Steampunk Photography – Sucker Punch

April 2, 2013 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Kate Steampunk and Beauty Photo shoot

Date | 24.02.2013

Location | Mad Keane Studios, Launceston

Make Up Artist | Kate Eastoe

Launceston  Photographer/Digital Artist | Andrew Keane, Mad Keane Photography

 

Last month the very beautiful and talented model, Kate came around to collaborate on a series of images we both wanted to do. We were aiming on a set of images inspired by the movie Sucker Punch, a terrible movie, but one with great imagery.  The images were a cross between glamour, steampunk photography, with a hint of  True Blood and Indiana Jones thrown in.  Lots of sword,goggles, lace and wigs were involved plus hundreds of hours of compositing to get the tones and look I wanted.

Kate is a great model, very professional, friendly and talented.  You can check out more of her work on Model Mayhem at this link.

 

Here is just some of the awards she has won and promotional work she had done.

 

  • Ralph ASMY heats and finals (FEB 08),
  • Winner of Miss Tassie Nats (09).
  • Promo/grid girl for DSG@Home around Australia (V8s – 2009)
  • Promotions (on and off premise) for Ruski Chill-VOK Beverages (2009-ongoing)
  • Promotions for Monster Energy (2010-ongoing)
  • Promotion for Lexus Golf Sponsorship (March 2010)
  • TV advertisement/photoshoot for FUJI Cameras international.
  • Ring girl for Richardson’s Harley Davidson Amateur Fights and Bikes Day (2010)
  • Varied Promotional work for Richardson’s Harley Davidson (2010 – ongoing)
  • Hostess/ambassador for Nant distillery at Whisky Live – Sydney (Aug 2010)
  • Hostess at Nant Distillery (monthly ongoing)
  • Promotional work around Australia for National Foods (2009 – ongoing)
  • Photoshoot for Nant Estate and Distillery (Nov 2010)
  • Winner – Miss Hawaiian Tropic Tasmania – Jan 2011
  • Winner – Miss Powercruise Tasmania – Jan 2011
  • Promotional work on and off premise – Vok Beverages (2010 – ongoing)

 

So without further ado, here are some of my favourites from the shoot. Continue reading »

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Wedding Photography – What Really Matters

March 25, 2013 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Wedding Photography – What Really Matters at Your Wedding…And What’s Doesn’t!

 

I came across this article by Anne Almasy in the Huffington Post today.  It really resonated with me, enough so that I have put up a link to it here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-almasy/resolution_1_b_2761883.html

I always shoot the details and product shots in the wedding I photograph, but Im with Anne on this one when she says

 

‘Wedding publications exist to feed the industry: the florists and the lighting designers and the calligraphers and the caterers and the photographers and the thousands upon thousands of couples who will spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on their weddings. Magazines and blogs publish pictures of couples in lavish surroundings with immaculate decor, and vendors who can provide similar glitz and glam pay big bucks for full-page ads and featured banners. Many women (in particular) spends YEARS scouring these staples of wedding wisdom for the perfect dress, the perfect bouquet, the perfect cake… when they finally meet the perfect partner they’ll be ready….
 
But you know why I REALLY do what I do?
 
To photograph your parents, who will hold hands and cry on the first row of the chapel. To photograph your sister dancing with that boy she will marry in three years. To photograph those kids who will grow up so, so quickly. To photograph your grandfather, who will pass away next spring. To photograph your first kiss as a married couple, your best friend busting out her signature dance moves, the flower girl asleep under a table, and maybe even your ex looking pretty wistful as he hugs you a little too long in the receiving line.’

 

The best wedding is often the one that is simple and about the couple, friends and family sharing the moment.  It is not about the cake, the size of the guest list, or the quality of the degustation at the reception.

 

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Les Miserables ‘One Day More’ – Cool Danish Wedding Reception

February 7, 2013 by Andrew Keane | 1 Comment

Ive photographed quite a few wedding receptions, but never seen one a sweet and cool as this Danish one. It may be my Danish heritage, but the Danes know how to do style.  If anyone in Launceston or even Tassie can pull this off, I will photograph your wedding for 15% off just so I can see it!

