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Introducing Sarina. Sarina is the second model that I worked with on my trip to Queensland in January. I spent only a few hours with Sarina, and while she is young and a little shy, she is approaching her modelling in a very mature and professional manner. I hope other photographers take the opportunity to work with her.

And now here are some samples of the shoot with Sarina.

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Back in January I spent a few days in Queensland working with a couple of new models. The first was Agnieszka. I spent most of a day shooting with her and enjoying the lovely hospitality of that she and her partner offered me. Not only is Agnieszka a attractive and athletic model, but she is also very professional, full of ideas, an intelligent conversationalist, a has a great personality. I would gladly recommend her as a model to any photographer.

Anyway, without further rambling on my part, here is a sample of my shoot with Agnieszka.

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Some of the images contain nudity in an artistic form. They can be found in a separate album that requires registration on my gallery site. You can find those images here;

Agnieszka (18+)

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This month I was asked by a client to do a photo shoot with two goals;

• to take some photos of her daughters for use as Christmas cards, and
• to take a family portrait.

I had worked with this client last year, when she had asked for a casual portrait with her daughters that she could give to her husband as a present. The result of that shoot was this…

So, after sitting down with the client this year, and discussing things, we decided that photos of the girls in white and sometimes with some angel wings, would look lovely for the Christmas cards.

They also decided that they would stay with the look of blue jeans and white T-shirts for their family portraits. In additions, they wanted the portrait to be relaxed and casual, showing them all as they really are, rather than trying to pose everyone. A formal pose would have been especially “interesting” with the two young girls.¹ The relaxed approach is much more fun, and has the added bonus of keeping young people in a good mood for longer.

With the brief established, we all headed to a local forest and spent an very enjoyable hour playing and snapping. And, here are some random examples of the results…

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1. I find formal sittings way to stiff for my liking, and I am often amused by the stress levels surrounding shopping centre portraiture, where the kids are screaming and unhappy.[<<]

Back in November of last year I had the opportunity to travel to the Brisbane area to work with three photographic models. Despite difficulties with weather, new locations, mosquitoes and unforseen circumstances, I think I managed to achieve a reasonable level of success with all three shoots.

All of the models were great to work with. They are all friendly, fun, easy going and very professional. I would recommend any and all of them to work with, and hope I get the chance to work with all of them again in the future.

As a thank you to the three lovely models, and to properly give recognition for their work, what follows is an introduction for each model with a link to my images of them and a link to an external portfolio for them as well.

MANDY:

This short shoot was done around Mandy’s grandparents place in Beenleigh. We played with hats, as Mandy loves hats, and also experimented with blue grease and her dad’s truck. It was a bit of fun, and landed us with some nice shots I think.

Mandy’s Ozmodel Portfolio can ge found here.

MEL:

This shoot was located in an Industrial area of Brisbane. It was a warehouse complex complete with office space and a yard containing shipping containers. My main aim in this shoot was to get some ‘dark glamour’ shots as I call them. Shots that are a bit punk or grunge but still a little glamourous.

Mel’s Ozmodel Portfolio can ge found here. Plus, Mel has her own site at Miss Meliss.

CANDICE:

Candice had asked to do some fantasy shots for this shoot, so that is what we did.

After much searching and avoiding of rain we finally found a good location for the fairy shots, and despite the mosquitoes, I think the location, wings, outfits and everything worked great for these pictures. Candice makes a beautiful fairy.

For the goth shots I wanted a bleak and dreary look, and with the cane and sugar mill in the background, I think we got it.

Candice’s Ozmodel Portfolio can ge found here.