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Wedding Photos by Geoffrey Sinclair, taken around Rockhampton and Yeppoon

Melitta and Ben’s love session

March 12, 2012 Posted in Couples

My first engagement session for the year was for Melitta and Ben, who are getting married next year. They were just such a lovely couple, I cannot wait to shoot the wedding.

We photographed the engagement session at Melitta’s parent’s place which contained my favorite light – window light

Cloudy days can be a bit boring for portraits, so here I attempted to jazz up the light with a bit of flash.

More flash light showing off some very cool tattoos – this is my favourite.

Melitta and Ben also had two gorgeous children, which were too cute to miss.

For wedding photographic enquires, please contact me at geoff@geoffreysinclair.com.au, ph 0420357201

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Practice with Carmen

March 5, 2012 Posted in Couples

Here is the next lovely girl who let me put through all sorts of pain to practice my photography and posing, the beautiful Carmen.

I just love this bel0w shot of Carmen. Normally I would split light a girl, but when you are as stunning as Carmen, you can sort of get away with it.

Carmen also let me photograph her with man Stuart, where I got to try out my new flash setup in his house.

Approaching sunset we headed up to the hills for some direct light.

And the sun put on this lovely display of light to add as a background element

Thanks heaps Carmen and Stuart, I should have some prints to you soon for payback for all your help.

Kind Regards Geoff

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Practice with Anja

February 29, 2012 Posted in Miscellaneous

Here is some photos from sessions with the totally gorgeous model Anja, who I have to gratefully thank for giving up her time for some practice sessions.

Here we are playing with window light, the absolute best light you can get for photography.

And here trialling some flash photography

Different day and costume, I put poor Anja through a bit of suffering in the hot sun for these shots. I love how direct sunlight makes skin just look beautiful.

One form of model photography I really do NOT like is beach Bikini modelling. If it is done well, it can look good, but most of time it is done ordinary, and it just looks crass. The above photo is to show that you can make a girl look very sexy without being in a bikini. Photographing people is all about light, expression and posing – do it right and you can somebody look far sexier than wearing skimpy clothes.

Hope you like these photos – and please aspiring models, don’t let a photographer convince you that you need to be in a bikini to look sexy

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Jess - March 1, 2012 - 7:30 am

Absolutely gorgeous photos and I totally agree about the bikini’s! Fabulous work once again Geoff!

Marcoola Holidays

February 23, 2012 Posted in My Family

Just come back from a short holiday at Atlantis Marcoola who did a great holiday deal with us, well recomended. Here are some pics from the trip

Now despite being on holidays, Nate still decided that 4:30 am was the right time to wake up, which is just a wrong time of the day in my books. So we had lots of long walks on the beach in the dark. But it did give some time to capture some photos on the beach. The above photo shows the lovely the blue light you get when the sun is about 10 minutes below the horizon. The below photo is about half an hour later.

And here the obligatory pictures of the kids, yes mum I should have wiped Nate’s nose before this shot.

Tags: Travel Photography

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Atlantis Marcoola - February 24, 2012 - 1:53 pm

Dear Katrina, Geoffrey and your gorgeous kids!
It was our absolute pleasure to have your family stay with us at Atlantis Marcoola. Your photos are simply stunning!
We are so glad you could take advantage of the extra night and we always say that the morning is the best part of the day! See you next time… The Atlantis crew

admin - February 24, 2012 - 10:51 pm

Thanks, what is also really cool about Atlantis Marcoola is the bakery across the road which serves excellent coffee (and croissants) and is open at 5am, definitely made those early mornings more tolerable

Practice Sessions

February 16, 2012 Posted in Couples

One thing rammed home to us during the wedding photographic workshop with the incredibly talented Jerry Ghionis, was that before we can be masters of portrait photography, we need to practice practice practice.

Three young children have allowed me to refine my photo-jounalistic skills over the past 6 years, but they are not really helpful with the fine art of posing. So I have been chasing models/couples/anybody to practice new techniques before the wedding season starts next month.

The first model I managed to convince to suffer my new lighting/posing techniques, was the exquisite Lorelli.

After our first photoshoot, Lorelli managed to convince her boyfriend Matt to come along for some couples shoot, thank you heaps Matt.

Thank you heaps guys, and hope you like your photos.

I currently have a few couples wanting shoots, but still have space for more before the wedding season starts. So if you are a couple interested in a free photoshoot (including a CD of all images), please contact me through my facebook page and I will try and fit you in.

