Sunday, February 19, 2012

After working my ass off for years, someone noticed…I am now a recognised lighting assistant

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Who says hard work doesn’t pay off, Not me. Since i have been in contact with Full Frame Photographics i have worked my ass off everyday they wanted me Early mornings, nights and weekends. When they call me, i make arrangements and get there, no questions. I work my casual day job, run my photography business and assist with Ashley Roach. Working with an experienced photographer is so valuable to progressing your photography. I’ve been shooting for around 15years but i felt like a rookie when working with these guys. There are a lot of so called photographers out there that shoot photos. Experience equals professionalism and i’m currently gaining mine.

I’ve never worked with a group of people who are so dedicated and professional at producing such high quality images. Now after 6 months, they rebranded their website and added me in as a lighting assisting. YIPPIE!!!!!!! I want this to be my future and i’ll do whatever i can to make it happen so this is my first step. Here are some screen grabs from their new site. It looks AMAZING!!

Go check it out. http://www.fullframe.com.au/

And the team page with me at the end.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Water + Dancers = Awesome!

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On the weekend i had some great dancers help me out with a photoshoot. We all had a great time and produced some awesome images. Here’s just a preview of what we got up to and one final image. I’ll bring you a full write up soon.

Here’s a quick snap i shot while setting up.

The we added water and an extremely talented dancer. BOOM!!!!

Full post coming soon, thanks for reading..

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Want to be an amazing photographer? Start with being a great assistant by Noah Fallis

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Calgary based photographer Noah Fallis has written an amazing article about the road to being a photographer starts with being an assistant. I love this article and all young photographers should read this. I’m currently assisting when i’m not shooting and i totally agree with everything he has written. Here’s a small excerpt but you can check out the link below for the full article..

“I’m often asked by many folks if they can “hang out for free” with me on a shoot. Many have little to no knowledge of pro photographic gear or expectations of an assistants duties. Most of the time I reply by simply stating that I currently have a great group of people I can call on to assist me on jobs, which is totally true. What I don’t say is there are a number of other factors as to why I don’t. Consider the photographers situation:

  • Gear isn’t cheap. If a newbie does something to damage the gear, it can jeopardize the entire shoot and be very expensive to fix and/or reshoot. Accidents do happen but experience makes it less likely.
  • The photographer doesn’t have time to teach on a job. Just about everything requires teaching, even setting up a simple backdrop. Creatives (aka everyone working for free to develop their books), there tends to be time, but not always.
  • It undermines the other photographers who make a good chunk of money selling seminars.
  • Personality risks. Some folks rub some other folks on the crew the wrong way. The mood of the shoot is negatively impacted and the quality of the shot takes a hit. I’ve had people come out for creatives and not lift a finger because they aren’t getting paid, yet they asked me to come along to learn. Needless to say their photo career will likely never happen.

Those are some of the main obstacles you face when asking a pro shooter if you can assist them”…..

Here’s a phone photo i shot just yesterday while i was assisting of our 6 light set-up at Red Brick Studio in Newfarm. Corporate portraits.

Continue reading the whole article here… http://blog.noahfallis.com/post/9924240462/want-to-be-an-amazing-photographer-start-with-being-a

 

 

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Photo Booth Time

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Our house mate Laurie had her 30th Birthday a few weeks ago and it was dress up as a memorable movie character. So as a gift for her i set-up a photo booth with a trigger and timer and a full studio set-up. Everyone went to so much effort, this was the only was to capture it. Here’s some results.

Popeye and the awesome Optimus Prime, I went as Iron man and Krisztina as Alex from Flash Dance

I left it wide open for group shots and i had a huge black back drop up.

Joker, The birthday girl as Marilyn Monroe and we had a minion from Despicable Me.

The booth was great, Everyone loved the images and they circulated all over the facebook with my watermark on them for a bit of promo.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

New Gear

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I recently upgraded to the new Pocket Wizard Radio Triggers in an effort for chase that high speed sync i’ve been chasing for years. The Mini TT1 and Flex TT5. I have been using them for about a week now and i’m not dissapointed. I have been shooting up to as fast as 640th of a sec outside. AWESOME!!..anyway some samples coming soon but for now i thought i’d show a cheap packing solution i used for all my PW’s. I wanted something thin and strong enough to slide into my bag. Every camera accessory is expensive so i often turn to other cheaper ways if i can and this is just a small carry case so here’s my solution, an old CD case with the sleeves cut out..Perfect fit for now till i get more.

