MAFW pt1

[wendellt]

Fashion week was a 5 day frock fest, I was crazy enough to shoot all shows and about 10 backstage so that meant pretty much non stop shooting moving from show to next show from 7:00am(for backstage) to 11:00pm. In the end i ended up loosing my monopod, sb800, sc-29 in the frenzy. Good thing is that i was in a team and we had 2 editors at the media room whoose job was to edit images, so all i had to do was shoot and dump my cards.

here are 4 images from the event which hardly shows the scale and significance of the event

Natalie Wood's show was innovative, she presented her fashion in a theatrical isetting of a life size doll house, each room had a different theme and the models acted out seperate roles in each room it was one of the best shows, at the end i had to opportunity to setup this pose
 models body painted by MAC cosmetics artisans at one of the major launch events


backstage at the lisa Ho show, i prefer backstage now over runway it's more interesting and the photo opps are plentiful, i got to direct the models in poses and so on.
 model Tiah Eckhardt


I used 3 lenses 70-200 for major shows, the 85mm f1.4 for the standard runway shows and the 28-70 for social and backstage.
I also got one shot in The Australian which is pretty good considering the 'same night' deadline for image submissions for press.

[Alex]

Wendell, Congratulations on the success! The first two are great. Especially the 2nd one. The first one - great idea. Congratulations on 'The Australian" publication and sorry to hear about the equipment loss.

Please post a link to more photos.

Alex

[Alpha_7]

Looks like you had fun, pity about the lost gear, but I guess there will always be casulaties

Hope your FredBare shoot went ok too... look forward to catching up with you sometime and hear about your experiences.

[phillipb]

Very interesting images Wendell.

I see now you have progressed from breaking to loosing

Sorry, shouldn't lough, you are coverd by insurance aren't you?

[PiroStitch]

Sorry to hear about your loss Wendell. Hope you had a blast at the event though and congrats on the publication in The Australian.

He's taken "Wendelling" to a whole new definition...

Hope you can get it covered by insurance or something.

[gstark]

Wendell,

I'm going to be somewhat picky here, because I think that you've posted four almost good shots. None of these, however, makes it, IMHO.

In the first one, for instance, the girls' feet have been cut off. In both this and #3 the posing and setup is great, btw, but I'm seeing simple technical flaws, that, quite frankly, just shouldn't be there.

As a secondary aside, those two girls in #1 are so bloody thin that I'd expect them to rattle as they walk. They're not simply thin, they're unheathily anorexic!

Moving to #2, what happened to the lh shoulder of the lady on the left? The image is somewhat unbalanced (to me) because you have the complete other lady, complete with empty space to her right, but the lh lady has been squeezed out of the shot.

#3: gret setup, but focus looks a little soft on the nearer side. Look at her left cheek and chin ... The lighting suggests off-camera flash was used, which is great, but the eliminates subject movement as the cause of the softness I'm seeing.

And what about the hand at the top of her head?

#4: The harsh lighting has cast too heavy shadows across her face, and I think that cloning out the ladder might be helpful in this image as well. Was there some form of auxilliary lighting falling on her back? Have a look at the shadow densities, comparing that on her back with those on her face. There's quite a difference, with her back having a much softer lighting that might have been nicer for her face.

Of course, I accept that you were shooting under somewhat difficult (lots of distractions ) and high pressure conditions, and many factors were beyond your control, but I do think that a few of the issues I've raised may well be attributed to somebody simply not paying qite enough attention at the viewfinder before squeezing the shutter.

[byrt_001]

hi

great work, looks like you have fun.

take care

christian

[Slider]

Well done Wendell. Sounds like hoot 2 and 4 are my picks of the pics.

[Manta]

Wendell - although I bow to your technical competence in this area (subject to the sort of constructive advice I believe Gary has provided), cat walk and high fashion shots just don't do a thing for me. Maybe it's because, as a society, we're surrounded by them every direction we turn. The upside of that is that there will always be a market for talented lensmen like yourself. The downside is that people like me are never going to be able to escape it.

I won't ever attempt to comment on the technical aspects of your work but, rather, will leave that in the capable hands of those who know about the fashion photography genre.

You're obviously doing well for yourself in this game and I wish you continued future success.