My SteamPunk Shoot At Homebush – Behind The Scenes
Well after a fair bit of planning… and a couple of false starts, I finally executed my “Homebush Steampunk Shoot”, and I couldn’t have been happier with the way everything turned out. If you haven’t already, you might want to read my earlier postings which showed the planning and “vision” for the shoot. This post is going to go into …
Read MoreSteamPunk Shoot Preparation – Part 3 Makeup
So in the first article in this series I shared the moodboard and the concept for the Steampunk Shoot. In the second article I showed the creative input that the stylist has in terms of wardrobe, accessories etc. In this article I’m going to share the creative concepts from our Makeup artist – Tracy Becken. Here’s what Tracy is thinking …
Read MoreI’m Back.. and I’m planning lots of shoots
Hey folks My my… haven’t I neglected this blog for a while. It’s not as though I haven’t been shooting, but I just haven’t been motivated to update the blog. With 2012 drawing to a close I’m going to hit 2013 with more energy and see if I can dust off the old blog and post some material that might …
Read MoreFree Photo Guides Has Moved
Full credit to Lee Duguid, he did something that I didn’t have the time to do… rescue the photoguides project. I was pissed off when Google announced they were discontinuing their Knols… which was the foundation of the photo guide project. i chose Google Knols not only because of the functionality, but because it was “Google” and I thought …
Read MoreOMG… I’m going to Photograph Burning Man!
I am so excited about my next photography project…. It is going to be exciting, challenging, and oh… so much fun! I have arranged a trip to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada at the start of September. Now if you haven’t heard about Burning Man… you aren’t going to believe it. Check out this video for an insight into …
Read MorePhotoshop Tutorial – Post Processing Cathedral Rock Minimalist B&W Image
Yesterday I talked about the fun I had capturing these long exposure images using my 10 stop ND filter. I put together this photoshop tutorial which explains how I post-processed this image. I hope you enjoy it. In the tutorial I refer to two plug-ins Color Effex Pro from Nik Tony Kuyper’s Luminosity masks In this tutorial I …
Read MorePlaying With My 10 stop ND Filter
After spending four days last week in a federal court (oh what fun)… I decided that I needed a bit of well earned “R&R”. So I packed my swag, camera and laptop into the car and headed down to the South Coast for a few days of photography. I had researched a few specific locations that I wanted to …
Read MoreI’m Presenting On Wed 15th Feb 2012
Just a quick note for any Sydney Photographers. I’m going to be doing a presentation on Wednesday evening at Northside Creative Camera Club in Lindfied. I’m going to be covering a range of topics including the portrait work I did on my recent Namibia trip Planning the trip The Gear I took (focusing on the Off Camera Flash Gear) How …
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Inspirational Photographers Part 1: Landscape Photographers
I’m going to do a series of posts of photographers that I find inspirational. Some of these names you will know, some of them I’m sure you won’t know. I’ve been bookmarking photographers for about 8 years now, and I love going back to their sites and seeing what they are up to. This first list of inspiring photographers is …
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Photoshop Tutorial – Postprocessing The Deadvlei
Here’s a real quick photoshop tutorial that shows how I post-processed this iconic image taken at the Deadvlei in Namibia. Because this is such a surreal location I wanted to reflect this in the post processing. Because of it’s iconic nature, there are plenty of wonderful natural-looking images of the Deadvlei, so I was trying to do something a bit …
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