A life observed through the lens of time
I’m a fine art photographer who lives in Soldiers Hill, Ballarat.
I graduated from Photography Studies College, Melbourne, in 2017 with a major in Fine Art.
I have had solo exhibitions in the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Horsham Art Gallery, Central Goldfields Gallery, Willaura Modern, the Raillery Gallery St Arnaud and Yering Station Gallery in the Yarra Valley.
My Fine Art work explores the temporal nature of human life (it is a recurring theme in much of my work) and I also enjoy travel photography, music performance, portraiture, still life and landscape photography.
Apart from exhibition work I would be pleased to work with you to make a high-quality commission, to take a portrait of you and your family or to sell you one of my prints.
How I Make My Images
When I make my images, I consider 3 things
Subject
What the image is about. In my case it is usually the transience of human life. It could also be about the power and beauty of nature, frailty, solitude.
Content
What I put in the image to show my subject.
Form
How I arrange or present the work. This includes such things as whether the image is digital or printed; colour or black and white; editing; which photographic paper I will use; composition; viewpoint; the size of the work; or if it will be a photogravure print.
Here is an example of how it works for me.
I was going to the Bluesfest in Byron Bay and I developed the following game plan:
Captured Moments
I wanted to capture those moments when the musician got lost in the music.
Unmasked Expression
The musician or singer without a microphone masking their face and without the visual distractions such as stage lights, amplifiers and the like.
Black & White
The images would be in black and white, I would use my Nikon 850 camera with a 70-200mm lens and I would be shooting with an ISO of at least 2000. I would need to edit out the distractions. I would use negative space to isolate the musician.
From Capture to Completion
Let me step you through the process
Target Vision
"I wanted an image to look like this" — Eric Gales
Let me step you through the process
Too Many Distractions
This is the initial shot. There are so many distractions here (the lights, the other guitarist, the other guitar) that you don’t know where to look.
Focusing the Subject
This stage of editing removed the distractions so now we can focus on my subject.
Complete as Imagined
Removing the distraction of colour means my image is complete and looking the way that I imagined.