 

 

 

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Launceston Wedding Photography – Amanda & Anthony’s Wedding

January 10, 2013 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Launceston Wedding Photography

 

Amanda and Anthony’s Wedding

 

Amanda and Anthony

Date | 05.01.2013

Wedding Ceremony | Church of the Apostles, Launceston

Reception | Riverside Golf Club

Launceston Wedding  Photographers | Andrew Keane and Katrina Keane, Mad Keane Photography

 

Let me set the scene for this wedding.  The day before there were record temperatures across the state, no one found it easy to sleep, folk in town were grumpy and bushfires rage uncontrolled across the state.  The wedding day is the same, 32 degrees of harsh Aussie sun and lots of smoke about.  Sounds like a recipe for disaster.   Well if you thought that, you’d be dead wrong.

Amanda and Anthony wedding was a lovely romantic affair.  Whilst it was hot, no-one seem to ever get flustered.  It seemed to me that Anthony and Amanda didn’t really even seem to notice the heat, only each other.    Though I did note Anthony was a terrible white colour at the church until he saw his lovely bride, then all the nerves seemed to go.

 

The wedding was at the Church of the Apostles a lovely old church built in 1886, followed by some photography in the local park and tyre repair centre of all places.  From there we headed into town to take advantage of Launceston’s grand old building and art deco.

 

Here is a cross section of a few images from the day.

 

 

 
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Launceston Mad Keane Wedding and Portrait Photographer Wins Image of the Year

January 3, 2013 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Launceston Mad Keane Wedding and Portrait Photographer wins Image of the Year

 

An Award Winning Year

The year 2012 was a good year for our new Launceston Wedding and Portrait Studio. As well as creating some beautiful artworks and images for our brides and grooms, we also won several Awards including

 

  • Third Place Launceston Photographic Society Open Competition Jul. 2012
  • Winner of the News Limited Escape Travel Photography Competition.
  • First Place Launceston Photographic Society Open Competition Sep. 2012
  • First Place Launceston Photographic Society Open Competition Oct. 2012
  • First Place Projected Image – Tasmanian Photographic Federation Competition 2012
  • Two Silver and two Bronze Awards -2012 International Loupe Awards, two placed in the worldwide top 20.
  • Second Place Australian Bridal Photography 2012 Spring Competition (Reception)
  • Third Place Australian Bridal Photography 2012 Spring Competition (Passion)
  • Third Place Australian Bridal Photography 2012 Spring Competition (Accessories)

 

We took part in an exhibition in Evandale and were also invited to display our work at the Museum of Digital Fine Art, in Canada.

 

The Awards are not as important or as enoyable as seeing the pleasure from our clients when we deliver their photographs and artworks, but it is still always nice to be recognised.

 

Image of the Year 2012

 

In December the Launceston Photographic Society held its end of year dinner and awards night which included the announcement of the coveted Image of the Year.  The Image of the Year is decided on by a photographic judge independent of the society.  I am pleased to announce my self-portrait entitled Pipe Dreams won with a perfect score.

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Launceston Mad Keane Photographer Wins At The Loupe Awards

December 24, 2012 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Launceston Mad Keane Photographer Wins At The Loupe Awards

 

Andrew  is not the only award winning photographer in the Mad Keane Photography stable.  Richard Cowling, our secondary wedding and portrait photographer is an award winning photographer in his own right.  This month he increased the size of his awards list when he entered the 2012 International Loupe Awards.

 

The 2012 Loupe Awards

 

The International Loupe Awards, is one of the world’s richest online photography competitions. This is the 4th year of the competition, which is open to professional and amateur photographers worldwide. With a total prize pool of over US$80,000, including a first prize in the Open competition of US$20,000 in cash, the competition attracts some of the best international professional and amateur photography.  This year Richard our second shooter decided to enter four of his images in the competition.

 

Richard’s Entries

 

As well as being a terrific wedding photographer, Richard has a passion for photographing Tasmania’s more remote and beautiful landscapes and the people that live there. He is often seen driving throughLaunceston at 3.30am on his way to some location so he can get there in time to capture the sunrise.  Here are his four entries. Continue reading »

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Launceston Portrait Photography – Heloise

December 20, 2012 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Launceston Portrait Photography – Heloise

Model | Heloise

Location: Royal Park, Launceston

Date | 10 November 2012

Launceston MKP Portrait  Photographer | Andrew Keane

 

In November I attended Royal Park in Launceston to photograph some portrait images for Heloise.  Heloise is a ecclectic folk group from Tasmania.  The lead singer (H)eloise is a talented singer, guitarist and front woman for the group and they are really starting to take off getting a big following around the top end of the State.  This year they will be performing at the Falls Festival, one of the country’s biggest rock festivals.  You can follow them on Facebook here.

