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Had a pleasure to be a photographer at the recent Melbourne School of fashion at Federation square last week. This was student parade with semipro models. The show was excellent, consideing it was organised by students - excellent production and beautiful garmets. Here are a few examples. This is only first of the two shows that took place. Excuse the watermark.









The rest of the gallery can be browsed through here: http://agitlits.m6.net/NikonD70/MSF_First_Show.asp

C&C are very welcome.

Alex

Alex,
Welldone.
I like the third one.
Cheers
poon

Alex,
Welldone.
I like the third one.
Cheers
poon

alex very nice
considering you seeked out this event and got the job

technically i must comment on your framing again
there needs to be ample even room around model in each shot tight or full length because magazines crop them. If you framing is off people think you missed the shot or you had rushed it

all technically great runway images are full length 2 feet on ground and arms relaxed and close to body facial expression and lighting on face are secondary concerns

this is your best one

although there is a ugly sign in background and you need to fight for centre spot as magazines also prefer shots of model dead centre

exposure and colour is fantastic and your images are sharp which great
you just need to work on that framing

Thanks Poon and Wendell.

Wendell, yes I've been told more than once about framing. I need to work on it!

Thanks for the comments.

Alex

Hi Alex, I like these shots but I find the hard shadow of the model a little distracting. It almost looks like there was enough light to not use flash, or maybe just a little for fill. You can always gausean blur the edge of the shadows a bit in photoshop, but that becomes a bit of a pain when you have a few to do. The other thing you could try is keeping the flash vertical above the camera when the camera is in portrait orientation. That tends to hide the shadows behind the model a bit more. You could take the flash off camera to do this or make a bracket or use the RRS Portrait Package. The other option of course is to bounce the flash off the ceiling if possible.

Nice shots though, a pleasure to look at, keep them coming.

Cheers
John

johnd wrote:Hi Alex, I like these shots but I find the hard shadow of the model a little distracting. It almost looks like there was enough light to not use flash, or maybe just a little for fill. You can always gausean blur the edge of the shadows a bit in photoshop, but that becomes a bit of a pain when you have a few to do. The other thing you could try is keeping the flash vertical above the camera when the camera is in portrait orientation. That tends to hide the shadows behind the model a bit more. You could take the flash off camera to do this or make a bracket or use the RRS Portrait Package. The other option of course is to bounce the flash off the ceiling if possible.

Nice shots though, a pleasure to look at, keep them coming.

Cheers
John

Hi John,

Yes I take your point re flash. The available light was almost good but not sufficient. The first few shots (see my page) were taken with no flash and whilst exposure was almost ok faces were always way underexposed so I needed a fill. I used -1 to -1.3 flash exposure compensation for these shots. Unfortunately bouncing of a cieling was not an option as it was like 5 or 6 m glass roof I did use flash at about 45 deg upwards though.

Alex

Alex wrote:

johnd wrote:Hi Alex, I like these shots but I find the hard shadow of the model a little distracting. It almost looks like there was enough light to not use flash, or maybe just a little for fill. You can always gausean blur the edge of the shadows a bit in photoshop, but that becomes a bit of a pain when you have a few to do. The other thing you could try is keeping the flash vertical above the camera when the camera is in portrait orientation. That tends to hide the shadows behind the model a bit more. You could take the flash off camera to do this or make a bracket or use the RRS Portrait Package. The other option of course is to bounce the flash off the ceiling if possible.

Nice shots though, a pleasure to look at, keep them coming.

Cheers
John

Hi John,

Yes I take your point re flash. The available light was almost good but not sufficient. The first few shots (see my page) were taken with no flash and whilst exposure was almost ok faces were always way underexposed so I needed a fill. I used -1 to -1.3 flash exposure compensation for these shots. Unfortunately bouncing of a cieling was not an option as it was like 5 or 6 m glass roof I did use flash at about 45 deg upwards though.

Alex

Hi Alex, I just checked out your page. I see what you mean by the flash but I wouldn't be too unhappy about the first shots without flash. I like the shots like 5625 where the model is close to you and far enough from the background to not throw a shadow.

By the way, that's an impressive web site of yours. I like it's layout a lot more than the smugmug setup that I use. Did you do the website yourself or have someone do it for you?

Cheers
John

johnd wrote:

Alex wrote:

johnd wrote:Hi Alex, I like these shots but I find the hard shadow of the model a little distracting. It almost looks like there was enough light to not use flash, or maybe just a little for fill. You can always gausean blur the edge of the shadows a bit in photoshop, but that becomes a bit of a pain when you have a few to do. The other thing you could try is keeping the flash vertical above the camera when the camera is in portrait orientation. That tends to hide the shadows behind the model a bit more. You could take the flash off camera to do this or make a bracket or use the RRS Portrait Package. The other option of course is to bounce the flash off the ceiling if possible.

Nice shots though, a pleasure to look at, keep them coming.

Cheers
John

Hi John,

Yes I take your point re flash. The available light was almost good but not sufficient. The first few shots (see my page) were taken with no flash and whilst exposure was almost ok faces were always way underexposed so I needed a fill. I used -1 to -1.3 flash exposure compensation for these shots. Unfortunately bouncing of a cieling was not an option as it was like 5 or 6 m glass roof I did use flash at about 45 deg upwards though.

Alex

Hi Alex, I just checked out your page. I see what you mean by the flash but I wouldn't be too unhappy about the first shots without flash. I like the shots like 5625 where the model is close to you and far enough from the background to not throw a shadow.

By the way, that's an impressive web site of yours. I like it's layout a lot more than the smugmug setup that I use. Did you do the website yourself or have someone do it for you?

Cheers
John

Thanks John. I actually get my wife to do it she is an IT expert I know absolutely nothing about making a website. I'm not quite happy with the way the website is at the moment. I will have it restructured one day...

Cheers

Alex