Slightly Altered

Welcome aboard

Lightly Salted — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:33:17 +0000

Some of you may have already met Owen, he’ll be hanging around the studio next time you drop in so do say hi. He likes coffee, long walks on the beach and recently switched from Canon to Nikon – displaying his superior intellect!

Check out his work over at Schebella Visuals.

Rachael Leahcar rocks The Voice

Lightly Salted — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:10 +0000

Late last year we had the privilege to photograph the gorgeous pocket rocket Rachael Leahcar who has taken Australia by storm with her recent performance on Channel 9′s The Voice. Rachael is a client of the Royal Society for the Blind for whom Lightly Salted does a lot of work in support of the charity – you may recall we raised an RSB Guide Dog Puppy a few years ago.

We were chuffed to see the facebook announcements rolling in while on holiday in South Africa so I thought I’d take a minute (now that I’m home) to show some extra images from our shoot with Rachael. It would have been quite obvious on the show but in case you hadn’t noticed, Rachael is very humble and radiates a wonderful innocence very uncommon in 17/18 year old’s these days! We wish her all the best for the show and her future career.

See below for the video of her performance:

Rachael Leahcar performing on The Voice – YouTube

36 Megawhatsits

Lightly Salted — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:33 +0000

Just a quickie to inform you that we’ve acquired the highest resolution 35mm format camera on the market – the Nikon D800. We’ve been testing it out and pixel peeping at the incredible 36 megapixel resolution and all I can say is that all those clients who have been craving bigger files, this thing delivers in spades!!! We can now create prints 600mm tall or wide at 300 DPI. Stop drooling.

Studio Progress

Lightly Salted — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:55:22 +0000

As some may be aware we’ve been renovating our new studio for the last 5 or so months – it’s finally at a stage where we’re happy to show you a sneak peek!

The most recent major work was the floor grinding, we’ve had our concrete floor cut back and sealed with a non-slip epoxy coating which has given us a high gloss concrete look (which we love!). We’re in the process of installing the kitchen and the next big job is raising the roof, literally! The warehouse end of the space has a fairly high sloping roof but we’re going to push it up and level it out so we have 4m of studio height to work in. We’ll then paint the floor and walls white and install the cyclorama (the curved white infinity wall). It sounds like a lot of work but our builder is a miracle man so we hope to have the studio fully functional by mid 2012.

Excuse the work site mess!

It’s Pageant time!

Lightly Salted — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:06:36 +0000

A while back we posted about the fun shoot we did for the Credit Union Xmas Pageant; over the last month or so those images have been trickling out into the media and we’ve been spotting them all over the place. Today the main group image appeared in The Advertiser – always nice to see our work being used in mainstream media.

Xmas Pageant - Advertiser

Straight up fashion with a twist

Lightly Salted — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:56:33 +0000

I love a well planned shoot with an organised and professional team. The concept behind this Centro catalogue fashion was to start with a ‘normal’ fashion setting and add a ‘quirk’ – much like the Centro work we did a while ago with the watermelon slaying ballet dancer and toast adoring princess (original post here or the award edited versions here)!!

I’ve included a behind the scenes photo (taken by my assistant for the day Teagan Oliver) to show how much of a spectator sport studio photography really is!

Agency – Black Sheep Advertising
Styling – Chloe Spalding
Hair/MUA – Natasha Kruzycki
Models – Bec and Jose

Attack of Rundle Mallzilla!

Lightly Salted — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:58:45 +0000

Rundle Mall Unique Magazine SS11

The fourth Magazine we’ve worked on with Algo Mas and Rundle Mall turned out to be the BIGGEST by far! Not only was it a whopping 64 pages but our models were positively massive! This was an instance where we were given an opportunity to pitch some concepts for the photography and thus Mallzilla was born. Inspired partly by the ‘miniature’ (Tilt/Shift) craze that’s been doing the rounds for the last couple of years and partly an inexplicable desire to be stuck to the Mac like glue for hours and hours on end, this concept became very close to my heart. This helped maintain motivation during the mammoth 5-6 hour retouching/compositing stints for each of the 6 images!!

Not to be overlooked, the secondary shoot we did in the Botanic Gardens (Algo Mas’ concept) was also great fun – who doesn’t enjoy loitering in the park with a tonne of photographic equipment in the sweltering (Autumn!) sun? Seriously though the talent and crew were absolute stars and we captured some beautiful moments in this oasis in the city.

Credit Union Xmas Pageant 2011

Lightly Salted — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:56:42 +0000

PR firm Communikate recently contacted us to see if we’d be interested in working with them on some promotional images for the Credit Union Xmas Pageant here in Adelaide. After being briefed there was no way we were about to turn the job down and when you see the ‘pop’ style and caricature portraits we created you’ll see why! The shoot was a blast, rather freezing in a giant warehouse but the team kept us fueled with coffee and finger food so everything flowed very smoothly.

BMW 5 Series

Lightly Salted — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:05:14 +0000

Every now and then we are commissioned to create an image that is as much about illustration as it is photography. I’ve decided to include a screen shot showing the layers of the initial working phase creating this “intimidating” image of a BMW 5 Series. For the BMW aficionado’s out there, this is the old shape 5 series as the new shape headlights are more wimpy!!

In terms of production, this image spent approximately 4 times longer in Post Production/Retouching than it did being photographed. A key element to remember when doing this kind of work is to get good reference shots of the object you’re photographing, this makes it much easier to put the elements together in post.

Not for profit

Lightly Salted — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:43:55 +0000

Many of you would already know that us salty nutters like to do our bit for charitable and not-for-profit organisations. We’ve worked with 2 so closely that we consider them friends moreso than clients. This is a little shout-out to all the folks at the Royal Society for the Blind and Barkuma_INC. We love what you do and thank you deeply for allowing us to become part of your families.