Successful Masterclass

There has been a bit of a gap in my posting as I did a very compressed training course for teaching that left little time for anything else. This Masterclass was one of the few exceptions to moving everything else aside.

The latest of my studio lighting masterclasses kept us indoors on the kind of rainy cold Sunday you wouldn't want to be outside anyway. We covered working with different kinds of lighting and modifers and how they can work for beauty and portrait images. We had a good day with our model Tamara Valentine from Chadwicks and makeup by Stephanie Tetu and most clothing from Bronx + Banco.

Some of the results follow:

James O'Connor

Nicole Wells

Theodora Vagenas

Theodora Vagenas

James O'Connor

Nicole Wells

The feedback I had was excellent. I tailor the classes to the people present to be sure to fill the gaps where hands on experience is needed to fill the gaps that Google and YouTube can't  . . yet . . until they go 4D!

www.incident.net.au        for bookings

introspection

My entry in the AddOn exhibition, not a concept I'm going to repeat.

fin collection - eleven

On Wednesday this exhibition opened at Sun Studio in Alexandria a space that usually hosts photo exhibitions. This time although some of the 11 artists work from a photographic base they are drawings paintings and sculptures. Amy is an interesting and dynamic person who counters the Zoolander stereotype and shows models as interesting people who also are very photogenic.

http://thefincollection.com/collections/eleven

Amy Finlayson

 Tania Linney

morrisey

What can I say it was excellent and not a Smiths concert. I felt conflicted having had meat before then horrible dreams of being chained to dying cattle that night after his video images.

the photograph and australia + world press photo

On the weekend I went to see these exhibitions. At the Photograph and Australia at the AGNSW I had been told to expect a good collection of historical photographs as in photos with content of historical documentary interest which is largely true. It also got me interested in some of the processes of theme like carbon printing. Carbon was used with gelatine to make prints that were fade resistant unlike silver based prints. There are some impressive examples by Frank Hurley. Another section talks about the popularity of "cartes de visite" which had a person's image on one side and about the size of a playing card. Apparently people collected them as we now collect friends on Facebook  There is very little showing any use of photography as a political tool or mirror as one sees in photography of the early 20th century elsewhere.  Not sure if it just didn't happen or it was a curatorial choice. So for the most part we are seeing people and places as they were. Some really interesting images in there and some surprisingly modern. This is compensated by the World Press Photo exhibition at the state library which is fully confrontational. The next room has the Sydney 1440 exhibition which is Sydney based and finally an exhibition of images of the Greek island of Lemnos. Modern day larger colour images have black and white wartime images pasted over them, each taken from the same viewpoint. The island is largely undeveloped and the scars of war have melted into the landscape.

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/the-photograph-and-australia/
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/2015/wpp/index.html

Jack Stahel

More serendipity. As I went to pick up a gift I received one myself in walking past Kudos Gallery, Jack Stahel's exhibition "Imaginary Science" is very impressive and engrossing. The mind, science, art, nature, our urge to categorise and keep and in my perception that the keeping removes the life force. The pictures on various sites do not do it justice as there are details within details all reflecting on something.  until May 30
https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/whats-on/events/imaginary-science

Jill Crossley

Just went to the opening of Jill Crossley's show "Unreliable Witness at Stanley Street Gallery. It's all organic mobile water but the camera framing captures magic compositions that only existed in that moment in that frame. Strangely as you look into the fine details you see fractal shapes as nature breaks down to it's math. Until June 6

www.stanleystreetgallery.com.au