A very windy and bleak day down the coast was my background for Cadel Evans. The athlete who had produced Australia’s best ever result in the Tour de France and is currently leading after 13 stages of the 2008 race. He was shot for an article on Australia’s “A list” people.
My poor work experience assistant Zoe, froze her butt off jumping between holding Cadel’s bike, holding the softbox and watching out for cars.
Cadel Evans
Dr Bill Griggs is as passionate about teaching the unique skills of his craft as he is about using them. Bill is a world- renowned authority on trauma medicine and aeromedical retrieval and is one of Australia’s leading intensive care anaesthetics, and medical retrieval specialists. Bill has been deployed on numerous occasions as both a Royal Australian Air Force reservist and a civilian to disaster zones and hostile environments. As a doctor, a rescuer and a human being, Bill gives people compassion, hope and empathy in even the most tragic of circumstances. I flew to Adelaide and shot Bill at the Urban Search and Rescue Training Facility for the Weekend Australian Magazine article. It was an honor to meet him.
setup photos by Rachel Wells, makeup artist(and photographer)
Here is the original brief for the mood of the shot.
I had flown to Tassie to shoot the Tasmanian Premier and had a few hours to spare after before my flight home. After a leisurely drive up Mt Wellington to experience and arctic blast and snow, I headed to the airport and while enjoying driveway service in Cambridge I noticed a medieval knight walking across the road. I drove over and had a chat and discovered a whole world of medieval enthusiasts.
UK comedian Lenny Henry was in Melbourne for a gig on TV and a Queensland Magazine commissioned me for an article supporting his show. I shot him on a Sunday, he was with me for all of 10 minutes in my setup in the closed bar of the hotel.
I used my trusty SB800 flashes and transformed the hotel’s bar to in to my temporary studio.
This is my custom made bracket that can mount up to 3 speedlights to shoot through softboxes. This is especially useful when using Nikon’s high speed flash syncing outside.
David Honl, a US photojournalist, has developed light modifiers for speedlights including grids, cutters and velcro straps. Click here for his website.
Lisa was available between Christmas and New Years Eve and wanted to show a different side to the girl next door she often portrays. “Chaos” was asked for by the client so we organized to shoot in the studio for half the session and amidst summer nighttime crowd at Luna Park. A fun Chaotic shoot.
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