Saint International Fashion Block 2009

Posted: June 2, 2009 
Filed under: Fashion
Tagged: 70-200-f4-L, eos-30d, Fashion, fashion-block, saint-international, skin-graphed
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Sunday may 31, 2009 Knutsford blvrd was transformed from its old face into A high fashion heaven. The roads were closed and saint interantional erected a catwalk in the middle of the road where they showcased 19 collections from various designers both local and international.

Recognized a few of the shooters there this year, I was shooting alongside Giovanni Powell and our lovely assistant was non other than my beautiful girlfriend @vampnixen. She took excellent notes of the event for us to match back with the photos interms of captions and tags.

The lighting at the event wasn’t the greatest thing ever. Tungsten mixed with a whole lot of madness. Fashion Block is a public fashion event with a vip area, the aim seems to be getting the crowd amped and hyper so there’s a lot of flashing lights and smoke (yes smoke) while the fashion show is taking place. This sadly means consistency is almost completely out the window. The show started @ aproximately 8:45pm and would run to 12:00am.

Gear I was packing was my 30D, 70 – 200 f4 L (yes f4 @ night) and a sb 28dx hot shoe strobe for fill if needed, memory cards, spare batteries, notepad, pen all in my crumpler 6 million dollar home bag.

Shooting with that kinda light @ f4 made things kinda tricky, The models walk rly fast sometimes so 160th was almost too slow to create a very sharp exposure. However going above that was creating underexposed images as a result of the f4 aperature on the glass. Definitely Could not punch the iso as it would induce noise which I wasn’t prepared to deal with. Exposures boiled down to being 1/160th @ f4 on iso 200 Shot in raw for the most part for color correction with those crazy lighting stunts they were pulling.

Result : The image to the left is from the skin graphed collection. This collection was among my favourite of what the entire fashion show had to offer to be honest. To view the rest of my coverage visit my portfolio