Some of my photos from a shoot with Shontelle made it to Arsenic Magazine (such a rad mag!).

Visit: http://arsenicthemagazine.com/submissions/2014/10/19/shontelle-mcfarlane

Had a shoot with Nicole Castle yesterday. Nicole reached out over email. Turns out she’s a friend of Britta’s (who I shot a while back, revisit those pics here), and having just started competing in the modelling scene she was after some photos.

I heard her rock up before I saw her! Nicole drives a modified turbocharged Mini (mad!). She’s a lawyer by day and has a kink for good interior design as she’s currently busy doing up her own pad in Manly at the moment. She’s all smiles, laughs and legs! Super fun to hang out with, be sure to follow her on Instagram: @njc3788.

PS: I got to shoot with my new Sony A7s. Straight off the bat I found the lens a bit too tight. I just can’t fit anything into frame (Nicole’s quite tall too, fitting her in full frame head to toe on the couch, and bed were pretty impossible!). Focussing is damn frustrating too as the camera just wants to spot focus in the centre of the frame, and I can’t just simply point on the screen to where I want the lens to focus, so now I’m shooting in a completely different way. IE: Pointing at what I want to focus on, them moving to frame and shoot. I’m also finding myself using the viewfinder, which again is a bit new and unnatural to me after the GF1 and GF6, though I like it and will most likely persist with it. LOTS of my shots were out of focus unfortunately. I’ve since changed my focus mode to wide, might even try focus locking next time too.

Carl Zeiss UV Filter. So clear that it’s a bit trippy.

Feels good to hold, but the springy shutter button feels a bit cheap and nasty.

GF6 vs a&S size comparo.

The decision was made to upgrade to a Sony a7S with Zeiss 55mm F1.8. Daniel from OFIM put me on to a good deal with Marcus at digiDIRECT in Westfield’s Bondi Junction. I ended up taking the camera home, and bought a Zeiss UV Filter to protect the lens, a new memory card too.

The camera comes with 2 batteries! That’s pretty cool. The charger is pretty slim, and there’s a USB/wall charger too so I had both batteries charging in no time. It’s substantially bigger and heavier than my GF6 setup, but it’s nowhere near as heavy as Matt or Ved’s DSLR setups. The focussing feels slower than my GF6, either way I’m looking forward to playing with this camera!

Had a great shoot yesterday with Malaysian girl Cara Lee, a little pocket rocket who brought along heaps of energy. Always makes a huge difference when you can converse well with your models! Follow Cara on Instagram: @nomediocre_x

Had a snappy shoot with Jaymee yesterday. Jaymee reached out to me on Facebook after seeing photos I took with Shontelle, she was more than happy to pay for a shoot but I’m still not so comfortable with charging (needs more thought!), and I was having a good day, so I just said yes!

I’d like to keep shooting just for the fun of it, but then again I do want to upgrade to a full frame camera after playing around with Matthew Mead’s setup last weekend at the Zen Photowalk. Hopefully I’ll be upgrading tomorrow thanks to internet friends who chimed in with lots of great suggestions on my Facebook profile.

PS: More photos on my Tumblr (NSFW!): http://justinfox.tumblr.com