Hey there to my two readers and significant spambots!
Well I had myself a good day yesterday (20th March 2010) although my day did start off with awaking early to spend some time scratching my head in wonder as to which group of con-artists and scammers were least likely to screw over the state during the next few years, yes we had an election.
Anyway that out the way, the good part was spending a significant portion of the day with the lovely Angie Baxter doing a basics & children’s/family photography workshop. I will say I was quite outnumbered 19 people attended, 17 lovely ladies so I can’t complain there really 
The workshop was great, started off with the basics, most of which I do have a grip on, though it was great to hear it explained in different manner and bit of refresher Angie throughout the rest of the workshop would randomly call out different ISO/Shutter/Aperture settings and everybody would scramble to change them, education through repetition, a great way to learn the more technical or ‘hard techniques’ (Thanks to Shutters Inc .for the terminology) to make it a natural unthinking action, definitely something I need to get more practice in although all settings on my Canon 50D are easily accessible from the screen, I found out (yah I know RTFM!) how to quickly change them without having to go there, yay a new time saver!
Now the stuff that I most appreciated were the hint, tips & examples on the ’soft techniques’ or the more creative and artistic process’ of taking a photo, thoughts and considerations of feel, mood, light, colour & perspective. Stories or Explanations if you prefer on how certain images had been put together, looking for the light and catch, rearranging peoples houses to get the best shot were great, the more I re-run the explanations and exercises through my head the more things I find and pick out.
A great day and would recommend any to anyone that has purchased a DSLR and wanting to get a grip on what all this photography thing is all about.
Now don’t have a heart-attack, I realise this is 2 posts in only a few days.
Was looking at the site/blog and decided I didn’t much like the look or the galleries as they were so have spent the last few days messing around with settings and different themes trying to find something I liked better, there are still some tweaks and changes to come but I am especially happy with the new galleries I have set-up using SimpleViwer-2 from The Turning Gate as I can update them directly from Adobe Lightroom.
A few new pictures, a few older ones with a bit of work over.
I’ve also applied to get myself a passport and will be heading off the south island of New Zealand in late April, I will be spending a week doing a photography Workshop with Shelton Muller, guest trainer Mike Hollman and the Creative Photo Workshops gang. I am Very much looking forward to it, my first real out-of-the-country holiday and the change to learn from the Guru Shelton, given I have Melbournite friends who have done his workshops and gone from good photographers to fantastic photographers with all the work they want, I’m confidant this will be a great trip. Now to book some flights.
Hello again one and all!
As the title says I’m still alive an kickin’ and even taken photo’s while they’re down, sorry about that been watching some of the UFC match in Sydney the other day. I’m really not much for violence in general but there is indeed something about watch well trained ‘professionals’ go at [...]
Hey it Australia Day!
For all you lucky bugger with day off make sure you have a lamb chop, a couple of BBQ shrimp and beer for me! Myself I’m at work today and hoping on a quite one to get a bit of reading done between calls.
So too all my 2 fans and many spammers [...]
Today was spent in the company of Craig Ingram and 11 others on a Panoramic and HDR Workshop about Adelaide City, starting off at the Rotunda in Elder Park by the river Torrens with a quick introduction to panoramic techniques, the good, the bad and the parallax. The man had some pretty serious kit in [...]
Just got an email saying my new lenses have been dispatched and on the way!
Here’s to hoping they get here for the weekend.
Since I have internet access here at work you know I’m going to be on the mail tracking website hitting the refresh button every 5 minutes, I do realize that there is [...]
Well it was my cousins 21st on Saturday night, didn’t go to take pictures but did have the camera with my and took a few snap for the heck of it.
There was a beautiful sunset out the back of the believe it or not “Sunset Bar” at Glenelg. Anyway took a few snaps they were [...]
GAS being Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
I have finally given into a severe case of GAS that has been bugging at me for some time, I have been brain addled on the idea of having a 70-200mm 2.8f lens after seeing the kind of image these beasties can produce, definitely one the best zoom portrait glass you [...]
So today I went and shot Brianna, a workmate and friend, along with her siblings at Veale Park on South Terrace in Adelaide. Having spent most of the week at home with pharyngitis I think I did a good job over all, found the place, got there 15 minutes early and took a [...]
Hello again webz peoples, So recently I had the privilege of joining Mr Chris Bray on a 1-Day Photography Workshop at the Royal Adelaide Zoo , it was a class for beginners in DLSR shooting and cover all the basics in usage and composition through to basic lighting and creative exposure.
There [...]