We went to a niece's 15th birthday last night. She disappeared because she doesn't handle crowds of people very well, so I went to shoot the sunset and anything else that I could find on the property. Here are the results: On My Redbubble Gallery: Evening in Belair Evening in Belair II On My Flickr... Continue Reading →
Kingscote Kids (A Photo Series)
I asked, they said yes, they had fun whilst I shot these funny and amazing photographs. I told them I would tag the photographs with 'kingscotekids' and would be on flickr.com. Girl: "Flickr? What's that?" Me: "A website. F L I C K R, no e, dot com. Looks for kingscotekids." Them: "Cool \ Rad... Continue Reading →
Shooting Macro Flowers in February
We have a dozen interesting lens to shoot with, but the one I enjoy most is my Canon 60mm Macro. My wife has the Canon 100mm Macro. Both are amazing lens and shoot different levels of intricacy. But it's always what the artist can find that makes the difference. Whilst some might say the 100mm... Continue Reading →
Captured, Contained and Competitive
I’ve entered the AustralianPhotographers January Competition . The topic is “CONTAINED/ENCLOSED”. Kaye says it is open to interpretation, yet I went through almost a dozen pages on my flickr gallery to choose one I felt most matched the topic. Here is the photograph I have chosen: Trailer Bike This was shot upon the SEALINK ferry... Continue Reading →
I Started A Meme!
I made the suggestion upon plurk for photographers to choose the best twelve photographs of 2008 (either one from each month or simply the favourite twelve) from their Flickr photo-gallery. Within an hour, I had chosen and published my favourite photographs of 2008. Over the last few days, three of my plurk/flickr friends also took... Continue Reading →
Keeping Boredom Out of the Office
For all those web-designers out there who want to use their time more effectively, you'd enjoy these five easy things to do when absolutely bored. 1. Design a Better/New Logo I call this 'doodling'. With a graph-pad, a 2B pencil (with an eraser-end), a sharpener, no ruler (because that's for the final drawing), and nothing... Continue Reading →
Favourite Photo’s of 2008
I had an idea whilst perusing my photography uploaded to Flickr throughout 2008: Upload 1 photograph from each month of 2008 from our own photo-gallery's upon Flickr. Here are my results: January Stichware: None. With a good tripod, a remote, a bit of pre-thought on where the camera would see me and nil flash -... Continue Reading →
Achieve the Tilt-Shift Illusion with GIMP
One of the authors over at http://www.nilkanth.com/ has given us this great article outlining how they've developed an easy 12-step process for achieving the Tilt-Shift Illusion: Play with the photo’s color curves, brightness and contrast. Activate Quick Mask. Reset colors in toolbox with the ‘d’ key (so that FG = black and BG = white).... Continue Reading →
Pixel Manipulation
If you hadn't realised by now, I am quite a GIMPaholic! In mid 2007, I took an interest in editing photography. Someone suggested Photoshop™ and another friend suggested GIMP. Whilst photoshop looked enticing, I won't deny that the idea of an opensource freeware program was the selling-factor to convince me to go with GIMP™. Consequently,... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 