Perspectives Wedding Photography

I had meant to blog this sooner – things have been crazily busy the last few weeks!

Anyway – many of you will remember the work we’ve done with Pahoia School over the last year or so – ranging from shoots for the rock band “Pahoia United” through to the recent poster work for their film production.

You might have also seen them on Campbell live the other week – for those that missed out, you can see the clip here

Well, last Thursday we went along to the film premiere – and it was AWESOME!

It was held at Baycourt Performing Arts centre in Tauranga, and it was a full house! The evening kicked off with drinks & nibbles – and then the main 9 cast members arrived in a limo – walking in down the red carpet, through a line of their parents & schoolmates.

In the foyer was a big cardboard cutout of the poster we did… which began a few months back with a green screen shoot out at the school…

Which was then followed by plenty of hours in Photoshop clipping out the green, finding backgrounds and textures, and eventually coming up with the final product….

This image was then the basis for the promo posters for the film, and the DVD cover.
The premiere even had a whole table of merchandise for sale – including some cool stickers of each character, which we made up from a cutout of each single character, over top of the same background as the poster.

Here’s me at the premiere, in front of the cutout in the foyer… (photo courtesy of Billy Edwards)

We then went into the theatre room to see the film itself – in a word, INCREDIBLE.
An hour & a half epic – it really was an amazing accomplishment – even including aerial footage shot from a microlight!

Click here to see a trailer for the film

Finally – a few days before we went to the premiere, we found out that two of our Pahoia School images had won Kodak Gold Awards – the film poster, and also a shot of Amber’s from the second Pahoia United shoot!

Here’s the winning shots…

We are so proud to have had the opportunity to work with such an amazing school – those kids are going to remember their experiences their entire lives – and it just goes to show, kids are capable of anything!

Isaac.

I love sunny weather!!

Unfortunately, that is today – yesterday was freezing cold & raining – a great time to go up the top of a mountain for family portraits!!

The Leehan’s made excellent work of not looking cold, though – and we got some fantastic shots – all the time surrounded by nothing but the mist, and the songs of around 20 tuis. Fantastic!

Here’s a sneak peek at some shots…

Hi guys,

Yesterday we caught up with the lovely Nooyen family – who had decided to get Dad a family portrait session as a Father’s Day gift – and what a cool gift it was!

We had a great time photographing out on their farm, which had a fantastic assortment of sheds, fields, and gates – all of which made for some awesome photo backgrounds, while being meaningful at the same time.

Here’s a little sneak peek of how the shots are looking!

Isaac.

How cool is Pahoia school???

Firstly, the fantastic teacher Mr. E. organized the Pahoia United rock band, which we’ve done two shoots for over the last year or two, they can be found if you delve back into the blog archives….

(as an afterthought – who wants to delve when you can just click links – here you go… First shoot …. and Second Shoot)

This time, instead of doing an end of year production, the school has decided to make a film – in the epic style of Lord of the Rings.

Now, as you know from the rock band, Pahoia isn’t the kind of school to do things by halves – and this is no exception! I’m really looking forward to seeing what the film looks like!

So on Wednesday, I went over for a shoot – getting some nice full length images of the main characters, which will be printed as life-size cardboard cutouts for the film’s premiere in Term 4 – just like the real movie premieres!

Also, we took some more head / shoulders type shots, which we’ll make up as a montage type thing to use as promo posters / DVD cover.

The school has even made their own green screen room for the film – so I shot in there (first time on green screen for me – was a cool experience!) to make it easy to cut the figures out so that I can overlay them onto another background.

Here’s a little peek at some shots – apart from cropping out the bits of softboxes / reflectors sticking into the frame, these are all just straight out of camera – so still need a bit of Photoshop tweaking. But you get the idea, anyway!

Here’s the stone which the film is centered around – on the cover it’ll be really glowing and shining light back towards her…

And here’s the evil king….

Fierce swordsmen…

And finally, a barbarian horde (it’s hard to fit a horde into a little green screen room, let alone have them charging, so this one was shot outdoors!)

Cool aye!! This is just the beginning – I’m about to get stuck into the artwork soon – so will keep things updated.

Isaac.

Hi guys,

This has been a while coming (it’s proving to be a busy week!) – but they’re worth the wait!

So without further ado – here’s shots from the Sunday sessions.

We kicked off the day with Nikki & Luke – who did some individual & couples portraits…

Then we met up with Steve and his gorgeous daughters…

After which we caught up with Lisa & Loto (who’s wedding we’ll be photographing later this year) and their son Reegan…

We then rushed off to catch Jono & David – we shot Jono’s wedding (and Holly’s) a while ago, and this time he was in a suit again!! …

Then it was off to see Hayley & Darin for some couple’s portraits…

And finally, we finished up the day with Nyssa & James – pretty much all their shots were taken after dark, so it was a great chance to get the flashes out & play around with the light…

And there you have it!!

Many, many photos + many people + very little downtime + no rain + smiles + happy = a fantastic weekend and some beautiful shots!

Thanks again to everyone that came along to work with us – we had a great time, and hope ya’ll did too

Isaac.

Hey guys,

As you know, we’re doing our portrait marathon this weekend… and today was the first day of shooting.

We got some fantastic shots, and worked with some awesome families & models to do so – thanks to everyone that gave up their time to come down and pose up a storm!

Here’s a sneak peek of how the shots are looking… only a couple from each, coz it’s late & I need to get some sleep so I can get up and do this over again tomorrow!!

We began the day with an individual session with the lovely Alex…

Followed by Liz, Paul, and their children…

Then caught up with Niki & Dave for some portraits….

And a family portrait with Hayden, Jess, and little Eliot…

It was then home for a quick lunch break, and then off to shoot trash the dress shots with Rach & Fraser… (love the late afternoon light here)….

And then we finished up with some night-time bridal portraits with the gorgeous Kerryn….

Awesome huh!

We’ll keep updating the images on the blog (and on Facebook) as I edit them… and tomorrow we’re off to shoot a whole lot more, so check back soon to see how that goes!

Isaac.

Hi guys,

This morning we caught up with Simon & Tracey (who’s wedding we photographed a while back) and their adorable young man, for some family photos.

It took Linkin a while to get into the swing of things, and for the smiles to come out, but we got there in the end!!

Apparently, over the last few days he has started sticking his tongue out – which we saw heaps of today! I love the shot where he’s totally intent on getting his hands on the camera lens – so cute!

Enjoy the shots!

Isaac & Amber.