The Batblog by Photobat | Portrait and Wedding

5 Silvers for some prints and another silver for a wedding album. The wedding album went on to take out 2010 Tasmanian Wedding Album of the Year. Second time in a row i’ve picked up that one. Very happy about that. I’ll post the wedding album in it’s entirety soon… maybe even make it a slideshow.

Thanks to all the great clients who he were involved in making these shots happen!

Proof the earth is rotating. These are some stars, they live in the sky at night. When I was away the other night I was inspired to do a startrail so taped up the Holga and let it spend a few hours outside exposing some film to produce this image. The Blue is flare which is a trademark of the Holga.

I had to do a couple of these for Uni and they were a bit of fun. I really have to pull out the old Olmpus and set is up next summer and do some more. They really are great photos to take,

Just because he is in the US doesn’t mean he isn’t appearing on the Batblog.

More posts soon, hope everyone is enjoying some time off.
(i’ve polished off a book, heaps of good wife time, some West Wing, weeding, easter eggs, some work towards award images and played alot of throw the ball for the dog) 

A couple of weeks ago we had a little session with the local cover band Victor Charlie Charlie.

We had a bit of fun, there were some late comers so the amount of time for the shoot was decided by the amount of light we had left in the day.

Thanks for dropping by and playing on the roof! Don’t forget to check out their website and keep updated on where you can catch these guys. They are good, and people keep sayign they are good, so the relly must be good!

I’ll be driving past this grass in the morning… Off to Melbourne to do some Comedy Festival things. Back in the evening, so some photos will arrive here at some stage.

I had some new Holga shots processed, I’m still enjoying playing with the little plastic camera. I picked up some tungsten balanced slide film and got it cross processed, give these strange colouring… no photoshop!

Using this toy camera has made me really have to think about many different aspects of the art of photogaphy, thinking about different light, compositions, using shadows, understanding how a film is going to work in certain light conditions and most importantly, how dam expensive it gets to buy and process film, let alone get it scanned.

For those photo types out there, these are shot with expired Fuji 64T slide film, cross processed standard C41 way. The blue cast comes from the film being balanced for tungsten light and the images shot in day light and the contrast is increased because of the cross processing.

I’ll be adding more photos into the new Holga Gallery on Photobat.net soon, but for the time being head over to my flickr site for more images.

I managed to take a couple of days off over Easter! One of those days off did involve half the day sitting in the office tinkering with potential award entry images. It washard to force ourselves to get out of bed early enough to get some nice landscapes up the Tamar. But we did it, some of mine are below and Vikashni’s will appear on her flickr sometime http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikashni/ . It was fun getting back to shooting some landscapey type stuff, including some long exposure stuff and some more experimental things. I also played with some light using my lovely Vikashni as my model, back light and flare were what I was after, and after the sun went down I managed to get some nice softer images.

This is the same area where I did my first shoot with Vikashni a couple of years ago now, that was before we were together! It’s fun to go to a place we had shot in before and come up with something completely different.

And yes, we had just watched The Virgin Suicides

The Gorge

Jelly fish near Deviot

Some poles at Gravelly Beach

Some shots from Greens Beach

Sea Port in Launceston

The Gorge Pool.

More to come…

I got a little inspired today and decided to play with off camera flash, something I haven’t done much of since uni… so i ran around the building and found people to shoot.

Quinny on the Stairs

Nate in the Hall

Dave on the roof.

 All shot with one flash held off to the side, kinda fun playing. I might shoot more people next week…

I took a few photos in 2007, in fact, I took a few thousand.I always have loved showing off my work and am very proud of the way my images have developed in the last 12 months. So it’s time to show you all my favourite shots in an audio visual presentation. This is only on for one afternoon only, and not an exhibition that is hanging on the walls, so this is your only chance to see it.

Some of the highlights will include documentary work on the East Coast bushfires and backstage at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, Holga images, urban and natural landscapes plus heaps of kids,families, pregnant bellies, animals and shoes.

In addition there will be a presentation of some of my favourite portraits of the week taken over the last 5 years. The POW started as a way of practicing and pushing myself by taking a different portrait each week. Some of these portraits are commissioned; others are self commissioned and feature comedians, musicians, brides, animals, fictional characters, photographers and everyday people I have bumped into.

The presentations will take about 30 minutes.

2pm February 10th 2007
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Inveresk, Launceston

Entry is Free and there will be prizes!

Please RSVP here as we have limited seating available andmay have to reschedule more viewings.

PLUS FESTIVALE IS ON, SO YOU HOBART PEOPLE SHOULD COME UP FOR A DRIVE!!!