I have mentioned in previous posts, Winter in Melbourne/Victoria is not a good time to photograph. Not only is there a constant threat of rain (even when it’s not forecast to), but it is also slightly chilly. The cold makes me lazy and tired, especially now that I’m not currently working out. As a result, […]
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We are less than a month away from the trip and COVID-19 related state wide lockdown is in place. Don’t know if it will affect the trip, seeing as we have at least 3 weeks until the trip. However, in this uncertain environment, we never know. Reviewing what I have researched so far, I think […]
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For my second week of Self-Portrait (a little project I sneaked in last week), I decided to use try something new: monochrome. Now, I know I can photograph in color and convert it to black and white in Lightroom. However, I decided that I need to start seeing things in gray scale for me to […]
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From 07/07 through to 12/07, both my Hoya HD CIR-PL filters arrived. I am very excited about their arrival as I have a need for better CPLs. My 50mm prime lens (with a 58mm thread – henceforth “my 58mm”) had a good enough CPL, the Hoya NXT Plus and a Gobe (one peak) as a […]
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When I went out on Friday night to take photos of the Old Treasury Building, I also took the opportunity to appreciate how beautiful Melbourne’s CBD (Central Business District) is at night. Despite the recent COVID-19 outbreak (and recovery), the streets were filled with people. Even though I was there to take photos of the […]
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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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