Natasha came to visit us Wednesday 14th May and talked on her brief as a Freelance Photographer. Scouting for locations to shoot is done on foot and when casting she uses modelling agencies if friends and family does not suffice. Planning and preparation of her photo-shoot are done with meticulous and precise preparation over periods of weeks. All probabilities of anything going wrong are addressed and eliminated for achieving that perfect shoot. Natasha talked about the sporadic behaviour of the Auckland weather, where they would run out and shoot during cessations of rain showers. She had simply emailed a link to her website to overseas magazines to get work and they had commissioned her for the photography work and she had negotiated for the extra work that were essential to the shoot.
Madame Hawke Fashion goes hand in hand with Natasha's style of photography. They evokes the flower power era, with Madame Hawke pastel colouring and short dresses and Natasha's flat images and pastel lighting, complements each other.
Natasha's Smiths Outdoor Collection was shot at a Archery Club using the Club members to model the outdoor fashion. Preparations took her several weeks but rain was worked in the shoot.
Sports photography has been around for eons and Natasha's style and methods of photography can easily be utilized to capture varied sports images. I can imagine shooting a Tennis action shot, a flat image, closing my aperture and setting my shutter speed to freeze action and my ISO at 200 to capture a borderline overexposure.
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