OMG… 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 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 …
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Inspirational Photographers Part 2 – Night Photography & Light Painting
Continuing on from yesterday’s posting of Inspirational Landscape Photographers, here’s my list of some of the Night Photographers and Light Painters that have inspired me. Tim Simmons http://www.timsimmons.co.uk/ Tim Simmons first got me into light painting. When I saw his landscape images I was mesmerised and set myself on a mission to work out how he got the quality of …
Read MoreNamibia – Abstract Landscapes
One of the highlights of my trip to Namibia was visiting the Deadvlei near Sesriem. From the time I first saw photos from this amazing place I said to myself “this is somewhere that I just have to photograph”. The textures of the dry lake bed…. the abstract shapes of the petrified trees….. the beautiful red/orange sand dunes …
Read MoreA Lovely Shot From My Buddy…
A couple of weeks back I organised a fun shoot down on Long Reef rocks at sunset. There were six of us Photographers that were shooting the lovely Kate McCracken (in her wedding dress no less). and we had a ball. I just saw one of the shots that Gavin Marchio processed which I think is a real cracker. (I …
Read MoreSculpture By The Sea
Hey Light Painters… I’m probably going to head out to Sculpture By The Sea at Bondi for some nocturnal fun on Sunday night. Hope to see some of you guys n gals there. Brent
Read MoreLight Painting An Entire Freaking City!!!
Check this out…. This is light painting on a grand scale… What a project. 50 photographers went to great details to light paint an entire city. While the translation from Spanish is not perfect, it’s still worth having a read of what these guys got up to. Absolutely amazing. You can read the whole story here. Brent
Read MoreTutorial: Kirsty At Middle Head Fort – Part 1… The Capture
It’s been a while since I posted a tutorial, so I thought I’d do a tutorial on this image that I made last night. This article will be in two parts; Part 1 will talk about how I made the capture Part 2 will take you through the post processing of the image. So last night I was running a …
Read MoreLight Painting Article in Better Photography
I just picked up a copy of the latest edition of Better Photography. Peter Eastway has written up a nice article about a shoot I took him on a few months back to show him the ins and outs of light painting. It’s funny what editors omit from their articles… he ommited to mention that he went on a seascape …
Read MoreThe Making Of Nightmare (part 1 of 2)
It’s been a while since I have posted a video, so I thought I would give you a double-header. This is the first of two videos that show how I made an image called Nightmare. This video is part 1 which takes you behind the scenes when we did the shoot. It was a lot of fun, there was a …
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