Some pictures of Madame Bink as we waited for tropical downpours to stop and between attacks of sea crabs and flys on Muggee Beach, Dunk Island. For the rest, go to my blog: http://figuremodels.org/ericscott/2010/03/04/muggee-bink/
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on a boat
Here’s my favorite from my shoot with Malcolm Smith. I’m on a boat/surfboard thingy – whatever it is, it looks like a fun toy!
Is that a word? Well it applies. As Bink mentioned in her posting, it was a day of adventure. Here’s a few more from our morning session at Mission Beach. I believe several of these are some of the best fine art images I’ve ever created thanks to a beautiful sunrise, a tropical morning and a very talented lady. To see more go to the posting “Bink at the Beach” on my blog http://figuremodels.org/ericscott
Over the next two to three weeks, I will be picking out images for our book to accompany this trip. Projected book release will be April 2010. Working title: OZ 2009. The title will change of course. 😉
My time was Eric was an all out adventure. Including starting at sunrise, going over to Dunk island, crazy (and loud) looking birds, crabs nipping toes and so much beautiful scenery and imagery. This post is focussed on the start of our shoot, sunrise at Mission Beach.
Sunrise at Mission Beach was magical, it’s one of those moments where time seems to stand still. Silently waiting for the sun to come up and peoples days to begin. Or at least most peoples. I think I speak for all the models who attended when I say that there were plenty of early starts! But they were so worth it, every time. A beautiful place, sharing the experience with a wonderful friend and on top of it all, being able to capture some of that magic on camera.
I chose these three to show you all because the first two are just so classical looking and the third makes me feel calm just by looking at it. I was obviously feeling very content when that photo was taken and it’s one that definately illustrates how happy I was at Mission Beach. You can read Eric’s version of events here! Big thank you to Eric for a wonderful morning and I’m sure I’ll be posting more about the rest of our day soon!
Trying to keep the dream alive with a sampling of recently finished works collaborating with the models Joceline, Soph and Vassanta. For more from these sessions, please visit my blot at http://figuremodels.org/ericscott.
I spent an afternoon at Mission Beach, Australia shooting the London fashion and art model, Joceline in the jungles and beaches in the area. We started out shooting in the jungles and moved to the rock seawall and beaches as the sun was setting. The set here was shot among the rocks of the seawall as the sun cast a golden glow on Joceline’s English porceline complexion and hair. Joceline is trained as a ballerina and she showed off her grace posing among the rocks and expertly using the light to accentuate her form. Future blogs will show our other fine art and fashion sets in the jungle and beach. Lovely work, Joceline!!
In our stay in Mission Beach, the hotel Eco Village was very supportive and accommodating to our needs. I can’t say enough good things about them.  They gave us free rein of the open air dining facility in the evenings to present our slide shows and even allowed us to shoot nudes around the property as long as we were respectful to the other guests. And there were some very nice places to shoot on the property as well as the adjoining beach with just a few short step from your bungalow.   One day, Vassanta and I wandered around the property looking for places to shoot. We found a grove of palm trees, another area that the hotel was using to discard palm fronds providing a bed of leaves, and a discarded branch that looked like bizarre antlers. The ever creative V also came up with the idea of using parts of the webbing around the palm trunk as a headdress. We got some lovely shots using the amber color of the palm fronds to accentuate her tan. I also used some new editing techniques to get a gorgeous platinum hued split tone result.  We were also fortunate to benefit from one of  those rare occasions where you are at the right place at the right time. She was posing on top of this tree that had grown around a rock when a natural sun burst started filtering through the trees behind her. This also provided a spot of light on her as well. I timed the shot to coincide as the burst came through the trees. Ahhh….another day in paradise! I want to go back!!!!
While shooting around our hotel at Mission Beach, the ever creative Vassanta put together some different looks using the husks off the side of palm trees as a headdress, discarded palm fronds to frame her face and some discarded branches to create some “antlersâ€.   I thought it would be interesting to share some of the different versions of these portraits from my experiments in Lightroom. More photos to come from the sessions around Mission Beach and the palms.
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Claudine
My favorites from some recently scanned rolls of medium format and 35mm film
