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Lisa Brown Wins NRA Fashion Design Supreme Award – Video
Congratulations to Gold Coast designer Lisa Brown!
NRA Fashion Design Festival
Festival Launch Morning Tea
Public launch of the NRA Australian Fashion Design Festival presented by Pacific Fair Shopping Centre
Eva Milic hosted the public launch together with NRA Australian Fashion Design Award judges Michael Pherous (Chair), Trelise Cooper and Jonathan Ward, to introduce the Festival to the shopping public.
The inaugural and limited-edition Variety Chari-Tees, designed by some of Australia and New Zealand’s leading fashion designers, will be paraded on the catwalk along with a short parade of Pacific Fair’s chic winter collections.
NRA Fashion Design Awards & Festival 2008 Launch
Monday was the launch of the 2008 NRA Fashion Design Awards & Festival on the Gold Coast , Queensland. The festival is a high profile fashion and lifestyle event, giving Australian fashion designers, manufacturers, students and fashion retailers the opportunity to showcase their products and services to the shopping public and a national television audience.
The NRA is again proud to have AMP Capital Shopping Centres as the major partner in this event.
Here were some a summary of Monday’s events:
Ten of Australia’s leading designers prove that fashion and art are not mutually exclusive with their artistic flair on display and ready to be shown off on the new and limited-edition Chari-Tee for the children’s charity, Variety.
Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson from Easton Pearson, Wayne Cooper, Peter Morrissey, Harry Watt and George Gross from Harry Who, Trelise Cooper, Jonathan Ward, Charlie Brown and Marilyn Said of Covers all participated in the inaugural Chari-Tee for Variety.
Each Chari-Tee features a custom design and the respective designer’s signature.
The Chari-Tees and the designer’s artwork printed onto canvas will be exhibited at Pacific Fair during the NRA Australian Fashion Design Festival presented by Pacific Fair Shopping Centre.
Retailing for $59.95, the Chari-Tees are available for sale at the Pacific Fair Festival HotSpot (located on the Lower Level Arcade, outside Portmans) and online at www.nra.net.au/fashion.
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My Photo in The Daily Mercury
I got a call during the week from an editor of The Daily Mercury, a newspaper in Mackay to use one of my photos for an article on a fashion design student from QUT. They requested three photos for consideration from a shoot I did at the QUT Fashion Graduate parade in 2006.
I’ll post the PDF of the article when I get a chance later… or will I?
Mother Maria – Fashion Photography
CHECK OUT THE FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOS HERE
I did a fashion photography shoot up at Buderim on the Sunshine Coast a couple of weeks ago for my new friend Katie Gannon from Mother Maria. I also did some photos for Katie’s sister Krista from Australian Flavour.
The shot above was a spontaneous shot where the model Phoebe was standing there keeping warm from the cool breeze through the trees. The lighting and composition was already set and I had to just take the shot. If you have a look at the gallery you will see that there is another version where you can see the sun peek through the trees. I like them both equally.
The location was at a park at Buderim, with some great big trees all lined up and it gave some really interesting (and hard to work with) lighting. I used an external flash bounced off a reflector board most of the day to give just enough fill whilst still allowing natural lighting.
I use my Canon 5D and a 85mm 1.8 Lens most of the day and I was able to get some really sharp photos, particularly when the sun went down and we were getting some shots outside of the park and in the playground and in front of the trees. The shot above is an example of that.
The photo above is with both models at the end, and Katie next to me on the left and her sister Krista the right in the photo.
It was great working with these girls, they made it a fun day to shoot and it’s great getting to know Katie and Krista.
Check out the Mother Maria website
Check out the Australian Flavour website
CHECK OUT THE FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOS HERE
modaitalia 2006 – Euromarque – Maserati Ferrari Showrooms, Brisbane
Last night I attended Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), modaitalia 2006. You may view the pictures in my gallery, let me know what you think.
Mark Velenton was the winner last night and is awarded with a 2 week scholarship with the world-renowned Palimoda fashion institute in Florence, Italy. Mark was one of 20 finalists on the night to present their “Italy inspired” designs to a judging panel of experts and professionals.
I was positioned in possibly the best spot for photos last night, standing in front of one of the large spotlight stands, slightly off centre in front of the catwalk. It is always good to get a in front of a stand as you don’t have to worry about blocking people’s view from behind.
I was using a Canon 28-135mm IS 3.5-5.6 USM on my Canon 20D at ISO 800 on shutter priority at 125th of a second, without a flash. This lens isn’t the sharpest of zoom lenses compared to the canon L series lenses but worked quite well in this lighting. Most of the other photographers were using a flash but I think you lose the theme of the night in the shot. Plus I wanted to get more practice manually focusing in low light. Typically you aren’t allowed to use a flash at indoor events such as parades and concerts.
Anyways, this was a big night of shooting, I took about 680 shots, and got about 500 unique and decent shots of them. There are some shots from the “modaitalia spectular” featuring designer label work late in the shoot after the students, which I shot in JPEG. All I can say is, never again! Shooting using JPEG indoors and night is extremely time consuming to edit and you usually get inconsistant grading and levels. I only used JPEG to keep memory consumption down. Never again. I’d much prefer 1 good shot than several crap shots that need lots of editing.
Check out the photos here and tell me what you think, keep in mind that you will need to order these photos from ICCI.