Good portrait photography comes with its set of dos and don'ts. Most tend to focus on lighting, posing, posture and the like - but what about the details that are often missed, details that can make or break a portrait? At the last Venture Photography Practical...
I was given the opportunity to test drive the Nikkor 24-120mm f4 VR2 (thank to Ben Walton of Team Digital) - just in time for the weekend's surf rowing carnival at Scarborough Beach. Having heard of the sub-par performance of this len's...
We all have a photo tragic in the family, or know of one. The photo tragic is completely besotted with photography, waxing lyrical about f-stops, camera equipment, lighting equipment, photo shoots and so on. You'll go on a holiday with them and all they want...
Venture Photography ran the inaugural Photo Booth at the Homeless Connect in 2009. So rewarding and enriching was that experience that I put my hand up again this year for Homeless Connect 2010. This year, ably abetted by Kaylene Taylor of Taylor Made...
Tasmania, the Apple Isle, the oft-forgotten Australian State, boasts beautiful vistas. Its peaks, valleys and wilderness immortalised by legendary landscape photographer Peter Dombrovskis, Tassie provides photographic opportunities aplenty, making it often more challenging to decide what NOT to photograph. On a recent trip to Tasmania, I became...
Want to get involved in one of Perth's most creative, stylish and tasty Festivals? The inaugural Beaufort Street Festival kicks off on Saturday November 27, 2010. This free festival won't be your ordinary community fair -- with the participation of local businesses and community, the Beaufort...
The Story of Jett and Lina is an example of narrative building through photographs. Inspired by sequential art (comic books), this is part portrait-shoot and part grim love story, where the tables are turned on a predatory young male. Location: Yellagonga Park, Woodvale Participants: Matt Goyder and...
Venture Photography covered the biannual Vegetables WA Dinner at the Joondalup Resort’s Lakeside Room in September. Vegetables WA is the State’s peak organisation supporting WA vegetables growers. This formal dinner was an opportunity to recognise the important contribution WA vegetable growers...
I've just finished putting the first cut of the Gun's Up! book together. There is still much to be done: the photographs need to be proofed before the first proof of the book is even published (by eCPrint in Rockingham), but this is a major...
One of the tougher challenges photographers face is a creative slump. No matter how much you love photography, how passionate you are about it, you're going to reach a stage where nothing, excuse the pun, clicks. Photography is no different to every other form of creative...