Category: photography

Favourite Photos of 2009

I uploaded 782 photographs to flickr during 2009! I keep this gallery for people to appreciate my artwork, for me to evaluate my skills, improve wherever possible, and for both the world and I to display upon blogs, articles, news-reports and many other locations. I can guarantee you that I shot probably 100x as many!... Continue Reading →

Cranium

Finally, a portrait from the other side: Don't ask me why, I just felt like shooting the back of my head.

Convert to Raw Photography Today

This quote puts it all into perspective for me. Finally and suddenly it all makes sense.. This quote was enough to convince me to switch to RAW when shooting my photography. RAW is the negative and JPG is the snapshot your camera makes from it” – Garth Smith, December 2009 Found at the top of... Continue Reading →

Achieving 500 Viewers per Photograph

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 →

Shooting at Night

Photography at Night

Thanks to this Flickr.com thread entitled "Night Photography Tips", we have an amazing list of points, tips, tricks and items to have when shooting night photography. I will need to revisit TED's Camera's again! I've shuffled them around, spell-checked, cropped a few lengthy personal statements plus removed a lot of duplication. Use a tripod. If... Continue Reading →

Setting Up A Professional Photography Blog

One of the most important aspects of any blog is its appearance. Most new bloggers will want to pick a theme to suit their blog, style, input and outcome. To ensure your site attracts both advertising-space and traffic, the first page should have clearly distinctive sections and space for the following components: Advertising/Sponsors/Affiliates These should... Continue Reading →

Taking Better Night Photography

Taking night photographs is never easy, but it is certainly lots of fun! Even I have trouble working out what is the best setting ... yet I am always willing to learn! Here are tonight's internet-finds to help us all improve our Night Photography. First we get the low-down on Exposure at Wikipedia. This will... 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 →

Night Photography in Adelaide

Here are my midnight-photographs, shot on the 23rd December 2009. It was a very hot night, and somewhat warmer inside the house! Since my wife was still making chocolate delights for Xmas day, I went for a walk with my camera and tripod. Check out what I found in the darkness: 1. Some interesting abstract... 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 →

Panoramas from 2007

These are two panorama's of photographs I photographed way back in January 2007. But at that time I had no knowledge of decent software that could correctly stitch them together. Recently a good friend introduced me to Autopano Pro, the best and easiest program for creating Panorama's. So this is the first time these photographs... Continue Reading →

Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs

Creating HDR 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 →

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