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Sinclair Family Catchup

February 12, 2012 Posted in My Family

Yes, one thing out parents are reminding me is that I have been a little slack in posting the latest photos of the most important people in our lives (and the only reason they travel to visit) , the kids.

Here is three of them on Acacia’s first day of Kindy, with Mostyn in his new uniform for the big grade 1. Also a rare photo of the 3 of them together and not wanting to strangle each other – how we enjoy these rare moments. Notice the lock on the side of the gate, which is our latest attempts to keep little Houdini (Nate) from escaping to the big wide world.

Acacia is just loving Kindy, I think she most loves being around other little girls to boss around. On non Kindy days she constantly asking if we can invite a girl around to boss/play with.

Speaking of other Sinclair milestones, the youngest one of our trio tuned the big two last week, which we celebrated at the park with a special birthday ‘biscuit’ , made by my beautiful wife. It is at this stage we are supposed to say isn’t he growing up so fast blah blah blah, and it only seems like yesterday blah blah. But at the moments it’s – when is going to grow up and stop these 4.30 am starts. I suppose we should thank him for the wonderful time of the day that 4.30 am is, where we can enjoy the darkness, quiet and evangelical TV (they only thing that is on) together.

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Cass Tarleton - February 26, 2012 - 9:39 am

oh my goodness, how your gorgeous kids have grown. Such a lovely photo!!!

Jerry Ghionis Workshop

February 3, 2012 Posted in Miscellaneous

After my last wedding for the year, my totally understanding and beautiful wife let me go for a week to Melbourne without her, so that I can attend a wedding photoshop workshop with Jerry Ghionis.

Jerry Ghionis is identified as one of the top five wedding photographers in the world, his work is really nothing short of brilliant. One can look at his work and say wow they are beautiful and the location is stunning - but that is because he shoots model brides in million dollar mansions. But the fact is that Jerry has the ability to make any girl (of any size) look and feel like a supermodel, and turn the most boring hotel room into a mansion – and all without the help of photoshop.

Yes I am starting a bank fund so that I can book him for my daughter’s wedding.

The workshop with Jerry was an incredible working experience. I have attended several workshops in the past few years, and I think I learn’t more in 3 hours with Jerry that I learn’t from any previous workshop. Over five days (that started at 10 am and finished at midnight) my head was exploding with knowledge. If you can only attend one photography workshop in your life, attend his, it is worth every penny, even for the huge payback to the wife for leaving her alone with the kids for a week (yes I am going to be paying for this for years to come).

So now during my break from weddings, I am madly photographing anybody I can, to try and practice and keep all this knowledge alive and well. And as Jerry notes, like anything you can only get good with practice practice practice. So if you want a free photoshoot, please message me on my facebook page.

You can follow my progress on my facebook page, and I will dedicate a few posts to the beautiful people I photograph over the next few weeks.

Below is a few photos from the workshop

Jerry is the tall dude in black

Jerry showing us how to get stunning light reflected off a street sign

Posing legs for the sun

Who would have thought that the below image is from from an advertising poster

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Bianca - February 4, 2012 - 12:20 pm

Hi Geoffrey, this is the first time i’ve seen your site..and i love it! Great post and behind the scenes images, it was certainly one of the best learning and growing weeks of my life too and again, such a privilege to meet all you guys. Hopefully one day we can have a reunion at WPPI or sth. One day

Su and Gavin’s Cave Wedding [Rockhampton Wedding Photographer]

January 26, 2012 Posted in Weddings

Here is my last wedding for 2011, of the wonderful marriage of Su, Gavin and their combined seven children, what a wedding.

First the important wedding Details

Celebrant: Diana Geddes
Flowers: Lee Riggs
Hair: Jo Grindey
Makeup: Kateeshia Dublo, Flawless skin and beauty
Wedding Dress provided by: Dress of your dreams
Wedding Dress by: Lara Ravasini
Wedding Cake: Katie’s Kakes
Wedding and Reception: Capricorn Caves

As well as being a wonderful couple, from the start this wedding was going to be something special. A wedding in the pagan tradition on the 11/11/2011, with the wedding starting at exactly 1:11 pm, and held in one of coolest wedding location in Central Queensland, the Capricorn Caves.

So here we start with black boots, purple and black flowers.

And here is Gavin and Su before the wedding, looking very nice

All seven children were the bridal party, all gorgeous. Got to be some of the cutest bridesmaids ever.

Prior to the wedding, Gavin and Su did a first look (where the bride and groom get see each other all dressed up and alone), which is just a beautiful moment to see and capture. Su’s purple dress was just stunning.