Chelsea and Colin's Maternity Shoot

Last week on a sunny Thursday afternoon, I ventured down to Lake Gwelup with Chelsea and Colin in tow for a maternity shoot. Their baby is due in six weeks, and they don't know if they're having a boy or a girl yet. We had a great time shooting in the sun in such a beautiful location, here are some of the photos.
Paris x

My First Baby Shoot

On the weekend I had my first baby shoot. Some good friends of ours have recently had little Campbell, who is now four months and very, very handsome. I'll be the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about babies... I have never really had a lot to do with them, and so was completely jumping in the deep end when I turned up at their house with my camera, a nice selection of blankets and a basket. Campbell was a very good baby and only had one little cry, though I do think that he wasn't entirely convinced that he was being paid enough for the shoot. Here are the photos, I'm very happy with them for my first baby shoot and hope you guys like them too :) thanks to the mum and dad for helping me out with this. 

Paris x

p.s I think he looks a little like he's taking a selfie in the last photo

Aphrodite - Version 1

So last week I wrote a small blog piece about how I had shot my first image (Aphrodite) for my Greek Mythology series, but wasn't going to show it until I decided which direction I was headed in... well this week I have decided to take the series in a completely different direction, so you may as well see last weeks photo! I'm now going to do the series as my research project for my final year of study, and after some thought I decided to just go for a bit of a different look for the series. I hope that Alex my French Aphrodite will stick around in Australia long enough for me to use her again for the new shot! (Less dogs and more wine in the studio next time Alex, I promise). But seriously, how beautiful is this girl. Anyway hope you guys like it, I'm looking forward to getting stuck into this research project! 
Paris x

I have been working in my visual diary for some time now on a Greek Mythology series that I plan to exhibit. It will be comprised of about 15 portraits, each one portraying one of the gods or goddesses of Ancient Greece. Since I was 8 years old I have been obsessed with Greek Mythology (I can actually remember my year 3 teacher Mrs Downing first teaching us about Greek Mythology). It fascinates me, and I'm so excited to be able to bring it to life through my work.

I shot my first image from the series last week, Aphrodite. I used my French friend Alex as my model. Alex has gorgeous copper skin, long, flowing hair, a striking face and the personality to pull off Aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion. She was perfect and got right into the mood of the shoot for me. 

Thanks to another gorgeous friend Mary Parker for helping me out with this shoot.

Here is a simple portrait of Alex, taken after the shoot. I'm going to keep the actual Aphrodite photo under wraps for a while, whilst I keep planning the exhibition.

Paris x

Sarah

A couple of weeks ago I had an early morning shoot with a good friend of mine, Sarah. 

Sarah likes the ocean, coffee and all things hippie, but she does not like early mornings.

So I made her meet me at the beach at 5.30 on a windy and cold morning so that I could take photos of her. Not just photos at the beach, but photos actually in the ocean.... in a beautiful silk skirt, at 5.30am. She was such a good sport, and as soon as we were finished I made sure I put an extra large flat white in her hand ASAP.

I myself am an early morning person, so for a couple of weeks I had been down at the beach early, planning this shoot and checking out the sunrise. When I came around to thinking who I would like to be my model, I knew it had to be Sarah. Sarah is very much a Mother of the Earth kind of girl, she knows exactly what she believes in, what is important to her and who she is, and that just radiates off her. Plus she has the biggest, most soulful blue eyes.
I shot these photos on my Canon 5D MKIII with my 50mm 1.4 lens, which is just such a beautiful lens to shoot with. I have recently re-discovered how much I love this lens, and so it has been my lens of choice recently. 
 I hope you enjoy the photos, a big thank you to the beautiful Sarah for helping me out with this.

Paris x