I’ve been doing a lot of event photography lately, mostly in low light. I’m happy to help out some local organisations with free images. Usually there is a usage agreement, but I seldom take the time to look at how they have been reproduced in a newspaper or whatever. Last week I discovered one of […]
I will be giving a presentation on audiovisuals for the Dunedin Photographic Society (www.dps.org.nz) on Monday 9th September at 7.30pm. The venue is the Mornington Presbyterian Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Terrace. We’ll be covering some of the internal construction of my AV “Why We build The Wall” and I’ll show some examples from the 2016 […]
This weekend in Christchurch Fujifilm NZ had an exhibition of photographs curated from the work of 26 New Zealand amateur and professional photographers. Ira and Craig from Fujifilm NZ were on hand to help with questions about equipment and I had the opportunity to play with a GFX100.
…and Learning to see in Black and White Often colour can get in the way of the image content we want to show. By converting the photograph to black and white our work becomes more abstract. We can then make changes in luminosity without the viewer making a comparison to the original. So skin tones […]
There can be no delight in considering a technique that is without motive
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love
Recipes are for slaves
Much of what we teach is the nuts and bolts of photography. The exposure triangle, how to edit a photograph, what camera to buy (a tiresome question), how to compose an image, and so on. All important to know but my concern is that technical skills will merely make someone competent. There is nothing wrong […]
Now that Adobe have changed Lightroom to a subscription only model, I knew that if I upgraded one of my Fuji cameras I’d need to look for an alternative raw converter. I’m not going to list the problems I’ve seen with a subscription software. Let’s just say I would need a very good reason to […]