Auki: 2011

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jess Shalders © Auki Henry 2011

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 5 November 2011

Description: I am lucky to be able to work with a lot of beautiful girls for most of the year, most of them are seasoned models looking for portfolio work. On this project I worked with 12 at once to be exact! This is one of the individual samples we did for each girls private portfolio whilst shooting a 2012 calendar for TEDA.

I couldn't decide between the monochrome and colour shots for this one so had to flip a coin!

Jess is one of those exceptional models who just knows how to do it right, she is an absolute pleasure to work with and she has the perfect model look for both fashion and glamour. I highly recommend that anyone looking for a pro model to work with anywhere in the world should try to get hold of her on her new G+ Page.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Ella Trayte

Ella Trayte © Auki Henry 2011

Model: Ella Trayte
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 5 November 2011

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Sarah Clee

Sarah Clee - Auki Henry Photography

Model: Sarah Clee
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 17 December 2011

Description: Beach season is here again! And this time I will be working with a whole lot of new girls and introducing them to modelling. Beach shoots are perhaps the eaiest way to help the girl gain confidence if they have never done shoots before, the settings are relaxed, informal and you get some brilliant lighting which helps the result!

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Sarah Clee

Sarah Clee - Auki Henry Photography

Model: Sarah Clee
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 17 December 2011

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Sarah Clee

Sarah Clee - Auki Henry 2011
Darwin, Australia

Model: Sarah Clee
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 17 December 2011

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Sarah Clee

Sarah Clee - Auki Henry Photography

Model: Sarah Clee
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 17 December 2011

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Grace Brenton

Grace Brenton calendar shoot. Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Grace Brenton
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 22 October 2011

Description: While shooting the 2012 TEDA Babes calendar I managed to get a few personal shots for some of the girls I was working with. This is Grace Brenton, swimsuit model for Zoo Magazine and a Darwin local. I worked with her when I filmed the behind the scenes video for Mark Hamilton's Monsoon Madness shoot earlier in 2011.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Xmas

Katie Abraham - Photographer Auki Henry

Subject: Xmas Candid with Katie Abraham
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 19 November 2011

Description:No shoots till next weekend so this was just a quick candid with Katie Abraham, sipping wine near the xmas tree! Next weekend its on to the alcoholic eggnog so quite possibly no in-focus shots!

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Eggnog Product Shot

Eggnog

Eggnog - Alcoholic eggnog to be precise.

Subject: Eggnog recipe shot
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 19 November 2011

Description: Product shot of eggnog, practising food product photography. With the festive season here we've started taking these types of shots just for fun.

If you'd like to try a tried and tested ( by hundreds who will vouch for its worth ) recipe. I have put my own special ultimate recipe right here : Ultimate Alcoholic Eggnog.

Feel free to share it around, the use of the photo is ok too! Just leave the signature on :)

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jessica Shalders
Photo - Auki Henry

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 6 November 2011

Description: The first of my 2011-2012 wet season beach shoots, I took the opportunity to work with our friend Jess once again. This time not a sunset shoot as we wanted to get the nice late afternoon deep aqua colours the beaches here get during the wet season!

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jessica Shalders beach shoot. Photographer Auki Henry

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 6 November 2011

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Maddison Ash

Maddison Ash
Auki Henry Photography 2011

Model: Maddison Ash
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat, October 15 2011

Description: I have been doing a lot of work with Maddison over the past couple of months, we shot the music video 'She Brings The Rain' with her and now I found out she was one of the 12 girls chosen for the calendar babes shoot I am currently doing for TEDA ( motorsports/drifting ) we can't release the calendar photos till the calendar is released in December but I managed to get Maddison for half an hour after the calendar shoot for some one on one shots for her portfolio :)

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jessica Shalders
Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 8 October 2011

Description: One of a 5 shot series I did from a wet set shoot organised by my friend and fellow photographer Mark Hamilton.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jessica Shalders
Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 8 October 2011

Description: One of a 5 shot series I did from a wet set shoot organised by my friend and fellow photographer Mark Hamilton.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jessica Shalders
Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 8 October 2011

Description: One of a 5 shot series I did from a wet set shoot organised by my friend and fellow photographer Mark Hamilton.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Jess Shalders

Jessica Shalders
Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Jess Shalders
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 8 October 2011

Description: One of a 5 shot series I did from a wet set shoot organised by my friend and fellow photographer Mark Hamilton.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

She Brings The Rain - Official Music Video

Filmed, Edited & Produced by Auki Henry 2011

Maddison Ash & Mark Hamilton on She Brings The Rain

I'm sure there comes a stage in every DSLR video enthusiasts learning progression where they feel they are ready to take on the production of, or at least the camera work for a music video.

