Hanging options

2.4 meters wide - 2 meters tall

These are the acrylics i have ordered

20x30" bolted acrylics and 15x50" bolted acrylics

The text was a group decision used from a previous year

I also plan to have my business cards displayed

Skate Spots

Im doing some research to find some good street skate spots around canberra for a few upcoming shoots

Requirements for spots

- Long angles for the 70 - 200mm

- no security

-UC down rail

- Northbourne ledges

- Weston ledges (maybe)

- Mt anslie

- Belco Flat Rail

- AIS rail

- Lyons Flat Rail

- lyhnem mini bank spot

Shooting the footwear

This is mostly for me to remember exactly where the lights are for the next footwear shots.

This is the hotshots studio

I have decided that i should take off 2 of my proposed strobe sequences out of my final folio. I have a few reasons for this decision and I believe it is for the best.

- My main athletes have dropped out on me for the final 2 photoshoots, although I can get more athletes from the sports i have already photographed which is not the final look i wanted in my folio.

- The athletes I am able to photograph are not as skilled as others and the images may end up unusable purely because style and skill is a main part of this series.

- I already have 3 acrylic prints of the other sequences printing in Melbourne and the turn around is too long to get new ones back before the exhibition.

- Quality over quantity! I now have a series of three strobe sequences I should focus on creating quality images for the rest of my folio.

ps. My crazy unicycle athlete doesn’t own a unicycle anymore =[=[=[

I will continue to try find athlete that will produce the final product i am looking for and hopefully i can get two more shots done in time for printing.

Footwear designs

This is the start of my designs, I want to show the footwear of each individual sports. I want to have one action shot of them wearing the footwear and then one of the worn out product shot.

The action shots will all be shot with my 70-200mm lens to have the same look in each shot and I will light all of them using my speedlights.

All the footwear shots will be done at my work studio (hotshots) shot from the top of a ladder looking down using the 24-70mm lens to all have the exact same lighting and distortions.

Video 2

This is my 2nd video - its a walkthrough on how I light my action sports images.

Night Parkour

Brendan Jones - Kong to Roll

I have flipped this shot horizontally because of the way people read (left to right). This makes the photo a bit more pleasant to look at, I have also taken out some distracting elements in the background.

Blair Wilson - Flag

I really like the simplicity of this shot, by taking everything else out the photo then becomes a bit more abstract and much more appealing to look at.

I wont be using this shot purely because the trick is not refined enough and is a bit sloppy.

Parkour- Blair and Brendan

This was the first time I meet brendan jones, he is an amazing free runner who has been an amazing passion for the sport and supports in it in every way possible.

It was really hard to keep up with these guys as they would just run around everywhere it was really hard to set up a shot in 1 spot without them running off and finding something new to pay around on.

In the end i shot alot of sequences that I am still yet to put together but these two shots were the best ones of the day.

Brendan Jones - wall to powerbox to front flip to roll

I used 2 lights on the right at a lower power to get the fast flash duration and one as a back light. These lights with the afternoon light was perfect and gave a great mood to the image.

Blair Wilson - Kong

The sun was really harsh and strong for this shot which made it really hard to get enough power out the flash to match the exposure of the sunlight. I only used to fully zoomed in twin flashes on the left to get a bit of a rim light on Blair.

Shane Onus Shoot

I am currently shooting a article for be-mag on Shane Onus and here are the first two shots that are going to be submitted

We found this artwork in the middle of the city, as soon as i saw it i knew i needed to shoot this shoot. I ended up putting a speedlight in the TV to simulate the tv being acully on and lighting the group.

I am really happy with the water shot, I had to remove a little bit of distracting bits in the image. It was quite hard re creating the gradient but i got there in the end.

Raw Edit

Parkour Strobe

This one was also extremely hard to put together, I used the same stratgie as the rollerblading sequence in editing

I used the same floor i used for the rollerblading shot

I then cut out the boxes and cloned in a larger gap with the shadows to fit whole body shots in the sequence.

I then cut out the model individually to keep the pure black background.

I then put a slihgt vignette over the floor

This again was extremely hard to put together due the studio room when had to work with.

This is around 3 different sequences put together to make one big shot due to the room we had.

1 run up shot, 1 trick shot and 1 landing shot

Rollerblading Strobe

This sequences was extremely hard to put together as i needed more space when shooting which made the editing extremely hard.

I have taken small parts out of all the floor shots and merged them into one long floor.

I then cut out the rail to use as the main rail

I then individually cut out each sequences shot to maintain the pure black background.

I then took parts of legs and skates and cloned them over the parts where the rail was ontop of the skater

I then finished by adding a slight vignette over the floor

It took around 6 hours of straight editing with no breaks

This is around 3 different sequences put together to make one big shot due to the room we had.

1 run up shot, 1 trick shot and 1 landing shot

Strobe Sequences

My Strobe sequences seem to be coming along nicely, I have just finished another 2 strobes sequnces and matched and sized all 3 at 14in by 50.4 in this is the size of the acrylics i will be printing on.

playing with designs

Im not using this i just figured i would post it

Velvet Couch Clothing

Velvet Couch Clothing

Model - Steven Bickerton

I shot this with the intention of doing composites, I shot it mid grey to make it slight easier to put a darker composite background in.

I lit this the same way as peter coulson, 1 single soft light pushing the model back and forth to create the background i wanted. No need to complicate the lighting with this shoot.

In Male fashion there is fine line between whether you should cut off the head off or leave the head on.

I have tried to leave the head in and not identify the model by tring to hide his face.

VC photoshoot planning

I never go into a photoshoot with a detailed plan in my head on how i am will light style and pose a studio photoshoot.

Velvet Couch Clothing - Fashion - Commercial Advertising

Model - Steven Bickerton

Time - Limit 1 hour - Saturday - CIT studio

I will be shooting on the cyc really far back using only 1 light. This will be me a dark grey background which i will later overlay textures. I will use a boom to get my light at the right height with a reflector dish on the light. I will shoot it into a diffuser which i will be able to control the level of harshness by moving it closer and further away from the diffuser. This will give me harsh dark shadows and a nice solid dark grey background.

My inspiration for this shoot is from a hurley ad