Break during a photo booth

Last night I ran a photo booth at a wedding for a lovely couple through my friend Shantanu. He met them through his current project The Pixel Trade. There were a couple of minor hiccups but overall it went well and everyone had a lot of fun with the photo …

Minolta CLE & Minolta TC-1

The Minolta CLE is the M mount rangefinder that Minolta developed for Leica (Minolta CL) and then forged on themselves with the CLE. It’s a compact 30 year camera which had advanced features such as Aperture priority mode and built-in lightmeter. I got another roll of Fuji Pro400H back from …

Rosie

I did a portfolio shoot a little while ago with Rosie. It was a bridal studio shoot that Serah had organised. Serah’s makeup as always is exemplary and Rosie was a fantastic model especially since the was her first time modelling. Model: Rosie Hair/Makeup: Sarah Thong Makeup Artist

Kodak TRI-X – Matt & Bec’s Wedding

A couple of weeks ago Ricky and I were fortunate to photograph Matt & Bec’s wedding. It was a beautiful day down the coast at Coolangatta. The weather was fantastic especially with the rain the week leading up to the wedding. During the shoot with the bridal party I took …

Black & White film, before there was colour.

I got some more film back yesterday from the lab (Film Frenzy). These were two rolls of black and white film (Kentmere and Kodak T-Max) shot on the Leica M3. With the Kentmere film I shot mainly with the Voigtlander 40mm f/1.4 while the T-Max was shot with the Leica …

Subaru BRZ

A friend of mine brought around a BRZ that he had for the weekend and knew that I would be pretty keen on checking it out. The Subaru BRZ is the rear wheel drive coupe that was jointly developed with Toyota who are selling theirs as the GT86, paying homage …

Rollei 35 with Fuji Pro 400H

The first roll of film I took with this camera I was utterly disappointed. The scan resolution was low, there were marks across the scan which given the age of the camera gave the impression that it was due for a service after years sitting in the closet. Not deterred, …

‘Brenizer’ method portraits

Before the birth of Alex, I started experimenting more with the ‘Brenizer’ method for taking a photograph. The ‘Brenizer’ method is widely attributed to Ryan Brenizer. What you are essentially doing is creating a panorama of a portrait shot at a very shallow depth of field. In this case I’ve …

24 hrs into a life changing experience

It is now around 24 hours since our lives changed forever so this is how it went… We went to the hospital around 11am and got checked in after a bit of a wait. The good news was that Lee was doing well, very calm, relaxed and was already 8cm …

Black & White film

I had some black and white film that I shot with the Leica M3 a while back but only just recently developed. It was a roll of Delta 400 and Kodak TMAX 100. These were shot using Sunny 16 rule and before I started taking my lightmeter with me. They came …