After shooting volley ball this week it took a little while to get my timing back. Gallery is here.
As I’m hoping to shoot some World Cup (winter sports) events in Europe, Olympics and other international events in the next few years I wanted to be affiliated with AIPS. That’s not an easy task for Australians as there is no local sports press association like other countries. My application had to be approved in […]
Here’s a good list good list of places to try if you’re in Melbourne CBD for lunch from Melbourne Gastronome.
Typical mid-afternoon light at AAMI stadium. Not ideal shooting conditions. There’s about a 15 degree slot where the player is well illuminated and the grandstand is in shade for a clean background. Here are the shots.
The shoot at the Boyd Baker House 4 weeks ago was published today in the Good Weekend magazine. It’s a little story about weekend retreats. Here’s a scan of the page:
Back at AAMI Park on a muggy night. Shot from the far end of the pitch for a change and I liked it! Gallery here.
I came across this web site via a tweet http://www.photoarchivenews.com/.After subscribing to receive the newsletter, the author Will Carleton blogged about my site changes. Given the recent exhibition I was in at the National Sports Museum the work of archival sites has made me more aware of the value and need for sites such as […]
Worth trying. It’s not blow your socks off but it’s one of the few places that I’ll make a return trip to. Recommended! We sat here: http://www.momorestaurant.com.au/ The special for the night was his Duck Bisteya. This is a photo of the pidgeon version. Basically confit duck baked in puff pastry. Very good:
I finally migrated my web site, blog and image archive into a single platform. Previously I had Slideshowpro Director serve the images on my main site, wordpress.com to host my blog and Photoshelter for the image archive. The migration is now a free Graph Paper Press wordpress theme (Widescreen) that’s covering the main site https://syd-low.com, […]
A cold and wet night meant shooting from the stands. Images here.
Yamaha wanted to charge $350 for a part of the PDX50 speakers when you can get the whole system for around $299 street price. Importers should know the law and stop ripping off customers. Why consumer product companies do this in the 21st century is beyond me. There’s been 3 decades of customer loyalty learning […]
The 2nd match of Round 14 with Melbourne Victory (photos) and the Round 15 match for Melbourne Heart (photos) was back to back this week. Both matches were at AAMI Park.
Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park. Perfect shooting conditions from level 3 and on the ground.
The maddest beer I’ve ever tasted. The De Molen brewery’s Hel & Verdoemenis (Hell & Damnation) beer is a stout that’s got a taste all to itself. Not my cup of tea. I like their other stout Tsarina Esra better.
This round was held on Saturday night at Etihad Stadium under an open roof and with the sun still shining (a little bit). So changing light conditions meant starting out at around ISO 1600 and finishing the night at ISO 2500. Almost 1 f-stop difference. Doesn’t sound much but its enough to make sure you’ve […]
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 […]
If you’re after some interesting beer give Hopfix from Denmark a try. Brewed by Christian Skovdal Andersen the beer is described as “copper coloured India Pale Ale with plenty of fruity hop flavor and aroma. It features a dry finish and a firm bitterness balanced by chewy caramel malt. The ale is brewed with rye […]
Just finished using Shuttersnitch at a party and went to copy the files off two Eye-Fi cards. I tried to use a high speed Lexar reader and found an error which I’ve posted on the Eye-Fi forums. I’ve discovered an interesting issue. It seems you MUST use the Eye-Fi supplied card reader to copy files […]
A muggy night at Etihad stadium hosted some great action. I sat on the south west corner: At last week’s match I was on the south east side of the pitch. Here is a link to the gallery.
I use Lightroom and Photo Mechanic as my primary photo processing tools. If I’m editing in the field everything happens on my Macbook Pro laptop. But if I’m editing at home I will use a Mac Pro 8-core Nehalem with a main disk and two backups. I recently reconfigured the disks to get more space […]
A beautiful Spring afternoon match. No sun across AAMI Park. ISO 800 at the start of the match before the sun set. Small crowd and pretty uneventful match. More pics here.
Round 10 of the A-League was back at Etihad Stadium. Since its been raining the match was under a closed roof. This is the first match at Etihad this season as the first 9 rounds were at the new AAMI stadium. I like Etihad from a photographer’s perspective. The facilities are much better. At AAMI […]
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 […]
