Melbourne & Geelong Wedding & Portrait Photographer Robb Duncan

This blog opens the door to my world, my passion, my life. And incase you missed it, my names Robb Duncan - Photographer - Father of 6 - Wearer of Kilts and all round nice guy.( OK, so that last bit might be stretching it a little !!)

Great Ocean Road Beach Wedding – Pt 1.

As I have not long finished processing the images I shot 2 weekends ago on the beach at Moggs Creek, while second shooting for Kristie Dutson. I thought it as good a time as any to post a couple of my favorites… Trouble is… I have quite a few fav’s… and that means either one very long and image intensive post… or a few smaller ones…

And you know me… I like to post… so smaller ones it is. And I am starting in the middle too, because I can, OK.

Beach wedding - Great Ocean Road - By Geelong Wedding Photographer Robb Duncan

I love beach weddings - By Werribee Wedding Photographer Robb Duncan

Beach wedding - Great Ocean Road - By Werribee Wedding Photographer Robb Duncan

Beach wedding - Great Ocean Road - By Melbourne Wedding Photographer Robb Duncan

Beach wedding - South West Victoria - By Australian Wedding Photographer Robb Duncan

Beach wedding near Torquay - By Werribee Wedding Photographer Robb Duncan

And there you have it… the first 6…

feel free to comment.

by Robb Duncan

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Dan - Sweet work my friend. The beach agrees with you!

Petra - Breath taking photography. like wow man, seriously.

kylie - Holy crap!!!!!! They are awesome!!!!

Peter A - Can I say this is absolutely Classic Robb Duncan. I just love them.

Kristie Dutson - Awesome!! That’s about all I can say.. good job! They are going to be sooo happy that you came along with me!

Juli Amand - Beautiful Images. WOW.

Dave - So, I go away for a day and look what you post. DAMN.

James P - Man I am so impressed, can I come and work for you. I will do it for free, honest. PLEASE!!!!!!

Robb Duncan - Thanks all, and you are right… I am awesome. But so are you in your own unique way.

Robb Duncan - Actually, come to think of it… some of you are just average…

haha

John Williams - Nice use of natural light, not your usual strobist stuff!!

John Williams - Good job. :)

PIXistenz - Beautiful series.

PIXistenz - Robb, I’m curious what a pro, like yourself, would have done when it would have been a bright sunny and cloudless day. Would you have chosen another location with less sunlight? Or would you have used different techniques? Thanks for letting me know. I’m still a newbie concerning portraits and strobist techniques.

Robb Duncan - Hey PIXstenz,

Thanks for the comments !!

As this was a beach wedding, there is just no shade anywhere and there were no other options or locations available. Sometimes, you just have to go with what you have.

There are a couple of shots above that are in full sunlight (Images 4 & 6). I just added a touch of fill light with an on-camera flash… about -2/3 stop. But the clouds did help out some times, and did provide some nice backgrounds, so that was a bonus.

A part from finding some shade, the simplest thing you can do is face the subject away from the sunlight and either shoot it as backlit and expose for the face, or expose for the background and fill with some flash, or somewhere in between, depending on what you want.

You can also use a large diffusion panel above the subject to minimise the harsh light, but it requires an assistant and no wind !!

Hope that helps.

alexis - the photos are awesome…i’d love for you guyz to take my beach wedding photos….

alexis - by the way,just out of curiosity,which beach was this taken at?

alexis - hey robb!
so are you free one day between the 3rd and the 17th of jan??