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02/12/2010 In Events, Exhibitions, Models, Photo Shoots, Projects, Venture Blog By sengmah

60 Kisses – 60 Minutes

Kissing. Pashing. Snogging. Whether a chaste peck on the cheek or a full-on exercise in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the kiss is synonymous with romance. With intimacy. With love. "You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss," crooned Louis Armstrong. While musing on what I could possibly...

01/12/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Five things your Mama never told you about portraiture

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...

21/11/2010 In Gear, Reviews, Venture Blog By sengmah

Quick Review: Nikkor 24-120mm f4.0 VRII

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...

21/11/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Six Christmas Gift Ideas for your Photo Tragic

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...

21/11/2010 In Events, Venture Blog By sengmah

Homeless Connect 2010

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...

16/10/2010 In Event, Exhibitions, Festival, Venture Blog By sengmah

60 MINUTE SNAPSHOT @ the Beaufort Street Festival 2010

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...

12/09/2010 In Books, Projects, Venture Blog By sengmah

Flags up! Gun’s up! In!

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...

22/08/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Finding creativity

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...

03/08/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Spot-on exposure with Aperture Priority

For many of us DSLR users, shooting in Aperture Priority is the first port-of-call from shooting with the Automatic or Scene Exposure modes on our camera. It often occurs after we've come to grips with depth of field and after we've conquered the initial confusion...

30/07/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Seeing the street

Street photography is an art of its own. It requires that the photographer be able to unfamiliarise the familiar, to make the everyday uncommon and unique. It requires eagle eyes and lightning reflexes. I work in Fremantle and am as familiar with it as, well, the...