Darwin Australia - Auki Henry Photography

Storm clouds rolling in over Lee Point Beach - Darwin, Australia

Photography © 2011 Auki

Auki Henry Photography - Lee Point Storms

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Lee Point, Darwin Australia
Auki Henry Photography

Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 27 Mar 2011

Description: Dramatic mid afternoon storms rolling in across Lee Point beach, Darwin. Katie stands in the shot to help get some perspective on the clouds.

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

Auki Henry Photography - Fisherman's Wharf

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Fisherman's Wharf, Darwin - Auki Henry Photography

Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 27 Mar 2011

Description: An experimental 3 exposure HDR composite taken with 2 stop increments.  I had forgotten the tripod quick-release plate so had to prop against the wooden pier boundaries to stop it moving.  Miniscule ghosting removed with photoshop.

Camera: Canon 7D Lens:  Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM with Vari ND

Auki Henry Photography - James Isacsson

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James Isacsson | Photographer Auki Henry

Model: James Isacsson
Photographer: Auki Henry
Client: Blackwater
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 15 Mar 2011

Description: South Australian band BLACKWATER approached me to do a promotional run on their upcoming self titled EP release, they sent me the artwork for the CD cover to work with. We came up with a stylised look that featured the CD itself.

This one is a 3 layer composite. For James's body shot I got up a ladder and used the 10-22mm lens at its widest setting to exaggerate the look of distance and perspective. For the hand holding a 50mm lens was used. And finally for quality the CD artwork was overlayed onto the CD case.

All layer rendered then composited in photoshop CS5.

Simple strobe lighting was used with a diffused Vivitar 285HV to the front and close above James's face and a bare Vivitar some distance back diagonally opposite to provide the lighting on the back of his head.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Prime (Adapter) + Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM with Vari ND

Auki Henry Photography - Danni Mercer

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Danni Mercer | Photography: Auki Henry

Model: Danni Mercer
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 05 Mar 2011

Description: This shot is the favourite out of the series and Danni likes this one enough to want to submit it to Zoo magazine!  The entire shoot turned out remarkably well given the ambient lighting conditions on the day, the Vivtar flashes are definitely a great bit of kit!

Key light is a diffused Vivitar 285HV on full power and backlighting with a bare Vivi on 1/2 power.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM with Vari ND

Auki Henry Photography - Danni Mercer

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Danni Mercer | Photography: Auki Henry

Model: Danni Mercer
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 05 Mar 2011

Description: Presenting the lovely Danni Mercer!  I seem to be blessed by friends who are only too happy to put up with me practicing my photography on them. 

This shot is from a set that was taken at Mindil beach, the shoot was a bit touch and go with rain clouds around, but the sun was nice enough to peek out a bit and give us enough warm ambient light to get some nice colour into the photos!  Unbelievable that it was Danni's first time to pose seriously in front of the camera she was so relaxed and didn't need prompting! 

Key light is a diffused Vivitar 285HV on full power and backlighting with a bare Vivi on 1/2 power.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Prime (Adapter) with Vari ND

Auki Henry Photography - Danni Mercer

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Danni Mercer | Photography: Auki Henry

Model: Danni Mercer
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 05 Mar 2011

Description: Presenting the lovely Danni Mercer!  I seem to be blessed by friends who are only too happy to put up with me practicing my photography on them. 

This shot is from a set that was taken at Mindil beach, the shoot was a bit touch and go with rain clouds around, but the sun was nice enough to peek out a bit and give us enough warm ambient light to get some nice colour into the photos!  Unbelievable that it was Danni's first time to pose seriously in front of the camera she was so relaxed and didn't need prompting! 

Key light is a diffused Vivitar 285HV on full power and backlighting with a bare Vivi on 1/2 power.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM with Vari ND

Auki Henry Photography - Danni Mercer

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Danni Mercer | Photography: Auki Henry

Model: Danni Mercer
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 05 Mar 2011

Description: Presenting the lovely Danni Mercer!  I seem to be blessed by friends who are only too happy to put up with me practicing my photography on them. 