 

Here’s the new bracket i bought to stack flashes for some awesome high sync power!!!

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Pro Golfer – Gordon Parker

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A few weeks before Christmas Gordon parker and I hit North Lakes golf course. I only had 2 hours with him that we stretched out an extra half an hour.

We started on the back 9 as the front 9 was being used by the early morning guys. Again i didn’t get a great sky but the sun was breaking through.

The whole story and lots of photos after the jump.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Why Athletes- Nikon D4

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This video was filming to promote the Nikon D4. I’m not a Nikon person but this video is amazing. The quality of production and the amazing shots are awesome. I can relate to it as i have been rollerblading for 15years and this same thing drives me. Photographing athletes drives me just as much these days. Anyway, check out the video..

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Maybe the last shoot for 2011

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We got Paul Williams back out on the bike this morning for a photoshoot. Nice early morning shoot. Here’s 2 photos i hope you’ll enjoy.

 

An action shot and a portrait, just 2 photos of a few hours of shooting. There will be more to come, just keep checking back in 2012. Thanks for reading.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

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I’d like to thank all the readers of my blog over the past year. 2011 has been good year for my photography. I’ve upgraded gear, scored some big jobs to pay for that gear and most importantly my photography has developed and grown in strength. I feel my lighting has improved, my camera work and on the job photography has also improved.

I have freelanced for a large photography company in Brisbane, got to meet some other great talented photographers more advanced than i am in their photography career and also assisted and tried to learn as much as i could on seriously huge campaigns. This is the end of my second year in business as a photographer. I have so much to learn but i’m loving the ride so far.

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year and thanks for reading my blog. To Enjoy this blog post a little more here’s some photos.

I recently was hired to photograph a Lord Mayors Christmas Carol event.

One of the props, looked pretty cool.

Last and main act for the night James Blundell!!

Have to end with some Fireworks!!!

Thanks for reading.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

On the golf course with Pro Golfer- Gordon Parker

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We headed up to North Lakes Golf Course last week for a only  a few hours with Gordon. Here’s 2 shots that i loved from the shoot.

We didn’t get that awesome blue sky i wanted again but the sun was out so i shot this straight into it with 2 lights on Gordon.

I wanted to use the golf cart in a few shots this time and here’s one i was happy with. This was a 3 light set-up.

A lots more photos and full story on this shoot coming soon, thanks for reading..

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Athletes- Jess and Charlie

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I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of catching up with 2 very dedicated athletes Jess and Charlie. I really wanted to achieve nice clean images and really project strength the discipline in the shots.

We shot it at the Nudgee running track early on a Saturday morning. Check the whole post for more images and the explosive final image we finished of Charlie.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Another Fly Racing Advertisement

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Here’s one more from the FLY racing shoot featuring Billy Mackenzie. Turned out sweet!

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Cameron Smith Preview

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So it seems these last couple of weeks i can’t get a clear sky on the days i shoot on. It’s just not happening, what can you do.

Cameron is an upcoming golfer and his local is Wantima golf course on the north side. I didn’t get much time with him and we didn’t get that awesome blue sky i wanted but when you get handed lemons, you make lemonade baby!!!

I was really after some nice clean shots focusing in the Cameron himself. Here’s a bunker shot.

Here’s one of my favourite’s from the shoot. Even though Cameron’s not in it. I couldn’t resist getting a product shot with my new Canon 50mm 1.2.

More to come in the full post soon. Thanks

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Jess and Charlie preview

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These guys are awesome. We had the pleasure of shooting them last weekend. I love shooting really dedicated people that love what they do and spend all of their time achieving a goal that most would never attempt.

Here’s a preview shot of the both of them. More to come soon. Make you want to go outside and exercise? Have a great weekend.

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Monday, November 28, 2011

Looking for Assistance!!

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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know how much gear i carry out to each shoot with me so most of the time i need 1 or even 2 assistance to come along and help carry gear, hold light stands ect. This is your chance to learn.

Here’s an example of one my of my shoots and some gear.

If your ultra keen on learning new things and becoming a photographer one day then please email me your best 5 images, LOW RES!.

Must have own transport and must live in Brisbane. I’m really excited to see your images. As not every assistant is available all the time so i’ll need a few young people to get involved and prove to me they are really keen learn.

Email me at

info@daletravers.com

Thanks

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