly snowballed as people started asking me to take their picture, even had a queue at one point!
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Travelling light: one ol’ Nikon d5100, a Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 lens, a manfrotto tripod and a corded remote shutter release (because, let’s face it, the cordless ones are shite).
I like Vivid, mostly for the chance to get the streaking lights from the ships as they pass the harbour. Not been since 2014 though, maybe I’ll put some of my faves from back then up too, see if I’ve progressed at all = p
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First chance to get to Supanova after having no knowledge of it until after the fact my first year here, out of state with work (and country) on the second and third years it’s now fourth year lucky.
And boy it wasn’t a let down, what a lot of fun, though, I have come to realise something over the weekend. I do endurance sport events, long bike rides (like 160km+ rides), long distance running and olympic distance triathlons and none of them have left me as worn out as a couple of days pounding the convention floor!
Very surreal moment of having an odd urge to look up and see the organiser ‘Quinny’ waving down at me from one of the management pens windows a floor above us (I’ve chatted to Quinny a few times as he introduces “In The House” for Event’s cinemas, part of which involves greeting viewers as they arrive and I’m regularly outside waiting for meetup people myself).
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Good fun night, the girls were amazing and super nice, I’ve still got to finish this album but never seem to find the time (have the crowning, some post show pics and some from the awesome live band they had on between the last two heats to do). Will update once they’re done – was a tricky shoot, the location is amazing to enjoy the show and a drink but terrible for shooting in as it’s so dark!
Done my best to compensate, I’ll let you judge the results!
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Challenging shoot, models moving up and down a catwalk in a dark bar, the speedlight wasn’t an option, it was a necessity, even with my dislike for the harsh light it casts (even bounced and diffused). So there’s not a particular picture in the set that stands out that I’m proud of, usually in every shoot there’s one, one you look at and go, that one, that’s the one I’m most proud of here, these are just, generic.
Added challenge of about fifteen photographers on the night (and their helpers) even though it was supposed to be a group of ten so ended up with a lot of people getting in the back of shots, beating you to the angle you want or simply not paying attention to other togs and getting in the edge of shots, which annoyed me quite a bit, as a bit of consideration for others should be basic, though, the one who pissed me off the most was the one who in his rush to get in the way of about six other peoples shots walked into my gear and didn’t even apologise, I hope to not come across the dickhead in any future shoots (shouldn’t’ve been there in the first place, doesn’t even know how to use the camera – which is not an exaggeration, he’d spent about an hour at the start complaining he couldn’t get a sharp shot, bugging everyone for advice on settings, when it transpired he had the lens set to manual focus, not auto).
Anyway, enough bitching, if I keep up these fashion shoots I’m going to have to add a new category to the site!
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Given how much fun last year’s “Trashion” shoot was I had to get down and shoot at the Summerama Festival when I saw Marina DeBris would be showcasing her unique style of work again.
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BTW the close ups of the models is for the Hair & Makeup artists to use for promotion, if you were thinking it odd there’s a fair few portraits that don’t include much of the outfits = )
