Ausbike Expo

Ausbike Expo, a set on Flickr.

Some random shots from the Ausbike Expo at the Melbourne Showgrounds.

Time to Prep yet again.

Well it has all started a big ball rolling at the moment...

I have 2 weddings booked and a couple of Portraits to shoot as well. Now a little bit of research to do with the customers as to what they want, then some gear to organize as well. Better to be organized than to fluff about at the last minute.

So I have been harassing a few friends that are photographers and even my mentor has had his brain picked clean, and I have come up with something that should get me through. Both of the weddings will primarily be shot with a 24-70mm 2.8 lens. With all the research I have done, and the brains I have picked, I have found out that this seems to be an 80% lens for most wedding shooters. On my Nikon D300S (APS-C Sensor) the lens will give me 36-105mm in a constant 2.8f which will give me the widest gamut of shooting options with just 1 lens. I would pack a 85mm in 1.8f as well to cover other eventualities (85mm turns into 125mm). 

So time to trawl the images around the net for inspiration..

Larry Clark..... TULSA

I have picked a few books to do some write ups on and thought I would start with one from probably the most "Accidental" photographers of our time Larry Clark.

In his photo book Tulsa Larry Clark shows a side of the world that we only could imagine, and still never understand. He spent 3 years of shooting up with his friends when he was 16, and managed to get away from it all. But from the last line in the cover blurb "Once the needle goes in it never comes out" we all wonder if "the feel of the steel" ever left him.

He was close to a life and people that, unbeknownst to them, were being photographed and recorded in a period of life that could be best under-described as "Turbulent". He is close to people and actions that we could never see in our circle of friends. There is an inherent danger in every photo, as well as a sadness that ebbs and flows from image to image.

It's such a sad book, with it's photo of a soon to be mother injecting Amphetamines and later seeing said baby in a coffin just clobbers you in the head with reality. The picture of a doe eyed boy acting as tourniquet for another shooter. The picture of a man laying in bed with a woman crying next to him after he was accidentally shot in the thigh.  These images haunt and grow in your mind and you backwards and forwards through them asking yourself if they are real or not.

Please take a look at Larry Clark's work and take a look at his book TULSA available through Amazon or you local book store.

PLEASE book early.... Or you might miss your date...

I have taken my first Wedding Booking for January!!! So PLEASE make sure you book early if you need your Special Days and Party's photographed please book early!! If you snooze you loose!!! 

Trying new film.... FUN!!

Been shooting the Lomo Holga a bit as of late and found some Rollei Crossbird in 200ISO. This is a roll film that can be processed in both E6 (which gives "normal" color negs) or in C41 (which gives the Color Cross). You can see some of the results at Lomography site.

Once I get the shots out of the camera I will post them up.

cadel.7

cadel.7, a photo by fixiedouche on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
I don't know why I like this so much.. Is it the girl with the Radio giving me such a ponderous look, or the guy in the Bell hat looking straight down the barrel, or is it that everyone around them doesn't seem to care..

Cadel Evens Welcome

Cadel Evens Welcome, a set on Flickr.

My photos from the Cadel Evens Welcome home. Please feel free to contact me or go to my Flickr if you would like to purchase High Quality Prints.