A Life Contained

I photographed this gentleman while on an outing with the Leica Society, a camera club based in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. While I’ve attended many camera clubs as a judge or guest speaker, the Leica Society is the only club where I was registered as an active member. Unfortunately, a full work schedule stopped [...]

Marion

This image was made during a course I was running on Portrait photography. The shoot was held at an artist’s retreat in Melbourne, Australia.
I have a particular love for and, therefore, affinity with existing light photography. We were working in a darkened room with very low levels of light. I looked around and noticed a [...]

Emma on Location_Central Victoria

Here’s a fun image of Emma, a participant at a workshop I recently ran in and around the town of Chewton in Central Victoria. The pink gumboots and color-coordinated clothing really said it all. My job was simply to place further emphasis on these elements.
I employed Adobe Lightroom to localize the color to Emma’s boots [...]

Anyone for Tantric?

This image was made on Sunday, September 20th during a portrait workshop I was running at an artist retreat in outer Melbourne, Australia. The original image was made by one of the participants, Joanne Moloney.
As you can see I’ve had a bit too much fun turning Joanne’s pic, with its original black background, into this [...]

Studio Portrait

This portrait was made in the studio. The original 35mm color transparency (slide) was rendered into black and white through a Black and White Adjustment Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I also utilized a Curves Adjustment Layer in CS4 to apply a subtle cool bluish tone to the shadows and a lovely warm apricot tone [...]

Portrait under Verandah Light

Here’s a lovely portrait made under gentle verandah light on the steps of the Victorian Parliament in Melbourne, Australia. I utilized a Canon 50mm f1.2 L series lens to portray the subject under the verandah of this classic Greco-Roman styled frontage. Adobe Lightroom 2 was employed for basic image processing and rendering into black-and-white. The [...]

Soft Light and a Kind Subject

Here’s an image from a recent workshop with a great bunch of enthusiasts. The image was made on a day with relatively flat, uninspiring weather.
I photographed Dorota, one of the participants, with a Canon 50mm f1.2 lens. It’s a well-built lens that handles easily. The exceptionally shallow Depth of Field achieved at f1.2 enables the [...]

Mark as Aragon

 
I’m a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings, both the books (author J. R. R. Tolkien) and the films (directed by Peter Jackson). This statue reminds me of some of the (albeit larger) statues in those monumental films. All I needed was Aragon (who I always preferred in his Strider guise) to bring [...]

Singer, Backstage

 

This image was part of a series I shot as stills photographer for an Australian singer’s video. The image was shot at Melbourne’s historic Athenaeum Theatre, a beautifully atmospheric building in the centre of town. This particular shot tells the story of our heroin’s discovery that her lover is in fact a two timing cad. [...]

The Eyes – Windows to the Soul

 
Even at a distance, occupying a small part of a larger scene, a face is like a beacon for the viewer’s attention. The face is a natural focus of interest, especially when directed towards the camera. And, while body language and gesture are important elements in story telling, it is to the face, particularly the eyes wherewe look in [...]