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26 August, 20125 February, 2013

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Time flies when we are having fun.

It’s been a while the last time I updated this blog… I’ve been really busy between shoots and with the launch of the community website (www.australian-photo.com) I have committed more time in updating it. If you want to see some awesome photography, I’d recommend to have a visit at Australian-Photo.com website.

In the mean time, a few images from a recent shoot with KaraMia for her modeling portfolio. Make up by Lesley Johnston.

If you would like to create or update your portfolio, please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss.

30 July, 201214 February, 2013

Monica Styles

Catching up with my crazy schedule, I just wanted to share some images created a week ago with a model that I shot for the first time.

It was a fun shoot with a long time friend make up artist, Isma Majeed, who just came back to Canberra for a couple of days (she moved to Melbourne last year)> I’d say that it’s always a pleasure t work with Isma and I am looking forward to doing a shoot with her sometimes in Melbourne.

Most of the image have been captured with my new toy: an Olympus OM-D mounted with a Leica M 50mm Summicron lens. This is my new favorite little camera right now..

Stay tuned and if you like the images, make sure you share them with your friends either on Facebook or Twitter.

23 June, 20125 February, 2013

In the making

It’s been a while now since m last post and I must say I have been so busy with heaps of projects.

First I set up two new web sites especially dedicated to photographers, it is live for more than about a month, www.australian-photo.com.

Australian Photo is a community website with an open space to receive photographers from different backgrounds, with different specialties. The aim of this website is to connect people to the photographers and photographers between them. This site will publish finished/edited images.

My second website is still under construction but is also well under way. It will be the space where I’ll explain my philosophy about MY photography, why and how I do it and mainly to explain the process I use to go from capture to the final image. I called this website AfterRaw.com.

If you have time, make sure you have a look at these two websites and I would really welcome your support and comment on how to make them better, more interesting and a nice place on the net to spend time. Have fun.

29 March, 20125 February, 2013

R.E.D

As mentioned on a previous post, I set up this shoot to test drive the newly added Canon 5D Mark III in my gear bag, but when packing the day before, I couldn’t resist to pack my Hasselblad H4D40 and the new HC 120mm F/4 II Macro lens. I wanted to see every details.

Along with the Canon 5D Mark III, I packed the EF 85 f/1.2 L II and decided that the shoot will be a beauty shoot so there was really no need for zoom lens or other focal length.

At the studio, I started setting up and hanged around waiting for my first model to finish her hair and make up (thanks to Amanda and Jessica for an awesome job), I though I’d click a few frames for some BTS (Behind The Scene) archives.

Man, I had this camera for 3 days and only started shooting with it really for a … BTS. I must admit that I was a bit hesitant about the camera (it’s more of a 7D Mark II for me than a 5D Mark III) but I even like the shutter sound of it .. 😀

I personally found that there are so many options in the menu and it takes sometimes to change from one set of menu to another … Haven’t really tested the Canon 5D Mark III to its limits, I noticed through the viewfinder that he buffer size is somewhat … 10 RAW frames …

I haven’t burnt big frame rates yet but from a buffer of 21 RAW frames on a Canon 5D Mark II to a 10 RAW frames buffer on the Canon 5D Mark III is a shocker …

Anyway, check out some of the BTS images taken with the Canon 5D Mark III on my previous post, here are some taken with the H4D40.

Thanks to the models: Brittney Visser, Erica Foster, Jariah Travan and Melissa McQuade.

Our Hair & Make Up Artists Amanda Rowen and Jessica Peris.

My BTS camera Michael Watson from Sanguineti Media (Thanks to Daniel Sanguineti for doing our BTS)

and a big thank you to Vince at the INJEKTD studios in Mitchell where we shot RED.

PS: RED stands for: Raw, Edgy and … BOLD..

29 March, 201221 January, 2013

Canon 5D Mark III update

A quick post for some screen shot of Canon DPP on an Apple 30″ Cinema.

Bear in mind that these are RAW view of unedited files. You can see that I shot in Auto ISO mode and the first image is shot at ISO 2500, the second and third shots , at ISO 4000, one being fit size and one as 100% viewing.

Click on the images to see full size (30″ Apple Cinema).

Throw in your thoughts or if you want me to do some specific tests in the comment below. Peace and Pixels.

Screen capture of an image shot with the Canon 5D Mark III in Av mode and Auto ISO — Canon 5D Mark III @ ISO2500 – NOMAD PHOTOGRAPHY

Fit in SCreen view with DPP. Canon 5D Mark III @ ISO4000 - NOMAD PHOTOGRAPHY — Canon 5D Mark III @ ISO4000 – NOMAD PHOTOGRAPHY

29 March, 201221 January, 2013

Behind the Scenes with the Canon 5D Mark III

It’s been a busy time and after almost a week of getting the newly released Canon 5D Mark III, I finally found sometimes to sit down and process a few images taken with this already amazing camera and post some images here.

For this shoot, I mainly used my Hasselblad H4D40 but also had the Canon 5D Mark III along for some BTS and Studio shots.

I must confess that this camera has exceeded my expectations. It is very rare that I use Av mode along with the auto ISO feature but for this quick session, it was how the camera was set up: Av mode and auto ISO.

I also used the camera for a few studio shots when the Blad got frozen and jammed my 17″ MacBook Pro… I really enjoyed shooting tethered and now travel on location shoots with my iPad3 (thanks for the SD slot on the Canon 5D Mark III that allows using my EyeFi cards) or my MacBook Air with I can connect to my camera to shoot tethered.

Check these out. Since Camera Raw 7 can not read these files, I had to convert them from Canon’s DPP into JPEG and …. that’s it. Nothing more or less than a converted JPEG from the .CR2 files. Check them out for yourself.

Models are Brittney, Erica, Jariah and Melissa.

Hair and Make Up Artists are Amanda Rowen and Jessica Peris

BTS video is Michael Watson

We shot at INJEKTD Studios and the shoot was called RED for Raw, Edgy and a bit BOLD.

The idea behind the name is I wanted to do a shoot with minimum edits (only conversion from Hasselblad .fff raw files into JPEG and … that’s the RAW side of it). The edgy side being that the shoot was planned to be a beauty shoot with really /*&#@:!$$ make up and looks and we haven’t planned any outfit before hand… The BOLD side of the shoot is …. I can’t show it here … yet :o)

Make sure you scroll all the way down to check out an edited image taken with the Canon 5D Mark III and the Ef 85 f/1.02 at f/9.

Check out the edited images here (and feel free to like them): https://www.facebook.com/pages/NOMAD-PHOTOGRAPHY/193637572026