As it turns out, 2011 was my year to join the ranks and 'She Brings The Rain' was the song I did it for. This was my first end to end production in the music video genre, and in the spirit of independent (should I also mention zero budget) motion production I had my hand in every step of the process from scripting through to post. Sam Korn, the award winning singer/songwriter from Erica Owns the Sky was keen to give me a shot on this one, needless to say I grabbed the opportunity as soon as it presented itself.

I certainly did not do this single handedly, I was fortunate to have the help of an enthusiastic team of friends who each brought something to the table and had a go at some of these roles themselves just for the experience. This project was a weekend pursuit and everyone happily volunteered their spare time to help out over the course of about 7 weekends at various locations.

Video production isn't how I earn a living, in fact it consumes much of that living on equipment expenses. The same goes for each and every person that volunteered their time on this project, we all have day jobs to go to.

Anyway, this isn't intended to be a 'How we made it' post, you can search the blog archive for those. Instead ... here's the video for you to watch.

Special thanks to the following, whose help and permission made filming this clip possible:
Qantas, Darwin International Airport, Kerry's Automotive Group, Crowne Plaza Darwin, Entreagus Fashion

My personal "thank you" to the crew, you guys all rock:
Mark Hamilton, Katrina Welfare, Jess Lai, James Isacsson, Bronwyn Pain, Lan Treagus, Sam Korn, Katie Abraham, Maddison Ash, William Nguyen-Phuoc, Ed Forman & Craig Danvers

Auki Henry Photography - Kayla Robinson

Kayla Robinson
Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Kayla Robinson
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 8 October 2011

Description: One of a 5 shot series I did from a wet set shoot organised by my friend and fellow photographer Mark Hamilton.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Khalia May Gepp

Khalia-may Gepp
Photographer Auki Henry 2011

Model: Khalia-may Gepp
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 8 October 2011

Description: One of a 5 shot series I did from a wet set shoot organised by my friend and fellow photographer Mark Hamilton.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Maddison Ash

Maddison Ash on set 2011
'She Brings The Rain' music video.

Model: Maddison Ash
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Wed, September 28 2011

Description: I have worked with Maddison many times this year. Not just with stills, but also with video. This shot was actually taken on set at Darwin's Vodka Bar during a break filming the music video 'She Brings The Rain' for Aussie rock band Erica Owns the Sky.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Mel Bridge

Mel Bridge by Auki Henry

Model: Mel Bridge
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 3 September 2011

Description: A competition shoot for Mel to be 'the face' of a local Gym. We did this one during her promotional shoot for our Kamfari DVD.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Mel Bridge

Mel Bridge - Auki Henry Photography

Model: Mel Bridge
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 3 September 2011

Description: A competition shoot for Mel to be 'the face' of a local Gym. We did this one during her promotional shoot for our Kamfari DVD.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Mel Bridge

Mel Bridge - Kamfari 2011 Promo
Photographer Auki Henry

Model: Mel Bridge
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 3 September 2011

Description: Mel helped us do a promotional image for the DVD release of the 40th Anniversary of Kamfari feature. This was a bonus DVD attached to the Sept/Oct edition of Australian Trailrider magazine.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Mel Bridge

Mel Bridge - Auki Henry 2011

Model: Mel Bridge
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 3 Oct 2011

Description: This one was almost a candid of Mel, taken whilst on a break. We were shooting a magazine release promo for Australian Trailrider and did a few snaps whilst we had the black acrylic out on the floor to get a nice reflection.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Mini Monsoon Shoot

Been meaning to work with the lovely Jess for a while now, but its taken a year for us to get together. Here's a shot from my shoot with her today round a friends place.

Here's the gorgeous Khalia-may Gepp, a local model who has worked a lot with my good friend Mark Hamilton, my first time working with her tho. Lovely personality!

Another with Jess, this time the classic water pour, but with a chambord bottle!

Change of pace and an umbrella full length shot with Emily 5th and final of the set the gorgeous Kayla Robinson!

