My first job for 2010 has been to sort out all the photographs within my Redbubble gallery to show those that are most popular! The photographs shown below have each received over 500 hits in the last three years, and many are soon to reach 1,000 viewer-hits! This is quite a milestone, and of this... Continue Reading →
Finding Your Creative Mojo
Some days my creative advertisements and logos take forever to be extracted from my mind - and even longer to draw on paper. This is not for lack of ideas - but because I'm not sure the first, second, third and forth idea are what the client wants. I have devised 5 simple methods of... Continue Reading →
Weekend of Panorama Photography
I've had a lot of fun over the last few days shooting lots of shots of hills and yards at family homes around Adelaide - then stitching them together into 180degree, 270degree and a few 360degree panoramas! Here are just a few the results. If you look at the large version of the pano below,... Continue Reading →
Cold Calling for Opportunity
This morning I did something unusual yet opportunistic : I asked a stunningly beautiful woman to let me photograph her. Well, that is not the correct story, so let me explain further... After departing the train this morning, I visited my usual coffee-shop (just up the ramp between the North Terrace Train Station and up... Continue Reading →
Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs
The most favored style of photo-manipulation seems to be HDR. Monochrome Camera Gear High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography has gained substantial popularity in recent years, as it allows photographers to capture a broader range of luminosity and tonal detail in their images. Tonight I've searched through many great sites to compile a short list of... Continue Reading →
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is amazing what you can read on the internet. Here is the last section of the wikipedia page for Henri Cartier-Bresson, explaining his technique for capturing his amazing photography: Cartier-Bresson exclusively used Leica 35 mm rangefinder cameras equipped with normal 50 mm lenses or occasionally a wide-angle for landscapes. He often wrapped black tape... Continue Reading →
Using GIMP to create Beautiful Art
Every so often I take a bunch of photographs with no real plan of where they'll end. Tonight I photographed this little trinket that my wife brought home a few years ago. I suspect it originated from her grandmother's home. I loved the rustic feel of this little eastern man towing his cart around for... Continue Reading →
Five Ways to Make Money from Photography
1. iStock After reading Mike Cherim's article going through the last 12 months upon iStock, I was reminded that I also have an iStock account. So I must thank Mike for invigorating my activity on iStock. But twenty minutes upon the site reminded me why I never did go back after I first registered. The... Continue Reading →
My Submissions to the DEH Art-of-Nature Competition
If you are a registered member of DEH Art-of-Nature and you like my submissions, feel free to cast your vote on my photographs: (The images can be seen through the #-links.) #1 , #2 & #3 I have submitted a few more, but they are yet to be moderated by the DEH tech-people. I'll show... Continue Reading →
Having Fun Creating Graphic Art Again
Last night I spent a few more hours manipulating pixels to put young Andrew into various amusing scenes. Let me get you up-to-speed on this situation: When Ben Cottle (@Benaud) first presented this photograph of his son, Andrew, (at left of text) on his Plurk time-line, I jokingly suggested that it "looks more like Luke... Continue Reading →
Having Fun Creating Graphic Art
What did I do tonight? Not a lot really, at least for me. 1. Designed two backgrounds for @Digsby: 1a. Background #1. This was a quick idea, nothing more, nothing less. Figured it might as well be submitted. 1b. Background #2 is still in the moderation queue. I spent a whole hour on it, having... Continue Reading →
The Secret to Being the Best in Your Art
The secret to being the best at anything? You have to want to learn. You have to want to learn. You have to want to learn. You have to want to learn. The answer is not as obvious as you might think: Repetition. Saying, studying, doing and performing the same thing over and over and... Continue Reading →
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