age of intimacy test shoot

yesterday i met up with the girls of age of intimacy for a model casting for their next campaign i will be shooting. they have an amazing studio (which they just moved into three weeks ago but look like they've been living there for years!). inspiration and drawings are hung up on the walls, flowers and animal masks dangling everywhere - one of them a lion mask, just like the ragdoll kitty prowling around on the ground. they have rickety bookshelves filled with empty jars and issues upon issues of oyster magazine.

the girl in the photos is the first model we met with, her name is coraline. we shot some standard tests against a white wall with window light, then took some photos in the extra rooms around the studio-factory. i asked her to lay on the rug, looking at the sky.

grass and sand

model: teigan

wearing: suzi rose

makeup: lidija j

just a few outtakes from my winter campaign shoot for the amazing suzi rose, i finally have an afternoon to myself so i thought i'd go back and edit some older photos :)

down by the river

 model: alexandrea sophie

road tripping again to nowhere and back

my sister holding my old pentax camera

strangers just outside the cave entrance

space

today, a random wednesday, the day after the long weekend when everyone is supposed to go back to work, we drove to the wombeyan caves where there is no reception and nothing but grass and roads as far as you can see. we left early morning, i was (and still am) sick and dreary, my head nothing but a daze of clouds.

the road after the highway to the caves was a little rickety one - nothing but rocks and the edge of the mountain. we couldn't see around bends and every car driving past made it feel like we going to be pushed down into the trees and nothingness below.

this week has been one of those weeks when i wake up and just want to take pictures of everything. i miss it so much, taking photos for the fun of it - just to document life so i never forget. today has been a breath of fresh air (even though i am finding it hard to breathe with this cold i seem to have woken up with), i think i needed to get far away from the world, life, city, everything.. im feeling so inspired right now. exhausted and inspired.

desert rose campaign

designer: suzi rose @ www.suzirose.com

models: teigan, kellie & lillian

makeup artist: lidija j

a couple of weeks ago i got to shoot for the very talented australian designer suzi rose. we shot her amazing new collection under burning sun & at the very tiring but oh so beautiful cronulla sand dunes.

this morning

model: caitlin

makeup aritst: lidija

*sneak peek from this morning*

night owl

this is the beautiful jess blain again with her crazy colourful tights & night owl eyes. we shot this on the rooftop parking somewhere in the city.

model: jessica b

makeup artist: jesika t

toy boats toy boats toy boats

my camera's self timer remote finally arrived two days ago and i can take self portraits again. this was a quick one in my front yard, and a toy boat (try saying that ten time in a row). lots more pictures to come soon, hopefully some manipulations more so than anything! i miss making crazy things with photoshop. in this photo all i did was add the clouds and get rid of some powerlines.

suzi rose backstage fashion show

and this is the lovely suzi rose with sam

last week i was documenting the happenings backstage at designer suzi rose's "audi FACE" fashion show. here are just some of the snaps.

check out her work: www.suzirose.com

strings attached to you

models: michelle & rosie (just above)

clothing designer: mackenzie mode

headpiece designer: jessica beattie

hair/makeup: leana

last week i had a shoot for the wonderful mackenzie mode. i was so ecstatic to get to photograph for them because i think they're clothes and designs are completely amazing - they're just so quirky and fun. a team of eight of us met up friday morning at centennial park, and over the span of eight hours we managed to shoot both lookbook & editorial styled pictures of more than 50 outfits on three models. this blog post is just a tiny sneak peek on what's to come!

check out her website: http://www.mackenziemode.com.au/

she ships these beautiful dresses all over the world!

cutting rocks & soft curves

model: the lovely andrea

sitting on cliffedge, somedays we're all made of dreams in the sand.

forest nymph

i am working at the moment on another short film, starring my lovely and beautiful friend from work, katie. here is only a *tiny* sneak peek on what's to come. i can't wait to start putting this short film together! its going to be amazing.

two in the afternoon

model: lexi

mua: judith joan

just playing around.

biting her lovers arm

couple in a bookshop in newtown yesterday afternoon.

my holidays are almost over and i have lots of things i need to do. i wrote a massive to-do list in my journal this morning and have slowly been crossing things off as the day goes on. if anyone knows me just a little bit, you would know that i am a massive failed attempt at cooking. well today dan helped me cook french toast over the phone (i really am a little bit pathetic when it comes to an over or stove) and managed to make myself some lunch! im was getting a little sick of just eating noodles all the time, so i thought it was time to step out of my comfort zone and try something different.

i did that a couple of weeks ago as well when i made chicken stir fry which was so so yummy. i think i need to cook more, because as i've proved a small amount of times, i can actually do it!

anyway, i think that's enough of my procrastinating for now. for the rest of today, i'll be retouching some promo band photos, some more wedding photos for a client, and hopefully i will have a wedding blog post up soon, i have some live photos to edit and post up to a bunch of places and a film to start working on! im working on a blog post on how shooting a wedding works, because its something that i'd like to share with you all. is there anything that you guys would be particularly interested in me writing about?

spinning on rooftops

model: caitlin

sneak peek on a short film im working on.

head in the clouds

model: penney

mua: maria

humming birds

im listening to the almost famous & the boat that rocked soundtracks and they are amazing.

date with the night

models: alexi le trash & joji watanbe

makeup artist: judith joan

check out the editoral i did for thirst for vision magazine: http://issuu.com/thirstforvision/docs/issue_4

they gave me the theme "wild" and this is what i created!

thistles & thorns

 model: tahlia

graffiti and noise

model: lexi

this is from a shoot we had a while ago. i feel like playing around with textures and things lately, and i 

really like how this turned out. here are the steps i took:

so i grabbed the original image, and i wanted it to be a square crop but there wasn't enough wall around 

for the composition i wanted. so i went ahead and stretched the wall, paintings bits in and using the 

healing brush and stamp tool like crazy.

then i edited the colours using my curves actions. i made it look really washed out in colours, but punchy

in the tones. to get the final picture, i layered a few long shutter photos i took while dan was driving 

around. because of the red/purple hue to those night shots and the layer style i had them on, they really 

enhanced the colours of the image awesomly! overall i adjusted the curves a little more - darkened just 

the blacks and made the whole image lighter to match the graffiti lights.

was thinking of making a series out of this? but if i do, i want to make them all quite different looking to

each other. the same thing again and again just like this would probably be boring..

anyway - prepare for a few more blog posts tonight! im home doing nothing.

x