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30/09/2013 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Shutter blending: the long (exposure) and the short (exposure) of it.

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...

18/09/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Adobe Lightroom 5 gets a boost!

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,...

11/09/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

A Photo Fest on Rottest

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...

29/08/2013 In Reviews, Venture Blog By sengmah

Review: Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 VC – A lens that gives you a lot of bang for your buck!

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...

12/08/2013 In Events, Venture Blog By sengmah

Fremantle Photo Trek

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....

10/08/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Photographer turns himself and family into bizarre woodland beings

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...

21/05/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

The new Flickr – Is it Better and Brighter?

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...

13/05/2013 In Competition, Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Will you create the next Mona Lisa?

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...

14/04/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Light Painting + Slow Sync Flash + Wake Boards = AWESOME

A collaboration between Red Bull and the Snap! Orlando photography festival has created one of the most jaw-dropping, eye-popping photography and videography projects. Entitled "Motion to Light", it combines action sports with light painting via slow shutter speed and the use of a powerful flash...

10/04/2013 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Wednesday Video: What Inspires You?

Trawling around the Interweb, I came across this touching and inspiring video of a boy's discover of photography and what it means to him, written and filmed by Eli Sinkus with a Canon 7D. What I loved about this short film is that it meshes...