John & Louise were recommended to us by a friend of theirs who liked the natural style of our Photography. They are planning an intimate little Wedding in the coming months and were looking for a local Photographer to provide them with a comfortable experience on the Wedding day. They came and met with me in studio and found a wedding album package to suit their needs. We planned a pre Wedding Portrait session for them while John was back for a break from working on the mines. The pre Wedding portrait session is an ideal way to become more comfortable an familiar with your Wedding photographer and enables our clients to experience first hand what it is like to be Photographed by a professional and also a good preparation for the Wedding day. The other benefit is it allows our couples to become more comfortable together in front of our camera where they will spend a lot of time together on the Wedding day.

We decided on doing the portraits in a local national park which is quiet and cosy away from bustling crowds and has beautiful backgrounds and soft subtle light from the setting sun peering through the trees. Even though we knew on either side of us there were blazing fires in the rang of hills, we had no problem with smoke or smell.

Well John & Louise were very comfortable with each other and required little direction from  us at all as they shared laughs and smiles with each other during the portrait session. we were able to capture some beautiful little moments in our candid and natural style and both of them seemed to feel very comfortable in front of our cameras.

Here is a couple of sneak previews of the images from the day, we hope you guys enjoy them. Looking forward to Photographing their intimate casual Wedding soon. 

I thought I would show a preview of a beautiful little Wedding that we did just recently. We travelled South to the hills overlooking the Ferguson Valley. The location was Ferguson Farm Stay, a stunning little farm style location that will cater wonderfully for your Wedding celebrations. We arrived the day before the Wedding and it was breath-taking. We were able to gauge where the sun would be and come up with some exciting ideas for the Wedding day. This was the first time we had met the Bride, Kellie, and her groom to be, John. Previously we had done most of our corresponding and planning via email and phone – the joys of modern technology! This is quite common for us when dealing with country, interstate or international clients. The next day we travelled back to the Farm Stay for the Wedding. I didn’t get the greatest start to the day, however. I’d taken the kids fishing early that morning and managed to stab myself between my thumb and forefinger, but nevertheless I toughed it out and finished the day with some captivating images.

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A lovely lady named Zurah brought her beautiful first born to us for our NEW baby Fusion (Video & Stills) collection. We spent a few hours filming her and she was absolutely divine. She is the total joy of her mother and is adored very much. For the session, we wanted it to have a natural look – a home life not a studio with lots of props. All the shooting was done with a Canon 1D mk 4 and the 5D mk2. The complete video will be ready for viewing soon. Baby Zidella is only 3 months old and show plenty of spirit and expression. This image of her facial when being held by her mum is a classic. We dressed her plainly and then had her just in a nappy so it could like she was just having fun in her own home – Just doing her thing. Well after a little while the little darling tired out and so we lay her down on the bed and wrapped a funky coloured scarfe around her. Her tone came to life as she lay peacefully sleeping on the bed. With beautiful skin tone and a lovely gentle light we were able to enhance the vibrant colours and also able to capture the moment in a subtle black & white print too. After a little nap, Zurah was able to take her daughter home for a peaceful afternoon. These session are mostly shot in the comfort of your own home.

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Bec & Bryan recently were engaged to be Married and after seeing some friends of theirs engagement Photos we had taken, they made contact for a similiar request. Bec & Bryan are friends on Facebook with Tim & Jess who’s Wedding we Photographed in the Swan Valley last year. We had taken them for some beautiful portraits some time earlier at Bells Rapids in the Swan valley.

When I contacted Bec about getting some portraits done, she also let me know that they are planning their Wedding at Ascot Quays later in the year and were looking at hiring a Wedding Photographer. This Pre Wedding portrait session really becomes important for both of us as it is a chance to show them my style and approach to Photography and of course what images I can produce in the end of the day. For the up coming Bride and Groom they get a chance to evaluate my Photography as well seeing if they feel comfortable with me when I have a camera in their faces, like I will on their Wedding day. The other thing it allows for is the couple to feel comfortable and natural with each other and I also get the opportunity to prepare them to pose naturally an candidly like we want them on the Wedding day. This is important as usually couples that come to us haven’t had professional Photographs together before.