Auki - When Photographers Party

Jessica Shalders in what is my
favourite shot of the afternoon.

What happens when photographers get together? Well if the Saturday just gone is anything to go by then you may want to take up photography and host your own party if you don't already? Award winning Australian glamour photographer Mark Hamilton is a good friend of mine and hosted an impromptu going away 'get together' at his place for one of our other photographer friends Martin Eadie.
Martin is leaving for colder pastures, namely Tasmania. They don't have quite the climate for bikini/glamour photography so it was thought we'd send him off with one last bash with some of our Territory stunners that we work with in here Darwin quite a lot. Mark, as usual, built an incredible set and lighting which allowed us to come and have completely relaxed fun for the afternoon without having to plan anything.
I couldn't stay the entire afternoon as I had to finish of another project, but I still managed to get some sample shots for you all to enjoy. Please, spread the love!

Sample shots of our beautiful Darwin girls from Saturday's 'Wet Set'
( Click to enlarge. Arrow left and right to browse gallery )

BF3 Beta release issues

LABELS: Battlefield 3 Beta, BF3 Beta, BF3 Beta Issues, BF3 Beta Problems,

Well I am relieved to find out my hardware runs the game or at least BF3 Beta on ULTRA with no problems so no upgrade needed yet! (can spend the money on a new lens system instead to help with the new music video) But I do have one problem - mostly due to the fact that I use my mouse for forward/back movement and the bindings in the alpha don't seem to be changeable.

Good news is I can probably use something like Logitech Setpoint to assign spare keyboard keys to my mouse buttons and then bind those keys in game. Will have to test this when I get home after filming tonight though . . . work seems to get in the way when interesting stuff is on . . .

Auki Henry Photography - Darryl Barba

Roy Mackonkey guitarist, Darryl Barba
Photographer: Auki Henry

Singer: Darryl Barba
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 20 Aug 2011

Description: Promotional shoot to make up a media kit release package for Australian band "Roy Mackonkey". These guys have some really great tracks and wanted a funky feel to their images so booked a shoot with me down at the old World War II oil storage tunnels.

Lighting was a challenge here, but we got the right balance of light and shadow in the end!

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - John Coulehan

"Roy Mackonkey" singer John Coulehan -
Photographer Auki Henry

Singer: John Coulehan
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: Sat 20 Aug 2011

Description: Promotional shoot to make up a media kit release package for Australian band "Roy Mackonkey". These guys have some really great tracks and wanted a funky feel to their images so booked a shoot with me down at the old World War II oil storage tunnels.

Lighting was a challenge here, but we got the right balance of light and shadow in the end!

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Huangshan City Mirage - Fail !

Huangshan city mirage in a nutshell, just a winning combination of bad translation and sensationalist reporting. Huangshan City in Anhui Province, China was one city out of a number affected by the 2011 flooding in 12 or 13 provinces. By the 14th June 2011 the water had exceeded warning levels in reservoirs and inundated the city.

Click to Enlarge - Huangshan City
Googlemap image with key identifying
landmarks within frames in the 'Mirage' video

Incredibly, video footage of the floods, as they claimed low lying areas of the city were broadcast and sensationalised by western media who misreported an all too literal translation of the interpretation describing the amazing wet and misty weather framing the scenery.

Perhaps ironically it is the 'Chinese Whispers' phenomenon at play here but the story became one of insanely amazing mirages, the clarity of which has never been seen before.

It was circulated via news websites presumably in the same hurried fashion that does away with any cross checking of facts and the youtube videos went viral, along with the emergence of the inevitable conspiracy theories of hologram technology and otherworldy portals.

In fact the truth is somewhat a little more mundane than the fiction, the 'floating' buildings suspended in mist above the river as described by the majority of news sites are actually nothing more than the buildings which are already currently in existence as seen THROUGH the fog, the 'floating' trees are explained by nothing more mysterious than the river having swollen and flooded low lying ground.

For easy identification the coloured key and identifiable landmarks are marked for you with the corresponding slides from the video. Internet hype and misinformation sure spreads quickly in this day and age!

