New Camera - David Walker Shoot

I've finally acquired my own camera! I'm particularly excited about being able to photograph others, as well as myself. So I decided to make my first official shoot a very close friend of mine - David Walker.

I've always been particularly mesmerised by the tattoo on his right arm which depicts the "Satan" tarot card - as Dave is particularly enchanted by everything occult.

I wanted to create a sense of "unveiling" through light, which proved harder at first seeing as we had absolutely no studio equipment. However in strokes of genius on Dave's part, we ventured into the afternoon sun and constructed a make-shift background on the side of his shed.

Originally I wanted to try for some odd angles of reveling the tattoo, which proved difficult considering Dave is 6"3. We settled for a calmer look in which the tattoo, his face and his chest were exposed. I'm particularly fond of the chest shots as they show 2 large scars he acquired while being treated for cancer in 2004.


I wasn't sure if I wanted colour versions or black and white so I decided to keep both options. I'm much fonder of the Black and white, especially with the subject matter. However I did feel the need to go beyond conventional photography and venture into paint.


- Hanna

Hawkesbury River Shoot

Valentich and I hadn’t seen each other in quite some time, so of course we just had to do a shoot together! I had been inspired to shoot a set wearing a black dress while wading in the river and we finally found the opportunity to do it!

We started late in the day as I had uni classes in the morning.

After driving for some time, we finally found a small spot in an off-creek of the Hawkesbury River. As the sun was starting to set, we had a beautiful lighting effect on the water


We moved closer to the mangrove trees on the sides of the clearing as we were trying to find as many shots as possible for these sets.


After consulting a few of my sets, I discovered that I rarely have any smiling photos; I was quite set out to add a few more to my portfolio.

I need to give a big shout-out to Aaron Roper for inspiring the smile with his Pi abilities – for the record, Pi is EXTREMELY SEXY!

As all good models do, I brought along 2 dresses to this location, just in case the black dress wasn’t doing a very good job. As we had some time left, I decided to change into the white dress.


By the time we had been shooting for 4hrs, both Valentich and I were getting a little bored with the scenery; I decided to go under the water just for a little difference.
In the water:

And coming out of the water:


All in all, I’m quite happy with the shoot, hopefully we’ll be shooting more now that we both have a little more time on our hands.

- Hanna