AUGUST NEWS and FEATURES

I've been busy lately working with a couple of advertising guys, one of whom just wrapped up 7 days of stop motion animation for an upcoming Slurpee ad. At 30 frames per second it can be a long day but loads of fun regardless and despite a tight storyboard we get to inject little nuances into the 'action'. The animated webisodes go online in Oct. so I'll post a link and some behind the scenes stuff around that time.


In other news....  I had a go at food photography a couple of weeks back for a well know St Kilda restaurant which gave me a chance to hire a bunch of expensive gear and play around with fancy food for a couple of days. The chef worked with Gordon Ramsey a few years back and knows his stuff.

It's the kind of job that normally requires a photographer, an assistant and food stylist but, despite the warnings, I had a go at it alone and am pretty happy with the results. The photos will be used for Amello's new and updated website in the coming months. They're certainly not going to win me any awards but seeing how I hadn't laid a finger on professional lighting equipment up until a year ago I'm pretty happy with how they turned out and I learnt a ton of stuff along the way.  

Just goes to show, instead of listing reasons for not doing something find the reasons to do it instead and just have a go.  Let me know what you think...