Event shooting

Great action shots are rarely a result of good luck. Knowing where to position yourself, being there at the right time and having the right equipment set up correctly will shift the odds in your favour. So, too, will being able to anticipate the peak of the action and having fast enough reflexes and on-the-spot timing. Understanding how your equipment performs is also important.

Full moon over Canberra

By Chad Clark. I got up early to see if I could get some good reflections on Lake Burley Griffin but there was too much fog. I went up the Mount Ainslie and lucky for me there was still time to capture the full moon setting on the horizon before the sun was fully up.

Big Tree

By Carlos Alzamora.
This time I forgot to bring my camera, but hey the best camera is the one you have with you right? Or maybe the best camera is the one you left at home.
The lens on the iPhone 6 proved to be quite a great lens to capture all the detail on the branches and the texture on the tree. This is actually 3 frames stitched together using the app “AutoStitch” and then post-processed in Photoshop.

The digital dark age dilemma

[August 2015] By breaking the nexus between analogue cameras and photos (the film era forced photographers to create hard copy images), digital photography created a problem which is yet to be fully addressed: the essentially ephemeral nature of digital image files.