Anyone who knows me knows that I love using ND filters (neutral-density filters) for long exposures -- and why wouldn't you? An ND filter stops off a certain amount of light entering the lens, letting you shoot at longer exposures in available light so that...
45 photographers. Two hours of photography. Fremantle. It was a great turn out and fantastic to see so many eager and enthusiastic photographers come together to shoot in Fremantle on Saturday -- as part of the Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk. Our route took us from...
Shutter blending isn't new in photography (digital or otherwise) but I'm often surprised that not many photographers make use of it. Most of us would already be familiar with exposure blending: taking bracketed exposures of the same composition and then blending them to ensure that the...
We use Adobe Lightroom for our RAW processing and workflow management, so we're pretty stoked to hear that Adobe has just released the upgrade to Lightroom 5.2, which packs a few new features. Lightroom 5 is already a feature-rich upgrade from Lightroom 4, introducing Smart Previews,...
3 epic days. 2 epic nights. It was a weekend of sheer epicness as 9 photographers joined Graeme and I on the Rottnest Island Photo Safari. We believe that you can never do enough photography, and this weekend of landscape photography "overseas" was testament to that! We...
The Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC has been out for some time now and available with mounts for Nikon, Canon and Sony DSLRs. It also claims to be the first lens in its class with Vibration Compensation (that’s Vibration Reduction or Image Stabilisation to you Canikon...
What an epic photo trek it was on Sunday afternoon! We had more than 50 photographers turn up to our inaugural Venture Photography Workshops Photo Trek to participate in a photography walk that took us from the Fremantle Arts Centre to the entrance to the Harbour....
Photographer Adam Brice, who lives and photographs in the south west of Western Australia has been pushing the boundaries of photography and imaging - and his latest works are bound to make viewers take a second and third look just to qualify that what they...
I've been on Flickr since 2005 and when I got on this morning, there was this new-look Flickr greeting me with lots of big, bold pictures, colour and a bit of a fanfare announcing the arrival of a "better and brighter" Flickr. Well, is it better...
While photography is a relatively recent invention, photographers have much to learn from the other visual arts -- notably painting. In an article entitled "What the Mona Lisa Can Teach Us About Taking Great Portraits", Darren Rowse explains how an analysis of this enigmatic portrait...