From a recent shoot with the gorgeous Molly at a fantastic residence.
Gowns by Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear
Model: Molly
Make Up & Hair by Gabbi
Camera: Hasselblad H4D40
Lighting: Profoto
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Molly Enchante
Nomad Photography shoots Enchante Bridal
Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear (59 Wollongong Street. Fyshwick. Camberra) is the place to find our perfect gown for any occasions.
From bridal to formal, including flower girls and christening , cocktail and event.. They carry a wide range of products and brands (including Vera Wang..) in any size from 2 to 14..
For your next event, make sure you stop by and talk to the very friendly team to assist you in your choice for the perfect gown.
Gowns by Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear.
Model: Kaye
Make up artist / Hair stylist: Gabbi
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Medium format with Molly
St Valentines and we went out, under the sun to have some fun with some gorgeous gowns from Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear.
Molly is our model of the day and Natalia is the talented MUA & Hair stylist for the shoot.
I packed my Canon 5D Mark III and my Hasselblad H4D40 planning for some fashion and scenery shots at the newly opened National Arboretum Canberra.
When digital cameras came along, we have assisted in a continuous race against the pixel counts. Cameras started from a mere 2 mega pixels to now carry almost 40 mega pixel in what has been the standard for the SLR sensor size, also known as full frame, of 24 x 36 mm.
Pushing the limits of physics to increase pixel counts has some downside effects, aside from the noise and file size, we are facing the optical issue: lenses can no more resolve the resolution of the sensors.
Need less to say that the primary weakness of dSLR is dynamic range, partially due to the size of the pixel (ability to store light) and also because of the files size of 14 bits.
I wanted for the shot to see, what I already knew, the difference in term of sensor size vs the pixel counts.
Below are images form a same fram, captured with the Hasselblad H4D40 (40 mega pixels and a bigger sensor compares to the dSLR’s one).
The series of images are from screen captures of my 30″ Apple Cinema display (2560×1600 pixels). The first image shows the full image and the subsequent images are at 100% crop of various parts of the images.
The last image is the FULL SIZE images practically converted from an Hassleblad raw file into JPEG without any post.
For the tech and strobist bits:
Camera: H4D40 | Lens: HC 100mm f/2.2
Speed 1/400 f/8 ISO 100 (basic exposure, sweet sixteen, for a sunny outdoor shoot)
Because the model was back to the sun, I added some fill with a Quantum Qflash TD5-R with an inversed dome at 1/2 power (about 75 Ws)
Model: Molly
MUA & Hair: NataliaGowns by Enchante Bridal & Formal Wear (59 Wollongong St Fyshwick ACT 2620. COntact: (02) 6280 9869)
Images copyrights NOMAD PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Click on the image below to open the full size image, in a new window, out of the Hasselblad H4D40 (5.8MB).
Sweet Exposure
Photography is not only about capturing the moments during the golden hours. Life happens 247 and we can just not afford to freeze life and wait until the sun sets or before it rises to take that ‘perfect’ exposure.
Knowing how to interpret ambient light will free you from the worry of quality of light.
This is a repost from my other resource site that I thought may be useful for my regular photographer visitors of this blog.
The technique of exposure under the sun carries a cute name of sweet sixteen.
When shooting under the sun, a good starting point is to put your aperture at f/16 and at a given ISO setting, your shutter speed would be at the inverse of that value.
For example, if your ISO is 100, your shutter speed would be 1/100 second.
A more in detail post about this technique, and illustrations, can be found here
A Day in Melbourne
Catching Up
Way too long since I last post here and bot because I’ve been lazy but because I’ve been all over the place… OK and a tiny bit lazy too.
I’ve been between shoots, wedding, projects, edits and all sort of thing photography related (very exciting projects that I am very excited to share with you).
Aside from setting up a few community websites and instructional website, yes I am now providing 1-on-1 flash photography workshop for other photographers, and I can tell you that I didn’t see winter gone by..
You may also have noticed that during the winter, wedding off season, I got more and more into editorial and fashion photography, which I enjoy more and more shooting.
Here are some recent projects and some from older shoots that I recently edited.
I found that coming back to a shoot later in time allows me to have a different perspective on the shoot and edit them with another feel.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Catch up soon for more.
