This one above was taken from the lower falls, a bit of a trek furthur down from where most people go. I used a ND8 filter with my 17-40 f/4L lens to get the nice flowing water look.

And heres another image from a sunrise at Boroka Lookout in the Grampians National Park. It is a different take on a similar shot I posted some time ago.

You can see more of my landscape work, including more from my Victoria trip in my landscape gallery www.andygock.com

This was shot using a 5D Mark II, 17-40 f/4 L lens and a ND400 filter attached to give the smooth soft water effect.

We have a special deal running for April, for model portfolios, so if you’re from near the Newcastle area or traveling through, be sure to contact us to book a photo shoot with us.

This shot above we used a single speedlight adapted ringlight against a nice concrete wall texture only, and the image below we used a single light again, just one softbox to the left. I always like to take my lighting equipment with me wherever I go as it gives me a lot more control over the image and thus it gives us a lot more options on what look and style of image we can make on location.

The image above were shot using either a single speedlight into a ezybox softbox and a speedlight adapted ring light was used for fill. The one below we just used natural light.

Each of the these were photographed using a panoramic head, 17-40mm f/4L at 17mm, composed of 7 frames all the way around, each frame bracketed from 3 shots. Thus 21 frames per panoramic image. I used Exposure Fusion (enfuse) to blend the bracketed exposure together.

For all of these, I used my well used 17-40mm f/4L lens and a ND400 filter to get that nice smooth water look.

‘Til next time folks!

If you like these, you might be interested in learning about some of the techniques which I used:

• Multiple exposure blending
• How to estimate times for long exposures
• Enhancing colours in Photoshop

This is a stitched panorama, make up from 9 bracketed vertical frames (27 frames in total). I shot this using a 5D Mark II, 50mm f1.4 lens with 3 stop ND grad filter mounted, rotated on a panoramic head.

Later on as the sun went down, I managed to capture this classic shot of the jetty. I used my favourite exposure blending technique for this, the shot is a composite of two images. I used a 17-40mm f/4L on the wide end with a ND400 filter attached, exposure around 2 minutes from memory.

Here are some panoramas from the Grampians National Park, it is lovely area in north west Victoria. The first one is a sunrise at Baroka Lookout, and the second one a sunset at Reid’s Lookout. Both of these are stitched from a number of vertical frames with a 50mm lens.

Over at Brighton Beach, which is a along the bay just south of Melbourne, I caught a sunset, making this stitched panorama. It is almost a 270 degrees view, made up of multiple vertical frames with a an ultra wide 17-40mm f/4L lens (Canon), shot on the wide 17mm end.

At Clifton Springs, is a nice set of old piers which is a must-see for photographers in the area:

We also hit the Great Ocean Road, great sights to see there. This is Smyth’s Creek, its just off the road itself, you’ll miss it if you don’t look carefully.

So many photos and still not enough time to go through them all yet, so I might post more of them later

I’ve been a little quite on the blog front lately, probably just been a little busy. But I’m hoping to post a lot more stuff in the next few weeks. Some more tutorials, and behind the scenes articles, and not just posting my favourite work!

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.

Caitlan worked the camera nicely with several outfits, the “gangster look” turned out well. This, we used the same rim lighting set up, but with a gridded beauty dish key light.

Here is another one of the models, Myka. Doesn’t the make up look great on her? Make up was done by Glen Evans.

Sarah had a gothic make up theme on, and I went with the dark and eerie look here:

‘Til next time…