HOMELAND The Importance of Place
The plight of the Anangu includes an incredibly high cost of living, disruption of services and power as well as extremely low employment opportunities often re...
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The plight of the Anangu includes an incredibly high cost of living, disruption of services and power as well as extremely low employment opportunities often resulting in the need for individuals and families to relocate away from community and country in order to survive.
This severance of connection creates a multitude of social and emotional wellbeing issues.
The Homeland is a deeply spiritual place that connects families and allows time and space to get out of town and reflect on ancestors passed on, customs and culture as well as educate the next generation.
Amongst all of this resides a natural beauty emanating hope.
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This severance of connection creates a multitude of social and emotional wellbeing issues.
The Homeland is a deeply spiritual place that connects families and allows time and space to get out of town and reflect on ancestors passed on, customs and culture as well as educate the next generation.
Amongst all of this resides a natural beauty emanating hope.
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cherrib
February 11, 2015
What an elegantly beautiful portrait, your family? Thank you for sharing this ~
davelaslett
August 15, 2015
thanks a lot this is not my family this is the Burtons on their Homeland at Happy Valley, Amata South Australia in the APYL Lands
davelaslett
August 15, 2015
sure did I had 5 minutes to light and shoot this used a 1.2m elinchrom octa powered by the profoto Acute B2 and have a nikon SB900 left and right as rims
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MichaelJAlsup
February 11, 2015
nicely done, these folks could tell volume of stories about their lives
Dunner
February 11, 2015
Exquisite family portrait. Beautiful color, light and mood. Love. Welcome to VB!
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Location
This image of the Burton family was captured out on the Happy Valley Homeland in Amata South Australia.Time
The crew blew out a tyre and rang back to town for a spare from the pay phone as there is no reception throughout the APY Lands. After a three day wait I had 5 minutes to set up and 5 minutes to shoot so this image was captured at 6:15pm as the sun just tucked underneath the mountain ranges.Lighting
This lighting pattern is tried and tested so with the time constraints I went with the safe bet. I really enjoy large studio lights outside especially in rare and remote outback locations. This is a 1.2 elinchrom octa camera left with two layers of diffusion powered by a profoto acute B2 600watt head at full power. There is a nikon SB900 on either side of the group with a full cut CTO with 40 degree grid.Equipment
This image was stabilised on a manfrotto 755CX3 fluid head tripod ( I shoot a lot of video so had to make a compromise there) shot with a nikon d800 and a nikon 85mm 1.8g OCF triggered by the profoto AirS system with the nikon SB900's triggering in SU (optical) mode.Inspiration
The plight of Anangu includes an incredibly high cost of living, disruption of services and power as well as extremely low employment opportunities often resulting in the need for individuals and families to relocate away from community and country in order to survive. This severance of connection creates a multitude of social and emotional wellbeing issues. The Homeland is a deeply spiritual place that connects families and allows time and space to get out of town and reflect on ancestors passed on, customs and culture as well as educate the next generation. Amongst all of this resides a natural beauty emanating hope.Editing
The raw file went through lightroom and then into photoshop to balance the dynamic range of the sunset and the dark scrubland behind the subjects. Dodge and burn applied to faces and shadows to create depth. The ground has been darkened to remove the spill of the octa due to time restraints a grid wasn't used on the key light.In my camera bag
As I travel in an ex Australian military attack troop carrier I always have every piece of equipment with me. If I get to set it up and actually use it is another story. Nikon D800 w/ grip Nikon D70 (backup, mentoring body) Nikon EN-EL15 7.0v battery SanDisk 16gb CF card (2) SanDisk 16gb SD card (2) SanDisk 32gb SD card (2) Nikon 28mm f2.8 Sigma 35mm 1.4 ART Series Nikon 85mm AF-S f1.8g Nikon 300mm f4D AF-S IF-ED Nikon TC-20E III AF-S tele convertor HOYA 55mm 1-9 stop ND circular polariser HOYA 67mm 1-9 stop ND circular polariser Nikon MC-36 Intervelometer Small HD 7" OLED Field Monitor LIGHTING Profoto Acute B2 AirS600 watt battery generator Profoto 600 head Profoto AirS remote Profoto LiFe Secondary backup battery Profoto 2a charger Profoto 1a charger (backup) Nikon SB-5000 (2) Nikon SB900 (4) Nikon SU-800 Jnbei HD-600 II TR6 HSS Triggers MODIFIERS Kasey 24" Beauty Dish Profoto adaptor & custom double speedlight bracket Kasey 24" 45 degree grid with diffusion soft cover 34" Beauty Dish 12" Beauty Dish w/grid Elinchrom 107cm Octaback w/ double speedlight bracket & profoto adaptor 90cm Deep Parabolic 16 sided Octa Elinchrom 70cm Deep Octa w/ double speedlight bracket & profoto adaptor iShoot 18" 45 degree speedlight grid Standard 24" Soft Box with double speedlight bracket Lastolite tall scrim shoot through JCC multi grid 16/25/45 degree / matched pair 65 degree speedlight grid Silver / Gold Reflectors Snoot with grid pack Speedlight Ring flash Small Bulb diffuer Medium Bulb diffuser Medium Reflector with 55 / 40 / 35 degree grids FIELD STANDS / GRIPS / TRIPODS Manfrotto 1004BAC straight (3) Manfrotto 755CX3 fluid head tripod Manfrotto field sandbag (8) Boom Stands (3) Custom 4 speedlight bracket (3) Stop Motion 60 minute timer gripFeedback
I've been doing a lot of mentoring in the last two years and I would encourage everyone to get off auto and start trying out manual camera settings this way you create the image not scientists who created the camera. Putting yourself into every image is a huge part of my process affecting the scene with light or playing with supper fast of really slow shutter speeds. Don't be afraid to throw things around, get dirty, get low, get high just keep experimenting until you'll see a frame that just grabs you and you'll know you've found your style and start point. You don't need super expensive equipment either I started with a $40 soft box and one speed light and you can create almost anything with that equipment. I've added a lot to my gear list as I mainly shoot in the blistering outback desert sun so over coming that definitely requires a lot more wattage.
