When you photograph someone multiple times, my personal challenge is to capture something different than the previous shoot.
Robert Juniper, regarded as one of Australia’s best artists was releasing his third book, and I was asked to photograph him to promote a new book about his life and works titled ‘Robert Juniper’ (written by Gavin Fry). This was also to be the third time photographing Juniper.
In the previous photo shoot I focused most of my shots outside his studio where he had built numerous sculptures. This was to promote a popular art exhibition called ‘Sculptures by the Sea’ in which he was one of the judges for.
Juniper’s studio is rather dark, lit up by available light coming through large pane windows. For most of this shoot I wanted to use as much available light as possible and use flash as a small complement to what I had available.
With this shot, a single 550EX was placed to the left of Juniper, set to 1/128th power manually. The flash was triggered by PocketWizard radio triggers.
Typically I don’t shoot using a tripod, but I used it just incase I was to go into very slow shutter speed territory since the studio was dark.
Various photos from this shoot, including this ran in the Midland / Kalamunda Reporter, Joondalup Times, Weekend Wanneroo and front page of the Western Suburbs Weekly.
Shoot details:
Canon 5D Mk2
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
1/60th @ f/3.5 – 320ISO
1 x Canon Speedlite 550EXII
PocketWizard TT1 & TT5
Manfrotto tripod