Seems everyone does. I decided that there was a piece of gear I needed and as it is no longer manufactured I hit ebay to see what I could find. Photographically that is everything. Well everything except what I was looking for. That however is another story. You see the thing that really stood out [...]
Like you guys, we get more than our fair share of cold calls from tele-marketer’s. Today I received one from a woman trying to sell us Search Engine Optimization or SEO. She starts by telling me that when you searches for excitations photography in Merbein, she can’t fine our website at all. How can you [...]
Something I hadn’t thought about. Using a medium format digital camera to reproduce art works. We have a couple of artist who regularly have paintings and to a lesser extent sculptures photographed. For use in publicity, making cards, calendars, books or poster prints. Especially when dealing with highly detailed paintings and drawings. The greater colour [...]
You or one of your kids wants to be a photojournalist, consider carefully. We get a lot of would be wannabe photographers through our doors. Or enquiring about job opportunities via email. Lately there has been a whole bunch with dreams of becoming a photojournalist. I’m not sure why. I guess it does sound rather [...]
Don’t talk a lot about equipment here. That’s because we’re photographers and use cameras. Not hobbyists who own cameras in a way not dissimilar to the way car or bike enthusiast’s owns a bike or car. Mostly for hobbyist they are not their daily ride. Our cameras are. One piece of kit that should have [...]
Editing a set of wedding photos late last night. I couldn’t help noticing one of the shots of the bride and groom walking back from the alter about to leave the church. Pretty big moment when the newly married couple are greeted by their parents, family and friends. In this shot however, only the parents [...]
A photographers eye, what on earth is that? It’s funny but a photographers eye is what makes him/her different from all other photo people. And while we talk about the eye, it’s a whole lot more than that. What we see and what we photograph is a sum of many things. But mostly it is [...]
There’s busy and there’s really busy. the last ten days have been the really busy kind of busy. Lots of K’s, much shooting and a whole lot of meetings. I don’t do meetings well. I figure meetings only chop into photography time.The picture above is from Rachael and Damian’s wedding. This shot taken under the [...]
We, like most photographers I suspect are often told we are so expensive. Well when I started in photography and worked for a budget studio. The standard price for a 5 x 7 inch print in folder was equal to in cost to taking you average family car to the service station and filling up [...]
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 [...]