With The MHS Conference and awards held today we had the honor and opportunity to capture the proceedings and the lucky winners of such awards.
There was a great vibe and with a whole lot of happy faces with all the photos up on our online store that can be found off the menu on the left hand side.
If you have any issues let me know. 🙂
One of the joys of being an event photographer here in Canberra is I get to go out to all sorts of places at all sorts of hours – typically night hours as that is when people are having fun and I must say I just love the idea of meet lots of new friends. 🙂
During the week I had an opportunity to photograph for the lighthouse pub in Belconnen where I didnt start at 11:30 PM and photographed till 2 AM. I must say the time went super quick and it was such a blast that I didn’t want to leave.
One of the great things of the night was the staff. 🙂 They were all so welcoming and were more than happy to help and offer locations where I could get shots from. (even though they were really camera shy)
I must say when the owner has such a smile on his face for all this clients then its a good sign you are in the right place. 🙂
Doing what he does best… and that is puring the working event photographer a water… hahahahah Thanks mate for being my model 🙂
Well well well.. One of the things I take very very very serious… and that is people that don’t like their photo taken…. this young lass avoided me like I had the plague…. but what she didn’t know is that before she knew I was there I got this shot… the rest of the shots was just me messing with her head. haha
This welcoming feeling washed through the place like a tsunami and effected everyone in the place.
All the people that were there had such a great feel and were super happy and just loved getting their photo taken, with some just loving the idea they can take photos of others. 🙂
If you are out and about tonight have a great time, and be kind to the photographer as they are there to make you look freaking awesome. 🙂
You have an event, party, wedding, corporate event and need a photographer… Drop me a line and lets see if I can help you out. 🙂
Once again this year I’m privileged to be the official photographer for the Benny Wills gala night.
For anyone that doesn’t know about the Benny Wills foundation you should really pop over to their website and have a read http://www.bennywills.org/
Their story is not only incredibly sad it also is tremendously inspiring. To lose a child to a fatal brain tumour would have to be one of the hardest things to go through in your life but to come back and create a foundation dedicated to the research into the very brain tumour that took your son’s life shows tremendous courage and strength.
To stand there and photograph these incredibly tough parents while they discuss the lives and the process of how this hideous disease takes the lives of their children is heartbreaking. To have to live through that and to know that once your child is diagnosed death is only six months away, I cannot imagine what they would go through. 🙁
It is for this reason I donate my time to this event as I believe that with time, money and the advancement of technology they will find a cure or as a minimum extend the life of these poor children so they can enjoy some additional time with their loved ones.
If you like to book a table or buy some tickets you can do that online and I urge you to come along as it is really a fantastic night.
http://www.bennywills.org/gala-dinner.aspx
Being able to capture a fraction of a second of someone’s life might seem a little unimportant, however while this may be the case in some shots others hold a significant amount of personal connection with the people within the photo.
Has there been times in your life where you have been incredibly sad, excited, happy, mad or just in a special place, like when you meet someone for the first time or someone you look up to.
My job as an event and portrait photographer is to capture these moments, moments that pass at the blinking of an eye but a significant to the people that I photographed for and are in these shots.
I photographed equestrian events that involved a lot of children and in one case there was a child was bawling her eyes out as she was so frustrated with the pony at the time wasn’t doing what she wanted it to do. The mother of this child saw me snapping away and kind of shooed me off as she didn’t want to embarrass the young girl. My response to her was that the emotions and the tears something that her and her daughter would cherish for a lifetime. She heard these words, sat back and thought for a second or so and let me continue shooting. When I publish these photos in my online store you never guess who bought copies? 🙂
So for me sometimes it might be awkward or uncomfortable for some people to get the photo taken while they are in an emotional state, I know that once the tears dry and the excitement passes the only thing left be the special moments captured in time.
Be working through some photos over the last few days (for something different of course) and part of my workflow is to use face recognition within Lightroom to identify people within photos so they can be tagged and easily located later.
Most of my photos these days are tagged in this way since it was available in the latest version of Lightroom and in doing this Lightroom builds up a library of people which I photographed and when it evaluates a new photo it has a guess at who might actually be in the image so as to reduce the time and effort that it takes to do this face recognition and tagging.
While it does a good job at guessing I’m pretty sure that this gentleman is not Angry Anderson!!!! hahahahaha
I guess it just goes to show the interesting people I have in my Lightroom catalogue and people that I photographed. LOL
I have dedicated my photography career in the pursuit of capturing the very essence of what I am photographing so as to bring the “forever memories” back to life. Through this, I now have the ability to share my years of experience with you through my on-line courses.
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