Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes on big budget photoshoots. Then you should visit this link here. Part of a promotion by Hassleblad cameras. Shot in Italy by photographer, Maurizio Cigognetti. While producing a set of advertising pictures for high fashion design products. Go on just take a look. A team of about [...]
excitations garden, a purpose designed photography location. Not your everyday pretty garden. Old stables and tack rooms, uncut lawns, trees all over the place in no apparent order. Messy, lacking structure and over all a gardeners nightmare. But, you know what! we wouldn’t have it any other way. Developing a garden and farm yard for [...]
Almost nobody knows how much work goes on behind the scenes to get high quality photographic images from your photo session to a framed print hanging on your wall, or beautiful album sitting on your coffee table. There is a multitude of highly skilled and trained technicians and artists behind each and every image. Aside [...]
Firstly I should make it clear that excitations does provide a framing service for our clients. However, we don’t mind if people choose to have framing done elsewhere. We do guarantee our framing and more importantly the pictures in the frame. Always trying to resolve any issues that maybe a result of a framing problem. [...]
Woolsheds, a photographic essay of shearing sheds around Australia. Shot by long time photographer and all round good guy Andrew Chapman. There is a saying in photography that you should shoot things you’re passionate about. Well that would would put the iconic Aussie shearing shed right dead centre of Andrews viewfinder. Andrew has for years [...]
A follow on from yesterdays post about the demise of Linen Tie albums. Looking around at some of the stuff on offer, I had to remind myself of the old rule ” you get what you pay for”. We all seem hell bent on getting stuff at the cheapest price. Photographers it seems are no [...]
Can anyone just use my photo for advertising? There is a lot of confusion around who can use your photo for advertising. Especially when it comes to your wedding photography. I’m not a lawyer, so please don’t base any important decisions around this post. Certainly not without getting professional legal advice. However, you should know [...]
Print quality, or how good your print looks. Print quality can be divided into to loose categories. Firstly how good the finished photograph looks when it’s hanging on your wall. Secondly, how durable is the print. How long will it last. We’ll deal briefly with how good it looks first. This naturally has a lot [...]
Autumn look, mid Winter Earlier this week I posted a sample outdoor portrait photography image from a shoot with the Howard family. There were supposed to be two photographs with that post, I forgot. Photographed just a few metres from from the last image, the shot below features a popular garden location. However, this is [...]
Each year we see a couple dozen people who think they would like to be a photographer.