Time to have some fun.......

Portrait shot's that have done to have a bit of fun. Working with lights and models was fun, this is not my strong point. So I make a point of putting myself in this situation and try to make the photos work. So here are a few shot that I have done.

UN Shoots

This are some of my shoot that are for the UN. The landscapes where shoot on a wheat/canola farm west of Young. The other shoot where at the CSIRO Black mountain. This is where they are cross pollinating wild wheat with agricultural wheat develop a stronger spices.

Eggs who would have thought

This is the first food shoot that i have decided to as a composite photo. It will be three images that make up this images. The back ground the eggs and the reflection. The idea of this shoot was to have the reflection of the egg changed around to reflect a different image. This was to do with who do we really see in the mirror is it what we wont to see or what we are told to see. i haven't change the reflection yet but this is the shoot.

Banana shoot

The idea of this shoot was to have the banana in the spot light like a singer or some one performing on stage. But when you peel the banana and stand it up it looks like will you know a big penis. So plans change and i think i something good out of this.

This was inspired by Tegan Payne. In the first year of this course we had to do presentation methods. Tegan had a photo that was printed on silk and had alight shining on the back ground that changed colour. She was saying that the colour could control the mood and feeling of the images. SO i photographed the skin of a banana with different back grounds. This is what I come up with.

The lighting set of this shoot was an snot an a boom.

Colour gels over a p70 with a medium grid, this was shoot on the 70-200mm f2.8 lens to help compress the back ground.

Melbourne

Melbourne was a blast the weather was great and there was plenty to see and shoot.

I manage to photography ever thing on my hit list and more. Thanks to Sam for the company om the Sunday. I arrived in Melbourne 8pm on Saturday morning and let the games being. I spent the whole scouting and photographing. Arrived back to the hotel 7pm.

Great day, the weather was perfect and I manage to scout all the building and more. I found three more building that I would love to photograph, bonus. Saturday there was not a cloud in the sky. By the end of Saturday I was praying for some clouds to add mood to the builds and what did i get on Sunday. Yes clouds yeah. All and all Melbourne was a great success I got all the photography that i planed on getting and more. I think that having it all planed out was a great idea, no unexpected surprises only bonus. Here is a taste of Melbourne.

Melbourne

Melbourne Shoot

First thing to do was to scout out building that I wonted to photography.

1. Southern Cross Station
2. Web bridge
3. Federation Square
4. Museum of Melbourne
5. ACCA state theater
6. State Theater

The out line of the shoot

These building will be all shoot with natural light in the early morning or late aftenoon.

But nathan being nathan most of the shoot will done in the middle of the day. Give of that great hard light and throwing heavy shadow. That's what I love..

• I will have to contact the building to see if i can get access to the roof ( Southern Cross Station)
• Things to think about when in Melbourne is that you can have four season on one day there. So i have given my self one day spare if the weather is shit.
• Day will be scouting the building and the light where it will fall at what time of day and also find out the details of the building. point of interest and how to get the best shoot .So also find location to shoot from.

Check list

• Book plane
• Book Accommodation
• Camera/lens
• Battery's/filters
• laptop
• map with marked out building
• tripod
• CF card are free.
• A draft of the shoot i would like to get from the building.

Ideas of the shoot that I will take

• Tilt shifting
• Close detail shoot on the things of interest this will be so abstract shoot.
• From a distance to capture the building in the environment that is in.

All pack and readyto go, here I come Melbourne look out.

Business Card and letter heads.

Well this only took me all the week to do, this was a hard task to get the right feel about the card and the letter head. I will be changing the heading on my wed page, when I have time to this logo.

Brilliant Food Art To Advertise Extremely Sharp Knives…

Brilliant Food Art To Advertise Extremely Sharp Knives…

Meat shoots

This shot was shoot in my studio with two studio lights in the middle of the afternoon around 2.30pm. The idea for this shoot, was to show the best of the meat in its environment and then add my twist to it. this where I played around with different back grounds. And added butchers hooks knife and the pole in to the images. Then with the light I over exposed the day light and had a p70 with a grid, as a back light. then the other light was off to the side at a 45 angle to the meat, and then used the sun as the fill light.

Beetroot shot

Check list

• Camera
• Lighting gear/(2 x P70, 2 x verso packs, 2 x soft boxes on boom, snot, grids medium)
• sand bags
• Book studio
• Beetroot
• Lighting diagram
• Clear the CF Card
• Light meter
• Fishing line
• Hair ties (thanks Tina)

This was a four light set up. With two bron colour power pack (verso).

