Lake Macquarie House-ric woods photography

We were commissioned to shoot a house on Lake Macquarie for some builders.
The client wanted the roof line captured as the hero shot. A difficult job, although the house was great to walk through with interesting levels,up close the finished textures were simple and did not lend itself to stunning still images.We decided to mask the finer detail and light up the outside taking advantage of the dramatic slope of the land.

We placed 5 strobes outside the house gelled to match the interior lights.In camera the the back grass was let to go black to create a dramatic line up to the sloped roof. This decision was made as there was a septic tank in the foreground and the lawn was patchy. The client asked to have lawn placed in the shot in post production, they say the customer is always right. I would have left it drop to black

Vision Financial Planners shoot

We have been working with Vision Financial Planners http://www.visionfp.com.au/Staff/hamish_f.html developing a new clean look for their staff profiles. These guys are a great firm and now I use their services myself...us visual people don't do numbers well, so I delegate that stuff to the experts.They are heavily in involved in housing loans so we decided that we would shoot them outside in front of some of those new blue buildings in Newcastle.(see the set up below)

This worked really well until we needed to shoot 3 more staff and the winter weather produced weeks of wind and rain making it impossible make a reliable shoot schedule. So we made another plan ( see video)

We also are able to offer our clients other image styles for their web and brochures.Below is a DL flyer that we illustrated for Vision FP.These are hand dont and photographed then taken into Photoshop for refinement and the addition oif colour. I use Photoshop because I dont have enough timer to learn Illustrator and Indesign...