HellRideHellYeah: Shooting up the Laneways

Last weekend I was lucky enough to hang out with BusinessChic and Hannmaid in a laneway off DeGreaves St (city o Melb) They were shooting photos for some of Hanna's delightful hand made cuff links and pendants, wanting to give the shots that Melbourne 'laneway feel' and style.
I was shooting for the doco, a not entirely new angle but taking it to new ground.

I became acquainted with Cheryl from Business Chic at a Tweed ride last year as she is a very active member of the Melbourne Tweeds and the unofficial official photographer! I wanted to interview her regarding the Tweeds but more specifically about fashion and style in cycling. Looking good on the pedals, so to speak.

Hey, what better why to start this thread than with a fashion product shoot and there was a tie in too!

Hanna is a keen cyclist who owns a lovely classic style cycle, a Pashley, hand built in Cambridge. it featured in the shoot and looked a real treat. Her partner Mick also had a beautiful bike, a Moser, that he had built himself which was also used but the real link (pun) was that she has transposed this passion into her designs and the featured product was her bicycle pendants and cuff links; in their various colour options

the link by Cheryl Lin

So me, Jamie F and Micheal B bombed the photo shoot and gathered sight and sound and a few interviews. The focus was on Cheryl and her work (photography and blogging) and her outlook on fashion and cycling. So we hovered around, observational style throwing in the odd question when there was a break in the shoot. The beauty of having a niffty little crew was that I could concentrate on questions and conversation which was liberating compared to operating and asking. But I also had a 7D, so I could take a photo or two, squirt off some footage here and there and satisfy my visual side also.

We got some really solid material on fashion and cycling thanks to Cheryl's generosity and this is what we were after. But the treat of the day was in the unknown, I knew nothing of Hanna and Mick before the day and both of them had such great stories to tell. They have traveled the world and cycled places that will forever remain on most peoples bucket lists. Mick has cycled Tour de France legs, the UK, Peru, Thailand and Tasmania! Hanna has played support for many of these rides but has also cycled more than the average person but it was her Jewelery that we concentrated on this day.

We finished up with a few hours in the can and many many options for edits and stories. A very pleasant and successful afternoon shooting in the laneways.
Rather Melbourne one could say?