This shot is from a set that was taken at Mindil beach, the shoot was a bit touch and go with rain clouds around, but the sun was nice enough to peek out a bit and give us enough warm ambient light to get some nice colour into the photos!  Unbelievable that it was Danni's first time to pose seriously in front of the camera she was so relaxed and didn't need prompting! 

Key light is a diffused Vivitar 285HV on full power and backlighting with a bare Vivi on 1/2 power.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Prime (Adapter) with Vari ND

Auki Henry Photography - Danni Mercer

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Danni Mercer | Photography: Auki Henry

Model: Danni Mercer
Photographer: Auki Henry
Location: Darwin, NT, Australia
Date: 05 Mar 2011

Description: Presenting the lovely Danni Mercer!  I seem to be blessed by friends who are only to happy to put up with me practicing my photography on them. 

This shot is from a set that was taken at Mindil beach, the shoot was a bit touch and go with rain clouds around, but the sun was nice enough to peek out a bit and give us enough warm ambient light to get some nice colour into the photos!  Unbelievable that it was Danni's first time to pose seriously in front of the camera she was so relaxed and didn't need prompting! 

Key light is a diffused Vivitar 285HV on full power and backlighting with a bare Vivi on 1/2 power.

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon EF 70-200 mm F4L IS USM

Who is Jerry ?

" who is jerry, 199Jerry, 199-Jerry, who is 199 jerry "

Auki asks Who is Jerry ?

These are all keyword searches we have uncovered this month from people panicked about 'somone' called Jerry who knows too much apparently. But the reality is somewhat more of a giggle.

Founded by Victorian Simon J Hill circa 2010 199-Jerry ( http://www.199jerry.com.au ) is an SMS service - currently with in-excess of 70 employed people who utilise social networking sites and other miscellaneous data to answer questions about your friends that make it seem like the fictitious construct called "Jerry" really knows something about you. With the ever expanding use of social media services and shared personal information publicly available nowadays, society tends to forget that personal information is; in fact, not personal anymore once you have entered it in somewhere.  It lives electronically potentially into perpetuity.

Whilst some of us are able to have a laugh and know that it is in fact just intended as a bit of fun, I can't help but noticed cases where people are dismayed or frightened by some of the information they receive from the 199Jerry "Trivia Service". However, before anyone gets indignant about the answers "Jerry" gives them and feels the need to take action, the terms and conditions for using this service are laid out in their privacy policy and their terms documentation. Here's a nice writeup from Australian Anthill that gives a good background to how it all came about!

" ... Twenty-four year-old Simon J Hill quit a job as a physiotherapist to start 199-JERRY earlier this year, also known as SIMISH Pty Ltd. Using word of mouth and social media, he built some buzz around the question “Who is Jerry?” (visitors to his site can read a saucy profile of the mysterious, made-up genius. A snippet: “Adopted and hand-reared by Nepalese monks, Jerry was raised on a rocky outcrop in the mountains of Tibet. By age 2 Jerry was wrestling and taming wild yak.”) He began hiring people to staff a 24-7 service that could answer questions like “Who won the 2006 AFL Norm Smith Medal?” and “Where is the nearest Fitness First to Flinders Street station?” Initially, the pressure was on: Hill was receiving far more questions than he could handle. “When people were waiting one hour-plus for an answer, I knew I had to pull back promotions and start from the ground again,” he says. “I then hired 50 people within 16 weeks of starting the business.” 199-JERRY now employs about 70 people, including three managers who run the day-to-day and free up Hill to grow the company. The service gets more than 50,000 messages a month. Each question costs $4 to send. He plans to take 199-JERRY to the UK in February 2011, and is now working on a fashion site with a mentor who was attracted by the success of the SMS service. ... Read more at anthillonline.com "