Angie Watkins

9 June

In portrait photography terms, Angie Watkins is an extraordinary subject. The power of her. The emotion in her eyes. The presence. All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson.

Colour portrait photo of Australian model Angie Watkins. She's wearing black lingerie. Angie Watkins is famous for her appearances on Asia's Next Top Model. This is Angie Watkins in 2025. Angie Watkins was born in 1996.

These photographs of Angie Watkins were taken at the La La Land space in Hardware Lane in Melbourne’s CBD. Interesting space, cluttered, dark, lots of different-temperature lights. Difficult for photography purposes though of course its real purpose is as an (excellent) bar. A couple of windows at either end of the room help for photographers but otherwise, a proper lighting rig is required. The above shots were taken with a Harlowe Pro 300W with a Harlowe Optical Light Lens with Gobo employed. I didn't play around with this light much and I have a love/hate relationship with gobo lighting but it’s a very spiffy light and while there are lots of throwaways from the shoot the best shots are excellent, so kudos where kudos is due to Harlowe.
All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson.

Close-up portrait photograph of Australian model Angie Watkins. She's wearing black lingerie. Angie Watkins is famous for her appearances on Asia's Next Top Model tv show. This is Angie Watkins in 2025.

This close-up photograph of Angie Watkins is a crop of the image at the top of this page. On the day I was shooting with two cameras, both Sony – A1 and A6700 – and two lenses, Sony 50mm f1.4 and Sony 24mm f1.4. I was swapping them between cameras and because one camera is full-frame and the other APS-C, with these two lenses I effectively had the 24mm, 35mm, 50mm and 75mm focal distances at my disposal (or thereabouts), all at f1.4. Which is why I like having both a crop and full-frame body with me. This cropped image of Angie is the A6700/50mm combination. The autofocus on the Sony A6700 for standard portraits is as good or better than the autofocus on the Sony A1, by my experience. In video it’s a different story or it is in low light; video autofocus on the A6700 in low light is poor where the A1 pretty much keeps on keeping on.

But for both still photography and general videography the Sony A6700 is a super camera; it was amazing how many of my favourite shots from this shoot were with the A6700 and not the A1.
All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson.

Above: Angie Watkins, incidentally, has 100K followers on instagram and was a star of Season 4 of Asia’s Next Top Model. Angie’s instagram account is @angiewatkinsss. This image is a killer portrait; kudos to Angie. All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson.

Environmental portrait photograph of Australian model Angie Watkins. She's wearing black lingerie. Angie Watkins is famous for her appearances on Asia's Next Top Model tv show. This is Angie Watkins in 2025.

Above: Angie Watkins, 2025, Melbourne. Sony A6700, Sony 24mm f1.4 taken at f1.4. All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson. As much as I like close-up portraits, environmental portraits like this are where my heart lies. 24mm on a crop sensor: #winning.

Colour portrait photograph of Australian model Angie Watkins. She's wearing black lingerie. Angie Watkins is famous for her appearances on Asia's Next Top Model tv show. This is Angie Watkins in 2025.

Above: Angie Watkins, 2025, Melbourne. Sony A6700, Sony 24mm f1.4 taken at f1.4. All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson. This was more or less a full-length vertical which I’ve cropped to horizontal because I didn’t like the junk around the edges of the frame.

Above: Angie Watkins, 2025, Melbourne. Sony A1, Sony 50mm f1.4 taken at f1.6. All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson. Again I like the environmental framing here.

Above: Angie Watkins, 2025, Melbourne. Sony A1, Sony 50mm f1.4 taken at f1.6. All images Copyright Campbell Mattinson. The below shot is more or less the same shot, or the frame before, I just turned the camera to have this image in both vertical and horizontal. So both are the Sony A1 with the 50mm at f1.6. Both stunning images of Angie.

Asia's Next Top Model contestant Angie Watkins in 2025.

Angie Watkins can also be seen in the video (from the same shoot above) here.

Campbell Mattinson is an honest, trustworthy photographer and journalist. He's based in Williamstown, in Melbourne's western suburbs, and has won multiple awards as a writer, photographer and filmmaker. Campbell specialises in portrait photography and videography: candid, editorial, wedding preparation, intimate, social media, content creation and commercial.

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This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

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La La Land shoot