Melbourne Portrait Workshop and Calder Park drive day shoot?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:21 pmFollowing the success of the Sydney workshop, I have had an offer of a venue for a similar Melbourne event.
The venue is a small studio, with a particular style of lighting setup that will work very nicely for what we did in Sydney, and it also has a background setup, so it's a perfect venue for what we need.
So ... we need to determine if there's enough interest to make this happen. I'd be wanting between 6 and 10 participants, and I'd be very surpprised if we were unable to garner that sort of interest.
Logistical issues that need to be sorted are that we need to have a couple of models. If we can get two who were as good as Dee and Jacinta, we would really be cooking.
I could ask each of them if they were willing to make a trip to Melbourne for this, but if so, we would need to cover all of their expenses for the trip. I don't know if that's viable or acceptable to anyone, but I thought I would raise the question here and see what sort of responses it generates.
Alternatively, we could try to get some local people as models. I'm comfortable either way, but this would be your event, and I'll be guided by what you want.
Now .... here's an interesting point, and I have yet to float this one in the appropriate quarters. I also haven't checked my personal schedule for this one, and this may just be pie in the sky, but I'll raise this here anyway.
As you know, we're having a day, in November, for a few lucky Sydney members at Oran Park where they will have the run of the circuit during a U-Drive drive day. This event gives those lucky members pretty well unlimited circuit access to permit them unhindered shooting of the cars. Panning, prefocus, tap focus ... a great way to get your hand and eye in.
I know that Andrew users Calder Park Raceway as his Melbourne base, and I have a calendar for some of his upcoming days, which shows me a date in the not too distant future. This particular date seems to be on or adjacent to a weekend, which means that one of my primary objections to holding a day shoot in Melbourne - the lack of a known quantity as the lead for the day - could be overcome were we able to take advantage of the timing potential that I think I may be seeing here.
So ... we have a number of different questions to consider ...
1: Is there interest in a Melbourne portraiture workshop?
2: If there is, how do we want to address the issues of dealing with the models: see if we can get either or both of the ladies we used last Saturday, bearing in mind that this would incur some form foem of contribution from participants, or would you prefer to try to source some local people for this?
3: Is there interest in a shoot at one of U-Drive's Drive Days at Calder Park?
Over to you.
The venue is a small studio, with a particular style of lighting setup that will work very nicely for what we did in Sydney, and it also has a background setup, so it's a perfect venue for what we need.
So ... we need to determine if there's enough interest to make this happen. I'd be wanting between 6 and 10 participants, and I'd be very surpprised if we were unable to garner that sort of interest.
Logistical issues that need to be sorted are that we need to have a couple of models. If we can get two who were as good as Dee and Jacinta, we would really be cooking.
I could ask each of them if they were willing to make a trip to Melbourne for this, but if so, we would need to cover all of their expenses for the trip. I don't know if that's viable or acceptable to anyone, but I thought I would raise the question here and see what sort of responses it generates.
Alternatively, we could try to get some local people as models. I'm comfortable either way, but this would be your event, and I'll be guided by what you want.
Now .... here's an interesting point, and I have yet to float this one in the appropriate quarters. I also haven't checked my personal schedule for this one, and this may just be pie in the sky, but I'll raise this here anyway.
As you know, we're having a day, in November, for a few lucky Sydney members at Oran Park where they will have the run of the circuit during a U-Drive drive day. This event gives those lucky members pretty well unlimited circuit access to permit them unhindered shooting of the cars. Panning, prefocus, tap focus ... a great way to get your hand and eye in.
I know that Andrew users Calder Park Raceway as his Melbourne base, and I have a calendar for some of his upcoming days, which shows me a date in the not too distant future. This particular date seems to be on or adjacent to a weekend, which means that one of my primary objections to holding a day shoot in Melbourne - the lack of a known quantity as the lead for the day - could be overcome were we able to take advantage of the timing potential that I think I may be seeing here.
So ... we have a number of different questions to consider ...
1: Is there interest in a Melbourne portraiture workshop?
2: If there is, how do we want to address the issues of dealing with the models: see if we can get either or both of the ladies we used last Saturday, bearing in mind that this would incur some form foem of contribution from participants, or would you prefer to try to source some local people for this?
3: Is there interest in a shoot at one of U-Drive's Drive Days at Calder Park?
Over to you.
