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  • Joceline: Rocking at Sunset

    ericscott 10:37 pm on January 23, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    I spent an afternoon at Mission Beach, Australia shooting the London fashion and art model, Joceline in the jungles and beaches in the area.  We started out shooting in the jungles and moved to the rock seawall and beaches as the sun was setting.  The set here was shot among the rocks of the seawall as the sun cast a golden glow on Joceline’s English porceline complexion and hair.  Joceline is trained as a ballerina and she showed off her grace posing among the rocks and expertly using the light to accentuate her form.  Future blogs will show our other fine art and fashion sets in the jungle and beach.  Lovely work, Joceline!!

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  • Vassanta: Mission Beach Palm Fashion

    ericscott 6:45 pm on January 17, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    In our stay in Mission Beach, the hotel Eco Village was very supportive and accommodating to our needs.  I can’t say enough good things about them.  They gave us free rein of the open air dining facility in the evenings to present our slide shows and even allowed us to shoot nudes around the property as long as we were respectful to the other guests.  And there were some very nice places to shoot on the property as well as the adjoining beach with just a few short step from your bungalow.   One day, Vassanta and I wandered around the property looking for places to shoot. We found a grove of palm trees, another area that the hotel was using to discard palm fronds providing a bed of leaves, and a discarded branch that looked like bizarre antlers. The ever creative V  also came up with the idea of using parts of the webbing around the palm trunk as a headdress. We got some lovely shots using the amber color of the palm fronds to accentuate her tan. I also used some new editing techniques to get a gorgeous platinum hued split tone result.   We were also fortunate to benefit from one of  those rare occasions where you are at the right place at the right time.  She was posing on top of this tree that had grown around a rock when a  natural sun burst started filtering through the trees behind her.  This also provided a spot of light on her as well.  I timed the shot to coincide as the burst came through the trees. Ahhh….another day in paradise!  I want to go back!!!!

     

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  • Cam 'n me at Babinda

    soph 1:48 am on January 17, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Revisiting that very first shoot at ZoeFest ‘09, here are my favourites from our collaboration at Babinda. Sweaty and dusty but worth it!

    http://www.sophonline.com

    http://www.attreeimages.com/

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  • Vassanta: Of Palms and Portraits

    ericscott 12:55 am on January 9, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    While shooting around our hotel at Mission Beach, the ever creative Vassanta put together some different looks using the husks off the side of palm trees as a headdress, discarded palm fronds to frame her face and some discarded branches to create some “antlers”.   I thought it would be interesting to share some of the different versions of these portraits from my experiments in Lightroom. More photos to come from the sessions around Mission Beach and the palms.

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    • Claudia 2:56 am on January 19, 2010 Permalink

      I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

      Claudia

      http://paintingdrawing.net

  • Claudine

    mcaryphotoart 12:02 pm on January 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    My favorites from some recently scanned rolls of medium format and 35mm film

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  • Muse

    mcaryphotoart 7:11 am on January 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    Some of my favorite’s from my shoot with Muse.

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  • ...and we named him Octavius

    reina 5:30 am on January 5, 2010 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    Like most good things, it started with a delicious dinner.

    A month or two before arriving at Mission Beach, Michael Marlborough and I met up to eat Ethiopian food and chat about travel plans (and before anyone says it, yeah, Ethiopian food – kind of an oxymoron, huh? But it’s awesome. Try it). Some wine had been drunk and we were throwing out ideas for shoots. There was a nautical theme going on – we talked about anchors, rope, and sailors. Then I said, “Giant squid!”

    Michael’s eyes lit up.

    Now, I wasn’t exactly joking when I started talking about cephalopods. You know those images you have in your mind, the ones you hope someday with enough time, resources and the right people to work with, you’ll get down on film? Well, one of the ones in the back of my head, taking up important room, involved a many-legged sea creature. Turns out my photographer friend had a similar affliction. Perhaps we were onto something. Since both of us live inland, shooting near the ocean is not something we get to do very often and our access to sea creatures is limited. We had to take the opportunity while we could.

    Weeks later, driving from Townsville to Mission Beach, we procured ourselves the largest frozen octopus we could find, with the help of a very bemused fishmonger. This was Octavius.
    He was so big that, once thawed in a bucket of iced water, we needed an assistant just to keep him in position. Plus rubber bands, several chairs and afterwards, a lot of soap. But we worked it out and Octavius turned out to be a pretty decent model.

    There is nothing quite like seeing an image you’ve had in your mind, exactly as you saw it, finally come into being on the preview panel of a camera or a proof sheet. It was one of the best moments at Mission Beach and something I’ll never forget. The feeling of having a large octopus draped over my face has been largely blanked out, so there’s nothing but happy endings to this story. Oh, and some pictures.

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    • Deye (Brett Sargeant) 6:36 am on January 5, 2010 Permalink

      very cool, I can understand the need for lots of soap :D

    • dougearle 8:47 am on January 5, 2010 Permalink

      Ever since I saw these captivating images I’d wondered how you got them. Thanks. they are lovely.

    • Eric Scott 5:33 pm on January 5, 2010 Permalink

      those were amazing… the first one is just perfectly proportioned with your breast and the octopi arms….great concept…and yuck…how long did it take you to get the Octopi smell ouf our your hair. :) Luv, you a little alright and heaps good!

    • Richard 10:48 am on January 23, 2010 Permalink

      Ice water!? Octavius was a colder fellow than I’d imagined. Lots of soap & hot water. Great images though.

  • Still editing - Still remembering - Rei

    Zoe Wiseman 12:17 am on January 5, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Have I told you all how much we loved Mission Beach? I can still feel the ocean breeze and humidity in my mind. Our house didn’t hurt the vibe one bit. I still wish I had video of Rei dancing her Bollywood dance. So I could post it here! She’d probably throw a smack my way all the way from Canberra though! All in good fun. I’ve known Rei for years and we worked together in 2004 for the first time with successful results. Many book publishings and magazine publishings with a few of our images. Now from this time working together I’ve already sold one of our prints. What a great feeling for both of us to know that someone wants to own a fine art piece from our work together. One of the prints from this session sold… the “Jim Morrison” pose. ;) I was excited when we peeled the negative back and saw the unique destruction of the print that you only get with the Holga/Polaroid back combo. Nice. I hope the owner of the new print enjoys seeing it on their wall for a very long time. Thank you.

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    • Dave Rudin 8:56 pm on January 5, 2010 Permalink

      I’m glad you sold a print, Z. It’s a nice image.

      I’m just sorry I wasn’t there to record Rei’s Bollywood dance on video. It sounds like a definite highlight…LOL

    • Zoe Wiseman 6:05 am on January 6, 2010 Permalink

      Rei’s Bollywood dance was awesome. It’s a very organized movement. And the music was cool.

  • Joceline

    mcaryphotoart 4:53 pm on January 4, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    A selection of favorites from a batch of recently processed and scanned medium format slide film.

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  • Vassanta on Dunk

    ebadham 11:03 am on January 3, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply

    Just trying to keep the love alive here. More shi, I mean stuff. Life is art!

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    • admin 1:20 am on January 9, 2010 Permalink

      LOVE the abstract one with the fallen coconut branch. Beautiful images Edward.

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