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Before|After - Tiffany's Silk

This is a shot from early 2016. Fury Fingers were shooting their Mobile Strike film at a concrete manufacturing site and I took the opportunity to do a couple of cosplay shoots.I haven't really done much with the shots since the sky while cloudy which I appreciate it was a bit flat so I wanted t...

Before|After - Commando Clara

Going through an old folder I found this image I love of Clara Skye on the set of one of the Fury Fingers films. I was also using it for a cosplay shoot so we dressed Clara up in some of the film costumes to be an extra in my photoshoot. I play a lot at Battlefield 4 and was going for the BF vibe wi...

BTS - Sonico Milkbath

Apologies for the lack of content on here recently I have been doing some rehab for my medical condition which has included some Hydro Therapy this has been interesting as I actually haven't been swimming in over a decade. At least its a kind of segue into this behind the scenes image from my Mi...

Before|After - Yaya's Sonico

Just reprocessed this shot from 2015 taken at OCC Brisbane at the popular spot at the far end of the convention center. Luckily it kind of looks like a hospital exterior with the glass tiles. I added the H sign to re-enforce the hospital scenario. I added some of the grime coming down the backing wa...

Hemdah in Nut Milk

Another shot from my vegan milk bath with Hemdah Cosplay in Almond milk. It was the worlds smallest bathroom and bath.

Headshot of Leighlan

Sunday afternoon we did a quick setup to do head shots of my assistants Leighlan and Ren. It was just against a white wall in my lounge room. We had two lights (HD610 and Mars3) which we mixed and match positions. Looking at this shot I think it was using a single Mars3 to right of camera.Show are 3...

More Milk

A shot from my vegan milkbath shoot with Hemdah Cosplay in the Gold Coast.

WIP - Sonico Milk

This is a Work-In-Progress from yesterdays shoot with Lilla Bee Cosplay in her cosplay based on SoniAni Super Sonico: Holstein Bikini de Straw. I need to finish processing to remove the bath colour just above her head and fix the second horn that came off in the bath and then general colour correcti...

Before|After - Ewok

Before and After shot of the first image from todays Ewok shoot with Minxy's Mayhem.

Preview - You shouldn't have entered my forest

As mentioned I'm trying to plan shoots every week and since it was Star Wars day we went out and did an Ewok shoot with Minxy's Mayhem and Tyler just up the road from my house, a beautiful green location I have used before for shoots.This was my first outdoor location shoot in a number of mo...

Milk

So I've been a bit quiet the last few months in terms of shoots outside on Cons. Thats all about to change with shoots planned every weekend until the next Supanova tour in late June. It was meant to start yesterday with a Milk bath shoot but my model had to postpone till next week so heres one ...

Before|After - Silent Jen

Sometimes I like to post before and after comparisons to show how little I do. With this shot of Soylent Cosplay as the nurse from Silent Hill I basically just removed the softbox from the top left corner and made the colour temperature a bit cooler and that was about it.

Facebook 3D

I posted a quick quick test of the Facebook 3D feature earlier today. I've seem some pretty amazing uses of it and wanted to try it out. You can see my quick attempt here:https://www.facebook.com/steamkittens/posts/2082871255096066Basically it used a bump map to relate it to old school 3d render...

Before|After - Guide Dogs

A shot from a recent shoot with the Royal Society for the Blind and a guide Dog litter. The wider angle group shots are the hardest to get detail in. Getting the background close to white is also difficult because it becomes a giant reflector creating glare and washing out contrast on the subjects. ...

Before|After - Game of Thrones

Popular shot from the weekends Goldnova. They had a cast photo they wanted to get a similar look of which was going to be a change giving the lights I had and the short amount of time. Couple of the main issues being fitting 5 people in the limited space, I had to move them back to make the wall big...

Before|After - Kamui

Shooting guest cosplays is a lot of fun however due to their schedules they usually turn up unannouncement and generally don't have much time, and with my very specific lighting style you can't spend too much time moving lights. So I was lucky in Melbourne that the lights were basically good...

Setup

Sitting at airport after a crazy weekend at Supanova. My flight isn't for 4 hours but we had to check out at 10 and it's too difficult for me to wander the streets with the roommates so I just headed to the airport. Used the Uber Assist feature which was excellent, knew the driver would get ...

On Tour - Making the Limit

Excited to announce that I will be once again at ever Supanova for 2019! That means 3 tours each comprising two cons. The first tour starts with Melbourne this weekend (5th-7th April) and moves onto Gold Coast the following weekend (11th-14th April).This tour present a number of challenges, as you m...

Snowbunny Padme

Originally an illustration by Adam Hughes for Star Wars Galaxy 4 card set from TOPPs. The design was then released as a limited edition figurine.This costume was made and modeled by Adelaide cosplayer starfirephoenix who was one of the first people I ever photographed at a con when she was an imperi...

Punch

From my colour gel shoot with Miss Zorel from last year. I used to experiment a lot with colours and light placement and since I lost my studio space a few years ago I have really missed this. It what gave me my signature look at cons.

Greeny in Greenery

Another shot from my bath shoot with SuddenlyGreen.

Lost Yaya BTS shot

I came across this behind the scenes shot from my 2015 shoot with Yaya Han in Brisbane that I can't remember seeing before.After shooting at the Nepalese Peace Pagoda we moved to the South Bank Grand Arbour to do a few quick shots before heading back to the con. I don't believe I ever proces...

BTS OneShot - Allyvem

Taken almost a year ago over the Goldnova weekend frommy Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen rebirth shoot with Allyvem.https://www.instagram.com/allyvem/

All Dressed Up

A shot from yesterday's RSB shoot with the latest puppy group. This litter was a very pale tan and in the light they look almost the same as the white backdrop and i was worried they would be lost and we'd lose some of the edge detail which works best with greater contrast.I would do a coupl...

More Puppies!

This Friday we are doing another shoot with a RSB puppy litter. Nothing better to cheer you up than rolling around with small fluffy creatures but it really tires you out!

Building Up Steam (Armageddon Auckland 2018)

Building Up Steam - From Cats to Cosplay (a retrospective history of Steamkittens) panel at Armageddon Auckland 2018 with videography and sound recording by New Zealand Costume Tutorials. Was the largest turnout I've gotten for one of my panels and was an amazing reception. Some technical issues...

Infinite Puppies

Spent the day working on RSB puppy shots. Trying to get the background to perfect white which is tough to do in camera its always about 10% white with a red or blue colour temp. At least it wasn't as tough as the black puppies.

Before|After - Princess Mononoke Anniversary Image

Has been a year since this shoot so I processed a new image, shifting the greens into more reds to give it a more fantasy feel.

Before|After - Le Aerial

Another Fringe show I did a promo shoot for late last year was Le Aerial which has just completed a sell out series of shows in Perth. The Adelaide starts tonight and runs 3 nights till Sunday. We did a series of promo shots including these ones against the white backdrop.