At the beginning of the month I was asked to shoot behind the scenes again at the 2010 Queensland Brides Design Awards. Usually held as a standalone event over in the city at the Sebel + Citigate, this year it was held in conjunction with the now bi-annually Queensland Brides Wedding Expo, over at the Brisbane Convention Centre. This move I liked a lot because a) it was the first chance I got to check out the Wedding Expo, and b) the lighting was a lot better backstage at the Convention Centre then over at the Sebel + Citigate.

I was delegated to photographing mainly behind the scenes, as our front of house photographer was Andrew Porfyri who is an amazing local wedding photographer and has shot the Design Awards for much longer then I have been shooting full stop. I enjoy hanging backstage though, firstly photographing the student designers with their Calico dresses getting ready as they do a press-show walk through and judging.

After the Calico student designer pre-judging then backstage gets hectic with the real show starting. Models/ designers/ backstage helpers start prepping for the real show. Things turn chaotic as most designers only have the one model who have to show at times two or three dresses per category. My role is to do the behind the scenes, but also take the judges photos of all the dresses in order on a small compact camera. This helps them remember which dress is which in the judging stage.

More photos below in a full gallery.

Here are some stills of the folio I pulled together.

A few months ago I was asked to shoot a multi-page jewellery spread for Queensland Brides magazine. After spend a week coming up with the concept, with two trips to Confectionary Warehouse, almost two days practising set ups in the studio and then a full day shoot for the real thing, here are the shots.