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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We're really chuffed to be able to support the first Bunbury Photo Walk of 2013 with a competition! The winner will win a voucher to attend either the "Getting Started in DSLR Photography" workshop on Saturday February 16 OR the "Natural Light, Natural Portraiture" workshop on...
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...
I'll be honest with you. After handling the Nikon D600 for a few days (test shooting for this review), I was mightily inclined to purchase one myself. I kind of fell in love with the camera. Truly, madly, deeply. So, if you want to know whether...
I've been a bit tardy with blogging this but, as they say, better late than never. If you're a WA photographer who has been online over the past 12 months, you wouldn't have missed all the news about the Fremantle Portrait Prize - Freo's very own...
The Cinque Terre ("Five Lands") is a 'must see' for every traveler to Italy. Five beautiful villages perched on the rocky coast of the Italian north west, connected to each other by the Sentiero Azzura, a meandering trail that takes walkers through hillside vineyards, olive...