For this session we chose a close location to home for each of us. This was the John Forrest national park in Swanview. After a quick get to know you and a short stroll to a quiet location, we set about to create some awesome images. Well Bec and Bryan were very suited to each other and we found some little gems from the session. As Bryan tells the story, Bec couldn’t wait for him to finally ask the question, so she hurried things along and asked him herself. Now they are planning a spring wedding later this year.

Some of the portraits were very natural and even stunning and showed some great little moments of joy and laughter between the couple. They are hoping to find a nice one for Bryan’s mother and possibly look at a signature print at the reception of their Wedding or a guest book with images from the day. That is of course if they like them. We hope they do.
Bryan and Bec later visited for a Wedding consultation interview and I must say were extremely patient as I had an awkard time of looking after my 3 kids including my grizzly little newborn. Thanks again guys.
Here is a sneak preview of the images from the session, with more to come shortly.

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A much awaited new arrival, we were blessed with the safe arrival of our baby son at 10.55pm on the 11th of December 2011 after a very quick, 1 hour and 45 minute labour. He weighed in at 7 pounds and 4 ounces, sporting a full head of beautiful, thick black hair. His gender was a surprise because we’d been unable to see it at the ultrasound, and then he surprised us by being four days early (which is unheard of for us!). Within two minutes he’d had his first photo taken.

Our two children have fallen in love with him, and dote on him completely. They were absolutely thrilled to meet him for the first time, and they got to kiss and cuddle him, and hold him, much to their delight. They have adapted very well to the changes the new baby has brought into our family and are wonderful siblings.

Three months on, we have named him Jairom Michael James Desmond (pronounced Jy-rum). We are so proud and feel incredibly blessed to have another child in our family.

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Caylen & Thalia and their 2 children were only in town for a couple of weeks visiting family. They had travelled all the way over from Sunny Mackay in Queensland. We arranged a time to have them photographed with the family while they were here. We decided on a beach setting in Ocean Reef and decided the best time to go was in the evening while the sun was on its way down. As you know with portraits, things don’t always go the plan. A day earlier their 2 year old boy Cruz fell off the playground, splitting his head open. This meant that he needed to keep a bandage on his head to protct the area where the doctor had glued the wound together. But he toughed it out and rolled on with the portrait session. Of course the kids just couldn’t keep away from the water and their Papa wasn’t discouraging them at all. We found some magical little images of a beautiful little family enjoying the rugged West Coast lifestyle. After a fun and adventurous session, we found that the keys to the car had been locked in the car so the family sat around in the the windy cold evening having a good, fun conversation while we fetched the spare set of keys.

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Damien & Kate have been clients of ours before (Look for our out of the Vault session with their family), and as Damien is being posted over in Queensland with the army, they decided to have another family photo session. Damien and Kate have two boys who are an absolute adventure at the best of times, so it is always fun to photograph them and to see what they will get up to. As this was part of our autumn family portraits session, we decided that we would have the session late in the afternoon when the autumn sunshine is vibrant and golden.

Our first location was in Midland, close to the old railway workshops. There are some interesting structures here plus room for the boys to have a run around. And that’s just what they did  – running and climbing on things and doing exactly what boys do.

After they’d worn us out there we decided to make a stop over in Guildford near the Grammar school. This is a stunning Autumn location. As the sun was starting to settle for the afternoon, it sprayed golden light and colour through the trees and onto the leaves that have fallen to the ground.

Once we’d finished our little adventure there we moved to one last location situated in the Swan Valley. The Swan Valley is one of my favourite locations to photograph, not only because of its beauty and variety, but also because it is the area where I grew up and am so familiar with.

Today we have decided to utilize the property of local vineyard owner and good friend of ours John Kafarela. His property is situated just on the Great Northern Hwy in Herne Hill and if you ever have a chance to stop in there you must try his range of non-alcoholic wines and mocktails. John also has the best peaches from his trees and rock melons ( when they’re in season of course) and produces fine tasting table grapes. His property is fantastic and we often take families and couple there for their photo session.

