Sean Fennessy | Photographer
warm magazine covershoot
I shot this a few months ago on Tassie’s east coast, at a very nice shack designed by Maria Gigney
A peek behind the scenes:
I exposed for the sky and pumped a fair bit of light into the frame - in the room on the left I had a Bowens head with a wide angle reflector shooting into the ceiling. This worked to light the room and cast a small highlight down the left side of the model. The main light for the model was a softbox in the room on the left. The foreground was lit using a silver reflector.
Even though there’s a lot of introduced light, my aim was to make it look as natural as possible.
Rabbit shootin’
I had a bit of fun doing this shoot with some good friends for the very excellent Cat Rabbit. She makes these amazing little creatures by hand!
Cat had the great idea of enlisting some Hobart creative types and dressing them up like the toys. Or was it the other way around?
Tim from New Saxons
Graphic designer / Masterchef guru Jo
Illustrator extraordinaire Beth
There’s a few other shots but they’re staying under wraps till the launch of Cat’s new website.
The other models were Tom from Floating World, Meg from Apply Creative, and Jess from Futago.
Go and buy a Cat Rabbit original before it’s too late!
The Native Cats
The Native Cats have been getting some well-placed media attention - first NME, then The Monthly and now Vice
Luckily my pics have been taken along for the ride.
Check out the Vice article here and listen to the band here.
The Monthly + music stuff
I’ve posted before about Go Betweens co-founder turned music critic Robert Forster so it’s was a pleasant surprise to get a call from The Monthly asking for some of my pics to go with an article Forster penned on the Tassie music scene (specifically the “Community” compilation recently released by Rough Skies Records)
Sadly the article is not available online yet, but see the tearsheets here: page 1, page 2
They published two photos:
In related news, it was also cool to see my pic of Paint Your Golden Face used to promote their new album.
This pic is also the cover of the album. Woot
shooting a chef
Recently I was commissioned by Clemenger to take some shots for a campaign for Point Restaurant.
The brief was to take a series of dark, atmospheric portraits of the Chef de Cuisine.
Behind the scenes: Heaps of light coming in from the right, plus two snooted strobes at the back for separation on the chef and a for a small highlight on the table in the background. I also had my big reflector clamped to a stand at the left to stop any light bouncing back onto the dark side of his face.
How it appeared in press ads