I've got a new project: Choose two great shots each month of the year out of my Flickr gallery. I'll choose each of them at the end of each fortnight (or thereabouts). I've shot a lot of photographs already this month, but this is my favourite: ... in the sand at Emu Bay, Kangaroo Island.... Continue Reading →
Diagonal Lines across your Photography
I've talked about both horizontal and vertical lines: Now it is time to show you how diagonal lines are an important facet of photography. Diagonal lines both stimulate and excite your viewers. These lines will drag their eyes across your image, from the boundary to the subject, from the dark into the light. Diagonal lines... Continue Reading →
Vertical Enhancement of Photographs
One of the easiest ways to make your photographs stand strong is to combine horizontal and vertical lines together. Since the human eye is naturally trained to follow the direction of lines, why not incorporate this into your imagery? Many of the elements in our environment are vertical. Thus, when we incorporate them into our... Continue Reading →
Using Horizontal Lines to Enhance your Photography
The one thing I like most about photography is utilising lines and horizons to give a landscape more vitality, more punch. But what I have learnt to do is ensure the horizon is actually horizontal. There is two ways of achieving this: 1. Tripod with bubble-level. The bubble-level is not compulsory since most cameras have... Continue Reading →
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.
How is your Business Being Seen on the WWW?
This is an interesting podcast from LeeHopkins. I've met Lee, I know he is passionate about this subject, and I know he means alll that he says, and it is interesting to see him gesticulating from the grassy side-walks in North Adelaide. I wondered why he is standing to one side of screen ... but... Continue Reading →
The Difference Between Facebook, Plurk and Twitter
Originally written as a response to Ben Barden's article entitled "10 Sites I No Longer Use, and why I Stopped Using Them" [c. July 22, 2009 ], but it got so long that I felt it warranted its own article. I use Facebook to connect with family and close-friends; I use Twitter to connect with... Continue Reading →
On Twitter
Ari Herzog has a 4.5minute podcast that basically gives you these two links that will improve your use of Twitter: 1. Now Shoosh - Allows you to avoid people you don't really want to read right now. 2. Endless Tweets - Loads pages endlessly when scrolling on the Twitter timeline; Remembers last read tweet; Tab-completion... Continue Reading →
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
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 →
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