April: Bridal Shoot - updated!

[jdear]

Hi everyone - Merry Christmas!

I did a for-fun shoot on Tuesday of April in some wedding dresses I bought off ebay. Unfortunately my 5D Mark II was 1 week to late in arriving!

We had 2 photographers and 1 videographer shoot April for most of the day down at Bombo / Jamberoo in my locale. This was many firsts for me. Shooting with a model, shooting with high-powered flash, shooting on a really really bright day in the middle of the day (sunburn anyone??) and also sharing the shoot with 2 other people! It was a great chance to play with some hired equipment and I certainly got a different look to my photos which I was after. (which is not my normal style). Im very happy with the photos I got... here is one I have edited quickly...


(c) Vibrant Photography

I havent edited any more yet... but here is a video clip that Daniel took of our shoot...

click the image below to launch it:



It would have been more of a trash the dress shoot except we didnt organise properly and ran out of time to get the dress fully submerged. Im planning on another one very soon

Thanks for looking,

Jonathan

UPDATE: 3 more photos...


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(c) Vibrant Photography


(c) Vibrant Photography

[muzz]

Loved the video - had a look at your website and really like the creamy smoothness in your images. I'd love to learn a bit more about off camera lighting, which I'm guessing you use in some form or other.

Thanks for sharing.

[Kreapen]

Hey Jonathan,

I must say i love what you have done with shot you provided.. would be interested to see the raw file to see how it came straight from the camera.

Where is that location. I live in Dapto and my wife came from Kiama and i must say i don't think i know where that is.

Maybe on the southern end of bombo grave yard beach / rocky area ?

What lighting were you using? Single flash i would assume by looking at the shadows in the pose but was unaware we had anywhere in Wollongong the hired lighting equipment. especially portable equipment.

Got really off track their... Loved the photo mate. And the video was really great as well. Would love the chance to work with a real model one day when i get enough experience to justify it.


Regards


Jay

[jdear]

Hi Jay,
The location is the Bombo quarry area - down near cathedral rocks going down Darien Ave in Kiama Downs through the waterboard gates and down into the rocky area.

Lighting setup is here:



lighting was with a Boncolor Verso A2 with Dock with a 1600J Pulse 2 head firing into a 22" Broncolor silver beauty dish with diffusion sock. (Im in love!) The scrim panel is a california sunswatter 4x6'. Supports are avenger C'stands weighed down with 5kg sandbags. Fired with PW's at around 1/160s at f13 100iso. Gear was hired for the day from sunstudios sydney.

hopefully add more soon!

Jonathan

[Kreapen]

I would have hated to get to that location with the equipment you had.

Thats what i know as grave yard.

[Cre8tivepixels]

Hey Mate....

I have seen most of these elsewhere and i am blown away.....AWESOME job....brilliant!

[jdear]

I would have hated to get to that location with the equipment you had.

Thats what i know as grave yard.

3 cars - gets us straight down to the location. One was a van so we left the gear half setup and ferried it to our different locations Normally cars arent allowed down there. *winks*

Hey Mate....

I have seen most of these elsewhere and i am blown away.....AWESOME job....brilliant!

Thanks Dan - means alot coming from you - your work is always fantastic!! April was great to work with hey. She told me she had shot just previously with you and I was looking forward to seeing your captures of her. I love the versatility your showing with your natural light images of recent!

I gave her a disc of unedited photos - which some would have ended up where you saw them. Wish they were the edited ones but I havent gotten around to doing any - trying to sort out my wedding backlog!

J

[Oz_Beachside]

very nice work, i can see some more very beautiful images coming from that video. congrats, sensation job. is that kit insured to sit on a rock?

well done.

[jdear]

Ive added 3 more photos to the original post above

is that kit insured to sit on a rock?

not insured, not mine and I couldnt afford to replace it i anything happened to it... call me crazy!

[JordanP]

Ive added 3 more photos to the original post above

is that kit insured to sit on a rock?

not insured, not mine and I couldnt afford to replace it i anything happened to it... call me crazy!

Hey Crazy - nice work. I'd be keen to see any natural light work you may have done .... if you did that is.

[Willy wombat]

Cool thread - Looks like it was a fun day and worth a little bit of sunburn! Thanks for posting it

[muzz]

Beautiful stuff!