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I have photographed for NIDA, NICA, Circus Oz, Strange Fruit, Little Devils Circus, and the Melbourne Juggling Convention. As well as a host of Local and International Circus Performers.

Here is a selection of Circus related photos.
Enjoy.

Happy 1/2 Birthday Ollie!

One of the NICA circus students asked me if I could do a portrait shoot for him. No worries.

After thinking about this a bit, I thought that I would just keep it simple and quick—my time is rather scarce right now. So I found a wall in the shade, put the shutter onto max sync. Or 1/200 actually, because my 50D has more reliability with this than 1/250th. Dialled the aperture to 7.1 for a nice crisp image. Started the ISO at 400, and wound it down to 200 to be a couple of stops (I can’t remember if it was 1 or 2) below ambient.

Set the bare 430EX II to 1/16 power and up against the wall to camera right, just out of shot. And put the other 430EX II on e-TTL firing into a shoot-through umbrella to camera left on the first image, and right for the second.

I was going for a simple relatively safe set up, low post production shot. These are my picks from the 15 minute shoot. Actually, the longest part of this shoot was running into the building to find a sand bag so that the umbrella light stand would stop falling over in the breeze.

Post production was quite straight forward too.

This popped up on one of my RSS feeds. Cool! From here:

There is no mistaking where they’re from when the mullet-haired, check-shirted BMX bandit Scott Hone takes to the stage. Watching him mock bullfight with piano-accordionist Svetlana Bunic and pile nine performers on to his moving bike, it seems so odd to read that he used to be an orange juice salesman and taught high school maths.

And it is even more of a surprise when such a chunky chap reappears in a tutu, balancing and rolling sparkling balls on his arms with a completely unexpected grace. He’s found his niche with Circus Oz.

- Photo by Seth Golub