This little girl was one of a small group of children we met living in one of our housing projects for families who had lost their homes in a hurricane a couple of years earlier. Isle de la Gonave is a small island off the Haitian mainland, about 25 minutes’ flight from Port-au-Prince, and to this day remains one of the most idyllic little places I’ve visited- intense poverty notwithstanding. I am usually on these trips assessing projects, but in this case I left that work to other colleagues and was able to indulge myself in a little photography. The kids were just beautiful, and the walls were all really bright hues of blue and pink and green, and made for fabulous backdrops for portraits. I’m not sure that this little lady ever really warmed to the camera lens, but the expression she gave me in this split second was priceless- still one of my favourite portraits that I’ve taken. April 2007.
Part of my projection shoot series. It tells a story.
Part of my projection shoot series. It tells a story.
A collaboration project between Brisbane artists. Front cover / model – Lisa-Maree Findlay / styling – Red Harriett / January / model – Melissa Kilkelly / February / model – Christie Jade McPhail / March / model – Elizabeth Renfro / April / models – Melissa Kilkelly & Chris Macpherson / May / model – Rhiannon Skye / hair – Karyn Jacklin / June / model – Rose Hockey / styling – Red Harriett / July / model – Lisa-Maree Findlay / styling – Red Harriett / August / models – Lisa-Maree Findlay and Lawrence Kelly / styling – Red Harriett / September / model – Chelsea Rose Graver / October / model – Tenelle May / November / model – Olga Kuzonna / December / model – Lisa-Maree Findlay All Hair and Makeup (excluding May’s hair) by LORAN BEAN / All Photography and Post by ROSE BERTWISTLE www.fallenrosemedia.com Please show your support and buy a calender!
a dream we once had.
for the 365 project
The final shot of the “Good Fairies, Bad Fairies” project for Mealinie Shot taken three weeks ago at Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. The day was cloudy and it was raining just before we met, I thought we’d have to cancel. Fortunately it stopped raining for the afternoon shoot. Thank you for looking! Best viewed large Canon EOS 5D / Sigma EF 50 mm Lens / ISO: 100 / Speed: 1/25 sec / Aperture: f/7.1 / WB: Auto / Focus: AF / Image: Raw / Models: Melanie and Bella (Bad Fairies), and Jess and Amy (Good Fairies) Make-up and styling – Melanie / Post Processing – Orton and Render/lighting Effects in Photoshop
Back in the olden days if you wanted to get some interesting textures on to a model…. there was no photoshop about then infact it wasn’t even a twinkle in it’s inventors eye…so what you had to do was line up a lovely model and project interesting images over him or her…. like in these strange daze images I’m uploading. The images from this series turned up amongst some of my late fathers photographic archive which I’ve been endeavouring to sort out and digitize. I don’t know who the model is or why or when they were taken but the make up and hair on the model just shreaks ‘eighties’ to me…. so some love from way back when…. with thanks to my very very clever Dad…. enjoy / . /
Next upload from the Strange Daze series I’m working on at the moment. Back in the olden days if you wanted to get some interesting textures on to a model…. there was no photoshop about then infact it wasn’t even a twinkle in it’s inventors eye…so what you had to do was line up a lovely model and project interesting images over him or her…. like in these strange daze images I’m uploading. The images from this series turned up amongst some of my late fathers photographic archive which I’ve been endeavouring to sort out and digitize. I don’t know who the model is or why or when they were taken but the make up and hair on the model just shreaks ‘eighties’ to me…. so some love from way back when…. with thanks to my very very clever Dad…. enjoy / . /
another upload from this current series of strange daze images… they are all slide projections onto a living canvas and the analogue technology just works a treat / . / here’s a slightly cropped version of it and to be honest I can’t decide which one I like best / . /
it might be just the thing to wear your heart on your sleeve but it’s probably even better to wear your ninja on your heart…. another in a series of slide projection images from way back when sometime in the eighties…. / . /
there is just something so appealing about angels no matter where they turn up…. this is another of my series of slide projection photographs by my late father. They were most likely taken some time in the eighties and have never seen the light of day since. Lucky lucky me to find them hey and give them a little bit of an airing…. and this particular one is one of my favorites … well I have a couple of favs but this one really works for me…. the model and the image have really fused…. / . /
the next in this particular set of images taken a very long time ago by my late father and they involve projecting slides on to a couple of models. this is the stripy look so popular all through the eighties. / . /
another hippy hippy flower power slide projection shot from my late fathers archive…. so all bright and colourful hippy daze from the eighties for you / . /
the next upload of a model lit by a slide projector taken sometime in the eighties by my late father. she looks like some fantastical far out creature that should be in a fairly tale….enjoy / . /
David Bowie ….eat your heart out….. another portrait shot from the series of slide projection photographs taken by my late father. This so reminds me of the sort of make up David Bowie used to wear back in the days…... / . /
another crazy slide projection shot from the eighties….my parents would always tell us kids we would get square eyes if we watched too much TV…. and this then is what I imagine TV induced square eyes would look like…..enjoy / . / / .
and ancient classical painting of a wedding by …possibly Jan Vermeer?... although don’t quote me on that…. projected onto the model’s lovely heart shaped face….another of the ongoing series of image by my late father and dated at sometime in the seventies….. enjoy / . /
the next and very nearly the last upload of slide projections onto models taken by my late father with medium format film sometime in the eighties…. enjoy / . /
this is a calendar of beautiful girls lit by slide projections. it’s 100% analouge with no photoshop work involved in the production of the orginal images..
from “The Breathe Project – First Harvest”...for more information please visit darrinballman.com/breatheproject.html
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