Mark Alberhasky looks at life and other distractions, and how to motivate ourselves to get out with our camera and shoot The mere words, “cod liver oil”, bring a grimace to the face of anyone who has firsthand experience with a spoonful. For those of you without this fond memory, just understand that it’s about …
There is the temptation to believe that you don’t need any filters for your digital camera, that you can do it all in Photoshop. But at least one is, in my view, essential for digitals, the circular polarizing filter. In my film days my camera bag was filled with filters, and filter systems, such as …
We don’t normally think of using polarizing filters when shooting infrared but I decided to try it out. Regular readers will know that I shoot a lot of digital infrared work, both with a converted for IR Canon 350D and with unconverted digital cameras that I have in for testing. I was testing circular polarizing …
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We are pleased to show the finalists and the winner in the long exposure landscape photography competition. The June 2007 Long Exposure Landscape Photography Competition is the first in twelve monthly photography contests where the prize is provided by Thinktank Photo, the fairly new and very innovative camera bag company. The June competition had a …
ThinkTank Photo June Competition Winner and Finalists – Long Exposure Landscape Read More »
An amazingly difficult competition to judge has been finally decided. The Lensbaby selective blur competition proved to be very difficult indeed to judge. Not only was there a large quantity of amazingly good work, but when it came to judging it we discovered there were enough different things to look for in blur images that …
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A recent plan trip had me shooting infrared the whole trip Recently I had to fly from Melbourne to Sydney to deliver some workshops at the Sydney Hilton. I caught a flight up on the Thursday afternoon. Luckily I got a window seat, so I decided to try shooting IR with my converted 350D camera. …
As a followup to my article on the HP professional photography blog, I explore some of the reasons why people might want to explore both ends of this spectrum of practice. The in-camera vs post-camera photography article produced a lot of interest. Naturally, there is a lot more to say about something like this. I …
Eirik lives in Bergen, Norway and takes a wide range of photographs, from landscapes to street scenes, all of which is striking. Eirik Holmoyvik is a photographer based in Norway who covers a wide range of subjects. He seems to always be experimenting and pushing his own boundaries. His web site shows work shot conventionally, …
May 2007 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – Eirik Holmoyvik Photography Read More »
There are thought patterns or ways of thinking that are liberating and others that are limiting. This is true in all of life, but it also applies to our photography. The Western World is dominated by absolutism, by a belief in absolute truths, absolute morality and absolutes, like right and wrong. You even get politicians …
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David Burdeny is an architect who seems to be making a big name for himself as a fine art photographer. A Landscape photographer, David’s images have an amazing calmness about them. David Burdeny is a Canadian photographer of the landscape. Whilst he shoots BW film, he exhibits and sells C-type color prints of these because …
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