I almost didn’t go take photos of the Old Treasury Building because of how cold it was. I had planned, albeit not announced it, to go yesterday to the Old Treasury Building at night to take photos for The Lights of Melbourne project, and I ended up going. I was happy that I would be […]
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Winter is always such a poor time to photograph, here in Victoria. It is cold and rainy most of the time (it is the wet season of Victoria). With such weather “unpredictability”, it is hard to schedule photo sessions outside. If I’m planning nightly shots or sunrise and sunset shots, it needs to be on […]
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When I got my Hoya NXT Plus CPL for my 50mm lens (58mm thread), I was ecstatic. It was the best filter I had purchased in my life. On that day, I decided to invest in really good filters for my lenses. Unfortunately, as time passed, that filter ended up with a lot of tiny […]
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My relationship with photography has changed a lot. It used to be one of admiration only: I used to love looking at photos (both taken from my mother of us as well as from other photographers). Then, my relationship evolved into becoming an active participant; with the purchase of my Nikon D3300 I started photographing […]
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I decided to learn how to use Photoshop. As a photographer, my main photo development software was Lightroom with the aids of a couple of plugins (Nik Collection 3 and Topaz AI – De Noise, Gigapixel and Sharpen). As great as that combination is, it does not solve all of my photographic problems. My first […]
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I have spend a significant amount of time on the Bernardo Brandao Photos these past days. I transformed it from being a simple blog, to it being a whole website (with a blog as part of it). If you put in the browser’s address bar https://bernardobrandaophotos.com, you will see the home page. The change happened […]
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I have recently taken onboard taking photos of a new bar that has opened in Melbourne. It was fun: I photographed the opening night of a Piano Bar in Prahran (Jono’s Piano Bar) . I took photos of the venue, of the guests, the food and the entertainment (it is a piano bar). It was […]
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I decided to make a puzzle from one of my photos. It was a difficult decision: which photo to turn into a puzzle. A lot of my photos have a lot of negative space filled by sky or water (or soil). For jigsaw puzzles, that becomes a bit of a challenge (calling it challenge instead […]
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Bernardo complains about his problems with having large Lightroom catalogs where most of the photos are on a network drive.
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Since I made it a trend to take photos of Hughey wearing human accessories, here is Hughey wearing (my reading) glasses.
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So yesterday we went out for day trip around Victoria. We wanted to take photos(me)/video(Dean) of the wind turbines and the coast. And so we did. The day was very dark and gray and completely uninteresting at the wind turbines. Even photos of Hughey (our dog) were not great. There weren’t a lot of colors […]
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I wasn’t one to use tripod a lot. Don’t know if it is because my mother rarely used them, or if it is because it is ONE MORE thing to carry (and assemble). Bottom line is, I’m changing my profile with tripods. I have seen the difference that taking a photo with a tripod and […]
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