(08/08/08 Edited to include pic of Dunhill X-Centric)
(05/08/08 Edited to include pic of Primavera Pizza)
(17/08/08 Edited to include pic of rusted lock)
(26/09/08 Edited to include pic of sunset)
(23/10/08 Edited to include a day at the park pic)
Hi folks,
The last 7 months or so I have been learning the art of photography and I've been loving every step of the way!!
In this thread I will post the best pics I have shot from various shoots I have done.
Please feel free to critique my work and provide tips if you have a better way of doing the same thing!
For those interested my gear is:
Canon 5D, 30D
24-70 USM 2.8L
Speedlite 580EXII (x2)
Elinchrom D-Lite 4.
Will kick this thread of with this pic of Milly from a shoot we did in my studio at home a couple of weeks ago.
I really love this pic and Milly does too!
Thoughts?
Last edited by bjwok on Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:01 am; edited 8 times in total And here is a food pic - this is a Primavera pizza from The Strand where i work as a pizza cook on weekends.
(mozarella cheese, nap base, artichokes, roasted capsicum garnished with basil pesto and shaved parmesan cheese)
Last edited by bjwok on Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:46 am; edited 1 time in total Very nice work. Make the pizza look amazing, can I have a slice? 
thanks champ! virtual slice sent your way! lol!
Wow. your good. nice job. Great Art!
thanks very much! and i agree there is a art to making good pizza!
here's another style of photography i have been getting into lately:
the product shot!
and the excellent bokeh on the 24-70L USM gives dedicated macro lens a go for there money!
and of course, what photography site would be complete without the obligatory sunset pic?
You are really good, do you ever think of being a professional? I like you can do great things for magazines, and newspapers.
thanks mate, funny you should mention it - last weekend i did my first paid photography work for Rip It Up magazine, covering two different music festivals and a latin hip hop band at another venue later that night. was great to be paid for what i love doing!! will post some of the pics here soon...
you have some awesome work! the food looks yummy and i love the one with the door/rusty key lock. Congrats on your first paid work also, i know its great to get paid for what we love to do 
look forward to your future pieces! thanks mate! i will be sure to post some of the pics here for all to see Congratulation with being paid, not easy to make a living of something almost everyone can do these days. A lovely sample of things you have photographed, love the sunset, rusty door and the black/white portrait is stunning, great use of light
thanks champ, but i have to say i am not making a living off it yet! in fact it is my third paying job behind my 9-5er in design and my weekend gig as a pizza cook! would love it to be my main job but i doubt it could bring in as much cash as the other two.
thanks for the compliments too, got lots more coming to my site shortly, stay tuned! ok here is a pic from the first of the three paid gigs i had over the last weekend:
this gig was at the semaphore music festival, the second was "a day at the park" and the third was a latin hip hop/salsa 9 piece band called LABJACD at the gov. and all three gigs were very different!
the semaphore music festival is a free folk festival on the foreshore at semaphore beach. i was there from 12 to 3, possibly the worst time of the day for photography, but I managed to get something decent.
more to come... From the Semaphore Music Festival I went directly to the A Day At The Park festival. Interesting crowd difference at this gig: younger, full of energy and full of happiness!
This pic is Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock plus a whole bunch of happy punters!
Great pics! Where is that place in the sunset picture?
thanks nathan,
that sunset was a place called mount gap (local name only) and it's on the mid coast south of adelaide, south australia.
i checked your portfolio mate, some amazing stuff in there - i really dig the clock one the most.
something i thought of to make your site better: remove the blurb about you "only being an amateur" and instead portray yourself higher! your photos certainly do not spell amateur to me!
For that product shot, what did you use for a background when taking the photo? I've always wanted to created photos like that.
hey champ,
i used a simple, home-made lightbox:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=945452&l=34d67&id=713576072
the styrofoam box was one that we get basil delivered in to the restaurant I work part time at, the lights were two halogen 500 watt work lamps and the background was either black or white cardboard (depending on the subject) Fantastic. This is exactly what I need to make. And since it is cheap to do, I won't feel obligated to always have to use it exactly!
hey, just a hint, try to get a deeper foam box than the one i have in that pic. i have found it a little limiting and am looking for a deeper one to get more separation from the background.
cool stuff, i'm always a fan of DIY products, much cheaper and controls the quality of light almost the same and if not better depends on how you make it. Want to head to the hardware store and make a DIY ringflash over the weekend, gonna ask my other photographer friend for some help on that.
Wow, those pictures were amazing. I especially liked the first one!
...and Canon 5D. I get water in my mouth. That's something!
Beautiful sunset too thanks mate
5D is awesome, and with my new 70-200 f/2.8L IS lens it is ME who gets wet at the mouth!! ive never owned a real nice camera but i want to buy one soon before winter hits and the snow is falling around here, what would you recommend starting out with for somebody who has never owned a digital slr but is good at taking photos and knows how to use one.
hey man, get a canon 30d with a kit lens, it's how i started and you won't regret it!
