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Will you create the next Mona Lisa?
While photography is a relatively recent invention, photographers have much to learn from the other visual arts — notably painting. In an article entitled “What the Mona Lisa Can Teach Us About Taking Great Portraits“, Darren Rowse explains how an analysis of this enigmatic portrait by Leonardo da Vinci can help improve our ability to...
WTF-stop?!
If you’re a beginner photographer, then chances are you’re a bit stumped by the relationship between the aperture value and the size of the aperture. Beginners who have attended the Getting Started in DSLR Photography workshop we run will be familiar with this relationship and what it means to both depth of field and exposure...
Flash exposure compensation and the distance scale (!)
At a recent Flash Photography Fasttrack workshop, a participating photographer noted that when he dialed the flash exposure compensation (FEC) on his flash down to a negative value, the range shown on the distance scale on his flash increased. At this point, if you’re scratching your head and thinking “Wut?” then you might need a...
Daylight long exposures with ND grad filters
Have a look at the photos below. They’re both taken at the same time and location – however, they both present the scene very differently. The first is your typical location snap – taken hand held at a fairly fast shutter speed because there’s plenty of light (f14, ISO100, 1/40) . Motion is frozen (look...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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