Hey folks
If you are lucky enough to be in Sydney or Melbourne this week you should check out this free lighting workshop. I can say from personal experience the Orbis ringflash is a great addition to your photography arsenal, so go check it out!
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I’ve received several questions and comments recently regarding lighting techniques used in my images and rather than repeating myself responding to people individually, I thought id lay some insight out on the table here. By the way guys, please feel free to direct any other questions this way and I will surely try to answer [...]

Had a fun time yesterday shooting a couple of models based here in Melbourne. Thought we would see how a bit of experimenting went down…here goes…Havnt properly processed them yet other than a quick fiddle in Aperture. Big thanks go out to Airdrie for providing styling, and Lysha for her hair & make up skills.

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Heres a quick and easy “beauty style” lighting technique which was used for the shot above. There are only 2 lights used for this look. Beauty dish above and directly in front of the model, aimed down at 45 degrees. Then place either a large softbox or an octo (used here) directly behind the model, [...]

Here are some images from a shoot I did with Dagmara a couple weeks ago. We had worked together a couple of times before and when I learnt that she was heavily pregnant I jumped at a chance to shoot her. The wonderful Vanessa tagged along and took care of the hair and make up. More after the jump.

Scott Kelby just posted an interesting article comparing studio strobes with speedlites here .
Anyone that knows how I shoot knows I rate the speedlites (heck, ive even been in situations with top of the line Profoto gear to hand, and still I take out my wee SB26s!).

I’ve finally got around to testing the Orbis ring flash I got a few weeks ago. It’s essentially an adapter that fits onto your speedlight and evenly lights a subject in an almost 3D shadowless light. Used to be pretty big in the 90’s, especially with fashion togs. They are currently making a bit of [...]