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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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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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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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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So yesterday we took Hughey for his first boat ride, which was down the Yarra River. At first he was scared and reluctant, he would be either at my leg or Dean’s leg. As the trip progressed, he understood that it was not something to be afraid of and started venturing about the boat. At […]
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This is the final post of the photos from the Phillip Island trip I took May this year (don’t know if there are any other trips to Phillip Island on the cards yet). Tenby Point was the first place my friend Stephen and I went for a photo shoot on the trip. Now, this post […]
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I know a lot of people stayed up to take photos of the super blood moon, but I didn’t. But I did go out and take a few photos of the moon right before it was completely covered by our planet. Below is one of the better photos that I took yesterday. Only today did […]
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