I posted a little preview of this shoot last week and finally we have the full shoot. It was a tricky shoot to cull down to just a few favourites. My first cull (and I promised myself to be ruthless) was 150 images, not much of a cull to be honest. But here’s a selection of my favourites that, to me, tell the story of the day and tell the story of the inspiration behind this shoot, Pocahontas.
These photos are gorgeous! LOVE THEM!February 4, 2010 – 4:58 am
Crazy-love it! Gorgeous.February 2, 2010 – 2:11 am
1) I love the idea of a styled shoot in this manner! And you REALLY rocked it. 2) The location is soo perfect. It seems like an area of land untouched since the real Pocahontas walked the land. *Very nicely done!!*February 1, 2010 – 11:21 am
Stunning subject, awesome location and images are amazing. The last one is my Fav, and I love the lighting!!February 1, 2010 – 10:17 am
Wonderful photographs. Very nicely lit!February 1, 2010 – 5:02 am
What a stunning concept! You did it beautifully; I can see why you’re so proud of these images!February 1, 2010 – 3:46 am
Thanks for all the love everyone. This was a fun shoot to do, and that location is just sublime, It’s got so many great places to photograph.
Alen, I was born in the former Yugoslavia, so you’d be correct in your guess, though my family moved to Australia when I was 5, so I’m really more of an Aussie than anything else. 
January 31, 2010 – 11:58 am
Wonderful photo shoot! These are beautiful.January 31, 2010 – 6:55 am
One word! AMAZING! Milena where are you from? Name sounds Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian? Anyways – Keep up the great work!January 31, 2010 – 2:49 am
great lighting, love the first one.January 30, 2010 – 7:26 pm
Len, this is a gorgeous set. I love the lighting in the black and white one when she’s looking off to the right.January 30, 2010 – 7:20 pm
Great set! Love the lighting on the last one January 30, 2010 – 8:54 am
These are really cool. I especially love the lighting and tones in the final shot– great work!!January 30, 2010 – 5:05 am
Um, these are incredible. Why do I not subscribe to your blog? That’s about to change. I am completely in love with this set of photos. Stunning!January 30, 2010 – 4:38 am
What incredible shots, and what a fantastic location too! Great job all around.January 30, 2010 – 1:31 am
It was worth the wait to see these extra photos! Great shoot.January 29, 2010 – 5:17 pm
[...] with me for the last few months. It didn’t fit in with the story I wanted to tell within the Pocahontas shoot, so it got left out and put in my “go through it later” folder. I think [...]May 14, 2010 – 9:58 am
[...] This is my Silver winning print from the Pocahontas shoot. [...]March 30, 2010 – 10:54 am
Yesterday I was part of a pretty amazing shoot. My friend and make-up artist extraordinaire Natalie Biller & I had been planning on doing a Pocahontas themed shoot for about the last 6 months. To say that I’m happy that we finally got to shoot it is an understatement.
The model was the lovely Amy Lyn Cage who I worked with on what was my first solo fashion shoot and it was lovely collaborating with her again. The stylist was Jess Bellef, who from the very first time I spoke to her was so enthusiastic and created these amazing looks, including making a headpiece for Amy and the hair stylist was Milli Jaksic, who created a look for Amy that was absolutely perfect ‘do and looked flawless the entire day.
I took my instax so I could get a photo of everyone involved and add them to the ever increasing wall of photos we have at home.
I’m still going through all of the photos from yesterday, but I just had to share my favourite from the day.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
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YOWZER!!! I’m in love with the last Pocahontas pic…ps I want an instax, the colours are amazing…I want one NOW!!! =)January 29, 2010 – 6:46 pm
So great!I am waiting with baited breath for the rest of the shots…I know there are a million more amazing ones to come!January 25, 2010 – 2:48 pm
Wonderful shot! I looks like a photo from an ultra hip magazine.January 25, 2010 – 1:11 pm
Oh wow! That shot is fantastic. The pose, the costumin, the location, the lighting.January 25, 2010 – 8:42 am
Excellent concept. And execution. And beautiful model, great lighting, great makeup, great everything. Can’t wait to see more of this!
