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21 May Posted by sengmah in Venture Blog | Comments

The new Flickr – Is it Better and Brighter?

I’ve been on Flickr since 2005 and when I got on this morning, there was this new-look Flickr greeting me with lots of big, bold pictures, colour and a bit of a fanfare announcing the arrival of a “better and brighter” Flickr. Well, is it better and brighter? More space (for free accounts) Flickr now...

13 May Posted by sengmah in Competition, Photo Tips, Venture Blog | Comments

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...

14 Apr Posted by sengmah in Venture Blog | Comments

Light Painting + Slow Sync Flash + Wake Boards = AWESOME

A collaboration between Red Bull and the Snap! Orlando photography festival has created one of the most jaw-dropping, eye-popping photography and videography projects. Entitled “Motion to Light”, it combines action sports with light painting via slow shutter speed and the use of a powerful flash on slow sync to create images that capture the high...

10 Apr Posted by sengmah in Venture Blog | Comments

Wednesday Video: What Inspires You?

Trawling around the Interweb, I came across this touching and inspiring video of a boy’s discover of photography and what it means to him, written and filmed by Eli Sinkus with a Canon 7D. What I loved about this short film is that it meshes a beautiful story with a wonderfully telling and significant voice...

09 Apr Posted by sengmah in Venture Blog | Comments

A great street photographer: Lukas Vasilikos

I’ve been following the work of Athens-based street photographer, Lukas Vasilikos since my early days of photo-sharing on Flickr. Thus, I was delighted to find that Lukas has been interviewed by Eric Kim in his Kim’s Street Photography blog. Vasilikos’s work resonate with narrative (story telling) and emotion. His street photographs are more than...

09 Apr Posted by sengmah in Venture Blog | Comments

Panoramas anyone?

Creating photographic panoramas has gained a great deal of popularity over the last few years. It’s got to the stage that many compact camera designers and manufacturers have built in fairly advanced panorama-capturing functions into these cameras. When I was in Siena in Tuscany a few years ago, grabbing a series of frames of the...

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

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...

27 Mar Posted by sengmah in Reviews, Venture Blog | Comments

Loads of new stuff (Nikon D7100, The Touch App, cheaper NIK Software and a new photo competition)!

The last month has seen a few new, exciting developments for photographers. Let’s have a look at them. Nikon D7100 Launch Chief of this is the launch of the Nikon D7100, a new 1.3x crop 24MP DSLR. I’ve been keeping an eye out on the D7100 as a possible replacement for my second body,...

07 Feb Posted by sengmah in Reviews, Venture Blog | 1 comment

Lighting up the dark with the Westcott Icelight

As photographers, we like talking about light: look for the light; find the light; use the light! It’s all well and good when you’re shooting where there is enough ambient light to make an exposure, and you’re doubly lucky if the light comes from the right direction. But this isn’t often the case — wedding...

06 Feb Posted by sengmah in Competition, Venture Blog | 2 comments

Bunbury Photo Walk Competition – Da Winnah!

53 South West snappers went for a photo walk one day in Bunbury, organised by Bunbury photographers Christian Byrt and Graeme Marsh, and we received 22 entries for the Bunbury Photo Walk competition. The images ranged from streetscapes to urban abstracts to portraits — there was certainly a very wide selection of images entered, which...