Putting the galaxy projector to good use! Jess leaves for overseas soon, and I leave for Japan next week (eek!) so we had to squeeze one more shoot in before our goodbyes! Shooting in the dark was crazy hard, but Jess and I have a great connection, which made it super fun!
Last Sunday I had a shoot with Cam Tu Nguyen, a girl who I’ve featured on Zen Garage before (shot by Nic Mesker, Cam is one of Nic’s fave muses). Cam came around in the morning. I was still on a high from the shoot with Pauline, and like that shoot, Cam and I just ended up having a great D&M straight off the bat. We could have chatted all day (well, we did actually!), but we thought we’d make the most of the amazing weather and shoot outdoors (something I’ve not done with a model yet), but like I said… I was on a high from shooting with Pauline, who’s been mentoring me a little and my newfound confidence is helping me to try new things without fear.
We drive down to Botany and did a small trek down to some rocks. The initial idea was to get to the old war bunkers but Cam was in heels, which made it pretty much impossible (next time!). We grabbed some burgers at some point, then rattled off a few shots at home. Feeling adventurous we then shot in my R32 Golf. Again, something I never really wanted to do. Photos of girls with cars just don’t do it for me, most of the time they’re pretty tacky, but I reckon we pulled it off in style and they’re some of my fave pics from the day.
I’ll be sure to shoot with Cam again. Was super fun and felt a lot more like hanging out than working, which is exactly how I want it to be!
Be sure to follow Cam on Instagram: http://instagram.com/camm_n
Today I had a photoshoot with restaurant owner, author and international speaker Pauline Nguyen of Red Lantern. Pauline’s such an inspirational woman! I absolutely love how she carries herself. She’s an awesome listener (I talked a LOT!), but when she opens her mouth to say something I’M ALL EARS! I really enjoyed talking with her pre and post shoot just as much as taking photos of her in silence whilst she was doing her (quite intense) yoga routine.
Had a great shoot at the beach house yesterday with actress Ari Putnam, who brought a LOT of energy to the shoot. Ari also brought a whole suitcase full of gear. You’d think she was moving in! Lots of great Black Milk stuff which was fun to shoot. Be sure to follow her on instagram: @ariputnam.
All the photos gathered from the Zen Photowalk last weekend are now up on the Zen Blog! Was such an awesome day out, so much luck was on our side, from the rain holding out, to the cops not pressing charges when they caught us breaking into the Rozelle Tram sheds!!! Check out the full feature, it’s a rippa!
Great news to kick off this miserably cold and grey day. My photography has been featured on French blog “Whitezine” which has been around since 2009. Props to Joseph Ayoub, the site’s founder on both the feature, and on keeping his blog running strong all this time.
Visit: http://www.whitezine.com/en/photography/justin-fox.html
A couple of weeks ago I put a call out to get Automotive Photographers to submit their images for a feature on Zen in an aim to get more traffic to their web sites and Instagram followers.
I’ve always been a massive supporter of the little guy. Most if not all of the creative projects I’ve birthed have been about encouraging young people to create, and giving them a platform to get their work published, sometimes literally on the very same page as some of the world’s best. That goes a long way, seeing your work published right next to your heroes work.
In regards to photography I’ve seen first hand what a little encouragement can do, some of my fave photographers out there right now weren’t great at all when I first started promoting their work, now they’re fucking amazing.
So I knew there would be some great entries! BEST OF AUTO – Best of Automotive Photography Volume #01 is now live! Thanks and congrats to all photographers who submitted a photo!
Visit: http://www.zengarage.com.au/2014/08/best-of-auto-volume-001/
Forgot to mention, a photo of mine has been spotted on theCHIVE, a site I’d heard of before but never visited. I just took a look, it’s one of those ‘funny images’ sites, probably most popular with young guys. They’ve got over a million facebook fans, which is pretty impressive, what isn’t quite impressive though is they didn’t credit me for using my shot of Jasmine snacking on Nutella in my kitchen! Not exactly upset about it, but would have loved the spike in traffic!
View the original feature here: http://thechive.com/2014/08/08/hungry-yet-58-photos-2
Another Day Another Shoot! Quite a while back Dale from DM Motorsport (who worked the wheel alignment on my MX5) asked me if I’d be keen to shoot his girlfriend Elissa. We never managed to hook it up until today.
Turns out Elissa’s studying graphic design, she also work part time as a Hooters Girl! Surprisingly it was a really tough shoot. Low light which I’m still not 100% comfortable in, and Elissa was super nervous (despite us both sharing an interest in graphic design and me talking my head off as usual!!!). I do pride myself on making my models feel comfortable, and have had such great feedback from the girls I’ve shot with in regards to this, but Elissa’s not a model and I’m not that great with direction, that and the low light made for a lot of shots I just couldn’t use.
In the end I’m glad we moved from the bedroom into the lounge room where I got Elissa to just sit, chill and play with her phone. I took myself out of her face, whacked the 25mm lens on and stood quite far back to capture some of the shots above, which I’m really happy with actually. Little lesson in persistence for me!
A little while back Flickr changed their entire interface, and it shat me to tears, lots of people moved over to 500px but I didn’t bother, mainly because I’ve been with Flickr since the very start and I’m lazy like that.
Jess was talking about 500px the other day and I thought I might as well look into it now that I’ve got a newfound hobby for photography. I posted up a status on my facebook asking the photographers out there about which is better, Flickr or 500px, in the end I was convinced to give it a go and I’m glad I have.
Creating an account was as easy as signing in through facebook. I could then import my images directly from Flickr. I had Florida based Photographer Jordan Donnelly on messenger chat and he guided me through what I should and shouldn’t do. Basically he suggested a few people for me to follow, and most importantly he suggested that I only upload my best work (as opposed to anything and everything on Flickr).
I didn’t bother too much with adding descriptions and tags etc. and I didn’t bother promoting my new 500px page either. Within 24hrs I’ve had quite a lot of reach on some of my photographs. 255 faves on my shots, 3,035 views and 32 followers. 500px also promoted 2 of my photos in their DISCOVER section. That’s pretty awesome. So far, so good!
Visit: http://500px.com/justinfoxau