Kynan-born to be in front of the lens-ric woods photography

We had the pleasure of photographing Kynan the other day.Get this guy an agent! We come across some fantastic little personalities in this industry and this little fellow is in the top 10.Did I also say he works the camera like a pro?

Certainly there is work out there for this little guy in the modelling world

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TEENS AGAINST WHALING-Skye Bortoli

Skye Bortoli is a wonderful young lady on a mission. At a recent shoot for the launch of a new product she filled us in on her quest. www.teensagainstwhaling.net is a strong group of young people determined to stop the slaughter of whales. Their latest goal is to send 1,000,000 postcards to the US President. Billabong is one of her sponsors and if you buy one of her stylish T shirts ( see film clip) , Billabong will donate $5.00 to help the cause...

Skye was a great professional and easy to shoot. The brief was to do some lifestyle shots, light, happy and young...that came easy. We also had a huge shot list of the new product she is launching ( a secret at the moment). Monique , Skye's mum and Skye we able to keep up the pace with the help of fruit juice, biscuits and a huge bag of red frogs that eventually evaporated.....Well done, good luck with your worthy mission.

Little Swallows -Hamilton nsw -australia

Angelo commissioned me to photograph his last official night as owner of the Little Swallows Restaurant in Hamilton NSW AUSTRALIA. Ive been going there for 20 years. I believe it was been running over near the Junction prior to that for another 15 years with Angelo's dad ( now deceased) being to big boss.

Angelo below

I have many memeories of Angelo sitting there with the older Italian customers barking at him to get them another coffee...he was the boy then ,it was good to see.





They (mostly) have very friendly and attractive staff and the food was always good value.

I always enjoyed to food.The squid with garlic, spaghetti marinara and veal lusco....fantastic

Its still running I believe the guys from the "COLD ROCK" purchased it.

These images were shot on a D300 with a 17-50 2.8 lens. ISO 400 with bounced SB600 flash on camera.

They look really good converted to BW but BW shots for the food....just don't work here.I can still smell the garlic.Thanks to Ange and his fantastic staff for all the fine meals and GREAT COFFEE!!!

BLUE WORLD ORDER SHOOT

We did a band shoot the other day Rob of BLUE WORLD ORDER has been wanting to update their website for some time.We had scouted a few venues looking for something a little different than the wrecking yard stuff and urban grunge that is the signature of bands that play rock.


Rob found this factory that he said he could rent for a slab
so Maree ( my prod mgr) and myself loaded the gear and headed out.
We didn't know what to expect so we needed to pack everything we could.
I use a trolley for my gear that is secured by tie down straps.The reason I like this is that I can take lots of gear in one trip if I'm working by myself .I don't suggest you carry half your gear to the shoot leave it there and go back for the rest....that doesn't work.

I also take things like towels,umbrellas and ground sheets.It was raining really hard so I can load the trolley under the umbrella ,cover the gear with the ground sheet and off we go.

Its a good idea to have a fluro vest,steel caps ,safety eye wear and ear plugs on board if you doing stuff like this,with the insurance ( I do hope you have public liability) and OHS stuff if your not prepared..the shoot is over before your started. There is a short video at the next entry , its got no sound but you might get a glimpse of the gear on the ground sheet, many times I need to packup in the dark..all camera gear is black and hard to find.One of those headlamp LEDs is always in my kit.I carry sandbags for the stands as well.The ground was covered in very sharp metal shavings that Maree was picking out of her shoes after the shoot so good footwear is advised.Another important thing is a change of clothes in the car.Once on a wedding shoot in a rather exclusive businessman's club I tore that backside out of my trousers setting up some strobes just before the toasts...without a spare pair....there would be much black gaff tape to start a new fashion...


We were shooting a D300 with a 24-70 2.8.It was firing 2xsb600 strobes left and right of camera gobo'd to eliminate lens flare, I think they were at about 1/4 power not gelled.I wanted a clean edge light as I wanted to go mono in the final images with some blue in the shadows....non of these images are finished, this is not about post production , this entry is about the setup.
Maree needed to gobo the umbrella because the flare was a problem in some images. You can see some flare in the lower colour image, it looks OK but Id rather have the image clean, you can put the stuff in later.


I fired 2xSB600 strobes through the umbrella.Its much better to fire 2 strobes at 1/2 power than to struggle with slow recycle times with one at full power.The SB28s have optic triggers but I still fire them all with pocket wizard radio triggers

We were to shoot a few different group shots and a few solo portraits.Its a good Idea I find to shoot a few wide to allow magazine text and remember CD/DVD covers are square.

ric woods blog

Welcome to my new blog ...I hope to bring you behind the scenes of some of the work we do at ric woods photography studio's at carrington nsw australia. website http://www.ricwoods.com/

Maree Nichols the studio production manager (seen here receiving make-up from our make-up and hair stylist Jo Nelson http://www.jonelsonmake-up.com/ will also be making an appearance and giving a few hints on the organisation, the shoots and subjects.