© David Eades Photography 1992-2024 ABN 79 370 455 348 Mob: 0428 859 760 located at LLUN Studio 1/28 Jarrah Drive, Braeside (Mordialloc) Victoria 3195
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My vision is to create quality, enriching photographs and memories for you through my photography. I normally shoot people in all the different styles and forms striving to work in camera as much as possible, keeping post edit enhancement down to represent the creative or to add an artistic flavour. Unless of course if is a more creative / art or fine-art result or your vision needs it.
I am open to be challenged in the creation of your photographs. Happy to try new, inventive, and imaginative ideas. Photography is an art form, not point and click. It can be a formal process eg the primary looks in a wedding as well as spontaneous at the same time, can serious work but also with a twist of fun as everyone should enjoy the process not just the result.
The real trick is always to find the hidden story and life inside the image.
so, who is this guy?
Photography is my passion and joy, looking for the light and look to best tell the story. Beautiful, meaningful images is the goal I work towards, be it landscape, portrait, still life, formal or casual occasion. Every image has a story to tell.
I'm often based out of LLUN Studio in the SE bayside suburb of Braeside (Mordialloc) of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia). Since I moved into professional photography back in that late '80s and early 90s, I have normally worked around the nation and New Zealand but mainly within the Greater Melbourne metro area. However, I'm happy to and have often travelled to other locations as needed if arrangements can be made.
Back in 2019, I opened my own studio space LLUN Studio, located at unit 1 - 28 Jarrah Drive, Braeside Victoria 3195. This is now my inside space to work out of if not on location or doing outdoors / environmental work. The space will potentially be available to hire to other creatives. If interested in the studio and costs, please visit http://www.llunstudio.com.au/ to see some of the pre-built sets available, costs and availability. The studio website is planned to launch late 2023/early 2024 as I am still putting the finishing touches in-place and we were like everyone impacted by the COVID pandemic and the restrictions.
Principally I photograph people using Portrait, Beauty, Fashion, Family, Product, Catalogue, Creative, Fine-Art, Boudoir and Fine-Art Nude techniques to fit the style, genre or theme. Personally I also shoot a little bit of everything but like to lean toward a more artistic and creative theme. I also work in broader commercial photography together with events, family groups, creative portraiture, weddings and so on. I like the challenge of different ideas, skills, styles, genres and just plain playing with ideas and then adding these to my repertoire.
If you have a session or idea in mind, please visit my portfolio for some examples of my work. Or if you have a idea or project in mind, contact me to discuss your requirements. I accept commissions and assignments following a storyboard or look sheet as needed. And am experienced in working with HMUAs, Stylists, Designers and Creative Directors.
a little of my background
Let's go back to the start, I first picked up a Kodak Instamatic camera at around 10 years of age, that's back when film came in cassettes not just rolls. I purchased my very own first film DSLR in the early 1980 moving away from 110 roll film cameras. That was a Pentax ME-Super, later in the 90s moved onto a Nikon F5. Working a state based Major Events Manager, on assignment with a Platinum sponsor at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, they provided an early generation Kodak DC10 'brick' digital camera, a mighty 64kb image size. I preferred my F5 though and when I transitioned to digital after the games I started with a Nikon D100, it became my workhorse, but I wanted more picking up an early Leica Digilux (first version) and a pocket Sony SureShoot.
A few years later Canon started to bring out some market leading DSLR cameras, held off for awhile, but when on assignment and stuck in Queensland working as the lead domestic Project Director and International Broadcast Centre Manager with TNT/Turner Sports on (what became the last of) the Brisbane Goodwill Games 2001, I found I wanted a camera to capture images of the Brisbane River Festival. Grabbed a used Canon body, being away from home for nearly 6/9 months I picked up the odd bit of kit over time. Once back home, the hard decision came up, I now had more good Canon glass than Nikon, digital was then gaining greater acceptance and Canon had some of the best bodies, such as the original full frame 5D. Ended up making the jump as glass is the decider. Since then I have had a range of cameras, still mainly shooting Canon, although now an even larger choice of lens and kit. With the advent of mirror-less cameras and the more professional bodies now coming out, its nearing time to change from the older DLSR to the latest version as the gear improves but still hanging onto my trusty 5D Mk IV and 1DX Mk 2 and 5D-SR for now. And funnily an old Pentax 645D digital medium format cameras and lens. When the need arrives, will look to the mirrorless gear coming out, been holding off as the pro versions are slowly coming out but the rate of change remains rapid in that space.
Talk soon,
Dave