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 …
Read MoreMy Mission Australia Project To Help Youth Homelessness
This is Maryanne. At 18 she was kicked out of home and became homeless. As Maryanne said, it’s actually very easy to become homeless and a hell of a lot more difficult to find a home. I’ve always loved it when I can combine my love for photography with a philanthropic cause. Earlier this year I went to Tanzania and …
Read MoreB&W Graphic Portrait Project
Here’s a project that I have recently kicked off. I want to put together a body of work of models shot in front of very graphical buildings or backgrounds. All the work is black and white and have strong graphical elements in it. Here’s a few shots that I did as a test/starter. This image of Carly was shot …
Read MoreKarijini – Portrait of the “Grand Master”
Haven’t had a lot of time to process my Karijini images, but I thought I’d take a break from the landscapes to do a stylistic portrait of Mr. Eastway. We were out doing a sunset shoot of trees. While the trees were pretty cool I just couldn’t get excited about shooting them, so I pulled out my strobe and thought …
Read MorePhotoshop CS5 First Impressions
I just upgraded to CS5 yesterday, thought I’d give you my first impressions. Coexistence For those of you worried about compatibility etc. the first thing to understand is that the installation of CS5 doesn’t replace earlier versions of Photoshop (or at least not my version of CS4). So you can continue to run both versions in parrallel until such time …
Read MoreKarijini – Junction Pool
On the last day of the workshop, Mark Stothard, Bruce and myself joined Dan from West Coast Active to do a canyoning trip through the Karijini gorges. Dan could get us into places that most people don’t see. At the point where all three gorges meet, you get to junction pool. There is this incredible tree growing out of the …
Read MoreKarijini Here I Come!
I’m so excited. Tomorrow afternoon I leave for what I’m anticipating will be an incredible photography workshop. I’m heading out to Karjini National Park in the Pilbara for a workshop that is being run by Peter Eastway, Christian Fletcher, and Tony Hewitt. Three exceptionally talented pros are taking us to a landscape Mecca to immerse ourselves in the gorgeous colours …
Read MoreNext Light Painting Workshop – March 27 & 28th
Hi folks I know some of you had expressed interest in attending my next light painting workshop. I have just fixed the date for Sat March 27th and Sun March 28th. Ten participants maximum First come first served. Full details about the course can be found here. The last workshop was a heck of a lot of fun. All participants …
Read MoreWhats In My Seascape Camera Bag?
My guess is I’m not the only one that has accumulated way more photographic gear than will fit comfortably in a single camera bag. So I tend to pack my camera bag for specific types of shoots that I am going on. I enjoy seeing what other photographers have in their camera bag, sometimes they have a very cool accessory …
Read MorePost-Processing Nightmare (Part 2 of 2)
Thanks for the kind words on the behind-the-scenes video of Nightmare. This is part 2 of the article and will focus on how I did the post processing for the image. The video tutorial is fairly long (15min) but covers a host of different techniques during the process such as; Compositing an image from layers Using high contrast b@w layers …
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