Do you mind telling us what kind of lighting you used?January 24, 2010 – 3:58 pm
wow! what fun, and your lighting is great, really nailed it!January 24, 2010 – 3:14 pm
Thanks everyone. It really was a fun shoot, and I can’t wait to post the rest of them. I’m just wading through them at the moment and picking my faves to edit. So, Nick, there will be plenty more, hopefully in the next few days. Also, thanks dude for suggesting that location, it was perfection!January 24, 2010 – 12:21 pm
That’s a sexy photo! Nicely shot. No wonder it’s your favourite. January 24, 2010 – 12:12 pm
The last shot is perfection.January 24, 2010 – 6:49 am
Aww, I love it 
Wish I could have hung around a little longer! I was wondering how you were going to use the ‘location’ I am strangely… a little excited about seeing more! Will we get too see more? 
January 24, 2010 – 1:21 am
absolutely beautiful image!January 23, 2010 – 10:04 am
Looks like it was a blast. Great final shot.January 22, 2010 – 5:39 pm
ohhhh neat! I like the lighting. Looks like it was a fun shoot.January 22, 2010 – 4:48 pm
Fantastic work! I love the warm light on the model against the darkness around her. Nicely done.January 22, 2010 – 1:51 pm
My favourite time of day is just after the sun has set. Everything still has that slight warm glow and I swear it smells different to the day. Especially in summer, after the excessive heat of the day (which I am none too fond of) the dusk comes as sweet relief.
The dusk also brings with it the beginning of the night and a majority of my work day. I’m a definite night-owl, I swear it’s genetic. I’m much more productive when I don’t have emails and phone calls and the beautiful day that I want to be out enjoying distracting me.
However, there is one problem with taking photos after dusk is that you need to take a tripod with you, or in my case that little connector bit that you use to attach said tripod to your camera. I remembered both the camera and the tripod, but not that little connector bit.
With a little bit of leaning, and a little bit of slow breathing, I think I still did pretty alright.
Anyone else have a favourite time of day?
by Len
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My favorite time of day as well!January 17, 2010 – 12:49 pm
Ah my favorite time of day is right before the sun starts to set.. when the light is nice and soft but so golden January 17, 2010 – 4:05 am
I’d have to say my favorite time of day changes per the season. In summer my favorite time of day is just after dawn. It reminds me of when I used to wake up at first light and go play baseball with all my friends in the school yard until dusk.
During winter my favorite time of day is midday as the sun is highest in the sky. Where I am from, on a clear day there seems to be no better time of year for a perfectly clear blue sky then in winter.January 16, 2010 – 1:17 am
I think my favorite time of day is sunrise, but only in Summer when it’s really warm in the morning. I too am a night owl, and usually not awake at sunrise, which makes it more special when I am.
Here’s another good one: 3:30 AM. I can ride through downtown of my city on my little scooter and not see a single soul. It’s like being the only person left alive on earth. Unusual but peaceful.January 15, 2010 – 7:15 am
P.S. I really love your blog and the “I love Wednesdays”. Very creative!! January 15, 2010 – 2:23 am
This is so incredibly beautiful. My favorite time of day is almost the same – it’s as the sun is going down. I have a sort of obsession with taking sunset photographs. My favorites so far have been the ones I took in Mexico this past December.January 15, 2010 – 2:22 am
I am a night owl too, I totally feel you. Hence the reason why I’m commenting on your blog at 2am
Beautiful photo, btw.January 13, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Favourite time of the day is any that my daughter goes to sleep January 12, 2010 – 9:27 pm
It’s crazy how quickly the week passes you by. I really wanted to upload this wedding last week, but things kept coming up and I’ll do it tomorrow, I’ll do it tomorrow somehow turned into a week later. The days are long, but the weeks are short really seems to be applying to the beginnings of 2010. But I’m very glad to have gotten a moment to upload the wedding of Joanna & Victor at gorgeous Bondi Beach.
