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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
The end of one calendar year and the beginning of the next is always an occasion for pause and reflection. As photographers, we have a tendency to assess the development of our work over the past 12 months and to look at the direction we'd...
LightPlay 2 takes the "LightPlay" lighting workshop concept on the road. With two models, eleven photographers and one stylist in tow, we took to the Swan Valley on board a bus -- with the express aim of shooting on location and showing workshop participants how...