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29/08/2013 In Reviews, Venture Blog By sengmah

Review: Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC – A lens that gives you a lot of bang for your buck!

The Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC has been out for some time now and available with mounts for Nikon, Canon and Sony DSLRs. It also claims to be the first lens in its class with Vibration Compensation (that’s Vibration Reduction or Image Stabilisation to you Canikon...

12/08/2013 In Events, Venture Blog By sengmah

Fremantle Photo Trek

What an epic photo trek it was on Sunday afternoon! We had more than 50 photographers turn up to our inaugural Venture Photography Workshops Photo Trek to participate in a photography walk that took us from the Fremantle Arts Centre to the entrance to the Harbour....

10/08/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Photographer turns himself and family into bizarre woodland beings

Photographer Adam Brice, who lives and photographs in the south west of Western Australia has been pushing the boundaries of photography and imaging - and his latest works are bound to make viewers take a second and third look just to qualify that what they...

21/05/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

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...

13/05/2013 In Competition, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

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...

14/04/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

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...

10/04/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

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...

09/04/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

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)...

09/04/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

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...

03/04/2013 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

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...

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