There was two lights with the p70 reflector with the medium grids to back light the beetroot(f16). There was a large soft box on the back ground (f8- 5.6). The other soft box was over the top of the beetroot, and angle back to the camera to stop the bouncing on to the back(f8). The shot was shoot at ISO 1/125 f8. The I idea of this shoot was to have each beetroot with a different hair cut. There where five beetroot with different hair cut. One beetroot has long hair, one has short hair, one has short hair cut on an angle, one has hair in a pony tale, one has a parted hair.

The back ground was gray to white. I have plains to add spot light in the back ground as a if there are down lights in the back ground, or spots on the back ground.

Problems with shooting. The fishing line that the beetroot was hanging off, would not stop spinning. The leaves on the beetroot where stuck or pinned down with bamboo sticks. So photo shop will be needed to take out the fishing line (maybe I like the lines.) and the sticks.......

Waclaw Wantuch Photography

This is one of one of my all time favourite photographers. He uses light and shadows to control the shape and image that he wont's the viewer to see. these amazingly powerful images are carefully crafted through the use of the lines and curves of the body. The body is sculpts and twisted into theatrical and abstract forms, leaving the the viewer breath taken.

22 Examples of Conceptual Architecture Photography

22 Examples of Conceptual Architecture Photography

photo merging

http://vimeo.com/9066780

Acrhitecture

I'm just getting started and I keep finding these amazing images. where dose it stop?www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/22/50-stunning-examples-of-architecture-photography.html

Architectural Photographer

Tim Griffith

www.timgriffith.com

tim@timgriffith.com

Steve Back

www.steveback.com.au

steve@steveback.com.au

John Golling

www.gollings.com.au

mail@gollingspidgeon.com

Jonathon Miller

www.jmillerphotography.com

jmillerphotography@mac.com

Shannon Mcgrath

www.shannonmcgrath.com

shannon@shannonmcgrath.com

Peter Bennetts

www.peterbennetts.com pb@peterbennetts.com

Andy Lewis

andylewisphotography.squarespace.com

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I have email this email to the following Architecture photographers.

Hi -------------

I’m a student photographer at CIT and one of our assignments is to do some research on the field of photography that we are interested in. My interests are photographing architecture and food.

I have a few questions about working in this industry and I was hoping that you would have the time to answer some of my questions:

· What got you into photography?

· What inspires you?

· Who has been a mentor for you?

· When you are on the job photographing a building, what is your approach?

· How much input does the designer (Architects) have on how you photograph their building and what part of the building to photograph?

· What has been your favourite building to photograph thus far?

· What is the one thing that you are criticised for in you work as a photographer?

· One last question, as a new photographer to this industry, what would you advise to me to help me get into the industry?

Thank you very much for your time, as I know that you must be busy.

I also have some of my images up on my website and I would appreciate some feedback on them, if possible.

Cheers
Nathan Lanham
nlp - nathan lanham photography
www.nathanlanham.com
0402 849 600

Alan Benson

Alan Benson

Alan is a Sydney based food and travel photographer. Living in Sydney, Alan has his own studio and gets to travel the world to photograph the food culture of our world. His photographs are used for publisher and food lifestyle books.

As a third year student at CIT, we got a great opportunity to spend a day with Alan, as he was in Canberra photographing at Poachers Panty in Murrumbateman. The photo shoot was for the branding launch for Poachers Panty, who now are marketing their smoked meat to the IGA Supermarket chain. The food photo shoots where to be used for the recipe cards that will be available in the IGA Supermarkets, located next to the smoked meats. Also on the day, there were some lifestyle shots taken, which will be used on their website. There were raw food products that have been shot for deep etching and these will be used with their design to remarket the brand -Poachers Pantry.

We arrived at Poachers Pantry around 9:30am and Alan was already in full swing with his work. The aim for the day was to get 6 food photographs and some lifestyle shots of talents enjoying the food on a sunny day to give a ‘summer feel’ to the photographs. This was going to be interesting, as it was a very cold winter’s day in Canberra!
Some of the equipment that I notice was brought to the shoot were:

1. Mac book laptop that Alan was shooting tethered to.
2. Nikon D3 with a range of lenses: Tilt shift 85mm, f2.8 /85mm, f1.8/70-200mm and f2.8.
3. The software that Alan was using was Light Room.
4. Black cards to block light. Reflectors and defuses to defuse the sunlight or flashlight.
5. A tripod was used for all the food shots. The tripod had a cable release.
6. Speed light for the Nikon, with a warming gel.
7. Lots of textured wooden doors, props and cutlery.
8. Glass bricks to shoot the flash through (nice effect).

