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01 Jan Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | 3 comments

Rejuvenating your photography – some thoughts for a New Year of image making

The end of one calendar year and the beginning of the next is always an occasion for pause and reflection. As photographers, we have a tendency to assess the development of our work over the past 12 months and to look at the direction we’d like to take in the forthcoming year. It can be...

30 Oct Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | Comments

The light meter: useful tool, or photographer’s crutch?

Some photographers argue that the light meter is an obsolete tool in this age of digital photography. After all, the histogram gives you more accurate and useful information on exposure, information you can use to adjust lighting intensity when shooting with strobes. Others argue that the light meter is an essential tool, especially when you’re...

27 Apr Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog, Workshops | Comments

DSLR Photography Workshop – 5 tips to better DSLR photography

We’ve just wrapped up our last Maximising your DSLR workshop for our summer photography programme and I thought I’d share some of the key points raised in this workshop. Maximising your DSLR is a one-day photography course aimed at photographers new to shooting with a digital SLR. Let’s face it — the reason you bought...

25 Feb Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | Comments

Beer weather

Perth has been absolutely baking under a heatwave – we’ve had days on end where nighttime temps have not dropped below 20C, and daytime temps… well, let’s just say they’re in the 32C – 37C range, with the occasional peaking at 41C. It’s weather like this that makes a stubby of cold beer feel like...

28 Jan Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | 2 comments

Get over your fear of flash

At some point in our collective photographic careers, we’ll need to deal with the flash. There’s no avoiding it. As much as you want to claim to be a “natural light photographer” you know that there will come a time when you’ll need to wrap your head around flash photography and use that darned thing....

31 Dec Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | Comments

Five Photo Projects for the New Year

A New Year often means new resolutions. Whether we keep them or not – well, that’s another story! But a New Year can also present a great opportunity to give your creative juices (and your camera) a kick start. If you’re really into your photography, then consider giving the following easy-to-do photo projects a go...

01 Dec Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | Comments

Five things your Mama never told you about portraiture

Good portrait photography comes with its set of dos and don’ts. Most tend to focus on lighting, posing, posture and the like – but what about the details that are often missed, details that can make or break a portrait? At the last Venture Photography Practical Portraiture workshop, instructor Greg Perry covered an extensive list...

21 Nov Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | 2 comments

Six Christmas Gift Ideas for your Photo Tragic

We all have a photo tragic in the family, or know of one. The photo tragic is completely besotted with photography, waxing lyrical about f-stops, camera equipment, lighting equipment, photo shoots and so on. You’ll go on a holiday with them and all they want to do is hike off with their tripod to take...

22 Aug Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | 1 comment

Finding creativity

One of the tougher challenges photographers face is a creative slump. No matter how much you love photography, how passionate you are about it, you’re going to reach a stage where nothing, excuse the pun, clicks. Photography is no different to every other form of creative expression; sometimes, you’ll run out of ideas, hitting the...

03 Aug Posted by sengmah in Photo Tips, Venture Blog | 3 comments

Spot-on exposure with Aperture Priority

For many of us DSLR users, shooting in Aperture Priority is the first port-of-call from shooting with the Automatic or Scene Exposure modes on our camera. It often occurs after we’ve come to grips with depth of field and after we’ve conquered the initial confusion over the inverse rule of “small f-number equals big aperture”....