Burlesque-Guns-Girls and Booze-ric woods photography

We had to re post this for a client to view, some how it fell off the web? Voo Doo?
Girls,Guns,Gin and Gambling...thats a formula thats unstable

Images with an Edge- ric woods photography

We did a photo shoot with Caitlin the other day.Its great to transform the studio with lighting and structures


Its certainly different to photographing products,corporate head shots,fashion and newborns

The Urban wasteland provided great images and of course gets the creative brain waves flowing..

I wonder if this could be our next profile image...Hmmmm it might scare off a few customers.....and it might win a few as well.

ric, caitlin( the talent) bridie and maree

ZENER ELECTRIC-ric woods photography

Check out our behind the scenes video grab and I shall show you how to make a black box look beautiful...

Gambling,Girls and Guns...a mix that often ends badly

What a great mix of talent. Our latest self commissioned photo "shoot" was a "blast".

We compose these shoots because we love making images and it keeps us inspired it also demonstrates to the participants of our photography and lighting courses that fantastic images can be composed in-camera with very little post production Photoshop work.

Jessi and Maree ( right) were the Burlesque show girls in the shoot.Maree, my business partner, let go of her usual roll as studio manager,admin,second photographer and make up artist to be the talent in the shoot.

Jessi bought a great look and vibrance to the session.



Maree and Jimmy were there Friday night...Jimmy seemed on edge and when he is like that his friends know to choose their words carefully...


The usual Friday Night crowd was at the Warehouse

Left: Will,Matt,Brett and Jimmy.


Be careful what you say to these ladies Matt...they hunt in packs.



Friday nights at Brett warehouse are usually start out light hearted...

Usually as the night goes on the mixture of Money, Girls, Booze and Greed ups the stakes ....someone always takes things too far. Matt made a comment about Jimmy's suit....

It only takes a small spark to start a raging fire... Matt didn't see it coming...

The next day it was Mr William O who said to the detectives, Matt said he was going for a long drive.... Matt is still missing....

...thanks to all who helped on the night.
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Little Lights-Big Results

The second Little Lights-Big Results workshop went off really well with the strobes and gels rarely getting cool. Amy our subject was fantastic and her red hair produced great images for the participants.

Below Maree is holding a magenta gelled strobe to light Amy from camera right whilst the brolly is wearing 1.5 CTO gels to compensate for the tungsten in-camera WB.The backdrop is lit with bare strobes...hence the blue cast.SB600 camera right and left, SB26 on background camera right and left.

We will be running more seminars in the new years with various topics, including natural light portraiture,night street portraiture, post production and work flow topics.If there is something your interested in let us know. enquiries@ricwoods.com.

ABOVE: Myself and Amy demonstrating lens selection ,depth of field and light fall off.

BELOW:A demonstration to show balance of strobe out put to illuminate Amy at F10 and a shutter speed of 1 second to capture the 15w globe in the lamp.Amy's face illuminated by Maree with small tungsten torch ( to balance the lamp)

LOCATION PORTRAITURE WORKSHOPS.(participants images below)

We are running some location portraiture workshops at ProAm photography lab Adamstown .
Maree has been the model,subject,victim and Ive been the tutor,bogey man and box head.
The participants are doing fantastic and we are having a great time. More images on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricwoods/

LOCATION PORTRIATURE- a class I'm running at ProAm Photo Lab

These are a few of the images were by the participants of a workshop I'm running that was arranged by David Barnes the owner of Pro Am a film lab at Adamstown ( nsw australia)

This was the third night of the 5 sessions and I decided to take the group outside to use some off camera strobes and gels. The previous week we were shooting inside ProAm and the group had a great time with Maree ( my prod mgr/second photographer/very often photography subject). Everyone was very quick to learn how easy it can be to create beautiful light with good exposures and lighting ratios.

I demonstrated how long it takes to set up a scene using 4 strobes and how the strobes are fired by pocket wizards. I have 6 of these and this was great as it enabled me to have 2 students shooting at a time. This is easy on the recycle time for the strobes.

I have 10 + Maree in the group and its fantastic to have people so eager to learn...for me it doesn't get much better.

I used this lane way beside ProAm to demonstrate how easy it is to find and interesting shoot location when you sculpting with light.

The focus was to create not only interesting images to to use it to demonstrate how to direct the subjects, pre visualise the image, synchronise the action and the camera...Here Maree is the victim of some crazy stalker (me)

...then Maree found a bag snatcher...

Below, this is a great double page spread...I can see almost see bold text running down the right side of this image...

The group learnt how to drop the ambient light right down but retain detail

Then the paparazzi became to victim of an unwilling subject.

We then turned around and lit the wall behind us for another completely new scene and tone...

Maree as always gave plenty of great subject matter....

I really liked some of the images captured by those waiting to shoot with the radio triggers

We even kidnapped "the Pizza Guy" for a few of the images.....

I'm looking forward to the next session .We will shoot some inside portraits and Ill show them my post production tips. If your interested in participating in Location Portraiture Workshops shoot me an email enquiries@ricwoods.com

Maree-another image from the "Tule" shoot

Maree with $20 worth of tule.

Tech info: On boom above camera gridded snoot on SB600 1/4 CTO@1/4 zoomed 85.Camera right lower snooted-SB24 magentax2.Camera right top of frame snooted SB26 red gelx2,top of frame snooted SB26 CTOx2.D300 24-70 2.8.Triggered by PW.

MY NEXT PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS: ProAm lab

I'm one of the tutors teaching a course at PROAM digital & film lab for those interested. Ill be talking about location portraiture. Details on this Flickr thread.. http://www.flickr.com/groups/huntervalley/discuss/72157622325603066/. They are situated here http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&resnum=0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=0,0,11964785006844665521&fb=1&split=1&gl=au&dq=pro+am+new+lambton&daddr=Adamstown+Plaza,+289+Brunker+Rd,+Adamstown+NSW+2289&geocode=9224659674105396434,-32.935889,151.725929&ei=fHavSoXrFNaMkAXv-LiWBg&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=directions-to&resnum=1. To book your place ( there are a few left) call David Barnes 02 49655879. I hope to see you there, we will have lots of fun.