Personally we love the place as it has trucks, tractors and machinery which the young kids find fascinating plus room to run around. The rural feel really helps the families relax and enjoy themselves making our job so much easier. His property is also the location where my wife and I held our Wedding reception and had our bridal party photographs all those years ago. And after capturing the images that we were after the good old farmer that John is offered the boys a ride on his tractor, much to their delight. With the photo shoot complete (and the boys worn out, hopefully), we’ve started processing and putting finishing touches to the images. Here is a sneak preview of how they turned out.

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Joe and Kyelee have been sweethearts forever, well since since high school anyway, they have 2 children who joined them as members of the Bridal party, and enjoyed the day with cousins and friends who had travelled far and wide.

They celebrated a beautiful ceremony in the latter day saints  Church in Ballajura. The formal photos were taken in Hyde Park in Perth and we then went for a very quick drive in the Hummer from allstars hummer http://www.allstarhire.com/ up to Kings Park. Hyde park is very sentimental to Kyelee who grew up just across the road, and Kingspark always gives that beautiful city backdrop an view.

The Wedding concluded with a wonderful party at the Burswood convention centre in a lavish reception centre. Kyelee had a extravagant Maggie Sottero Wedding gown complete with a 2.1 metre train from Dion for Brides  http://www.dionforbrides.com.au/  WOW!!!

Joe has been my best mate since way back when, so it was a privilege to participate at his Wedding. I was asked to be in the bridal party, but Kyelee and Joe also wanted my influence in the Photography. I was asked to co-ordinate the Photography, and utilised the talents of my sister in law Lesley. She has been out and assisted me on several Wedding jobs before and has a great talent. This was her 1st shot in the deep end and she did a great job, starting with the girls in the morning and looking after the Bridal party shots. I looked after the Bridal couple photo’s and was extremely happy with the results. My wife Mesha also assisted us on the day and we had a great time even with a big bridal party and small time frame. Here are a couple of the images I shot that I was really stoked about (and so was the Bride and Groom).

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Swan Athletic Solid in Victory

In what can best be described as a workmanlike performance Swan Athletic League accounted for a low placed Kingsley side last Saturday the 24^th July.

Kingsley with nothing to play for but pride was buoyed before the commencement of the League game with solid wins in their colts and reserves.

This proved little inspiration however as the local boys were per functionary in their dismissal of any challenge in the main game.

With Steve Qualigia dominant forward when resting with 5 goals, Murray and Chris Smith both active and accurate and a fast moving midfield, the game was really over by half time.

Cameron Manual was once again dominant across the centre and with Brendon O’Donnell improving every week, this gave the home side enough of the midfield ball to put scoreboard pressure on the visitors.

The second half was very much a mirror of the first with the slow but steady grinding run of Swan Athletic ensuring that the result was never in doubt.

Coach Justin Woods demanded at the final change a total of 20 goals and this was achieved to the delight of the local Supporters.

Final scores

Swan Athletic 20 goals 4 behinds (124 points) Kingsley 7 goals 11 behinds (53 points)

Best players: team effort as declared by the coach

4ths and 5ths both went down to Trinity Aquinas at Baskerville.  ARTICLE BY: DAVID PAVILINOVICH. IMAGES BY: BROOK DESMOND of DEZIRE STUDIOS as seen in the ECHO NEWSPAPER. See also http://bit.ly/agISKb

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Ashley & Phil’s wedding

Ashley and Phil had hired us for their Wedding at Caversham house in the Swan Valley http://www.cavershamhouse.com.au/. The day had been meticulously planned so that everything would fall into place, and as it turned out it did – Well almost. The day was beautiful the light fantastic and we were looking forward to a pleasant day, the only small hiccup is that my wife who was assisting me for the day had become extremely unwell that morning and so I spent a couple of nervous hours early searching for an available and capable assistant. Luckily for me my friend Henry http://henryphotoblog.com/ was the answer to my call and was willing to rearrange his schedule to help me out. Thanks again Henry.
We arrived at the Brides home and photographed her candidly as herself and the girls got themselves prepared for the big day. When they were done we raced off to the ceremony at Caversham house and photographed the boys anxiously waiting. The Ceremony was beautiful and many precious moments were shared by all who attended. family had visited from far and wide including Europe and the UK and they were not let down by the lavish ceremony and reception that followed in the Caversham Marquee, which add some extra special touches added by a friend of Ashley’s. And it had to be done right – Ashley is an interior decorator and a talented one at that, so every detail needed to be spot on. After all the usual candid celebrations, we held a Bridal party photographic session in the beautiful Caversham grounds. this location is perfect for Wedding Photography and really offers a lot to couples that marry there. as the sun began to set we decided to get a few quick pics in the fields and vineyards across the road. an the light turned on a bit of a show for us. Finally we entered into the reception and completed some photos with the families and guest before Ashley and Phil enjoyed the rest of their evening in the beautifully decorated marquee. We have just designed a beautiful album for this wonderful couple, Hope you enjoy the images.

