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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...
Photo Opportunity: Perth Monthly Model Photo Shoots
Want to photograph models? Perth hobbyist photographers now have a fantastic opportunity to work with a number of models and stylists at on-location photoshoots, thanks to a team of creative models and stylists. The brain child of Perth model Sarah-Jane Mercier, the Perth Monthly Group Photo Shoots bring together models, stylists, make-up artists and photographers...
forme
‘forme’ is a project about the human body that I’m hoping to publish later this year or early 2012. I’m going to be photographing bodies – all kinds of bodies, taut, thin, round, square, strong, frail, fruity, vanilla, smooth, textured, plain, inked… the list goes on. ‘forme’ looks at the morphologies of the human body...
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....
Surf’s Up! at Muttonbird
I’m back from awesome Albany covering the fifth and final Navy Series surf rowing competition at Muttonbird Beach. I’d joined a band of merry boaties from Secret Harbour on this trek to WA’s deep, deep south, all the way to the magnificent surroundings of Muttonbird, an open beach hemmed by headlands to the east and...
60 Minute Snapshots on Show
60 Minutes. 60 Photos. That was the challenge posed to 18 Perth photographers, myself included, who were participating in the 60 Minute Snapshot Project at the inaugural Beaufort Street Festival in November. Each photographer selected a theme, and had to shoot 60 frames of that theme in an hour. That’s one frame per minute. Now,...
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...
Boaties, Books and Beer at the “Gun’s Up!” Book Launch
You couldn’t ask for a better afternoon to launch a book about surf-rowing. The sun was out, a refreshing sea breeze blew from the Indian Ocean into the Scarboro Surf Club Function Room, the bar was open and the beer was cold. Gun’s Up! is a book which I am very proud to have produced....
60 Kisses – 60 Minutes
Kissing. Pashing. Snogging. Whether a chaste peck on the cheek or a full-on exercise in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the kiss is synonymous with romance. With intimacy. With love. “You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss,” crooned Louis Armstrong. While musing on what I could possibly shoot as my theme for the 60 Minute...
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...
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