Here’s a raw, unedited straight off the camera.
Had another shoot today with Rosamina. I’m getting the hang of the Sony a7S, using the viewfinder instead of the screen all day, still awkward (my shut eye won’t stay shut I feel like I need to wear an eye patch!!!!!) but I’m getting there! I might even make the move to start playing with Lightroom?! I’ve got it, but have never used it.
PS: All the edited photos are now live on my photography portfolio site: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com
I’m a WordPress guy (well, an HTML guy actually, wish I could turn back time and dominate the web like I did once in the 90’s lol), but recently I’ve been thinking about setting up a photography folio of some sort as tumblr is just not cutting it (6 months into shooting and I’ve got too many images now, and with tumblr I can’t re-organise or sort images).
I started looking into some WordPress base themes but failed to find the right solution (short of hacking to death and using plugins to make it all happen). My developer flatmate suggested I look at Squarespace. I did some research, played with a demo for a few hours and found it pretty damn impressive in regards to getting your content onto a site as quickly and as easily as possible. It’s a bit buggy, and starts to take a toll on your browser (I had to close the window a couple of times and log back in to get it up to speed again).
You can check out my work in progress so far (I signed up for 12 months at around $170 with the use of a coupon code). PS: NSFW Nudity Warning!). Visit: http://www.justinfoxphoto.com
Some of my photos from a shoot with Shontelle made it to Arsenic Magazine (such a rad mag!).
Visit: http://arsenicthemagazine.com/submissions/2014/10/19/shontelle-mcfarlane
Had a shoot with Nicole Castle yesterday. Nicole reached out over email. Turns out she’s a friend of Britta’s (who I shot a while back, revisit those pics here), and having just started competing in the modelling scene she was after some photos.
I heard her rock up before I saw her! Nicole drives a modified turbocharged Mini (mad!). She’s a lawyer by day and has a kink for good interior design as she’s currently busy doing up her own pad in Manly at the moment. She’s all smiles, laughs and legs! Super fun to hang out with, be sure to follow her on Instagram: @njc3788.
PS: I got to shoot with my new Sony A7s. Straight off the bat I found the lens a bit too tight. I just can’t fit anything into frame (Nicole’s quite tall too, fitting her in full frame head to toe on the couch, and bed were pretty impossible!). Focussing is damn frustrating too as the camera just wants to spot focus in the centre of the frame, and I can’t just simply point on the screen to where I want the lens to focus, so now I’m shooting in a completely different way. IE: Pointing at what I want to focus on, them moving to frame and shoot. I’m also finding myself using the viewfinder, which again is a bit new and unnatural to me after the GF1 and GF6, though I like it and will most likely persist with it. LOTS of my shots were out of focus unfortunately. I’ve since changed my focus mode to wide, might even try focus locking next time too.
Mon shot by IVORY LUX for Zen Garage. So Fashion. Love this shoot, so much. Thanks to the amazing Breanna Espina for making this happen. More on Zen Blog: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2014/11/zen-babe-mon-shot-by-ivory-lux/
Carl Zeiss UV Filter. So clear that it’s a bit trippy.
Feels good to hold, but the springy shutter button feels a bit cheap and nasty.
GF6 vs a&S size comparo.
The decision was made to upgrade to a Sony a7S with Zeiss 55mm F1.8. Daniel from OFIM put me on to a good deal with Marcus at digiDIRECT in Westfield’s Bondi Junction. I ended up taking the camera home, and bought a Zeiss UV Filter to protect the lens, a new memory card too.
The camera comes with 2 batteries! That’s pretty cool. The charger is pretty slim, and there’s a USB/wall charger too so I had both batteries charging in no time. It’s substantially bigger and heavier than my GF6 setup, but it’s nowhere near as heavy as Matt or Ved’s DSLR setups. The focussing feels slower than my GF6, either way I’m looking forward to playing with this camera!
Had a great shoot yesterday with Malaysian girl Cara Lee, a little pocket rocket who brought along heaps of energy. Always makes a huge difference when you can converse well with your models! Follow Cara on Instagram: @nomediocre_x
Had a snappy shoot with Jaymee yesterday. Jaymee reached out to me on Facebook after seeing photos I took with Shontelle, she was more than happy to pay for a shoot but I’m still not so comfortable with charging (needs more thought!), and I was having a good day, so I just said yes!
I’d like to keep shooting just for the fun of it, but then again I do want to upgrade to a full frame camera after playing around with Matthew Mead’s setup last weekend at the Zen Photowalk. Hopefully I’ll be upgrading tomorrow thanks to internet friends who chimed in with lots of great suggestions on my Facebook profile.
PS: More photos on my Tumblr (NSFW!): http://justinfox.tumblr.com
Zen Photowalk #2 was to Cockatoo Island! Perfect weather (luckily it wasn’t the day before, where temperatures were through the roof) and a much bigger crowd than our first Photowalk! Was such a great day out. Matthew Mead and I are already discussing locations for the next one! Look out for the full feature, featuring work from all the photographers on the day, on Zen Blog soon.
Group Shot! In the end one of the staff from inside the office came out to shoot it for us.
The first of many more gulls we saw that day.
Stefan and Milly were already on the island when we arrived.
Matt was only sweet to Milly to steal her camera.
Photographer Extraordinaire. Garry Trinh. Check out his work here, he’s amazing.
Turns out it’s breeding season and there were gulls laying eggs everywhere.
One of 2 deep tunnels.
Something I’ve always wondered. What do baby gulls look like. Now I know!!!
Mead directing Moo loves to direct. Firmly! So direct!
We ended it with pizza and beers at the bar.
Prosciutto Pizza is tha bomb!
Sunset Moo.
On the express ferry home. Goodbye Cockatoo Island. You were awesome.
Hey Bill!
