At today’s W-League match I was positioned at the end of the field because of the afternoon sun lighting conditions I’ve blogged about in the past. Since most of the action was the far end of the stadium I thought I’d pull out the 1.7X teleconverter and put it on the 400mm. That combo makes […]
Found this on Pixiq. It’s mainly for photojournalists and travel but the essence is still useful for sports photography: How to Write a Professional Photo Caption. “Viewed from Philopappos Hill, the temples on the Acropolis still dominate Athens, old and new. Beyond, on the right, is the conical hill of Mount Lycabettus.”
I shot the Boyd Baker House yesterday for a future magazine story. This is a significant piece of Australia’s architecture history. It’s a beautiful house but very difficult to shoot on a bright sunny day. Some of the shots are HDR and some are balanced with fill flash inside the house. I only had a […]
Prompted by yet another JPEG versus RAW post, this time by Scott Kelby giving 3 reasons why he shoots in JPEG for sports, here’s why even for sports I don’t shoot in JPEG anymore. Despite what the brochures say, JPEG doesn’t do more continuous shots per burst in the real world. Three years ago, I […]
Shooting an international road cycling event is a huge buzz. Here’s a post about how the day unfolded when I shot the UCI Road World Championships for Southcreek. The arrival – 8.30am The first part of the day is rider sign on. For the 2010 Worlds this was in Melbourne. It’s the first Worlds where […]
Here’s where photographer’s are allowed to go to get the shots. The only event I know of where we’re allowed on the actual circuit!
With all the rain and storms around I thought I’d stay off the football pitch and do some table top photography. Inspired by a blog article by Clint Decker on his Flickr page via Petapixel, I followed his instructions and set out to do some of my own “shooting things falling into water”. Click on […]
I bought an Expodisc in April 2008 and used it when shooting the Victorian Barista Championships. The event was held down at venue that had the worse lighting conditions imaginable. There were fluoros, low voltage downlights, sunlight coming through tinted windows and colored lights that lit the stage. Having shot at this venue previously I […]
I’ve been using the Gitzo GM5540 monopod for a couple of years and it’s a beast. It’s the beefiest monopod Gitzo make and while its carbon fibre it may a well be steel. I’ve got a couple of trips coming up where I need to take a monopod and I’ve been looking at something lighter […]
Shot some images for the Football Federation Victoria today at the new AAMI Park. It was a glorious winter day with bright blue skies. The brief was to highlight the stadium with Australian Matilda’s captain Melissa Barbieri, former Socceroo Danny Tiatto and FFV CEO Mark Rendell. I won’t say what the images are going to […]
A few readers have asked for a comparison image with no noise reduction processing in Lightroom 3. Here are comparison images. LR2, LR3 with no NR and LR3 with luminance NR at 40. Click through to see them at 100%
Adobe’s new version of Lightroom has some serious new improvements in noise reduction. Here are 4 images at ISO 102,400 and 51,200 on a Nikon D3s processed with LR3. This is one good reason to shoot in RAW as when I first looked at these images in Lightroom 2 they were horrible. But re-processed in […]
A change of pace from football. A commercial job for Five Senses Coffee to shoot a cafe for their monthly news Really challenging lighting with high dynamic range but the D3’s raw files coped beautifully in post processing.
This is the second time recently that I’ve had problems with my D3s and a 400mm acquiring focus in high contrast lighting (very bright sunshine) in hot weather (above 30 degrees C). This only occurs in this lighting, no AF problems in other conditions. This is similar conditions Rob Galbraith identified with the Canon 1D […]
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Chase Jarvis blogged this “how it was done” video from a Hollywood studio. With the power of home computers these days I can see many budding cinematorgraphers shooting some amazing scenes with a $600 HD video enabled Nikon or Canon DSLR and a simple 50mm 1.4 lens. I’m hopeful iMovie ’10 will have simple video compositing features, […]
The Luminous Landscape writes: This is an important thing to get right when you’re shooting in RAW: Settings for an Accurate Histogram. I was surprised how much difference changing the Contrast setting in the Picture Control setting of the Nikon DSLRs make on the shape of the histogram. I’ve now got a RAW shooting bank […]
Found this entertaining audio of Platon’s talk at last year’s Eddie Adams Workshop via Laforet’s blog
Very excited… The Photobook Greta and I made last week has arrived!
A terrific guided tour of a shoot Platon did at the United Nations in September
Got together a selection of photos of the Victorian Under 14 Girls Soccer team from this year’s National Junior Championships and turned it into a photobook via Blurb – check it out: Victorian Unde… National Junior Ch… By Sydney Low
Just found this interesting printing service. Love to know if there’s anything similar in AU. I could see a few of my shots on a blind or a wall.
What pano makers have known all along but its good to have a review just to confirm that Autopano Pro is still the king…
Probably the most detailed instruction on how to do Noise Reduction in Lightroom
