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Hamish and Tracey’s Pre-Wedding Shoot

gavinwyatt — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:34:52 +0000

So its nearly midnight and Im categorising and filing away a years worth of photography and I’ve stumbled across Hamish and Tracey’s pre-wedding shoot… and the penny drops. I never blogged about this shoot. (In my defence I left for a month’s holiday shortly after! I got a fair bit of blogging to catch up on.) Anyway here they are, Hamish and Tracey’s photographs from their pre-wedding shoot… and not a moment too soon either. They get married this weekend!

Can’t wait to photograph your wedding guys!

Teneale and Guy Get Engaged!

gavinwyatt — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:29:45 +0000

This photoshoot was heaps of fun. Teneale and Guy really got into the action, bringing at least three costume changes, a vintage tea set and some of the best cupcakes I’ve ever eaten! We even had some props, in the form of my enthusiastic stylist Mia’s very funky umbrellas and a couple of paper mache love hearts she may or may not have picked up at a rave in the forest! We used the kind of gothic architecture of the Cottesloe Civic Centre as a backdrop, which nicely offset the outifts. To top it all off, when the sun went down we were treated to one of the best sunsets I’ve seen in Perth for a long time. It capped off a couple of hours of real cool photography! Here are some of my favourite images from the engagement photoshoot:

Baby Photography with Archer Watkins

gavinwyatt — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:36:29 +0000

Archer Watkins is a very serious little man. He sat me down at the start of this baby photoshoot in Kings Park and said “Look Gav, I dont really do photos. All the baby talk and the coo cooing and the trying to make me smile – it’s just not my bag. But Im here for Mum and Dad. They’ve been pretty good to me the last few months, you know, bringing me up and stuff, so Ive agreed to this photoshoot because I like to see them happy. So just do your job, and no mucking about, see?” After our little talk I thought I was going to be in for a very hard time, but I think Archer softened to the idea of the photoshoot as time went by. By the end of it he was even making suggestions – “Hey Gav, how about you just photograph my foot… Ill put it here. And then have Mum and Dad in the background all blurry?” Some of his ideas were really good and can be seen amongst these images below, my favourites from the photography session. I love his facial expressions!

Portrait Photography

gavinwyatt — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:32:21 +0000

Portrait photography is generally thought of as taking place in a big studio with seamless walls and big lights pointing in all sorts of directions. I’ve never had the pleasure of being photographed in this way, but I imagine it would freak me out. Too much formality, too much pressure to smile. I find people are much more relaxed in a location setting – either at somewhere we’ve chosen, or in their own home, or in my home. Here’s a few pics from some of my recent portrait shoots in and around Perth.

Yvonne is a translator from Germany who needed some images to use on her marketing material. The brief could be summed up in three c’s I guess: corporate, casual, characterful. Here’s what we came up with:

Lunde and Liv are the proud parents of little Sam, one of the cutest kids ever. He was really new at the time of this shoot, and already showed a natural talent in front of the camera The boys going places I tell ya!

We met up with Dae-in Cha, his wife Sakiko and their little boy Eugene in Kings Park on the morning of Eugene’s first birthday. The wildflowers were just out, and Eugene got dressed up n his traditional Korean outfit especially for the occasion! Two hours of shooting and he didnt cry once… in fact he pretty much giggled the whole way through!

Portrait Gigglers

gavinwyatt — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:48:44 +0000

Portrait photo sessions are fun… but with Dani and Hannah a portrait shoot is just plain funny. I grew up on the next door farm to these girls in Zambia, and since then their propensity to giggle at the most random of things has only increased. Place them in front of a camera and some lights, and it increases even more! I think the joke was on me most of the time A situation like this is actually quite handy for a photographer, because because wedged in between the silliness some lovely natural portraits present themselves. These images were taken at the girls parents place in Capel, outside Bunbury, a beautiful smallholding covered in thick native trees and a small lake (unfortunately dry at this time of year). My favourite thing about them? Dani’s shoes in the first photo!

Thanks Hannah and Dani, you were good models! Next time we’re getting your parents involved… maybe some make-up and hair styling for your Dad even?!?!?