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...
Some photographers argue that the light meter is an obsolete tool in this age of digital photography. After all, the histogram gives you more accurate and useful information on exposure, information you can use to adjust lighting intensity when shooting with strobes. Others argue that the...
Insight into Portraiture My interests in photography lie predominantly in portraiture, but I'm rarely interested in creating "flattering" people portraits. I don't use skin smoothing software, for instance, and very rarely will you see me spotting or cloning away the errant mole or pimple (unless it's...
We work with a lot of models in our workshops, and thought that it was about time we had a blog post to sing praises to the talented guys and girls who front up to cameras at our workshop. Without doubt, being able to photograph...