Welcome Ebony

I have been really quiet on the blog for the last month because of the arrival of Ebony.

Ebony was born May 21st and has been eating every minute of our attention and we have been loving it.

On top of learning to work with an infant, Supanova June tour (Sydney/Perth) has just finished. Basically it's been really hectic, but fear not, lots of work is happening and more blog entries will start flowing as of this week.

Break Past A Barrier... Doing a Nude Shoot

This article is actually a link to another page because it features Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content (the title should give that away).

Read about photographing my first nude model and my mental struggle to actually get the confidence to do the shoot in the first place.

I am really proud of the work that came out of the shoot.

Feel free to comment on this post about the article, but please be polite. Any disrespectful comments will be deleted.

Read the article here (NSFW).

Editing Derby - Behind the Scenes

Music by Audrey Vixen
See finished album at on Facebook

So to show people how I edit a bout photo shoot and also give a rough indication of the time to do it, I time-lapsed my post-production workflow. It isn't something I would normally do, but thought it might be educational for others + it was interesting to review myself afterwards.

My Process Overview

Import all the images into a single folder called 0. Original
Select all images and reject them
Go to first image in the set and review. If it's a keeper, then unflag it, else move on. Repeat till the end of the set.
Once culling is complete, I create a new folder called 1. Rejected
Select all remaining images that are rejected and move them into the Rejected folder I just created.
Select 0. Original folder and start editing on the first image.
eep editing each image and rejecting them if they are as good as I thought they where. Before moving on, if not rejecting the image then give it a rating. Usually 1 star as passable but up to 5 if I think it's really rad.
Once finished, move the newly rejected photos
Upload to my online gallery and social media

I use presets to speed my editing up and a lot of copy & pasting of setting from one image to the next.

Lucy & the Lyra - Part 2

The next image from Lucy & the Lyra series!

This one features a 1950s burlesque costume from NYC!

Model: Lucy Sky Diamond
Assistant: Reese Truscott
Location: Circ's'cool

Jessica

On Friday Jessica came in to do some portraits. The idea was to capture soft, sensual and black & white.

For the photography people out there, I used a combination of natural window light and 47'' Octabox.

Model: Jessica O'Brien
Makeup & Hair: Allie Hill

This is just a sample of what we captured. I am really looking forward to sharing more in the future.