As you walk through any city during daylight hours, you'll gradually realises how light plays through urban structures; the way it reflects and bounces off reflective surfaces like steel and glass, and the way in which concrete walls and structures control the spread of light...
I've just returned from nearly five weeks in India, running two tours: the first to the festivals and tribal settlements of Gujarat, and the second, into the heartland of Rajasthan. Both tours took us well off-the-tourist-circuit, into places where local traditions linger and where life...
We've just run the "Hit the Streets" workshop last Saturday and what a blast it was! As an added bonus, the City of Perth was hosting "Hoop Fest" which meant that the streets were thriving with crowds, making for great street photography opportunities. "Streetographer" Sean Breadsell...
Every year there’s plenty of talk about new cameras, smarter software and, more recently, the rise and rise of AI-driven image making, whether in or out of the camera. It's easy to lose focus on the art of photography with all this chatter about about...
Trigger warning: This article may cause offence because it encourages you to dispense with a “much followed” rule in photographic composition and instead develop a more critical approach to seeing and composing. If you love following rules in a mindless, drone-like way, we advice that...
Photography is often taught as the craft of guiding the viewer’s eye into the frame. Compositional techniques—leading lines, framing, rhythmic repetition—are treated as visual stepping stones that guide the gaze smoothly through an image. Yet photography is equally capable of cultivating interruptions: small visual moments...
The year is about to wrap up, and while it's been a full year of travel, tours and shoots, it seems like it was only last month that the calendar ticked over to 1 January 2025! Does anyone else feel like time is just speeding...
Are you leveraging the power of in-camera picture styles? You may have come across them while scrolling through your camera's menu items. Modern digital cameras come loaded with a range of built-in picture styles -- Canon's Picture Styles, Nikon's Picture Controls, Sony's Creative Styles, OM System's Picture Modes and Art Filters,...
As photographers, we all reach points in our creative journey where we seek honest, insightful feedback, whether it's just for improving our own creative work, or for images that we might be considering entering into competitions and awards. It's a fact that constructive critique, taken on...
At the heart of meaningful photography lies this very simple question: "What do I care enough to notice?" It is a question that has nothing to do with equipment or focal lengths or exposure settings, and everything to do with the your inner landscape as a photographer....