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I was asked if I I could shoot a friend-of-a-friend’s newly formed theatre group on a cold Friday night in July. Hell yeah I wanted to have a crack at it. It did however take a while for me to realise that one of the members I’ve known for years – being one of my sister Hannah’s friends, Joanne Erskine.

Lighting, stylist, hair + makeup provided. Just be there to shoot with a few ideas based on some inspiration the group had taken from a variety of photography sources. The venue was deep in the dark caverns of NIDA.

To work with I had two small continuous lighting sources (erm, not sure what they were, I was a little distracted setting up, tearing down etc). One was used as a lightbox ~2m overhead and slight to the left, the second had barn doors attached to provide a small focused light source from behind.

This has been done more than a few times, however check the site, it works in quite well with some of their design work to date, so should be easily used on flyers and so forth.

Further photos after the break, or check out the full set online at flickr.

All bloodied up!

Shot for Cry Havoc.

DRAMAC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

I was called upon by mate Jeremy Curran to shoot a production that he was in by Macquarie University’s drama society – DRAMAC. The performance was of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, last night tonight I think. Unlike previous performances I was able to shoot the dress rehearsal of this one – and it was far better to do it this way. I could move amongst the cast and get the shots I wanted.

More after the break or see the full set on flickr.

Pre-Show Shots

Took photos of the sets for one of Hannah’s friends who did the set design.

The Show

Meryl Davenport

The manic middle-aged mum

Tiggy Entwhistle

The conservative cactus lover

Winsome Webster

The lonesome widow

Mary O’Donnell

The young dancer-singer wannabe

Theresa McTerry

The bride who loves the dress more than the groom

Zoë Struthers

The comeback queen of music

More at flickr…