Dean has a new bike. Well, he’s had it for just over a month now. And we really hadn’t done much in the sense of photographing it. With this whole talk of the portraits I’ve been wanting to do, and getting a model to help me out, one of his friends, who is a model, […]
View ArticleRecently I purchased at Amazon.com.au a book on night/star photography. It has finally arrived and I am thrilled to start reading the book to improve my skills for my Night Sky project. I cannot attest to the quality of the book just yet, but I will leave the link to it here. Needless to say […]
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Recently I’ve joined an ‘online photographic’ society, focused on pairing up photographers, models, hair stylists, make up artists and costume designers. It is a great idea and there are a lot of interesting profiles there. I have seen great work done by the participants: beautiful models, great photographs. This platform, called Model Mayhem, is a […]
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Dean and I decided to watch a movie and then take photos in the city on the weekend. I wasn’t very inspired on the day, I probably took only 170 photos. Dean, on the other hand, using my D3300, took approximately 350 photos. Twice (!!!) as much as I did. He is still learning how […]
View ArticleSo my new toys have been arriving. Some not so photographable (more for usage) but others to be in front of the camera. I bought a cheap glass/crystal ball to take photos with. I have been wanting to start buying props to use in photos as a way to help compose a scene, be it […]
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Even though things are improving, there is still a lot to do before I can take the first photo for the project. I have been able to confirm that there is IR leakage in the camera from the view finder. I have solved the issue with the view finder cover. Here are the results from […]
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The time has come for me to submit photos in competitions. I put a few in the April theme “Seascape” from the Australian Photography (check out the link below). After the Easter weekend, I will probably have more photos to add. There is no limit as to how many we can post. http://www.australianphotography.com/yafphotocompetition/free-monthly-competition/april-theme-seascape I also […]
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I have started practicing for my “What the eyes can’t see” project. I have not taken a lot of infra-red photos so I decided to start to skill up for it. I started looking at material for me to learn how to better photograph using only the infra-red light. So I spent the afternoon trying […]
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So I have started thinking of my next project. In parallel to working on my portraits project – which will be very difficult as I rely on models to be available – I will start my “What the eyes can’t see” project. I will still reassess the name, but the subject is taking photos using […]
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That is the name of an exercise from one of the photographic exercises book I have purchased. My understanding is that we have to are photo of an everyday situation/object and make it beautiful. I have, in my opinion, already done this a few times and here is one of the ones I like. I […]
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Photography has become such a big thing in my life that everything else, other than Dean, has become dull. If I’m not photographing or editing photos, it seems to me that I have nothing interesting to do. This scares me a bit (and also delights me). I don’t know why it scares me, but it […]
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I have just updated my Portraits gallery. It now has an ‘old photo’, i.e. from when I started taking photos, that I took of someone who is dear to me. Haven’t seen her since the trip I took that photo. Maybe next time I’m in Brazil. Please visit my project to see the photo. p.s. […]
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