No idea if some of these have been posted before or not. They were unplanned just mucking around one afternoon but I like one or two of them.
From last August in Madrid.
Tech details are in the caption of each pic. Camera was the Z6.
Which one's your fave? Mine might be this one...
... 2020-08-04 08:47:55 +0000 UTC View Post
A very important and moving set for me. A step forward. The whole set of 18 images is on my website - I didn't upload it here cause presentation is better on my own platform where I have some control over my own work.
Password for the set is: altsocial-2020
So the tech shit is really just extraneous information that isn't much connected with the final result at all. The final image can only be a result of the interaction and understanding between model and photographer.
If I'm working with someone new...
The rest of this article is in the '2020-08-02 09:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post
So the tech shit is really just extraneous information that isn't much connected with the final result at all. The final image can only be a result of the interaction and understanding between model and photographer.
If I'm working with someone new I always find it tricky to explain to them what I'm looking for in the s...
2020-08-02 09:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one for Portraits from the Edge.
Tech: Z6, 50mm lens @ f2.0.
Workflow: She was moving, walking toward me, I was walking backward - looking for moments.
2020-08-02 08:46:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The full interview has been posted to my website here: mikestacey.com/interview
This shot: Aurora and Sofie on film. Lawson Australia, 2019.
2020-08-01 16:39:47 +0000 UTC View Post
From Dzownówek.
For my Portraits from the Edge series. Shot on TMAX with the Pentax 67. That thing is hard to manual focus when the subject is moving :)
2020-07-31 19:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
These are the digitals from this shoot the other day, to be used by Entice Lingerie.
Tech: Z6, 50mm f1.8 and 16-35mm f4. Shot in bright afternoon sun without much consideration of what I would usually think was problematic shadow.
I deliberately added my own edge to these 'commercial' shots,...
2020-07-31 05:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Nikon F100 ($120), 50mm f1.8, Kodak. Scanned by shooting the negs taped to glass held up to the sky.
2020-07-30 20:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I realise images like these aren't popular here on Patreon - as judged by the responses to the last post of random travel shots but...this project which I started years ago is still ongoing. Soon I'll be collating images and text into some kind of presentable artefact - whether that's an exhibition, magazine, book, series of ...
2020-07-29 13:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostI don't do this often but when I do I hope it's got my signature.
Many more images to come from our little holiday and you'll seem 'em here first.
2020-07-28 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This shoot was many years ago now with one of the best models I've worked with: Elena Filipi. She had been modelling for two months when I took these. She became a good friend and we're still in touch to this day.
Actually you know, three of the best models I've ever worked with have been Italian and all three have beco...
2020-07-28 09:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Another early edit from Dziwnówek. Shot yesterday in late light streaming in underneath some could, and intensified by that. This one is good enough (IMO) for my Portraits from the Edge series of work.
Tech: Z6, 50mm f1.8 @f2.0. 1/8000 sec, ISO 100. It's been SO long since I've been able to shoot at IS...
2020-07-26 19:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, a short break with my love. A few days at Dziwnóvek staying in a small modern hotel on the edge of the lake Zalew Kamieński. This is a nice place, very long fine grain sand beach and national park forest behind the beach for many kilometres. Weather was warm, we even got sunburnt.
We shot a few times, mainly ...
2020-07-26 13:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post
From March last year coming back from a road trip to Canberra.
2020-07-23 18:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote this article for my blog:
Since arriving in Poland a year ago, I’ve thought about how to express the many aspects of this huge move. I ditched my entire life in Australia to come to Europe. Coming to Poland wasn’t part o...
2020-07-20 07:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Any hack with a new camera can take a 'beautiful' picture as long as there's someone who looks like Helvethet in front of their camera, and this includes me. Photographing models is no test of your mettle as an artist. And it's also no test for a model involved in this shallow dynamic. The whole model photography 'thing' is d...
2020-07-18 20:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the promised body harness close-up set. Explicit images are in the higher tiers.
Model: Poetic Minx
2020-07-17 10:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A rope harness we made the other afternoon. Full set coming soon. Close ups and crops.
2020-07-15 20:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Shot a few years ago in Sydney with wonderful nude model Mea Culpa, who now only does Life Modelling - and I don't blame her for not wanting to photo model anymore.
Some shot on film with the Pentax 67 and Portra and the rest on a D800.
Haven't posted much of Zoi but she was awesome to work with. She's a 5 times playmate of the year in PlayBoy and is an amazing looking model with the sweetest personality you can imagine. She does tell it like it is though too, which is great. Both...
2020-07-10 10:18:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Shot around the time I started focusing more intently on portraiture.
Shot with one of my Pentax 67's on TRI-X, home processed and scanned.
M: Anne Duffy.
A new set of images next - shot one afternoon recently. Close ups and compositions using the lines of the body harness, lingerie and shadows. Set divided into tiers depending on level of explicitness.
Model: Poetic Minx
2020-07-07 20:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
It was so great to be able to photograph my old friend Romi last August in Barcelona.
Aurora and I were staying in Barcelona and we shot togther with Eva Lunia and Romi in one session, you can find all those shots here on Patreon where I photographed them in our tiny hotel room as a trio. After that I had the chance to ...
2020-07-06 09:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I guess more travel BTS shots aren’t the go, judging by all the responses to the last post ☺️
Seriously, let me know what you want/like. I have no clue. It kind of feels like I’m posting into the ether - and I do save my best work for this platform.
The shot above: Aurora at home on Poznan.
2020-07-04 20:16:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I always document life. These are some travel pics and there are MANY more. Each shot is captioned. Comment if you want more posted.
2020-07-02 19:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
