Country Brides and Vintage Aircraft

This past weekend was another very busy one, but also a very fun one. I had two very different shoots. The Saturday morning shoot was a bridal shoot with Emma and her beautiful horse up at Glen Oak. This was a very exciting shoot, as i have wanted to do a horse shoot for some time now. Many laughs were had as the horse got more and more bored with the whole situation. More laughs were had when the other horses in the paddock realised what was going on and decided to wander in to the shots to try and work out if the bouquet was food and what this veil thing was. We were lucky to have a lovely sunny day rather than the forcasted rain, but this also caused problems with the light coming through the tress as it caused dappling on Emma's skin. This was probably the biggest difficulty of this shoot and required a fair amount of fill flash from my speed light to try and fix it up. After the shoot i went through and culled the photos and was very happy with what we came up with! what a great shoot!

The next day i had a productive morning of editting wedding photos before cleaning my gear again and heading off to another shoot. This shoot was for the lovely couple Joellen and Michael. I will be photographing their wedding in 6 weeks time and as part of their package, they opted for an engagement shoot. Both Michael and Joellen have a passion for the 40s-50s era, so it was only fitting that we would do a themed photoshoot for them. For this shoot we had the use of a vintage Boeing Stearman aircraft. The couple dressed for the era perfectly and fun was had by everyone involved with the shoot. The Stearman was so squeaky clean that we were able to get some great reflections on it. and the floor reflected the light beautifully too. the ceiling of the hangar was lined with a metallic insulation, so it was great for bouncing the flash off. Very much looking forward to editting some more of these photos.

Just want to say a big thankyou to Ben Merkenhoff, Michael Worthington and Ryan for their help with this shoot and for the use of the aircraft and the hangar. For more information, visit Vintage Aviation at http://www.vintageaviation.com.au/.

Stay posted for more sneak peaks!

Red Lips and Beach Balls

This weekend was a very busy one. On Saturday morning we had a meeting with a new client to discuss her wedding. I was very excited to show off my new canvas print and sample album. After we finished there, we cleaned our gear and headed down to Redhead beach to do a swimwear photoshoot with the Pinup Kittens. The shoot was a group shoot with 5 girls and some wonderful swimwear provided by Miss Fancy Pants. Unfortunately however, the weather did not want to play in our favour. We were hoping for a bright sunny day to add a sense of fun and happiness to the summer themed shoot. But instead, the weather presented us with some less than ideal rain clouds and some pretty intense wind.

After attempting some of the original shots we had planned up on top of the rocks using a yellow diffuser on my flash to try and get a bit of warmth into the chilly day, we decided to move to more sheltered areas as the wind was not cooperating with the girls hair. We had to do the majority of the rest of the shoot in a little tucked away part in the rocks. Not exactly the background i wanted for the shots, but was the only way we were protected from the wind and the sand.

For the grand finale of the shoot, the girls ran throught the water, splashing around. This was very quickly stopped though as the waves brought more and more blue bottles onto the sand. After this, we called it a day. I havent had a chance to look through them yet, but as soon as i do, i will get some posted up here.

Last night was a very productive one, all my photos from the ALACs spot landing competition are now fully editted! I'm also halfway through editting the photos from Dannielle and Kaine's wedding, which is very very exciting! So much more to be done. Looking forward to getting into some more editting today!