Have you ever walked around in your backyard and thought how lucky you are to live in the place that you live in? Well I don't think about that every day I wake up, but I do think that I am lucky to live in Sydney and be able to live in the city that I do. Not only is it close to the beach but, if I ever needed to get away from the concrete so called jungle I would be able to jump on a train and walk down to Hyde park and clear my mind and recharge and get ready for whatever I want to be ready for. Which is usually prepping for a shoot or coming up for new ideas to shoot for LaMode and or for a client. 

I was brain storming one day and thought I have never done a editorial on Hyde park, so here I bring to you the top 30 images that I shot just after the new year. Again it is all in black&white and unedited just to show you, my reader that you don't have to throw everything into photoshop and change the contrast and brightness on every photo that you shoot. 

So here I bring to you my art side of my photography: Where Art Meets Art

What is diversity, that is a good question isn’t it? And do we see enough of it?
 
The dictionary meaning:  The state of being diverse; variety: there was considerable diversity in the style of the reports.
• [in singular] a range of different things: newspapers were obliged to allow a diversity of views to be printed.
 
Makes interesting reading doesn’t it? So, do we have a wide range of models in the industry? The answer to that is yes and no, funny answer, some brands only use white Caucasian models some brands are happy to use a bag of all sorts in their advertising campaigns.
 
I use models who fit the brief and that I like, but that is generally the norm for most photographers. For LaMode Magazine I try not to use a model that has the same look from my last editorial. Which was one of the reasons I shot with Mariangel for this swim editorial for LaMode. Not to get side tracked the industry is trying very hard to use a diverse cross over of all models. Even plus size models which I think is interesting and not so interesting to write about, you have to remember that models are born with their looks not given to them. If you are born with the right genes to be a model then you may be lucky enough to work in the industry and if you aren’t ( let’s not get into why you can’t be a model) then it is not something you dwell on, you just have to accept the fact that it is something you can’t do and move on. But let’s talk about how diverse the industry can be and how it is not.
 
I love the fact that when you email an agency for a job you can get many different options from them. Modeling is about looks, hair colour, height etc even eye colour can come into it as well. But what it boils down to is if they look good in the clothes they will be wearing. Not everyone looks good in a maxi dress and not everyone looks good in a denim shorts. So this is why we must have diversity in the fashion industry. Most of the time it’s up to the brands that hire the models that make the final decisions to who they want in there campaign, commercial or what ever they want to hire the model for.
 
But some models do look good in everything and I mean everything. These are the models that are blissed with the looks and body to truly be models. Not all modelling agency’s have plus size models, and that is OK because this is a new niche for agency’s that has only become popular in the last 5-6 years. So to tie this in a bow and finish this off. The fashion industry is about change and it changes every season, so who knows we may yet have a huge diversity of models down under one day, lets hopes so.

Enjoy 

 
 
Well this was my second trip too the Gold Coast this year which was way back in early November. I love traveling to new places but then again who doesn’t?
 
Walking around or should I say driving around the Gold Coast, the thing is you really need a car to see everything as public transport isn’t that good.
 
So why am I returning too the Gold Cost. Firstly it was to do a couple of swim shoots then take in what the Gold Coast has to offer landscapes wise, so I decided to shoot a Culture editorial as well. I was able to take in the purity and beauty of what the Gold Coast has to offer. So after I had shot the two swim shoots, I decided to get into landscape mode and then start traveling from location to location around the Gold Coast, and shoot some eye catching images for this editorial.
 
When I get into that photographic mode for me it’s about natural light and capturing  dramatic and most eye catching images. It is not easy to shoot that sort of stuff when you are on a time limit as I was, but you make the most of what you have got and shoot with your eye so to speak and not to mention have some fun while you are doing it.
 
In a lot of ways shooting landscapes is like casting a model. You only want to work with the best landscapes that are photogenic and easy to work with, and have the best angels where ever you shoot. Sounds weird doesn’t it but it is true.
 
The flip side to that is you don’t have to worry about directing the model and shooting lots of images to get the final image that you want. It’s more about seeing the shot first then taking it, then once you have it on your computer it’s up to you to decide on if you should use it or not.  
 
I love shooting land/seascapes as it allows me to lose myself into another world and not worry about getting the shot in a limited time span. It is also a good way to learn photography, as your subject stands still and won’t talk back and it will only move if you want it too. It is also how I learnt photography way back when I first started taking pictures. The time of the day will dictate how your images will look when you have taken them. You learn how too take a light reading and add that to your settings on your camera. So too sum up this little piece, the Gold Coast is a very pretty and natural setting to take pictures it’s how and when you take them that will make or break how your images will be perceived