Video Frame 1 with yellow key identifiable landmarks

Video Frame 2 with green key identifiable landmarks

Magnified top view from google maps of the same green areas

Video Frame 3 with blue key identifiable landmarks

Auki Henry Photography - Liam Devine

DT3's Liam Devine
Photographer: Auki Henry

Artist: Liam Devine
Group: DTOWN-3 aka DT3
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 17 June 2011

Description: Liam Devine from a studio style shoot with rappers DTOWN-3, these are samples from a promo set I did with the guys before their solid two months of gigs where they will be supporting big acts such as Illy and Ice Cube.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Nate Polkinghorne

DT3's Nathaniel Polkinghorne
Photographer: Auki Henry

Artist: Nathaniel Polkinghorne
Group: DTOWN-3 aka DT3
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 17 June 2011

Description: Nate Polkinghorne from a studio style shoot with rappers DTOWN-3, these are samples from a promo set I did with the guys before their solid two months of gigs where they will be supporting big acts such as Illy and Ice Cube.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Zac Calma

DT3's Zac Calma
Photographer: Auki Henry

Artist: Zac Calma
Group: DTOWN-3 aka DT3
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 17 June 2011

Description: Australian rapper Zac Calma from a studio style shoot with DTOWN-3, these are samples from a promo set I did with the guys before their solid two months of gigs where they will be supporting big acts such as Illy and Ice Cube.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Liam Devine

DT3's Liam Devine Photographer: Auki Henry

Artist: Liam Devine
Group: DTOWN-3 aka DT3
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 17 June 2011

Description: Australian Rapper Liam Devine from a studio style shoot with DTOWN-3, these are samples from a promo set I did with the guys before their solid two months of gigs where they will be supporting big acts such as Illy and Ice Cube.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Nate Polkinghorne

DT3's Nathaniel Polkinghorne
Photographer: Auki Henry

Artist: Nathaniel Polkinghorne
Group: DTOWN-3 aka DT3
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 17 June 2011

Description: Australian rapper Nate Polkinghorne from a studio style shoot with DTOWN-3, these are samples from a promo set I did with the guys before their solid two months of gigs where they will be supporting big acts such as Illy and Ice Cube.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - DTOWN-3 aka DT3

Rappers DTOWN-3 aka DT3
L - R: Zac Calma, Nate Polkinghorne, Liam Devine
FRONT CENTER: Mitchell Russell
Photographer: Auki Henry

Group: DTOWN-3 aka DT3
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 17 June 2011

Description: Studio style shoot with rappers DTOWN-3, these are samples from a promo set I did with the guys before their solid two months of gigs where they will be supporting big acts such as Illy and Ice Cube.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Auki Henry Photography - Lan Treagus

Lan Treagus in Darwin, NT
Photographer Auki Henry

Model: Lan Treagus
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 4 June 2011

Description: Here are some samples from my second shoot with Lan. The first shoot having to be done totally with natural light and a reflector, this time we had all the strobes up and working and were able to blast some nice diffuse light against the sun for some classic sunset style shots.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Lighting: 3 point - with 3 x Vivtar 285HV's

Auki Henry Photography - Lan Treagus

Lan Treagus in Darwin, NT
Photographer Auki Henry

Auki Henry Photography - Lan Treagus

Lan Treagus in Darwin, NT
Photographer Auki Henry

Model: Lan Treagus
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 4 June 2011

Description: Here are some samples from my second shoot with Lan. The first shoot having to be done totally with natural light and a reflector, this time we had all the strobes up and working and were able to blast some nice diffuse light against the sun for some classic sunset style shots.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Lighting: 3 point - with 3 x Vivtar 285HV's

Auki Henry Photography - Lan Treagus

Lan Treagus in Darwin, NT
Photographer Auki Henry

Model: Lan Treagus
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 4 June 2011

Description: This beautiful sample shot actually had a little story behind it. Literally the same day it was put up it had my signature cut out of it and claimed a somone elses. Bound to happen sooner or later, and I am not overly concerned as my shots are reasonably well known around the place.

The mini saga and my resulting lecture/lesson ( some may call it rant ) in sharing etiquette can be found here:

http://aukiman.blogspot.com/2011/06/due-respect-101-very-basics-of-sharing.html

The internet isn't as big a place as a lot of people think it is, too many eyes watching out for stuff.

Which is great for photographers like me I guess! I know many other photographers in the same situation who have had someone let them know their work has been re-badged or re-used somewhere else.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Lighting: 3 point - with 3 x Vivtar 285HV's

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