Mark Greenmantle Photography

A small selection of shots from the many dozens of gigs I’ve shot has now been uploaded here.
All shots from this folder are available as prints on archive quality Kodak paper. Contact me via email or drop in to my office in Voodoo Lulu, 240 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley.

Letitia of Metal As Fuck zine’s Music Journalism 101 online course is a very good read not only to the journalists working in the industry but also to the photographers working beside them in this industry. I just finished reading one of the posts for this course and it reminded me of all the great advice Deb Bela (then Deb Aldred) gave me to help me when I did my first music interview way back in 1999 with Jeff Martin (then still with The Tea Party).
The course is free and those keen on the metal scene will really like the interviews Letitia does with some of the biggest names in metal.

http://biodagar.com/2009/09/music-journalism-101-h-conducting-the-interview/

After a few days of non stop real estate HDR image retouching for a mate I decided that Voodoo Lulu’s store cat Sid had to have a steampunk makeover…..

first book cover at printers, another of my ads sent to eevolution and now able to take payment via paypal.
Busy day….
That and possibly getting shots in Rolling Stone soon.

With the move to Brunswick St about complete, things have gotten very busy. The to-do list is miles long but it seems as though the big move will bring enough business to keep me in Australia….
At the very least, I’ll soon have an entire shopfront with very high foot traffic entirely covered with 72inch high prints.
The regular fashion shoots for Voodoo Lulu will soon become part of the Valley’s landscape.
If you hadn’t kept up recently, I’m now based in 240 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, with my studio in the front of Voodoo Lulu.

Blatant self promotion here – well, that and testing if my brain can handle messing with code while under attack of a migraine… seemed like a win, showed in preview juuussst fine but the CSS for the main page refuses to allow the iframe tags. If you’ve come to this blog directly and don’t use facebook, please subscribe to the RSS using the links to the right.

I’m looking at purchasing a copy of Nikon Camera Control software for running tethered shooting in studio and think I have found the cheapest source for the latest version. I’ve messed with the trial versions previously and found it fun but soon will be integrating the laptop as a real tool for studio work to give instant high res feedback to models, creative directors or direct clients as to how their shoots are appearing on file. Nikon Mall
As the files pass from the D3 to the laptop hard drive via this software, they then get grabbed immediately by Adobe Lightroom for bulk edits, keywording on the fly and rating mid shoot.

Today I printed some recent fashion shots for the first time at a large scale, both as a 30x20inch format and I have to say, I’m wicked happy with the results. Next step will be working out framing options and then you ought to expect to see print sales of the alternative/gothic genre work through Voodoo Lulu.  I’m just started now on designing the front window inserts for the shop as well for branding and can’t wait to have those printed as well. Huge thanks to the wonderful crew at Digilab for their consistently PERFECT prints!  I won’t trust my prints to any other lab.

Violet Vex models for Voodoo Lulu

History Alive is almost upon us, this July 25th and 26th, from 10am till 4pm History seemingly comes alive with some of the most spectacular and accurate warfare re-enactment shows you will catch in Australia.

For its 10th consecutive year, the Queensland Living History Federation (Inc) will present a multi-period re-enactment event… History Alive: a journey through time at Fort Lytton National Park in 2009. See Googlemap.

This time-line event will feature a unique display covering re-enactment and living history groups depicting from the era of Roman Legions through to World War II. History Alive; a journey through time is designed to provide each group with the opportunity to carry out performances, provide living history camps, and to mount recruiting displays.

With participation of QLHF member groups, and many other invitees, History Alive promises to be a spectacular weekend.

The public will once again be able to immerse itself in the the sights and sounds of times gone past – where knights of the holy land can be found alongside the combatants of more recent global conflicts, and skills long forgotten can be rediscovered in presentations of day to day life differing greatly from our more contemporary existance.

Here are some more HA images to wet  your appetite:

I’m in between shoots tonight, taking a break at The Melbourne Hotel before heading to the Hi-Fi new bar again. It opens tonight. Things are going well with my new client and I am finding them brilliant to work with.  I spent half of the afternoon shooting branding at The Hi-Fi’s new Vinyl bar and chatting to the creative director of the advertising firm I am working through.  It looks like I should be getting work shooting a lot of the gigs there in the next year. =]

Later tonight I will be back to the usual gig at 299, Saturday Trash is on and I will be battling the hoardes that frequent the venue. The venue itself has been cleaned up a great deal of late….

First though, food… in the midst of West End and the options for good food here is near endless, not always cheap but I do need to eat somewhere other than Indian Kitchen. The food there is damn well addictive. =]

I have seen a couple of different programs designed to cover all aspects of managing and marketing a photographic business. While sourcing a single program that could manage the entire day to day running of a photographic business I wonder how well these work in with Australian taxes, and the BAS requirements ect ect… I am keen on them for purposes of the follow up marketing call reminders, deadline management, late invoice reminder generators and other functionality that leads to better business management.

If anyone knows of a program/programs that suit these functions and is easily geared to Australian business standards I am keen to hear feedback.

In other news, I’m catching up on processing older shoots this week and will have the usual nightclub shots up on their usual locations by Friday night. I’ve been approached by a few different TAFE/UNI Photography students asking to interview me for part of their assessments. I’m open to this but still feel surprised they chose me to interview.

On Monday I will be able to catch up with Evil D of Morbid Angel, haven’t seen him since his tour with the Genitorturers. I bet their manager doesn’t think to arrange day trips around Brissy as they had with Richard and the Faith team. That man sure knows his reptiles. =)

Recent shots from the tour with Jeff Martin and The Armada are up already on www.thearmada.com