November 2011



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Nov
27
2011
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Create Your Own Luck


See the photo above? You can click on it to see the full photo. Now guess at where it was taken, how long the photoshoot lasted, who the girls were, and how much mucking around there was to get the lighting and backdrop right. If you guessed that it was taken outdoors in the middle of a city street with four girls...



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Nov
18
2011
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Deserted Claremont Showgrounds


I recently had an opportunity to take photographs at the Claremont showgrounds while it was deserted. For the benefit of non-local readers, these huge grounds host the Perth Royal Show every year and occassional other events throughout the year. But there's nothing on at the moment. I love the deserted carnival atmosphere....



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Nov
5
2011
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Becoming a Better Photographer #3 – Shoot Wide or Tight?


A trap that many people fall into when photographing an event is to try to capture everything in a single shot. An overview shot can be very useful to give a sense of the whole environment, but don't expect it to capture many specific details or communicate anything more than a general sense of being there.  It's very...



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Nov
4
2011
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Becoming a Better Photographer #2 – Zoom With Your Feet


In my previous post I mentioned the term "zoom with your feet" which means to physically walk around your subject instead of standing still and using your zoom lens to do the work for you. So why zoom with your feet? I'm glad you asked. Firstly and foremost, walking up to and around the subject shows you just how many...



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Nov
3
2011
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Becoming a Better Photographer #1 – Look in the Mirror


This is the first in a series of tips that I hope might help people become better photographers. It's aimed at regular people who have a bit of an interest in photography, but might not really know where to go from there. The tips I include here are the kinds of things I might suggest to a friend of relative when I see them...



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Nov
2
2011
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The Story Behind my Business Card


For my first blog topic I'll discuss the story behind the little photo of a kid in a wetsuit that some of you may recognise as featuring on my business cards. It is a photo my Mum took of me when I was very young, circa 1979. We stopped at a friend's house for coffee after school one day, and there happened to be an adult-sized...



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