I was recently on holidays up at Anna Bay, just north of Newcastle in NSW with my family. The time away was a little bit of a break but also for me to shoot some photos on the sand dunes at Stockton Beach. We arrived on the Thursday and the next day, I met up with model Melanie J and makeup artist Danielle Hampton for the shoot. The weather played nice for most of the time and enabled us to great these photos. It was impossibly hot so we didn’t venture onto the sand dunes but stayed on the cooler coast at Birubi beach.

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behind the scenes of the above photo – 110cm of mola beauty-dish lighting…!

lots of blue which I LOVE!

then we made it into the water, but it was short lived! There was lighting hitting the water not too far away in the distance and we thought it better to call it a day :)
Poor Danielle was holding a big metal stick standing in the water next to me!

thanks Mel + Danielle for your amazing efforts!

v-i

12 Responses to “Bridal: Melanie”
  1. wow, wow, wow. so many killer shots in this set!

  2. These are ridiculously lovely!

  3. Mark says:

    Beautiful images.

  4. Peter Marin says:

    These images are very cool Jon.
    A while back you spoke of shooting with a polariser on your lens to punch the colours………did you get a chance to try it out on any of these images? Just curious.
    Cheers

  5. Vibrant says:

    Hi Peter,
    Images 1,2,5,6,7,9 I used a CPL filter. I noticed when using this for flashed shots upclose, it made the skin really shiny and horrible looking. I think using a ND filter would work better if you wanted to cut your DOF down.

  6. Dennis Pike says:

    I made need some help over here in the states… my jaw is on the floor from that first shot of the post, and I don’t think I can pick it up off the ground without assistance. Brilliant work. absolutely brilliant

  7. Peter Marin says:

    Ok, thanks for that.
    Cheers

  8. Girish says:

    The i logo works brilliant I am using Firefox.

    Keep it up.

  9. Graeme Dear says:

    Jon, the sea and the sky really add to the WOW factor. Great composition and camera work. You never disappoint!

  10. I love this set of images. Dramatic sky, great location and good lighting.

    I have one simple question, Are you using the 110cm Elinchrom beauty dish with your Ranger Rx?

  11. Vibrant says:

    Hi Sébastien – I am using the Mola 43.5″ (110cm odd) Mantti Beautydish. AFAIK Eli don’t make a dish that big – just up to 70cm. Actually I dont think any other manufacturer offers dishes as big as Mola Softlights.

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