Gotta love a girl in a wedding frock on a dirty great motorbike in the Byron Bay sunshine.
Actually the bride is a model for my stock photography, you can see more here. I’m always on the lookout for new models – particularly men – give me a call or email if you want to know more about working as one of my models.
Check out my website at www.davidfreund.com.au for more wedding photography
A little while back while in the middle of a stock photography photoshoot in Sydney, I was approached by a man who can best be described as a boofhead (rugby league jumper, overweight, long very greasy hair, etc). At first I didn’t catch what he said to me and had to ask him to repeat himself. The second time I heard him clearly but was surprised and asked him to say it a third time. His aggressively toned question was, “Did you just take a photo of my daughter?”.
The rest of the conversation went like this:
Me: “No, and why would I want to?”
Him: “Well I heard your machine there going and you had better not be taking photos of my daughter. So what were you taking photos of.”
Me: “This bloke, he’s a model”, as I pointed to the subject of my photography. Then I made a quick comment along the lines of ‘it’s a public place and I can take photos of whatever I want’ and walked away. No use arguing with an idiot, all you get is two idiots.
The thing that irritated me most about this guy was how I was clearly taking photos in that spot and he brought his daughter over and deliberately stood smack bang in my background – and then accused me of doing something he thought was sinister.
Because of attitudes like this and increasing bureaucratic restrictions on photographers, there is going to be a rally in Sydney at 10.00am on Sunday August 29th at Campbells Cove. I can’t get to the rally, but if you can more details can be found here.
I’m always on the lookout for new models for my stock photography. If you’d like to know more about the type of stock photography I do, check out the video below or have a look at my portfolio on either istockphoto or Getty Images.
Go to my contacts page and drop me a line to find out more.
Here’s the latest in a series of quick videos I have been putting together about photography and my approach to professional photography. Other than wedding photography I am also a stock photographer. In this video I quickly explain what stock photography is and, no, it’s not photos of cows.
You can check out my stock photography portfolios here on iStock photo and here on Getty Images. By the way, I am always looking for new models for stock photography. Drop me a line from the contact page on my website if you are interested in finding out more.
One of my wedding photographs has been used to illustrate an article on stylish New York weddings. You can see the article here and if you like the image and want to use it for your own purposes, it’s available as a stock photograph from here.