Auki: October 2011

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'
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