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Steamkittens Scrapbook

This image is from about a year ago. I have so many behind the scenes shots, social media selfies and other material I've always wanted to put together a scrapbook retrospective of Steamkittens so put together these page concepts. You think with all the time I've had this year I'd have been able to make some progress on it but i...

Cindy in Sepia

I had the urge to make this image black and white and ended up with a more sepia tone. I almost posted this one but decided to go with the full colour but kind of wished I had desaturated it a little more.

Bodyscaping #1

Always loved playing with single point light from side on or behind the model. This lighting technique is perfect for bodyscaping photography where you skim the light across the planes of the body to highlight the forms and shapes which we achieved recently in this studio shoot doing some artistic nudes.

RSPCA 10th Anniversary

The name Steamkittens in part comes from the fact I started my photographic journey volunteering for the RSPCA 10 years ago. The RSPCA today posted an article about this milestone.

It is somewhat sanitised because I went in know the piece they wanted and couldn't show some of the more powerful graphic images I would have liked...

I will be your shield

At cons I usually work with 2-3 lights. A main light front left and a back light in each corner behind the cosplayer. Sometime you need to re-position and re-test lights especially when you are changing scale, nothing more true when Nerdcore Creation stepped on set in his amazing Reinhardt.  I had to move the back lights wi...

Before|After Yaya's Hyperion Gunslinger

First time I shot Yaya at AVcon 2016 we went to the small church across the road from the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Artistic Direction

When you sit down to process an image the different directions you can take is almost infinite. How much or how little do you do? Colour processing, effects, replace the background or not, particles, light leaks, flares, dodging, burning, saturation? So many choices that will produce a different end result. 

I often use t...

Taylor Made (Series 2) #1

Shot three different underwear sets with Malfoycius while in the Gold Coast early in the year. I have posted a couple of images from two of them but this is the first image of this outfit. We had huge windows with lots of natural light. There was a large balcony and I had the double sliding doors wide open and I was back against...

Shivjam in Black Lingerie (#3)

Third shot from our shoot in Melbourne in April 2018. Thought I'd post one I'd preferred in Black and White.

Manafest - Horizon Festival on the Sunshine Coast.

In a couple of weeks I'll be flying to Queensland for the inaugural Manafest a new pop culture element add to the popular Horizon Festival which is "10 arts-fuelled days across the Sunshine Coast, Horizon collaborates to deliver events in performance, visual art, music, comedy, theatre, dance and immersive technologies."

The e...

Steamcard 007

Abby Darkstar - Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
Oz Comiccon 2015

In 2015 Oz Comic-Con came to Adelaide for the first time. They engaged the cosplay photography community by introducing the photowall and the two hour slots for local photographers. They also had Cosplay Central with cosplayer gues...

Beke and Ami in Black Lingerie BTS

Malfoycius took this BTS shot during my shoot with Beke Cosplay and Ami Isley on the Gold Coast a few months ago. I've only posted one photo of this shot so far a solo shot of Ami so I really need to get to processing more!

Yoko Cospole from GAMMA.CON

Hayley Elise's cospole performance as Yoko from Gurren Lagann from GAMMA.CON at night.

Before|After Lara Revisited

I don't know if this is 100% compete yet so here is a before and after of this Work in Progress from an unreleased image from 2015 with Abby Darkstar from OCC Adelaide.

Abby in her Lara is steamcard no. 007 which I'm currently doing the Patreon write-up for for and I went back to find some other shots from the shoot, sadly the...

Stefania Lee Pt 1 & 2

I posted the bottom photo a while ago of my Lingerie shoot in Melbourne a few months ago with Stefania Lee. I took these two images as separately and even the arm poses are completely differently I love how they work together.

Steamcard 006

This shoot represented a number of firsts and milestones. 

As with Zalaria’s Deathwing (Steamcard 002) this was shot in the gorge between Flinders University and Medical Centre and I believe was the first time I used the location.

My friend Gemma put me in touch with Renee, Kuma owner when I said I was looking for...

Fallen Angel

This was shot a couple of years ago from around the time I when I initially had my eye issue leading to the current blindness in my right eye, hence many shots from around this time were neglected. This was taken on a ladder looking straight down at Annabelle on the floor. We used a fogger to created the smoke.

Below is a BTS ...

Shivjam in Black Lingerie (#2)

Second shot from our shoot in Melbourne in April 2018.

This was show with a 135mm prime so I was a fair way back through the sliding door (which you can see the edge of) in the lounge. 

Mode...

Before|After - Captain Fareeya

The last shot I took at Perth was of Scuzzi Cosplay in her amazing Captain Fareeya from World of Warcraft that she had just won 'Best Craftmanshp' in.

I smoothed the skin and fixed up some of the  body paint that had rubbed off around the neck I also blended the skin colour into the horn colour as well and removing the ed...

Every bit counts

I've started using a kitchen scales to weigh every component in my bag. I current take on average 38 kilos when I travel interstate for an event. With my deteriorating mobility this is becoming untenable because I travel on my own and have trouble at airports, getting to and from the venue etc when I have to carry 3 bags. So wor...

Work in Progress - Catwoman

Not overly happy with the masking of this image, some of the edges weren't very crisp in the original shot so made it difficult to cut Ellie out. Plus it was shot originally on stairs so I have lines going everywhere so had to mask it all by hand. I have used this city shot a lot because its available under creative commons.

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Shiv...daaamn!

I first shot with Shiv in 2015 on the set of the Fury Fingers fan-film 'Boom Raider' in her Lara Croft costume and sadly haven't had the opportunity to work with her as much as I would like. 

Here's the first shot of this Honey Birdette se...

The Fortress Interview

Interview I did with Trent and Julia of The Fortress at Sydney Supanova 2018. 

The Dreamy American and the American Dream BTS

The BTS reel to go with the previous post.

American Dream Remixed

In mid February of 2017 I was in Brisbane to see one of my favorite rock acts perform and spent a few extra days in town for some shoots. One location I had arranged was the Queensland Air Museum (QAM). At the time I didn't realise that the QAM was located in Caloundra about an hours drive north, I had originally asked someone f...

Steamcard 005

Cat Scratch Cosplay - Harley Quinn from Batman/DC Universe
Private Shoot | 2015

Taylor posts a lot of makeup tests to her social media and she posted a makeup test of her classic Harley Quinn.

The ve...

MJ from Perthnova

BTS/Test shot of thatgypsygeek on the steps outside the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre during Supanova 2018. I had just shot Ellie's Catwoman in the stairs and the sun was getting lower and lower and started creeping up the steps into shot. Sun is something I usually try and stay away from but this time I started to shoo...

Gelled Perfection 2

Second exclusive image from the coloured gel shoot with Miss Zorel.

Steamcard 004

Shona Johnson - Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
PAX AU 2015

I had first met Shona at PAX is 2014 where I shot her at the end of the day next to the river in her classic Lara cosplay. I was shooting with a single speedlite on a stand with a small pop up softbox. It was quite a windy day and while I was ...

Life is Strange

Preview of post AVcon shoot tonight with Guzzardi Art & Cosplay outside the Adelaide Festival Theatre where we got some lovely lighting. I was shooting wide open at between 2.0 and 2.8 to get the best bokeh forgetting I had two people in shot so I'm scared to look how many are unusable because at least one of them will be ou...