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Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:40 am**

On Jones Bay Wharf today, they are filming a european Hair commerical involving a good looking model and a small helicopter landing metres from our deck and office space. If anyone has some free time they are currently setting up for the helicopter to land (it was here yesterday, but I was at home.. grrrr).

Jones Bay Wharf is in Pyrmont, near the Star City Casino, let me know if you need more directions ?

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:40 am**

First helicopter just landed, and it was just to drop off the director / or film dude, snapped a few shots of his big arse lens. Just dumping the CF to HD, so I have a empty card for the real helicopter

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:27 am**

It's nice when the photo opps come to you!

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:29 am**

You must have a great job Craig :wink:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:29 am**

I just took a few of the model, but I missed the today's first take, and I have too many meetings today, but I'll try to sneak out and take a few more during the day.

Strange having helicopter land within spitting distance... unfortunately during shooting they have the helicopter running, so it's rather noisy!

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:01 am**

We have had our first wardrobe mulfunction and also our first hissy fit from the model. It really its a LOT of work behind even just a shot commerical, it must be expensive too!

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:05 pm**

Alpha_7 wrote:We have had our first wardrobe mulfunction and also our first hissy fit from the model. It really its a LOT of work behind even just a shot commerical, it must be expensive too!

I hope you got shots of the hissy fit

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:26 pm**

There was more then one.

Shooting at this location has just finished, I think the rest will be airborne shots from a second chopper. It was an interesting experience watching them at work, it's not as easy as it looks.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:50 pm**

Craig, are we going to see any?

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:53 pm**

Alpha_7 wrote:There was more then one.

Shooting at this location has just finished, I think the rest will be airborne shots from a second chopper. It was an interesting experience watching them at work, it's not as easy as it looks.

You get paid for work and you enjoyed your time. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:01 pm**

Well I haven't post processed any, and well these are the only ones I've converted to Jpeg so far, as we all had a general giggle (my office) at the wardrobe malfunction which I briefly caught on (can't say film) caught on CF.

If they are considered it to bad taste then please delete the post, had you seen how posh and pretension this darling was, you may have found it funnier. Lots of work to do (yes, I do do work too,) I'll post more tonight if I get a chance.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:03 pm**

great legs :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:34 pm**

Craig, well caught, the face in the last shot completes the story

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:00 pm**

I have a few other shots of her of the dummy spits, where you can see her getting agro. It was a fun event to observe, pity they blocked public access at the bottom so I had to shoot only from the deck, but I'm pretty happy with the view it afforded, one a good note they didn't seem to care I was shooting them, shooting her. I used the 80-200 extensively, the kit for a few wider shots and also took out the neglected 70-300G for a few shots near the end.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:27 pm**

Craig, mate great shots and well i have to say say nice ass, when i seen the first shot as i scrolled down and thought wow come on blow that dress up and well as i scrolled yehaaaa nice butt. Oh and legs and well yeh we want more, top pics mate.
Love em

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:33 pm**

if only she knew ........ models charge a lot of money when doing underware pix's....... well captured and at the right price

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:34 pm**

You lucky bastard Craig.

That look on the model's face in the last shot ams teh hilarity!

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:57 pm**

damn...

the face definitely tells a story in the last shot...

cheers

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:02 pm**

You’re a lucky bugger Craig

If I had been that close to legs of that stature all I would have had too many camera shake pics :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:09 pm**

Seen those legs and her bump, I've to find something to do tonight :oops:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:12 pm**

sirhc55 wrote:You’re a lucky bugger Craig If I had been that close to legs of that stature all I would have had to many camera shake pics

only when you become of an age to appreciate quality, it is the rest of your system that COULD let you down, now in this case I could go out happy........

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:12 pm**

Right place, Right time. Brilliant. And the last shot is a classic. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:16 pm**

more to share ?

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:17 pm**

Man, you guys are all perves! She's probably just having a bad day. :wink:

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:42 pm**

Excellent images! Well captured. A delightful moment in time.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:58 pm**

nice capture and great sequence - tells an interesting story.

check out the GI joe kung fu grip on the handbag and sunnies throughout the sequence - obviously worth much more than a little modesty.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:12 pm**

Cant help myself, but Craig i think one or two of these should be POTW, fair dinkhum damn mate wheres the rest???? lol

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:20 pm**

BBJ wrote:Cant help myself, but Craig i think one or two of these should be POTW, fair dinkhum damn mate wheres the rest???? lol

LOL, too be honest I'd feel kind of cheap getting a POTW at someone elses expense, but thanks for the compliment...

