Twitter Blows!
OK… Just for the record… Twitter just doesn’t cut it for me…. I like to think of myself as someone who is open-minded, stays up with trends and technology. I gave Twitter another try recently to see whether I was missing something. What a freaking waste of time…. For me Twitter = a whole bunch of mindless crap. Happy to …
Read MoreI Love My New Ball Head!!!!
When I arrived in New Orleans my package from Really Right Stuff was waiting for me. A new ballhead and L-plate for my camera. Why did I upgrade my ballhead? I was shooting with the Manfrotto lever ball head which I absolutely loved, however it was terrible for shooting panoramas. Fantastic for single shots. Because of this trip to the …
Read MoreFirst Seascape Workshop Ran Last Weekend
Last weekend I ran my first seascape workshop in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The workshop was sold out and limited to 10 participants only. Now these 10 photographers have to go down as being unbelievably lucky when it comes to shooting conditions. We started on Saturday at Mona Vale Community Center where we went through some information about equipment, how and …
Read MoreNow I’m getting ready for a serious shoot
OK, I’ve done two weekends of test shoots at Turrimetta and learned some useful techniques. I feel I’m ready for a more serious night shoot. I just bought a neat little torch from Surefire, these things are very cool. Very small, very bright, rechargable and have a 5000 degree colour temperature, so I shouldn’t get any colour casts when I …
Read MoreA Cool Recipe for Better Skin Tone Colours
Several people emailed me after my previous post enquiring about the skin tone recipe, so here it is. I learnt this in a Lynda.com tutorial by Chris Orwig. It sure has helped me get my skin tones much more accurate. It sounds like many of you are like me… have a tough time getting good skin tones right. It’s amazing …
Read MoreXmas Portraits
OK… Wife wanted pictures of the kids this Xmas… about time I stopped taking pictures of the sea and took some of the family…. OK OK… I guess I better have a go at turning out some half-decent portraits. I decided to stay away from the typical Xmas portrait and instead take some more radical shots of the kids doing …
Read MorePost Processing The Martian Rocks
I had a number of people send thank you emails regarding some of my earlier tutorials on how I processed my images. The funny thing is that when I created this blog, to be honest I didn’t even think anybody else would find it or be interested in it, it was more of an online diary of how my own …
Read MoreImproving my Photoshop processing of water
I have found a technique through experimentation that I quite like for giving shots of moving water some extra “oompph”. I used it to create the above photo. Here’s what the water looked like before I applied the effect … and here’s what it looked like after the effect. Here’s how I did the effect. 1) Add a colour balance …
Read MoreOne Of My Best Shots Yet..Sculpture By The Sea
This morning I picked up the Old Man at 4:45am and we drove down to Bondi for sunrise shoot at Sculpture by the sea. Last year we were lucky and had a glorious red sunrise, so we weren’t as optimistic for this year… especially as the weather forecast was for rain. It would have been easy to ignore the alarm …
Read MoreComing Out of The Closet
OK…. I have a confession to make… I bought a macro lens and made my first macro image. Now I’m not sure why I have this mental stigma about macro photographers. I think it’s because I’ve always considered myself a serious landscape photographer and shooting pictures of flowers and butterflies seems like “sissy photography”. It’s so opposite to landscape work… …
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