The main food dishes were all photographed by natural light. When speaking to Alan about the light, he said: “there is always the problem with having too much available light. I like to have light that is coming from one direction. That is why I use the black card to flag off the light in order to control the light falling on the food.”

Alan’s method for the day was that he would get ‘mock up’ dishes to test the lighting first. Alan would light the dish perfectly and then build the set, piece by piece. This is where Alan would construct the images by adding more light or removing light and by adding textured boards and props (like napkins and glasses to enhance the photograph). The designing of the shot would also then help the designer who had a concept of where the images were taken and how they are to fit into their marketing plan.

Alan would mostly photograph the food from a high point, angling the camera down to the food. By using a shallow depth of field, you could easily be attracted to the food first in the photograph. Alan spent a good time making sure that the food was in focus and in shape. He would use the tilt shift at times, to help with the focal perspective.

Alan said: “I would always take more photographs of the food, as this is the safety net that I use. We may have the shot in the first frame, but while the food is there, I will take extra fames, making small adjustments to each frame (like camera angles, depth of field and background changes).

It was great to see how relaxed and patient Alan was on the day, even with a few extra nosey students watching. Great results were quickly achieved. Thanks Alan for the day, which was full of useful insight on how a successfully paid job would go.

Research Development.

This is the out line of the paper and it will develop over the coming weeks.

So the break down of the topic will be like this.

1. Intro to the documentary
2. What is the Industry that i will work in.Who are the main Photographers in this field.?
3. Who is your inspiration and technically and conceptually?( Give a critical analysis and example of work. this will be a in depth analysis.
4. How is your work historically contextualised/
5. What has been your work in process, Techniques, mistakes and Set up and and idea and sketches.
6. How Im I going to market my self as a photographer and what plans do i have for the end of year exhibition.
7. What is your market plan.

food shot

Break Down

Check list

• Camera/lens/battery


• Laptop/Leads


• Food pumpkin
  
• Fish tank


• Book studio/ three lights /2xP70 with grids / large soft box on boom/small soft box.


• Bucket


• Towels


• Sketch of lighting diagram


• Tripod
  
• Reflector/black card/white card


• Cardboard box cut out for dropping control
  
• Diffuser
  

This was a three light set up.

The light where run from the Bro pack Grafitt A4

There was a large soft box at the back of the fish tank for a white background. The back ground changed through the shot form black to white and then to a spot light( P70 with medium grid) was shoot through a diffuser to have spot light on the back ground. this gave me three different results

the fish tank was 3/4 filled with water and there was a a small soft box on the right hand side of the tank. the third light was to light up the pumpkin as it hit the water. so it was of to the left of the fish tank back around a 2meters this light had a P70 reflector on in with a medium honey comb grid.

I was photographing on a canon with 70-200 lens at 135mm ISO 200, at f8-1/125. this was being tethered in to light room 3.

Problems

Problem with this shoot was the main one that was getting the pumpkin sharp and in focus. so i built a drop hole that would sit on top of the fish tank and the pumpkin would be dropped in the same place every time.The other problem was that i need to have at the shortest flash duration that I could get this would all so help with the sharpness and of the images. that is why i used the Bron pack Griffit A4 has the short flash duration out of all the pack i had to chose from. Also all three light where plugged in to the one pack that help bring down the flash duration as well. the other thing was that cleaning the glass after every shoot was a pain in the bum.

Over all i would say that im very pleased with the shoot that where produces out of the camera. But with a little work in the post i would have to say that this was a successful photo shoot.

Thanks to my assistant Jess.

Portraits

having some fun with the lights .

Canberra Architecture

This is some more Architecture image that I have taken to add to my portfolio. These where shoot in the afternoon at around 3.30pm on a clouded day. There are two building that are in shoot the first is on wenthworth avenue In Kingston the other is on Marcus Clark street in the city. The Kingston building is a newly built in the pass two to three year old the shoot are detail of the front side of the building they where shoot on Canon

24-70 lens ISO 200, f5.6-1/125

This image was shot from a distant with a long lens and with an over cast weather and the sun was setting in the distant, leaving the glow on the windows of the building and a mid gray sky.

• Canon
• ISO 200
• 200mm
• f16-1sec