CHRISTMAS PARTY & EXHIBITION ric woods photography studio 2010

ric woods photography's Christmas Exhibition & party went off as a great success, we will move it forward next year so more folk can attend .

Les Porter judged the exhibition of prints submitted by participants of of our Photographic and Lighting Courses we had held through out the year.

Id like to send a thanks to Les Porter Photographics and David Barnes and Natasha from Pro Am Photographic Lab for their generosity in providing gift vouchers for the winners.

It was great to hang out with like minded people who are visual like myself

Mike Mortlock did a great job providing the music, it helped us consume the food and drink in a relaxed manner.

Les PorterPhotographics , ric woods photography and David Barnes of Pro Am

Onlookers all deciding that the correct pose for the evening was a bent right arm

Maree and Bridie did a great joib of the organisation of the night

Michelle takes the award for the BEST ADVANCED PRINT

David and Natsha were there to greet Santa.Santa was recovering from a hard day in the dept store toy section

Santa and Maree enjoy a relaxing Twiggy Salami? I donyt know if they wer lit?

Justine and Mary gave santa a thrashing .Claiming that Santa had not delivered the goods they wanted on Christams Day in 2009

Santa had a little something for those that had been Naughty throug out the year...strangely some got in line for a second go of punishment

Maree launched the draft for the 2011 Photographic & Lighting courses.The 212 page booklet will be available in the next week or so, watch this space !!

It was fun to link up with friends and fellow photographers...Its a change looking at people NOT through a viewfinder.

OUR TEAM, ric woods photography.

Bridie,ric,maree and of Course Santa....Santa , is that lipstick on your cheek???

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Merry Christmas to ALL.We hope you all enjoy the break.Maree and myself decided to make our Christmas Card the other day.

Set-up:We placed an SB600 high camera left fired by pocket wizard,2 SB24s optical trigger left and right onto the background.Shot the cameras under the same lighting then dropped it into the shot in post.I did the tree illustration for another job.





By the way, a special mention of David Barnes at ProAm photo lab on Brunker Rd Adamstown. Thanks for your great work through the year and providing us with excellent service. We encourage local photographers to support their local labs, they cannot compete with the mass printing franchises for cost...but they can give you better quality and service.

GREAT JOB BARNSEY...

LOCATION PORTRIATURE- a class I'm running at ProAm Photo Lab

These are a few of the images were by the participants of a workshop I'm running that was arranged by David Barnes the owner of Pro Am a film lab at Adamstown ( nsw australia)

This was the third night of the 5 sessions and I decided to take the group outside to use some off camera strobes and gels. The previous week we were shooting inside ProAm and the group had a great time with Maree ( my prod mgr/second photographer/very often photography subject). Everyone was very quick to learn how easy it can be to create beautiful light with good exposures and lighting ratios.

I demonstrated how long it takes to set up a scene using 4 strobes and how the strobes are fired by pocket wizards. I have 6 of these and this was great as it enabled me to have 2 students shooting at a time. This is easy on the recycle time for the strobes.

I have 10 + Maree in the group and its fantastic to have people so eager to learn...for me it doesn't get much better.

I used this lane way beside ProAm to demonstrate how easy it is to find and interesting shoot location when you sculpting with light.

The focus was to create not only interesting images to to use it to demonstrate how to direct the subjects, pre visualise the image, synchronise the action and the camera...Here Maree is the victim of some crazy stalker (me)

...then Maree found a bag snatcher...

Below, this is a great double page spread...I can see almost see bold text running down the right side of this image...

The group learnt how to drop the ambient light right down but retain detail

Then the paparazzi became to victim of an unwilling subject.

We then turned around and lit the wall behind us for another completely new scene and tone...

Maree as always gave plenty of great subject matter....

I really liked some of the images captured by those waiting to shoot with the radio triggers

We even kidnapped "the Pizza Guy" for a few of the images.....

I'm looking forward to the next session .We will shoot some inside portraits and Ill show them my post production tips. If your interested in participating in Location Portraiture Workshops shoot me an email enquiries@ricwoods.com