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27/08/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Winning Dads are Grinning Dads – Announcing the Winners of our “Make Dads Glad” Father’s Day Competition

Dads have had to put up with unimaginative Father's Day presents for years. To help turn the tide of pedestrian socks, jocks and power tools, we launched our Father's Day Competition couple of weeks ago. Entitled "Make Dads Glad", we asked you to send in...

06/08/2012 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Daylight long exposures with ND filters

Have a look at the photos below. They're both taken at the same time and location - however, they both present the scene very differently. The first is your typical location snap - taken hand held at a fairly fast shutter speed because there's plenty of...

31/07/2012 In Reviews, Venture Blog By sengmah

Review: Joe McNally TriGrip from Lastolite

One of the things I've often found cumbersome about traditional large reflectors is that you have to often use both your hands to handle and control the reflector, whether you're using it to reflect light or as a scrim (for those reflectors with a diffusion...

22/06/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Top Travel Shot – Contest Winners

Announcing the winners of our Top Travel Shot Contest, which we ran on our Venture Photography Facebook page over the last two weeks. Entries ranged from photographs taken in regions near and far, from the tropics to the temperate rainforests of Tassie. Landscapes were popular, but...

18/06/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Restoring Hope – Refugee Week 2012 Exhibition

Those of you who have been following me on Facebook and Twitter will be familiar with this. Over the last three weeks, I've been working with Propel Youth Arts on a photographic project for Refugee Week 2012. Refugee Week aims to inform Australia about refugees...

13/06/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

South West Landscape Shootout

We're back from a wild and wooly weekend of landscape photography with 17 workshop participants in the South West of Western Australia. Though best known in touring circles as a region of vineyards, wineries and great surfing beaches, the South West also boasts some of the...

22/05/2012 In Competition, Venture Blog By sengmah

Freo Portrait Prize 2012

With a studio based in Fremantle, it's hard to miss the excitement being generated by the Fremantle Portrait Prize! If you're into portrait photography big time, then you need to give the Fremantle Portrait Prize some serious thought. The Fremantle Portrait Prize promotes excellence in the...

12/05/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Give your old digital cameras a new life

Do you have old digital cameras (point and shoots, DSLRs etc) that are sitting at home gathering dust? If so, please consider donating them to a worthwhile community project! We are looking for donations of old digital compact cameras (point and shoot) or old DSLRs that...

28/03/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

More Gritty Portraiture

One of my favourite things about shooting portraiture in the studio is to ask the sitter to display emotions outside the "happy smiling" norm. There's an energy that comes from tension in pose and expression. This dude should look familiar for some of you. Setup: strip...

24/02/2012 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Utopia – part of the FotoFreo 2012 Open Exhibition Programme

"Utopia" is an exhibition about my love affair with the West Australian coast, in particular the coast just north and south of the port of Fremantle. But it's also a valediction to that coast, as it has existed for generations of West Aussies, in the...

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