Photographer in Perth, Western Australia
Master Vernon Low and Chief Instructor John O’Brien visited Perth recently for another round of advanced instruction. Master Low spent a considerable amount of time on breaking techniques needed for promotion into the black belt ranks. The photograph below shows him explaining some adjustments to a student’s side kick technique. The foreground blur is from the… Continue reading May 2016 action
Mike Johnston (The Online Photographer) recently wrote about strategies for buying new cameras—which is certainly not a new topic. If we consider cameras (and lenses) as tools for doing a job, then I think it comes down to a straightforward cost-benefit analysis: what benefits do you expect to reap by going with a particular choice of… Continue reading Strategies for buying new cameras
It’s been a little over a year since I started this weblog, and visitor traffic has reached 10,000 hits. Quite a few of the hits in the first few days would have been webcrawlers and other non-human visitors, but overall there should be a fairly low proportion of those in the cumulative statistics by now. In any… Continue reading Ten thousand hits
A family member asked me to make a business portrait for him; he’s organising a conference next year, and needed a picture for use in the prospectus and related documents for the event. This is something a little different from what I usually shoot, but I was happy to oblige. Below is a low-resolution version of the… Continue reading Something a little different
Nik Software produced one of the best regarded photographic post-processing software packages available, and the company subsequently became part of Google in 2012. A few days ago, Google announced that it’s making the Nik Collection available free of charge. I’ve never tried the package myself, but if your computer and software meet the minimum system requirements (including which versions of Adobe software… Continue reading The Nik Collection is now free
I happened to be visiting a primary school recently and, it being a secular school, the teacher’s message about Easter was designed to be as neutral as possible. I was actually (somewhat pleasantly) surprised by how respectful the teacher was towards Christian beliefs, given the secular context. I have witnessed or been involved in some… Continue reading Easter 2016
LensRentals has published some particularly useful articles recently on cleaning lenses and choosing telephoto focal lengths. The first article outlines the procedures that LensRentals uses to clean and check its lenses, but it’s worth bearing in mind that (as they’re rental equipment) those lenses would be seeing far heavier use than any lens owned by… Continue reading Cleaning lenses and choosing telephoto focal lengths
First Tae Kwon Do (Western Australia) held its first grading examination recently, and I was on hand to capture some of the action. The venue was well lit, and the only lighting challenge was when shooting against external light, as you can see in one of the pictures below. Here we see a crescent kick… Continue reading March 2016 action
Today was the Labour Day holiday in Perth, and a sunny day for photography at Jackadder Lake in the suburb of Woodlands. I didn’t actually visit the lake with the aim of photographing birds (otherwise I certainly would’ve brought my telephoto zoom lens along), but I noticed avian activity in a particular area and walked over… Continue reading Ducks and cockatoos
“Micro contrast” is a term I’ve heard used many times, and something that I’ve probably had some implicit understanding of for some time, but I don’t think I ever took the trouble to research it. Thom Hogan has recently published an article on micro contrast, and I think it’s well worth a read through for… Continue reading Micro contrast