The traffic is atrocious, grid lock from home to destination. Its a Friday afternoon and we are scheduled to start shooting in the high end suburb of Vaucluse in Sydney’s inner east in 15mins. The shoot was suppose to kick off at 6pm and its currently 5.45pm and we are still 45mins away. The only saving Grace is that we are not the only ones that are late, everyone in Sydney is currently an hour late due to traffic.
We have never shooted in Vaucluse and we had planned to arrive an hour early to scout locations. That would now be scrapped as we are 30mins late for the start of the shoot. Our first option was Milk Beach but upon arriving and discovering it requires a 30min walk to get there we reevaluated and decided on Milk Beach.
The Beach is rather crowded with familys enjoying the remaining few moments of summer. Golden sand and crystal clear water surrounded by rocky hills provided a perfect backdrop for a beach bikini shoot. Nathaly was recently signed to Royalle Modelling and had booked us to update her portfolio.
The sun was not ideal as it was coming out then jumping behind heavy cloud cover causing ever changing lighting conditions. Nathaly had brought 4 different bikini outfits for the shoot and we jumped straight in. We shot a large range of poses, laying on the sand, kneeling on the sand, standing on the rocks, leaning on the rocks, running down the beach, occasionally stopping for the nude children running around the shoot (it is really important to be aware of the people around you, it is never ok to photograph children regardless of what they are wearing unless you have permission from the parents).
As the sun lowered into the horizon and we were greeted with stunning golden light, we started shooting close up portraits. Nathaly and I have worked together numerous times and she is one of my favourite models to shoot. She takes direction exceptionally well and is a natural beauty. Alona helped with posing different angles and keeping the hair in the right style as well as being responsible for bouncing the reflective light onto Nathaly.
As the sun finally faded away we captured a few couple shots of Nathaly and her man. A fun and relaxed shoot with some amazing people involved. And to top it off the drive home took 35mins instead of the 2 hours it took to get there.