When I first started out in photography I would never have guessed where it would lead me. Initially my perspective was quite narrow and I didn’t expect that I would be able to get any where with it – weddings, portraits, travel and journalistic photography were what came to mind, or some kind of boring product photography of tins day after day. Continue reading
Last month I did a post on ghosting in photos. Another way to use long shutter speeds to create fun images is panning. The aim of a panned image is to get the moving object to be clear while the background blurs with the movement. This method can take a lot of time and patience but it is a lot of fun to experiment with.
Last week I took my parents to the show “Skins of Fire” by the French performers Groupe F. The performance consisted of video projection, fire works, fire balls and performers with lights and fireworks around them. It was an stimulating presentation of pyrotechnics and well worth the night out. Continue reading
One of the passions that has developed as I’ve become more serious about photography is food photography. I tend towards one or two certain styles in my food photography so I thought I would challenge myself a little and try to expand my styles a little. Continue reading
In Auckland over the last few weeks there have been lots of New Years Celebrations. My son was learning about the celebrations at school and convinced us to go and check them out (it didn’t take that much convincing really). We check out the Chinese New Year Market Day and the Auckland Lantern Festival. Here’s just a few shots from what we saw. Continue reading
A while back when I was doing a series of photos on churches I decided to play with the idea of ghosting in images. I had been looking at some books where the photographers had done whole series of mystical images with “ghosts” walking through their images. Continue reading
I have been doing digital photography now for 12 years, and all that time I have been lulled into a false sense of “that will never happen to me” when it comes to losing your images, having your laptop suddenly die on you or one of those nightmarish situations. I always used to have a smug look when people complained some thing bad like that happened. I had these thoughts flashing through my mind about how they didn’t know what they were doing. Then this week I set up a photo shoot,
It has been one year now since I started submitting work to micro stock libraries. With a one year old on my hip I was in need to something to get the creative juices flowing as well as give me freedom to work when I want while doing something I enjoy. Microstock seemed like a good option to try out. I know a lot of professional photographers despise micro stock and think it is ruining their business, and I am not here to argue a point, just to share my experience along the way.
