Christmas Portraits created ric woods photography

Our studio looks like the lay by department at David Jones. Maree and Bridie have been working furiously to have all these images matted and framed by the 24th Dec to put in Santa's Sleigh.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank David, Natasha and Zara at Pro Am photography Lab and Karen,Peter and Meg at The Framing Game for their support and flexibility in their working hours.

Last Sunday I got a phone call from the Framing Game double checking on our instructions for a collage to be framed. When did you last get service like that? They use materials of very high quality.
David and Zara at Pro Am have really extended themselves to help us have all our late orders ready. Ive tried other labs as a back up, they have not been able to produce images to the standard we demand.Davids background as a Commercial photographer and Tafe teacher are invaluable.
We have increased our sales of images this year more than 300%, it is directly due to our care and passion for photography and the businesses like Pro Am and The Framing Game.

A huge thanks from ric ,maree and bridie. have a safe Christmas Everyone.


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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