A Glimpse - Songs of the Siren

Model: Eve Beauregard
Suit by: Neil Pitts
Assistant: Reese Truscott
Production: Anita Holloway, Chris Rattray, David Quinn
Venue: The Royal Oak

This is just a sample of a very constructed shoot for the upcoming book Songs of the Siren featuring Eve Beauregard. 

While the above photo isn't what I call truly representative of the final product. It is glimpse of the siren part of the final image.

The shoot was the first time having a team around me with the specific goal of creating one very styled image. It features three characters, a bar and hopefully a feeling of things are just not quite right. You will need to wait until the book is out to see the final image.

Now For Something A Little Different

Model: Erin McCutcheon

Sometimes you just want to try something a little off centre. So we used a spray bottle to wet Erin's hair, face and arms with a mixture of water and glycerine. It's a common mixture you will see on sets wanting to make people look sweaty without doing any work. In this instance we drowned Erin in it to make it more like she had stepped out of a shower. Mix it with hair whips and we end up with something a little different for the folio.

Nina

Quite a while ago I did a shoot for Nanna's Coffee + Vintage. The images are to be used as part of advertising and branding with a fun twist. While that is still ongoing, I ask if I could share a image of first time model Nina that I love. This shot doesn't fit the brief of the project, but it's way to good to not be shown the light of day.

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• Model: Nina Bok
• Hair & Makeup: Allie Hill

ERIN

After an amazing weekend learning from one of Australia's top fashion photographer Peter Coulson, I was feeling inspired to try out some of the things I had learnt.

Erin and I have been talking about doing a shoot for ages, but schedules never seemed to met up till now. It was advantageous that it was after a weekend with Peter.

So we just tried different things out. Varied up the clothes and the lighting. Nothing more than a fun learning experience for both of us. The post-processing was a continuation of trying new things out. Normally I would stick to one style for the set, but as we varied up the shoot quite a bit, I have opted to also vary up the end results as well.

Big thank you to Kel Barrett who came in and did make up. 

Vintage Shoot

We spent yesterday photographing vintage clothes with coffee, cake, milkshakes and even pumpkins for Nanna's Coffee & Vintage.

The photos will be used as an fun advertising campaign which will be, like vintage, something old being reused as something new. It's also going to be a bit silly. 

We had a great time with the models Nina, Janelle, Jessica and Erin. As always Allie Hill did an awesome job with make-up.

The adverts will start appearing in the near future, I'll make sure that this blog and Facebook get updated as they are released.

Nina looking amazing, (taken using Instagram).