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before we left for out shoot, naomi and i spent five minutes in leah's backyard and took some simple portraits in the clothes naomi was already wearing, with warm sunlight peeking over the metal fence. i will be blogging our final photos from the day soon!
model: naomi
makeup: rebecca
stylist: leah
by the way, all these photos (except the black and white one) were edited with
from
! x
rose & ellie.
abbey love working her magic.
all the lovely clothes we were shooting.
the model and makeup artist swapped shoes for the day.
these are a few behind the scenes images i took on the day of our pastel bones shoot with oh deer boutique. you can see the final photos
.
we started this day taking photos in fields of grass in the shade of big gum trees. as we were walking across the road in the heat, we stumbled across this abandoned house. at first we only saw the metal-skeleton clothing line lonelily standing and swaying in the breeze. as we went to knock on the front door to ask the owners if we could take a few photos in their yard, we found ripped fly screens on the windows and a vacated white house.
and so we spent the rest of the day resting on flower bushes with bees happily humming around our ankles, treading through the squelching grass (the front yard had been flooded and all our shoes were destroyed by the end of the day), sitting by the lavender flowers and getting tangled in tree branches.
model: ellie
makeup: www.abbeylove.com.au
clothing: oh deer boutique
i also created a little film from our adventures on the day, this is probably one of my favourites. drowned in sunlight and the exact way i like to spend my afternoons:
miserable weather.
standing in the middle of the train tracks. left.
right.
the car through the trees that would soon be lighting our photos.
coralie getting her makeup done in the dark. lit by phone lights.
the team filing up helium balloons.
jess & coralie.
the amazing wonders in the antique store we shot at.
jess working her magic.
penney in the reflections.
the view from above.
jess taking polaroids of everything.
a shelf of harry potter wands.
goodbye lovely antique store.
little car, big trees.
look number ii.
every hour that day it woud start to pour down rain. it's a miracle we had any sunshine to shoot with at all!
"it's cooooolddd!"
penney won't let me take any photos of her.
the long, muddy road home.
wandering around the acres of grass and trees.
this time we brought candles for the dark, we lit the night on fire.
the last look of the day just before it got dark.
blogging has become sort of an online diary where i post all the adventures i get up to. now it seems like such a normal thing to do, but it will be wonderful when i'm old and wrinkly to look back on all these careless things that we did when we were younger such as running around in an abandoned castle at night while it's raining, screaming and laughing at the bugs and gross mud we walked through just so we could stand in the long, wet grass with a handful of slowly deflating balloons.
i couldn't appreciate more being a photographer at times like these. being outside in the cold air that scratches the back of my throat when i breathe, holding a camera tightly between my palms and taking photos of the light and movement, drenching half my clothes in ocean water for a single photo, running in muddy forests barefoot, breathing in the rain. it hits me almost every day that this has become my life, and i couldn't be happier that i'm living it. slowly making my dreams come true.
and here are the final photos from our two day shoot for age of intimacy. we shot in a lovely antique store that had things hanging from every possible spot in the ceiling. old 60s music softly played in the background as we shot amongst the rocking chairs and walked along the creaking floorboards.
the final video:
a big thank you goes out to the team making all this possible:
chase studios
for creating the lovely music for all three videos you will soon see! if you want lovely music like this for your videos, have a peek at their
.
the team at age of intimacy:
designer & creative director:
productions & locations:
model: coralie bradbery @ chadwicks
photography, video and editing: julia trotti
hair stylist:
makeup artist:
many thanks to:
eurama estate &
town and country antiques
for letting us shoot this campaign in their beautiful locations.
behind the scenes will be blogged tomorrow! x
model:
james
stylist:
jodie
today we spent the day exploring the corners and sidestreets of surry hills. my camera came along with us as we were invited to shoot inside quaint cafe's by a jolly coffee-maker, climbed barred windows and skated around the sydney streets decorated with dead rats on the sidewalk. we walked into a random corner store to get sour apple slurpees and took some photos while we were there beside the shelving with lollies as the manager of the store just stared at us, slightly amused.
towards the end of the day of running around and walking upside-down, we decided to finish up by having another small adventure, so we ventured to the rooftop of a tall building. it was windy and cold but the view was breathtaking. i've always had such a fascination with being so high up and seeing how little the world is in all it's vastness.
on day two, we drove back through the bumpy road (car sliding and girls screaming and chatting in between) to get to the abandoned castle, we shot in the wet fields of grass and muddy puddles until sundown.
and of course, a big thank you goes out to the team making all this possible:
chase studios
for creating the lovely music for all three videos you will soon see! if you want lovely music like this for your videos, have a peek at their
.
the team at age of intimacy:
designer & creative director:
productions & locations:
model: coralie bradbery @ chadwicks
photography, video and editing: julia trotti
hair stylist:
makeup artist:
many thanks to:
eurama estate &
town and country antiques
for letting us shoot this campaign in their beautiful locations.