 

The session was to create some images to use as a base for an album cover we would design and create in conjunction with the band’s upcoming album.  I wont show you the final image as it has not been released to the public yet and I don’t want to spoil the surprise.  But here are some of the other shots we got from the day.

 

 

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Second Place in the Australian Bridal Photography Competition

December 1, 2012 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

The Australian Bridal Photography Competition

The Australian Bridal Photography Competition(A.B.P.C) is Australia’s newest wedding photography contest, and according to their website, features inspiring images from Australia’s best wedding photographers. The competition runs seasonally and includes 15 Photography Categories.

This year I thought I’d ‘man up’ and enter three images into the competition for the recent wedding I photographed of Rebecca and Sam.   Stiff competition for a Launceston based Wedding Photographer so I was rapt when all three won an award.  Here are my entries and the results.

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How I Create My Contemporary Photography Portrait Art – A Photoshop Walkthrough

November 25, 2012 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

How I Create My Contemporary Photography Portrait Art – A Photoshop Walkthrough

What is a ‘Contemporary Portrait’ Anyway?

 

I like to create what I describe as contemporary portraits.  A contemporary portrait can mean lots of things to lots of people, but to me it is one that is not based upon old fashioned (aka boring) family in the studio shots, or even a great image shot out doors, but a image that has drama or emotion that aligns with current trends in fashion, art or media.  It may be shot in Launceston, but does not have to always look like Launceston.

I have a quite distinctive style, which I liken to movie posters.  I hope people hire me because they want images of themselves created in that style.  Often my images don’t even look wholly realistic, but they must look great hanging as canvas or big acrylic on a client’s wall.  A classic example is my latest work, ‘Poppy Dreams’.  I love this image, the girl is smiling and the landscape has pretty flowers, all stock standard stuff, but what I think makes it dramatic is the overall colour theme (yellow), the lighting and the obviously unrealistic petals flying about.

 

Poppy Dreams

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A Win at the Tasmanian Photographic Federation Competitions

November 22, 2012 by Andrew Keane | Leave a comment

Tasmanian Photographic Federation

 

The Tasmanian Photographic Federation consists of the various photography societies and clubs around Tasmania and each year it conducts several competitions  in its own right with affiliated clubs.  This November it’s biannual competition was held in Launceston.   I was fortunate enough this year to have my home club, the Launceston Photographic Society, select two of my images out of our clubs six allotted entries into the projected (digital) image category   I say fortunate for two reasons,  firstly, there are some extremely talented photographers in the club whose work I think is amazing and something I would aspire too, and secondly, because the entries from another selected member,  could not be obtained in time, which gave me a second entry.

My Selected Entries

 

The first image selected to compete was my portrait – Welcome to the Sanatorium, an image which received first place in the Launceston Photographic Society’s September Competition.

Welcome to the Sanitorium

Welcome to the Sanitorium

I took this one earlier in the year, and always liked the creepy partially over exposed white on white background.

 

My second entry, which as I said, got in my a bit of luck, was my shot of two capsicum’s dropped into a fish tank.  High art is ‘aint, but people seem to like it.  Red and green always go well in a photo, and perhaps they like the name – Pepper Spray.  It certainly took a lot of experimenting with strobes at various angles to get it right.  It also made a lot of mess, water all over the floor, before I got the image I wanted.  I think this  was the 42nd time I dropped these into the tank.

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Pepper Spray

 

An the Award Goes To…..!

 

Pepper Spray.  Strange, but true,  that two little capsicums managed to get first place and knock of grand mountains, dramatic black and whites and cute penguins.  I liked this image but certainly don’t think it’s my best, go figure.  Still not bad for something which was a second choice.  I suppose it got a few extra points in the impact section being being different and not a portrait or landscape.

There were some very good images in the competition, which you can check out here. I think the Fingal Church, hellebore flowers, penguins are especially good.  There were also some great images from fellow LPS’ers, Bron Matthews and Richard Cowling, which should have placed in my humble opinion and been up there to look at.

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