Arriving from the Netherlands the week of their wedding it certainly was quite the whirlwind that was capped off on Friday last week when I dropped the images off to Joanna & Victor the night before they headed out on their cruise. I can tell you that it was kind of a crazy night with lots of mojitos and weird and wonderful conversation. I only wish that I had caught a cab over to their hotel, so I could have properly enjoyed in the festivities.
Hope you enjoy these.
by Len
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So good! I would say more, but I think those two words express my feeling bestNovember 9, 2011 – 1:05 pm
I love the light airy feeling in this wedding… fits the beach them very well. Great work!January 16, 2010 – 12:38 pm
Beautiful images. I absolutely love your black and white conversions! You have really captured some amazing moments here.January 15, 2010 – 2:26 am
Hey, Thanks for all the great comments. It was such an awesome wedding to shoot and they were a really awesomely quirky family.
I process everything with a mix of bought presets/actions (Jesh de Rox, TRA & Nik Efex) in combination with some of my own tinkering and I rarely ever process two weddings the same way. So depending on how the day turned out, what the weather was like, etc. I come up with an action that I like the look of and apply it to the whole day.
Hope that helps January 13, 2010 – 11:24 am
Wow. Great colours and moments. How did you process them?!?!January 12, 2010 – 7:09 pm
Great work on the details and the location is truly enviable!January 12, 2010 – 6:56 pm
Great work, you caught some fantastic emotions and reactions!January 12, 2010 – 6:54 pm
great details, and I love that last shot!January 12, 2010 – 1:50 pm
Lovely tones! Great job capturing their emotions January 12, 2010 – 5:20 am
Gorgeous images. The processing on this one is fantastic!January 12, 2010 – 4:51 am
LOVE them! I’m such a fan of beach photos! Not only are the images great, but you did a wonderful job processing them as well. Great work!January 12, 2010 – 2:04 am
Fantastic job on the wedding. I really like the tones and use of light.January 12, 2010 – 1:40 am
It’s funny how things happen sometimes. A friend of a friend, Bart, called me in mid December about photographing a wedding for his cousin in two weeks. They were flying in from Holland for the wedding and he was organising it all. I met with the bride and groom along with the rest of the family a few days before the wedding, and I have to say that they were so lovely and welcoming that I really couldn’t wait to photograph it. It felt like I was photographing a family members wedding and not someone I had just met three days prior to the wedding. The day was rather overcast and I had multiple contingency plans running through my head depending on what time of the day it started to rain. We were rather lucky that it stayed dry for the entire day and most of the night. Bondi really brought out the awesome on the day! It was really a pleasure to photograph Joanna & Victor’s wedding. I’m still working on it, but I just had to share these two portraits of the beautiful Joanna.
Thank you both for letting me be a part of your day and a big thank you has to go out to Bart for organising it all.
by Len
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Nice… I really like the B&W processing here on the first one. I’m really excited to see what else you have in store for this one January 6, 2010 – 3:35 pm
Love them! Very nice backlighting1 January 5, 2010 – 5:52 am
Thanks all, glad you like them. Kyle, she’s backlit by the doors leading out to the balcony and I really do love backlighting.January 4, 2010 – 5:02 pm
She looks beautiful, especially in that killer lighting. Were you up against a window?January 4, 2010 – 4:01 pm
well done!!!. The hi key suits this portrait very nicleyJanuary 4, 2010 – 6:13 am
The lighting on these shots is perfect. Really beautiful work here.January 3, 2010 – 9:41 pm
beautiful hi-key images of a beautiful bride!!January 3, 2010 – 4:09 pm
Beautiful! I love the dreaminess to them.January 3, 2010 – 1:54 pm
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