Andy’s Blog

Yesterday, I got together with some local like-minded photographers made up of hobbyists and professionals combined, for the 2nd Newcastle Strobist Meet. The last one was over a year ago, so it was nice to catch up and get together with these guys and shoot some photos.

I have to thank Geoff for organising it and Brett for the use of his personal studio for this event.

Here are some of my favourite images from the day. The models were and make up artists were great and really contributed to the look of many of these, and top effort by them. It was a hot sweltering afternoon in the heat (no aircon in the studio), though you wouldn’t be able tell from the photos.

Graeme (below) is an avid sports and wedding photographer himself, but decided he would do some modelling for us today. This shot below was lit a rim light on either side and behind him (speedlights). The glancing light works great to emphasise muscle tone in men.

We have Rachel below (makeup by Bombshell Make Up & Beauty), who worked great with Graeme nicely. We used a floor fan close to them to give it the wind-swept hair look. Rim lighting was used on each of these and all were key lit with a powered monobloc with a large softbox.

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This evening, I headed out to Belmont Bay to photograph the sunset. There were some nice looking clouds in the sky, nothing spectacular but enough to bring a little life into the photos. Here are some of my favourites from the evening. Click on the photo to see a larger size version.

All of these except for the last were shot with my favourite filter, the ND400! The last panoramic image is a stitched image made up of 6 vertical hand held frames.