part iii will be blogged tomorrow! x
last month, i shot age of intimacy's my deadly sins campaign for their newest collection. it was one of the craziest campaigns i've ever been a part of, split up into two days of mishaps and lovely moments where everything seems to somehow fall into place and fit together perfectly.
day one was a half day shoot. we planned to meet up in the beautiful wilderness of the blue moutains during the day, but pouring down rain and a broken car later, we get there just before dusk. the sun settled down as hair and makeup was finished and by the time we started shooting in this amazing abandoned castle, it was dark. we fired up the car's highbeams to shoot through the night. it was the middle of winter in sydney and poor coralie was freezing but was an absolute trooper and fought through the cold.
we had polaroid cameras to shoot behind the scenes with, and dozens of balloons to play around with. we filmed and shot while the rain came down, but we didn't stop until all the outfits had a lovely photo to go along with it. the drive back home was bumpy and muddy, but i got home and collapsed into bed. my few days beforehand of colour-starved eyes were finally full of lovely photos and moving-pictures to inspire me for day two of shooting.
none of this dream-like creativity would have been possible without our amazing team!
first of all a big thank you goes to chase studios for creating the lovely music for all three videos you will soon see! if you want lovely music like this for your videos, have a peek at their
.
the team at age of intimacy:
designer & creative director:
productions & locations:
model: coralie bradbery @ chadwicks
photography, video and editing: julia trotti
hair stylist:
makeup artist:
many thanks to:
eurama estate &
town and country antiques
for letting us shoot this campaign in their beautiful locations.
part ii will be blogged tomorrow! x
something i get asked a lot about is how to shoot in direct sunlight without a reflector or an extra light source. so i thought i'd put together a quick blog post with some image examples to give you ideas on how to position your model against the sun to achieve a certain look to your photos. i've noted the times in which the photos were taken, most of them range between 12pm - 6pm. between 12 and 2 is usually when australia has the harshest light of the day.
hopefully this blog post will inspire the thought that you
can
take beautiful photos in the middle of a sunny day, with nothing but natural light and your camera, and give you some ideas to try it too!
back-lit.
shot at: 12.30pm
back-lit images are when the light source is behind your subject. by doing this, your photos will look dreamy and soft, this is one of my favourite ways of shooting! for a golden halo around your model, try diffusing the light behind some trees, a building or a cliff.
shot at: 3pm
shot at: 1.30pm
direct sunlight
shot at: 4.30pm
when shooting in direct sunlight, position yourself to have your back to the sun, and the sun shining directly to the model's face. this lighting creates a more dramatic look to your photos. the shadows are deeper, the colours are more vibrant and the background is more prominent.
shooting with direct sunlight at the beginning of the day produces more striking images, with more contrast as you can see from the two photos shot at 1 and 2 pm. the later in the day you shoot, the softer the light becomes as you can see in the photos taken at 4.30 and 6pm.
shot at: 1pm
shot at: 6pm
shot at: 2pm
in the shadows
shot at: 12pm
another option when shooting in the middle of a sunny day, is to shoot in the shadows of a building, fence or tree. the shadows will give your image a nice dark balance, with light still bouncing back onto your model's face from the bright day.
shot at: 1.30pm
side light
shot at: 12pm
one last way i work with bright sunlight, is to use it as a side light. this gives you a little bit of both worlds; back-lit and direct light shooting! the images are halfway in between soft and dreamy as well as harsh and deep.
shot at: 11.40am
shot at: 5.30pm
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I'm excited because I've started sharing more fashion shoot behind the scenes videos + Lightroom & Photoshop Tutorials on my YouTube Channel! Be sure to subscribe as I upload 2 new videos every week x
model: erica east
makeup: antonia mcgrane
hair: ribbons & crown
stylist: leah thompson @ sevven styling and creative direction
sunglasses: oh deer boutique
a couple of weeks ago i had the lovely opportunity to share my photography knowledge to colour-hungry photography students at my local high school in the form of a workshop. i asked rachel, a pretty girl who i went to school with, to model for me for the day. we walked down to the park in the late morning with the students, and in between taking pictures i showed them how i work with light, gave them tips on instructing the models and people they are photographing and everything in between. here are some of the photos i took:
the main aim i had for the day is to show them all how simple it can be to take portraits of someone. you don't need fancy lighting or to hike to a tropical location. we shot these photos in a park in front of the high school, the park that they would walk past every day to and from going to school.
i loved every minute of being able to share everything i know and answering all the questions that were asked throughout the day. so much, that i wanted to offer one on one lessons to anyone interested in learning from me and living in sydney. you could be a high school student wanting to learn more, someone who photographs for fun or someone who just wants to pick my brain for a day!
please email me on juliatrotti@gmail.com if you're interested.
not too long ago, the amazing black milk clothing (who i may or may not be in love with) sent me a box of their clothing so i can shoot with. my lovely little team and i spent a day walking around the streets of annandale take photos on the road, in the front yards of quaint houses, random alleys and outside the annandale hotel.
model: madeline rae mason
makeup artist: megan vaughan
stylist: jessie mcnaught
clothing:
