Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Kreisler Photography are specialists in portraiture, events and promotional images.
If your Annual Report needs a boost, why not commission some professional shots of your organisation/people?
We’ve covered corporate and promotional events and taken corporate portraits all over Melbourne and Sydney. The images we took for the the State Library of NSW Annual Report went on to win a national award.
This photo of Princess Mary Donaldson was taken at an event for Town Hall (Mayor’s Office) in Sydney.
Pictured above is Edward Mandla, who contested the last mayoral elections in Sydney.
This photo was for Red Agency, Melbourne, 2009.
Tags: Annual Report, Corporate, Edward Mandla, Events, PR, Princess Mary Donaldson, Red Agency, Sydney Town Hall
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Nick Beswick and I hunkered down for some months in 2006 at his front room in Balmain and arranged songs for the Pet Rocks album Wayward Ways.
http://www.myspace.com/thepetrocksband
It was a fantastic, musical few months, and we both reminisce fondly about that tiny brick terrace room. It had great acoustics, and the outside world seemed to vanish for hours at a time. Lots of bottles of Coopers Pale Ale helped plenty…too.
I snapped this pic on one of those Saturday afternoons. I think it captures the sessions pretty good.
Tags: Balmain, musician, Nick Beswick, Pet Rocks, piano, Sydney, Wayward Ways
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
I have an ongoing fascination with artist run spaces, and think they add great energy and diversity to the city. Brunswick is lucky to have more art studios and artists than virtually any other suburb in Australia. I have dipped my toe into documenting these places and some of the artists working out of them before, and hope to make this an ongoing project.
Georgia Lucy, pictured, has been part of Medium Artspace, at 222 Victoria St, Brunswick, which has been running for about 18 months. This gallery and living quarters will close in the next week or so to make way for the development of some townhouses. I was fortunate to be able to document the place earlier today.
Georgia’s painting, in the background depicts the arrival of a demolition crew that turned up the other day to tear down the building – they had got the date wrong for the demolition job! Needless to say, it didn’t happen.
Pic of artist Colby Cannon Welsh.
pic of bedroom.
Tags: artist, Brunwick 3056, Colby Cannon Welsh, Georgia Lucy, Medium Artspace
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
We have just completed a round of carpet photography for a museum catalogue to accompany an upcoming exhibition, Fluid Borders, coming up at the Johnston Collection.
Some of the carpets were huge, one running to 4 metres in length! Our studio only has 4 metre ceilings, so we had to fold the top of the carpet over to squeeze it in. Since we don’t have a gantry, and some of the rugs were too big in any case, we shot them by hanging them off auto poles. We had to use scaffolding to lift them to the right position.
They were shot with a 5D2 and Broncolor monoblocs, with reflectors.
Tags: Broncolor, Canon 5D2, carpet photography, Fluid Borders, kilim, rugs, The Johnston Collection
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Anne-Marie De Boni entered this portrait for Head On Sydney 2010:
http://headon.com.au/
Lucy Kreisler is the star of this pic. The lighting was done with Profoto Acutes, and you can really see the light quality on her face – there is a beautiful glow to it. It is that extra something that Profoto users try to articulate about their lights, some kinda x factor (though it is, of course, great design and physics!) With studio lighting, though, there is a definite sweet spot, where the magic happens, where the light is the optimum distance from the subject to get that ‘pop’.
We love the contrast and tensions in this shot. The angelic beauty of Lucy against the worn face of her Dad, the strength of her stance and the relaxation in her arm, the light and shade in the lighting, the roughness of the studio, the inter relationships of the hands, the simplicity of the setup and the elegance of light…
Tags: Head On Photo Festival Sydney, Portrait Prize, Profoto
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