Had a great shoot with Filipina graphic design student, promo model and pageant Carmen Baena yesterday, who had only done 3 shoots before, was a little nervous, but heaps of fun (she’s super photogenic I think!). As usual, my direction was a little lacking but I feel that great conversation always makes up for this, and I’m still finding myself taking snaps between poses in order to find the most natural shots.
All the shots up on my folio now: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/#/carmen/
Check out all dem buttons on the back!
GF6 with kit lens + substantially larger underwater case on the right.
Camera in the case, it’s a tight fit!
All ready to go.
I’ve been asked to do a maternity shoot. I was asked to take nudes of a very pregnant woman around 15 years ago, and refused back then because I wasn’t confident enough at the time, but I’m up for the challenge now.
I was thinking silhouetted (which is something I like to do anyways), black & white perhaps. I thought I’d ask for opinions and suggestions on Facebook and I had a friend (here’s looking at you Jenny!) suggest “underwater”!
I’m well aware of the various underwater cases available for popular cameras out there. I’m an eBay junkie and every time I’ve owned a camera I love those cases pop up in eBay searches. The case I ended up with says it’s waterproof to up to 40M, that’s way more than I need. It fits my GF6 with it’s 14-42mm kit lens, comes with a neck strap, wrist rope, spare O-ring gasket and water sealing grease you’re meant to use every time you seal the camera in the unit.
The kit lens isn’t my fave lens for the GF6, but I’m excited to give this a go. It’s pretty well built and every single button/function on the camera works too!
Had a snappy shoot with Julie yesterday. Julie’s a nurse who works in emergency, she’s seen all sorts of hardcore shit which made for some pretty interesting conversation! Follow her on Instagram: @msjmyra
View the Full Set Here: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/#/julie/
Had my second shoot with Cara yesterday, and whilst our first shoot was pretty hot, we got even hotter this time! Some of the shots were a little too hot to use in the end and that’s made me question a few things.
I’ve had quite a bit of time to assess and re-assess what I’ve been doing with photography lately. I’m still learning so much, and hungry to push myself further. My concerns about people questioning the validity or respectability of my new “hobby” is slowly but surely being put to rest and I’m starting to be more open to trying new things, be it a maternity shoot (on the cards in the next few months!) or erotic, which I think might be a tougher than I expect as I can’t say that I like the idea of people fapping over my images, so shooting erotic photography whilst still keeping it “classy” (need a better word for this, “real” perhaps?) will be a challenge.
Ultimately I’m trying my best to shoot and capture something beautiful with the person in front of me, with as little direction and post editing as possible. Who am I to tell my models what poses to do, or what to wear? I simply shoot what’s in front of me to my best ability and I’m starting to feel really comfortable with that.
You can view the full set here (warning though, as mentioned above, some of the images are a little racy!). Click: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/#/cara-1/
Someone reported a photo I uploaded to my own personal facebook page. Really?! Facebook let me know that they were going to review the report over the next 2 days, and they gave me the option of deleting my post (which I wouldn’t of-course!). Within a few hours I got a message to tell me they reviewed my image and found that it didn’t violate their guidelines on nudity. It’s a small win, but it feels significant (and good!).
Spent a grey Saturday day shooting with Natalie last weekend. Natalie’s a switched on Environmental Science student who sings well, drives a convertible BMW 1 series, has a thing for hiking and competed in this year’s Miss Australia Chinese Pageant. Shooting with Nat was much like hanging out, which is what I strive for with all my shoots! We shot at the beach house (a7s + 55mm Zeiss). I hope you enjoy the shots.
For the full set, visit: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/#/natalie/
Had a really special shoot with Kimmy yesterday. Beautiful girl, great conversation.
I’m starting to wish I could publish the stories. Over the 3 or so hours of shooting each girl I usually get to know them as best I can (in order to capture the person as best I can), and some of the stories I hear… amazing (personal, sensitive and fascinating).
More in my folio (NSFW nudity warning): http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/
Follow: @kimmykay___
Had the pleasure of shooting with this lovely girl yesterday. I first met Naomi at a pub around about 2 years ago. We clicked, and talked (maybe I did all the talking?!) all night. I randomly dropped her a message recently asking if she’d like to catch up, and shoot. She’d never done a shoot before, and was a little nervous about it, but after a bit of chatting that nervous energy soon turned into excitement and yesterday we got together to take some shots at the beach house.
More photos here: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com/#/naomi/
I’ve been interviewed in the current issue of Infocus Australasia, but now I need to go out and buy an iPad to view it! HAHA!
The issue is FREE, download it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/infocus-australasia/id627335324?mt=8
