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Shoot for artist Deborah Kelly

Last year I was asked by artist Deborah Kelly to shoot 20 nudes as part of her work for the 19th Biennale of Sydney, currently on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

We spend 2 days shooting in my studio in Sydney and travelled to Melbourne for an additional day.

20 incredible people with incredible stories!

Go and have a look.

Good Times!

Took these shots waiting outside the sound stage we were shooting on with Albert Watson.

Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, February 2005. 

That's Tasja.

Good Times!

Good luck!

Saint Lucia

I took these shots years ago on Saint Lucia. 

After an early morning start we were on break, waiting for the afternoon light

when I started hanging out with a gang of boys on the beach.

I was definitely cramping their style.

NEW CUE

24546 images

I recently checked the metadata of some of my images to see

how many times I had pressed the button. This was at the end of June, actually 

June 26th - I was at 188208 images. OK, not bad.

My plan was to do a little post here when I hit 200K.

I checked again - a month later - July 26th.

Only to find out that I missed it by a couple of thousand.

Snap! 212754!

Than means that I took 24546 images in a month!

I have to say my Nikon equipment has never let me down.

Fingers crossed the shutter on this one stays in one piece a little while longer...

Storyboards!

We Are Handsome - The Discovery

A big Pool. 

A clean big pool thanks to Neall picking the leaves out.

Margo @ Chic

I'd have to count, but I am pretty sure I am coming up to 20 shoots with Margo...

New Pages Digital Editorial - Is this England?

http://www.pagesdigital.com/photoshoot-is-this-england/

Sarah at London Management, Make-up Artist Nicola Burford and Stylist Mel Byrne.

SELFRIDGES Summer Beauty

My shot of Caitlin Lomax with Make up Artist Rachel Montgomery.

Behind the scenes...

...of the We are Handsome 'Enchanted' campaign.

CUE EYEWEAR now online...

My Eyewear story shot for CUE is now online:

http://www.cue.cc/shop/ShopTheLook

500 Mirror Bokeh

Here's what the bokeh looks like that you'll get from the 500mm mirror lens

I mentioned earlier... 

CUE

A story shot recently for CUE with the beautiful Margo.

The 500mm Mirror...

... has finally arrived!

Used it for the first time about 13 years ago. 

I'll put it to the test during the next "We are Handsome" campaign tomorrow.

It's not the most user friendly thing... the mirror design allows it to be very small and light for a 500mm. Great! But that also means that putting in into focus is actual work.

And the F Stop is fixed at 8.

It comes with a set of five 39mm rear mount filters, UV and a B/W set.

Very sexy.

ok, GO!

Veronika Maine

"Create The Look" Story shot for Veronika Maine now online...

We Are Handsome Campaign

New 'We Are Handsome' campaign featured in 'Catalogue'.

Out now.

First Day

Today was the new intern's Jasmine first day - entrusted with the lens case...

Avril Alexander, Vivien's

A few shots taken in 5 minutes before working on a beauty story with MuA Rachel Montgomery.

These were also shot on my Leitax converted Leica lenses. One of my best investments!

L' O R E A L - MEGA VOLUME COLLAGENE MASCARA out now!

L' O R E A L

Nice one! 

Thanks to Make-up Artist Felicia Yong at Network & Model Nadia M. at Chadwicks

TUESDAY, 10 APRIL 2012

Today. 

Out Now: Just Be Magazine - Fragrance Opener

Here's a beauty shot in the current issue of Just Be magazine. This was shot at the end of a natural beauty shoot, which will also be coming out soon...  Thanks to MUA Felicia Yong @ Network & Byron Turnbull on Hair @ Reload and of course thanks to Sarah Lorimer @ Chadwicks. More soon!

Girls from Perth...

Straight off the plane from Perth - 3 days in Sydney.

Thanks for today! Make up & Hair Rachel Montgomery and assistant Raquel Bester.

Pages Digital #92 out now

Shot this on my 1969 Leitax converted Leica Elmarit-R I 1:2.8 90mm lens. An all manual lens of course, it dictates a much slower pace - especially getting it into focus wide open. If you have Leica lenses head over to the wiki section of this page http://www.l-camera-forum.com/ . Although they are hard to handle if you are used to auto focus, it's even tougher after the conversion - you are shooting in constant stopped-down mode. Meaning at f11 in the studio it's pretty dark in your viewfinder...  frame, open up, focus, stop down, shoot... all handheld. I feel like a monkey in the zoo trying to keep its mind active - though nobody actually cares about how cool it really is... 42 year old lens? Come on, pretty cool!

Vancouver Art Gallery...

Here's one of my beauty shots of Canadian artist Skeena Reece used on a banner by the Vancouver Art Gallery. I always love seeing my images when they are blown up huge, wish I could go and check it out.
Here's the original:

behind the scenes

Just found this pic from a shoot I worked on with Henry Leutwyler years ago. Not long ago a I saw a bunch of assistants in an equipment room standing around the pieces that make up one of these 8x10 Sinar cameras. They had no clue how to put it together, let alone use it. I bet they would be wondering why the picture is flipped if they could set it up. Moving on I guess.