WORK.
I've been working most days on either my own projects to aid promotion of my photography and retouching to ad agencies, or actually getting in some work for a couple of ad agencies. Weekends sees me shooting for Club Blink and Trash nightclubs in the Valley, pushing the D3 into crazy ISO settings to shoot sans flash. Not much money in it for me but the lighting in there rocks and the atmosphere fun.
RANT.
I'm still waiting on shots from over half of the shooters from the Abbey Tournament team. While some of us had loaded the gallery in under a week, others are taking over a month to deliver any of their shots. Disappointed is not a strong enough word to describe how their lack of commitment, breach of signed team conditions, and friendly promises broken leave me. It's a piss poor effort and I'll submit recommendations to block some of them from shooting in the Abbey Photo Team again. It certainly separated the commercial shooters from the hobbyists.
I've handed the team over to

to manage next year so that I can either shoot one day, swordfight the next, or should paid work land in my lap, not leave the team in the lurch. I expect he'll post the how to for joining the team some time after the Caloundra Music Festival, for which he runs another photography team.
PRINTS!
I just uploaded a print to my account at
Redbubble
I'll load the low res version here as well.
ROCK!
Upcoming gigs, I'm shooting for Jeff Martin (former singer of The Tea Party) with drummer Wayne Sheehy in September, likely the same deal as last time, shots backstage, then right through the show and then maybe, if I am really lucky, more after the gig. Meeting with tour manager in a fortnight about shooting the tour for The Armada album release later in the year.
Devious Comments
Hopefully I can get what my colleague did, a $60000 cheque just for bonuses for last year.
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"...because if all you do is surround yourself with negativity in your life and music, then you will become a self fullfilling prophecy and a miserable parasite on civilization. Love music, use suncreen and wear a condom. Father Oblivion has spoken."
SSV
Just a side note for when you get one, the SB-900 is much larger than the SB-800, makes it harder to fit into bags as nicely as the 800 does.
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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
DAMN! Photocontinental is hiring isn't it? lol
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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
I keep meaning to try a decent product shot, but haven't gotten around to it yet
I'm surprised you don't shoot wireless instead of using the cable. I find even with the flash behind the camera there is still enough bounce back for the signal to get through.
I do the same thing when I know what I am going to shoot, but I tend to keep everything in one bag so I don't lose or break anything. the 900's size difference is very noticeable then and when it's on the camera.
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"...because if all you do is surround yourself with negativity in your life and music, then you will become a self fullfilling prophecy and a miserable parasite on civilization. Love music, use suncreen and wear a condom. Father Oblivion has spoken."
SSV
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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
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photography by Mark Greenmantle @ www.greenmantle.biz
Brisbane based professional photography
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