Adam Green - Moments before the storm broke. Shot on Kodak Portra VC 160 using a Mamiya RB67 medium format rig and a Sunpak 622 Super flash with a shoot through umbrella.
Andrew Frost was completing his Masters Degree which culminated in an exhibition of his work. These were shot on site amidst an explosion of his print and other works on my Mamiya RB67 loaded with medium format Kodak Portra film. I really like the mood of these shots and how 'Frosty' looks so comfortable amidst his creations.
Xiaohui Yang is a jewellery maker who was completing her doctoral studies in Australia. While documenting her final exhibition snapped a few portraits for her.
Below, Doug in his recording studio. Doug had just completed a long and complicated recording project and needed some shots to use as part of his marketing material.
Above - Doug - bit of a gritty character portrait here. It was experiment time. I had a very expired roll of Fuji Velvia 100F that I wanted to cross process... not a film that takes well to cross processing. I used gels and mixed lighting to avoid having a mono red image. To add to the challenge I loaded the 35mm film into my 6X7 medium format rig because I like to make my life difficult.
Eddy, a character portrait - Kodak Ektar 100 (medium format) shot on a very old Kodak No. 2A Autographic Brownie. Ugly old fluro light directed from the next room using the door as a shaper. Light leak courtesy of the funny little door on the back of these old cameras used for writing on the back of old school film stock - the original metadata.
Aussie music icon, Swanee (John Swan). I was fortunate enough to be called in to shoot some documentation for a band I was working for when they got word that he was coming in to the studio to listen to the album they were working on and give feedback. Lighting was terrible (but moody) so I loaded up some fast film (will add the film deets when I dig up the film and have a look) and hoped for the best! I really love the mood of this shot.
Diana, diver extrodinare! We were searching for whales. Nikonos V and Kodak T-max 400.
The below photos were shot early evening in the sloppy mangroves of the Brisbane River. The images were to be used by Adam for his modelling portfolio. We shot a combination of digital and film. I challenge you to set up light stands in an uncooperative mangrove...
This was a super challenging shoot with a lot of technical challenges... one being lugging a heap of heavy gear through the bush and into the dripping cave. Dom was an absolute champ in front of the camera and I was pumped to get a shot like this on medium format film. I have another (very different vibe) shot from this session in my 'Bleached' gallery of bleached Polaroid negatives. This was shot on Kodak Portra 160VC with a Mamiya RB67.
These portraits were captured on 4X5 view camera. The subjects were involved in a short film I was shooting behind-the-scenes images for. The first three pictures are some of the actors and the final one is the makeup artist. Shooting portraits on large format has its challenges but it's well worth the effort.
Kodak T-max 400.
Victoria is an artist and P.hD candidate working with cinematic film media and installation art. I took some portraits for her amongst her work at the Pop Gallery in Brisbane.