I do have more shots I want to share, but I've currently wading through months of paper work, and I have a strict deadline.. once it's out of the way the shots will be shared more freely

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:36 pm**

As a distraction from the paper work I converted a few more shots to Jpegs, straight from camera with a quick and dirty resize (sorry no sharpening). There are a little more sedate

Meh, Work suck! Here are some more. A couple of equipment shots.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:46 pm**

thanks for these craig !!

marvin.. if you had what we have , you would look at them differently, it's a curse !!!!!! but we males struggle on

cheers rob

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:15 am**

Craig, noticed you captured the male model as the first shot of your second series :wink:

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:38 am**

Glen wrote:Craig, noticed you captured the male model as the first shot of your second series

Hehe, I actually planned that shot as the last one in that post, but got them confused. Trust me the male models were better looking, well atleast better dressed then I am here.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:46 am**

Alpha_7 wrote:
Glen wrote:Craig, noticed you captured the male model as the first shot of your second series
Hehe, I actually planned that shot as the last one in that post, but got them confused. Trust me the male models were better looking, well atleast better dressed then I am here.

But no show of his underwear like the girl :lol:

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:26 am**

Sorry ladies, but there was no male waredrobe mulfuntions. But I will include a few shots of them when I get a chance.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:29 am**

Alpha_7 wrote:Sorry ladies, but there was no male waredrobe mulfuntions. But I will include a few shots of them when I get a chance.

...voyeur maybe... :lol:

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:05 am**

Great shots Craig.
The guy with the straw hat and massive lens - is it Rokkstar?

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:06 am**

Geoff wrote:Great shots Craig.
The guy with the straw hat and massive lens - is it Rokkstar?

Maybe he's made it in the industry already... shame on him for not letting us know

Here are a few chopper shots and also a Male model... not looking his best

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:11 am**

excellent shots craig they look like advert art directed shots excellent angle and tone.
was the contrast due to huge lights on the model or did you get snazzy and play around with your settings?

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:17 am**

wendellt wrote:excellent shots craig they look like advert art directed shots excellent angle and tone.
was the contrast due to huge lights on the model or did you get snazzy and play around with your settings?

Wendell, I didn't really tweak my settings much, at first I was shooting A Priority but quickly changed to using Shutter priority at 1/500sec I then need minor adjustments for the EV and shot a lot of Centre Weighted and Spot Metering.

So at a guess the contrast is due to the lights not my skills at tweaking, oh and sadly no PP has been done yet, hopefully it will help improve some of the shots.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:21 am**

Some great shots. I particularly like how you have frozen her mid-step as she exits the chopper. I am drawn to that strong straight leg...
Great series.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:52 am**

Get out of the chopper, shake head to capture hair in breeze...just another day at the office

Great series mate

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:40 pm**

Willigan wrote:Get out of the chopper, shake head to capture hair in breeze...just another day at the office

Great series mate

That's pretty much it, but do it multiple times, from different angles, different combinations of glasses on, glasses off, etc

Funnily she had a 'stunt double' so she didn't have to get tired or hot, when they were setting up the shots, the stunt double was 2 inches shorter to had to walk around on her tip toes.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:04 pm**

Alpha I think I cracked up more than she did

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:18 pm**

Nice shots Craig... brightened up my afternoon with some laughs.

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:25 pm**

Just found out Craig that this shoot was for Schwarzkopf haircair's new product

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:41 pm**

wendellt wrote:Just found out Craig that this shoot was for Schwarzkopf haircair's new product

Yeah I knew that, just didn't know how to spell it. :oops:

Its a european advertisement, so we might have to get it via the internet to see it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:51 pm**

Hi Craig,

Thanks for sharing those. Those hissy fits are great.... Could we say she did this as a TFCD shoot for you??????

Mark

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:33 pm**

Hudo wrote:Hi Craig,

Thanks for sharing those. Those hissy fits are great.... Could we say she did this as a TFCD shoot for you??????

Mark

TFCD ? That F' Camera Dude ? :lol:

Sorry Hudo you've lost me.

I actually had a few other hissy fits I should of added, but I think the moment has passed

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:00 pm**

HI,

TFCD = Time Free for CD or TFP = Time Free for Prints. Models give there time free and so does the photographer. Model speak :-)

Mark

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:27 pm**

Craig,

Well captured series. Excellent! I missed this post first time round.

Alex

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