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Two shots in this week’s edition.

Marta shoot
Makeup: AmyChan.net
Assistant: Harry Mak

Shiralee shoot
Makeup: Ally Haywood
Assistant: Joseph Wong

Over the weekend Dave and I went up to Brissy to host a workshop. We took with us Glen (Make up artist), Rachel and Rebecca.

Stayed at Evolution Apartments at first they couldn’t find it, then wanted to give us 2 x 1 bedroom apartments and THEN they thought we were only booked for the ONE night…..errrr. Besides that the view was nice.

Up at 7am on Saturday and we didn’t finish until 7.30pm. Then we drove around the city lost for a bit before finding Eagle St and Jade Buddah, where we had dinner.

Next morning up at 6.30am to get to the airport for the flight back to Sydney. Video and some photos of what people captured will follow soon. Thanks to all those who attended.

This looks like it will be a promising site for Canon users to get the most out of their Canon flashes either on/off camera, E-TTL, HSS and more. If those accronyms don’t mean anything to you then check out this site, especially the how-to section.

http://speedliting.com/

Thanks Canon. Now if only I got that lens shaped coffee flask. Lol.

So I finally organised a time to shoot with Jaime which was last Saturday, ran behind schedule and to cut a long story short we ended up shooting at dusk.

Makeup: AmyChan.net
Assistant: Joseph Wong / William Cheung

Well as good as the Elinchrom Ranger RX is, the sync port is a proprietry sync port. Sure the unit came with a 5m pc-sync to elinchrom cable but I have wireless flash triggers (YongNuo RF-602) and being corded to the power pack is not ideal or fun. I cut the last few inches off the included sync cable and put on a 1/4″ (6.35mm) socket to take my triggers. I do have the Skyport RX’s but the Skyport and charger share the same port so if it’s on charge (shooting indoors) then I’d need to use the sync port which is where this cable comes in handy. Paying $70 odd for this same cable from Elinchrom didn’t appeal much to me, especially when the 1/4″ socket was $1.65 from Jaycar.

So I got my new lights on Friday night and there’s not better way to test them out then with my neice. We tried to put her in a basket but she didn’t like it much and cried so we ended up just sitting her on a blanket instead. We smeared some baby safe chocolate mousse on her face and let her go wild trying to eat the chocolate easter egg. It was a warm day so the egg was really soft already.

If you remember my shoot with Shira at Westin Hotel (pics|video) last year, well Shira’s photo from that shoot was published in Ralph (March 2010 edition). Some blurry iphone pics of the page for you :p

Yes, lack of shoots lately

Was meant to have one last weekend but that got cancelled and it’s Chinese New Year this weekend so no shooting for me this weekend either. I guess it gives me time to prepare & gather props for a themed shoot I want to do. Just need to find the right model for it. If the weather holds up then perhaps a sunset shoot next week.

Hope everyone else is shooting.

Oh and for the Brisbane guys, check out http://workshop.xploit3d.com March 6/7th!

Here’s a random photo of home made lasagna to make the post a bit more interesting

Shame we kept forgetting to take footage. Anyway, enjoy