Congratulations to Manuel and Jose Manuel (again !) who recently both got second place in Photo Competitions with their respective companies Deimos and INSA.
As always you can view all the images from club members by clicking the link over on the top right of the blog...
As you probably all know already the club has published what we hope will be the first of many books representing the images of its members.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand of 'Earth from Above' fame, has put together this very interesting project which aims to create a sensitive and human portrait of the planets inhabitants.
Photojojo have posted 12 Fantastic Fall Photo Tips, that I thought maybe useful for our pending Photo Theme.
In the past we have spoken about the sunny-16 rule, but do you know the moony 11, 8 and 5.6 ..?? (steady Richard.. ;-) )
Flickr has always been a bit of a talking point, what with advertising agencies rocketing unsuspecting photographers into the limelight, like this for example..... or those agencies with not quite so many scruples taking advantage of the overwhelming number of low cost images (i.e. taking them for free) and using them for national ad campaigns like this case with Virgin Mobile Australia
Hi all.
The 'Canon Digital Learning Centre' is currently hosting a series from the well know travel and nature photographer, Art Wolfe, here on its website.
I have long been a fan of the imagery of Mark Tucker, a prominent portrait and lifestyle photographer.
We've seen the work of George Lange in the past (see March entry), and I admit I'm quite partial to this type of presentation.
Remember in the past we have talked about High Dynamic Range Imaging, which had its origins in CGI Graphic artist industry and is now finding its way more and more into photography.?
You might also want to take a look at "Digital Outback Photo" as well, which is pioneering new HDRI techniques using DSLRs with fast frame rates (> 5fps), thereby eliminating the need for a tripod and opening up the opportunity for using HDRI without limitations...
It would seem that the list of 'windswept and exotic' locations to which our photoclub members travel continues to grow, the latest being to Greenland......."I would like to share with you an image of one of the most impressive and powerful landscapes I have ever seen. This is a glacier at the south of Greenland. Its name is Eqalurissit. It is about 2.5 km wide and the ice walls are about 100 meters tall. The ice tongue enters towards the interior of the island in what it is called the 'indlansis', a word of scandinavian origin that means any glacier field of the type 'continental ice' with extensions of more than 50.000 squared km. In this case, the tongue merges with the ice platform that covers around 85% of the surface of Greenland"
Once again an excellent turnout for our second theme presentation of 2007. Nine members showed their interpretations of 'Architecture', and above is a choice selection of some of the photo's (click image to see larger). There was a lot of discussion regarding technique and composition and I think we all learned a new thing or two.
This has popped up on a few different photographic blogs this week and if you really like people photography and are striving for that contemporary look with feel-good factor and have 3 minutes to spare, go and check out this flipbook presentation by George Lange.
I highly recommend that you go and take a look at the 'Turkey Cinemascope' portfolio of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a film director from Istanbul, whose panoramic images capturing both landscapes and portraits exemplify the stunning use of light to create a three dimensionality that is so difficult to achieve and often the holy grail of many photographers.
I draw a lot of inspiration and motivation from viewing outstanding images from other photographers and then trying to achieve the same. I personally think that to become a better photographer you have to look at photographs, understand what you like and don't like and try and put those feelings back into your own photography...
Lens hoods are good... they keep that straylight out of your lens and prevent something called 'flare', which is even more important to prevent if you permanently have a UV filter stuck on the end of your lens (we'll leave the filter or no filter debate for another time)...
A few people have asked how I did the collage effect on the Torres Kio image I presented recently.
Our first Theme showing turned out to be a roaring success, with almost every member of the club presenting images, and those that didn't were there to view, give comments and ask questions... The images above give you a taste of what was presented (click for bigger size)... if you want to see all the images shown, pop over to our galleries page and look under 'Themes set by the Club' (link is at the top right of this page) and feel free to leave comments on individual images, I'm sure the authors will be interested to know what you think...
Is it real or is it a model.?.. Someone with far too much time on their hands or trickery...
Came across this recently and thought it was pretty ironic when you consider that most of the time we are trying to eliminate movement of the camera in anyway possible (tripods, image stabilisation etc)... Serendipity is the name of the game when you launch your camera into the air (and hopefully catch it again) but the results can be quite stunning... check out this blog for all the facts and techniques... Lets see if anyone dares to try, inspiration for the 'Whatever you want' theme possibly?
Neal's chameleon poisonous cousin 
Thanks to all of you for turning up and doing me the honour of listening to my incessant ravings about metering, aperture and shutter speed... just how many gray blocks can people stand..!
After reading some comments made by Mauro to the previous post I thought it might be useful to mention that if you like this HDR thing, but were put off by the fact that you have to use a tripod and obviously things in the image can't move between frames, this somewhat restricting you subject matter.... There is actually a way of making HDR images with just one frame.