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Technique Tuesday
Action basketball in low light

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Before purchasing the Canon 1D mk4, I took it out for some test shots to see if it could produce the quality of image we were after and whether it would handle some of the shooting conditions we sometimes find ourselves in. During the time that we had it I played in a basketball tournament with my brother Adam. I took along the camera and had my sister in law who is into Photography herself shoot some images of the game. This image is of her husband playing. The stadium in Warwick would prove a test in itself being very dark and with horrible lighting. This would be a good test for the camera as when shooting sporting events we require a fast shutter speed. This images was shot using a 24-70mm f2.8 canon lens. The ISO was set to 2000 so it would be good to see how it handled the noise in this dark stadium. The shutter was 1/125 and the aperture f4. The original raw capture was reasonably sharp but definitely needed a little more lift in the overall tone.

Raw Process

In camera raw I found that increasing the Exposure +85, fill light +6 and brightness +56 would bring out the overall exposure and lightness that was more appropriate. Where I was pleased was even with such an increase in the exposure that the noise wasn’t too evident or distracting.

Editing

To keep the exposure level where I wanted it and to bring the detail and zest back into the colour I added a selective colour adjustment layer. Then I increase all of the colours tones individually using their black slider by 10%. By doing this I am darkening making all the colour richer without overdoing the overall contrast and without severely affecting the skin tones and other areas I don’t want to change. Because I use this method fairly often I have saved it and a few of the other selective colour adjustments as presets so when I go to use them its simply a click and its done.

Overall I’m much happier with the image now but I want to isolate some details in the face and other areas so I run my essential dodging and burning action over it (See previous tutorial for technique http://bit.ly/9v72nL). This action makes it so easy and its very customizable to any image. So i very quickly brush in the dodging and burning I want to do and its totally reversable and non destructive. The very last  thing I do to the image is to emphasize the movement. I will go into this in greater detail in another tutorial but in short I select my brother and mask him while adding a touch of motion blur to the background. Now I have a crisp clean and sharp action image.

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SWAN ATHLETIC SET FOR FINALS

Swan Athletic accounted for West Coast Cowan easily in the last qualifying round of the WAAFL second tier competition Saturday 7th August.

West Coast arrived full of confidence after a late charge in their season that saw them jump into the top five after 5 wins in a row. Swan Athletic had everything to play for, knowing that victory would see them finish second and host a qualifying final the next week.

The game was always under the home sides control and they led at each change with the visitors at no stage threatening to take control of the game

Coach Justin Woods in a sharp form reversal kicked 5 goals from a roaming forwards role and this is timely leading to the final next week.

He was supported well by Brent McPherson with four goals, and a strong midfield led in the first half by Ryan Hampson and in the second by Damon Pavlinovich.

In a sour note however a serious injury to key defender James Sharman and an early departure from the game for Michael Saunders will seriously test the clubs depth.

With Ben Stockden already sidelined with a hamstring injury the challenge is now for the defence to be settled ready for the final against Hamersley this Saturday.

Final Scores Swan Athletic 18 goals 7 behinds (115) to West Coast Cowan 10 goals 2 behinds (62)

In the early games Swan Athletic Colts failed to capitalize and gave up 3rd spot on the ladder to a well organized and desperate West Coast.

They will face a hostile Kingsley in the elimination final this Saturday

The reserves won a tough game and this should see them finish 4th on the ladder and by way of the league team also have a home final

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